Monthly Archives: January 2010

Formed after the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was forced to break up its regional companies, Bellsouth is based in Atlanta. Strangely enough, it is also the only one of those companies left that uses an actual bell symbol in its company logo. Bellsouth is a combination of Southern Bell and South Central Bell and provides services to 9 southern states in the eastern United States In the 1990’s, when mergers were the name of the game, this company took a ...

An employee survey can provide you with a good understanding of what is happening within your business when you are not there or what your employees think of working there. While any company can benefit from doing an employee survey, there are many reasons for those companies that have issues with such things as poor retention of employees and high turnover to those companies that have a low productivity level. Finding out what is happening behind the scenes will help you to ...

Team building allows you to generate ideas, resolve conflict and merge personalities in order to complement and balance all members of the team. Some examples include having one on one honest meetings to elicit trust, ensuring that each member contributes to final solutions, etc.

Postcards have become a highly-effective modern-day marketing tool. Follow these 6 proven postcard marketing tactics and you will generate a flood of traffic to your website, a steady flow of sales leads or any other sales activity you want.

A checklist can be more than simply a list of things to do; it can strategically communicate to readers that you have carefully analyzed your message and that the content is well organized.

When I think of an executive I think of powerful looking man in a sharp suit making large business deals with international big-wigs. I think of bank accounts in the Carribean and 2nd homes in Italy. I think about the dark limousines and the power ties and golfing with the president or a powerful person in Congress. I think of Martini’s and big cigars and lawyers and secret memos. Why do I think all these things about being an executive? Well the movies of course and why n...

You’ve put a lot of work into your business, but finding new customers is still a pain. The solution is to create systems that work over and over again to fill the pipeline with prospects and convert more of them to customers. If you’re ready attract more customers, boost sales and save enough time to take a well-needed break, read on.

Workflows exist in some form at every company. Human-based workflows are usually manually managed and tracked. Meetings, phone calls, paper trails, spreadsheets, emails and desktop applications are typically utilized by business professionals as a means to keep the flow of information orderly. In most cases, a lack of efficiency is unavoidable. A project management system that adapts to any business workflow solves this problem.