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Archives for 2010
Significant Business Problem: Lousy Implementation of Strategy
When 20 percent of the most powerful business leaders in The United States lose their jobs, there is a problem! Top business consultants have argued for business to better strategize, align, and implement.
Is Your Business Ready for the New Year?
As the New Year begins, it is time to look back at what you achieved last year (and other years prior) and assess the performance of your business. Knowing how well (or poorly) you did the past years can help you improve for the coming years. Here are 14 checklists to get your home business ready for the New Year.
What’s in a Business Phone Number?
The business phone number you use can have a direct impact on your business, good or bad. Here’s a guide to help you select the best phone service to use for your business, since it could impact the type of phone number you can obtain.
Contracts and the Importance of Putting Business Agreements in Writing
In the ideal world, it would be great to seal every deal with a verbal agreement and handshake alone. Alas, we don’t live in an ideal world and to operate a business without written contracts or agreements can prove costly – if not altogether risky.
Kontera Review: Working with Your Advertising Networks
The blog post Earning from Inline Text Advertising: Review of Kontera was adjudged as the best review of Kontera in their contest. Learn why Kontera is a step apart from the other advertising networks, especially in the way they deal with their publishers.
Adding Social Publishing to Your Social Media Marketing Mix
One type of social media often overlooked by many small businesses is social reading and publishing, which is essentially the sharing of documents, manuscripts and presentations. Learn how to use social publishing for your business.
What are You Thankful For?
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, and a time to reflect on everything that we’re thankful for. I am most definitely thankful for meeting a lot of wonderful entrepreneurs and business owners, particularly those who have shared their stories with our online publications. Their selflessness and willingness to share their experiences in starting and running a business, and lessons they’ve learned along the way, gave us all the inspiration and motivation we need.
Marketing Works Better When it Supports the Sales Process Directly
There is a strange but all too common phenomenon in corporate America –– the marketing department and the sales department are at odds with one another. They don’t like each other. They don’t talk to each other. And they certainly don’t listen to each other.
Five Strategies for Business Growth in a World of Customer Networks
In a world awash in digital technologies, customers have changed. From our smartphones to our social networks, today’s digital tools link all of us in a web of constant interaction that is changing our relationships to each other, and to organizations of all kinds. To thrive in our digital age, businesses need to re-imagine their customers not as a mass of isolated individual actors, but as customer networks.