It seems that everything in our world is being dumbed down and focused on the lowest common denominator. There are cash registers that have pictures on them instead of numbers. Cashiers rely on the machine to tell them the correct change instead of counting it out. It seems most cashiers…
We all make assumptions, sometimes really big ones. For example, we assume we know why our employees work for us. (It’s the paycheck, right?) We assume we know what our clients want and why they work with us. That is a huge assumption. The only way to really know what…
Have you made the huge mistake? Have you discounted ideas, suggestions, opportunities because they didn’t seem applicable to your business? Have you considered the real cost of not listening to other opinions, especially ideas that come from outside of your own industry. This article, the second of two parts, tells…
There are a lot of marketing people in software and technology that don’t like direct marketing. They see it as hard to do, old fashioned, and doesn’t apply to their technology business. As a matter of fact, too many of us think of it as junk mail, the stuff to…
You Have More Technology. You ‘Process’ More Work. But Are You More Effective? By Dan S. Kennedy There is a ‘secret key’ to peak personal productivity and performance that entrepreneurs are unwittingly depriving themselves of, to a worsening extent from one year to the next. This subtle form of self-sabotage…
I’ve found over the years in selling and marketing IT services that the more accurately you track deals the fewer surprises at the end of the month for revenue goals. The IT sales process is focused on having the ability to understand all the different stakeholders and having them on…
by Keith F. Luscher Author, Prospect & Flourish Don’t get this headline wrong. I think Twitter is great, and use it myself (hence the icon link above). Often described as a “mini-blog,” Twitter is a social networking tool that uses the SMS text protocol (short messaging service) designed for mobile…