Archive for the 'Business' Category

Seven Ways Companies Without Marketing Plans Sabotage Their Success

Carolyn Frith asked: Business and marketing managers in small to medium-sized companies often develop marketing tactics on a just-in-time or as-needed basis. This may produce the sales and profitability results sought in the early years, but is likely not optimal. At some point sales and market share may plateau, or worse, decline. The path to [...]

Promotional Key Rings Hold the Keys to Success

Beth Loggins asked: The awesome thing about key rings is their countless functionality. It is a great idea to distribute customized key tags during trade expos and conventions to make people buzz and fuzz about your company and draw traffic to your booth. It can also be a gift to your workers for events like [...]

Success Doesn’t Happen by Itself

Kathleen OBrien asked: You have to go for it! Winning means having the courage, confidence, and determination to do whatever it takes, within your own moral code, to reach your goal. Entrepreneurship is a commitment to taking your foot off first base and streaking for second. The old Dizzy Dean saying, “it’s impossible to steal [...]

Business Success Strategies – Getting Past the Mind Games

Steve Harlow asked: Some hard truths and a personal reality check will be revealed to you in this article. Are you prepared to learn this truth? Are you prepared to become 100% responsible for your own success? Prepared to give up the ability to ever point your finger at a guru or a sponsor again, [...]

Telesales Success: Begin with the End in Mind

Andrew Rowe asked: You may remember the following excerpt from Steven Covey’s book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: “Clients often ask me, ‘how can we get our inside sales team to talk to more prospects?’ Sure…threats, begging, yelling, low level torture, coercion, and brut force entice reps to make more calls as long as [...]