Monthly Archives: January 2010

Crisis Management

The Internet may have opened worlds for businesses and consumers, but it has also created a public relations nightmare for businesses. Forums, opinion Web sites, blogs, and anything that is publishable can smear a company's name in moments.

The CEO And The Yellow Notepad

It was just a Yellow, Legal sized Notepad, but it made this millionaire CEO's sales force more productive, less stressed and happier, at work and at home. How could a simple yellow notepad have such power? Here is the story: The millionaire CEO gave each of his employees a yellow, legal sized notepad and a pen. He also gave them these instructions: 1. Carry the notepad and pen with you at all times during your workday. Keep it handy, and within reach. 2. In th...

Enticing New Employees With Corporate Stability

Employment is on the rise and with it, the return to attractive compensation packages and salary levels. After several down years in the employment market that was the result of the normalization of an inflated stock market and the beginning of the War on Terror, employers are constructing compensation packages with an eye to drawing dedicated employees. During the economic bubble of the late nineties, employers were in head-to-head competition with each other to offer be...

Make business simple – Provide and Survive

All business is fundamentally the same. There are two key elements to all businesses – ‘Provide’ a product or service and ‘Survive’ by making a profit. Clients are only interested in one thing – the benefit of the end product or service they are buying at a ‘fair’ price. The flip side of this is profit. The combination of all the elements that go on behind the scenes all cost money. Knowing the sum of all these costs and charging them to the client is the process of doing business. Business is the supply of a product or a service to a client at a given price that will allow the company to continue to trade, making all business fundamentally the same. They must provide and survive.

The Balanced Direct Sales Mom

If you're already in direct sales, you know that it's not always easy to keep the priorities straight. Particularly when your business is just starting, but also when you get things going at a good clip in your business, direct sales can take on a life of its own and quickly cross the boundaries of happy home life. Here are 10 quick tips for helping to keep the Mom part of your life at the forefront while still running a successful Direct Sales business. 1. Plan - Sit down...

Creating Unique Business Alliances: Six Insights To Help Transform Your Company’s Value

Strategic alliances increasingly trumpet the word “unique” as in ‘unique alliance’ or ‘unique partnership’. Certain types of partnerships will help you acquire a unique value proposition even if you didn't develop it? This article will help you develop your company's alliance road map and projections resulting in higher order volume, added value and increased brand equity.
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