Yearly Archives: 2010

Once you make the decision to put a property on the market, you want it to move as soon as possible. Here are some thoughts on going from for sale to sold.

Four key thinking concepts that change the way people look at selling.

Accounting is a very important part of a business. As an entrepreneur, you either do it yourself or get someone else to do it for you. I have included this article for freelancers to have a very broad outline of the accounting profession. With this you can at least appreciate the discipline as well as its role in your business. As your business grows, the distinctions between the different types of accounting will become increasingly important.

An article about the Four easy steps for creating more customers

It's easy to come up with an idea-a-minute instead of spending late nights in tears with writer's block.

It's tough to sell if you can't get through. Try these ideas for tactfully and effectively getting by screeners and past voice mail to the people you really want to talk with.

Studies in persuasion technology show that what you expect tends to be realized. I call this the Law of Expectation, which is also one of the tenants of sales. As a sales professional, your expectations influence reality. I recently came across a movie called, "What the Bleep Do We Know?" It explains how our thoughts and intentions shape our reality. If you haven’t seen the movie, I urge you to do so. (You can go to http://www.whatthebleep.com/ to learn more.) The mov...

With all the negative attention outsourcing American jobs to other countries has received lately, how do you describe your business that depends on other companies outsourcing locally?

Marketing and sales will, of course, be of the utmost importance to the success of your small business. However, do you even know the difference between the two? Marketing is everything your company does to reach out to the consumer and find potential clients.