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One Easy Method to Help Reduce Your Attendees' Stress Level and Improve Event Satisfaction
Event planning can be a stressful exercise. When you've got an entire conference hall full hungry attendees, waiting on caterers who are running late, while you've been on your feet since five in the morning to make sure the coffee was hot and your speakers had everything they needed. To top it off, the r

racking? Start with these two:

(1) The number of times sellers are screened out by secretaries, and

(2) The number of times sellers are put into voice mail.

These stats will tell you who is more effective at dealing with sentries, and who is being shot down or deterred. You might learn that everyone needs expert traini

Advertising Is Dead. Long Live PR
Although I still believe there is a place for advertising as a brand maintenance or brand affirmation tool, I am convinced that to build a brand today, you need PR. At one time advertising did build brands. But this was in a simpler America. That America, sadly, is no more.I’ve been re-reading The Fa

As a sales manager or a business owner you can analyze various statistics.

For instance, if your crew prospects for appointments you can monitor and measure:

(1) The number of phone calls each rep makes;

(2) The number of appointments set; and

(3) The number of call backs that need to be made from today’s activity.

Of this list, obviously, number (2) is critical. That’s the purpose of calling, to set appointments.

In a sense, then, this is the bottom line, the result of activity. If this were an experiment, we might call it the dependent variable.

Numbers (1) and (3) are our manipulations, the specific actions we’re taking to affect (2), and these activities can be seen as independent variables.

Improve tactics and you’ll improve results, right?

But what if we’re measuring the wrong tactics? What, then?

Let me be specific.

Rep “A” could make fifty calls during the course of three hours, and “B” could make 30. Who is doing the better job?

You can’t tell from this statistic, alone. “B” could be having longer, deeper conversations with decision makers, while “A” can’t seem to get past secretaries and voice mail.

Or, “B” is just not trying as hard, taking too many breaks, and submitting to too many distractions.

So, what additional things should we be tracking? Start with these two:

(1) The number of times sellers are screened out by secretaries, and

(2) The number of times sellers are put into voice mail.

These stats will tell you who is more effective at dealing with sentries, and who is being shot down or deterred. You might learn that everyone needs expert trainin

Enhancing the Quality of Your Business Cards Printing Needs
Quality is the best definition of a good business practice. When dealing with people, a good business card is your first weapon to attract them. This allows your business to start off with a boost from them. Business cards printing can arguably be the best forms of firsthand advertisement.In the prod

Of this list, obviously, number (2) is critical. That’s the purpose of calling, to set appointments.

In a sense, then, this is the bottom line, the result of activity. If this were an experiment, we might call it the dependent variable.

Numbers (1) and (3) are our manipulations, the specific actions we’re taking to affect (2), and these activities can be seen as independent variables.

Improve tactics and you’ll improve results, right?

But what if we’re measuring the wrong tactics? What, then?

Let me be specific.

Rep “A” could make fifty calls during the course of three hours, and “B” could make 30. Who is doing the better job?

You can’t tell from this statistic, alone. “B” could be having longer, deeper conversations with decision makers, while “A” can’t seem to get past secretaries and voice mail.

Or, “B” is just not trying as hard, taking too many breaks, and submitting to too many distractions.

So, what additional things should we be tracking? Start with these two:

(1) The number of times sellers are screened out by secretaries, and

(2) The number of times sellers are put into voice mail.

These stats will tell you who is more effective at dealing with sentries, and who is being shot down or deterred. You might learn that everyone needs expert traini

Top Five Publicity Myths
Most people consider getting publicity the most important part of public relations. It's also very mysterious to many people. Here are my top five publicity myths, to help make publicity better understood.1. Who you (or your publicist) knows at the media is more important than the story idea. Sure

affect (2), and these activities can be seen as independent variables.

Improve tactics and you’ll improve results, right?

But what if we’re measuring the wrong tactics? What, then?

Let me be specific.

Rep “A” could make fifty calls during the course of three hours, and “B” could make 30. Who is doing the better job?

You can’t tell from this statistic, alone. “B” could be having longer, deeper conversations with decision makers, while “A” can’t seem to get past secretaries and voice mail.

Or, “B” is just not trying as hard, taking too many breaks, and submitting to too many distractions.

So, what additional things should we be tracking? Start with these two:

(1) The number of times sellers are screened out by secretaries, and

(2) The number of times sellers are put into voice mail.

These stats will tell you who is more effective at dealing with sentries, and who is being shot down or deterred. You might learn that everyone needs expert traini

Your Job Search Is A Marketing Campaign (Part 2)
Here's a continuation of my article from a few months back on how the successful job search is really just a personal marketing campaign.To recap, the same marketing techniques that have sell billions of dollars worth of products and services on TV, in print and via direct mail can also help you find

You can’t tell from this statistic, alone. “B” could be having longer, deeper conversations with decision makers, while “A” can’t seem to get past secretaries and voice mail.

Or, “B” is just not trying as hard, taking too many breaks, and submitting to too many distractions.

So, what additional things should we be tracking? Start with these two:

(1) The number of times sellers are screened out by secretaries, and

(2) The number of times sellers are put into voice mail.

These stats will tell you who is more effective at dealing with sentries, and who is being shot down or deterred. You might learn that everyone needs expert traini

We're ALL In The Customer Business
Has anyone ever asked you what kind of business you're in? Of course they have and it doesn't matter what your answer is. You could be in the insurance, automobile, restaurant, Internet, investment, network marketing, writing, publishing, etc. The type of business makes very little difference, because we

racking? Start with these two:

(1) The number of times sellers are screened out by secretaries, and

(2) The number of times sellers are put into voice mail.

These stats will tell you who is more effective at dealing with sentries, and who is being shot down or deterred. You might learn that everyone needs expert training in these areas.

After all, what good is it to call for X if you can’t get past Y?

Further, let’s say your callers are put into voice mail. That calls for a decision. Should they leave messages?

Have you established a policy on this? Leaving messages takes time, and messages should be scripted carefully and tracked for effectiveness. How often are your reps called back after having left voice mail messages?

Scripts for voice messages are just as important as the calling scripts that are used with “live” buyers.

I’m just giving you a small sampling of track-able items that really make a difference.

Remember, you’ll get what you measure and you won’t get what you don’t measure, so you might want to take a fresh look at your metrics.

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Assuming you're a self publisher or book publisher and you've already published your book, you need to immediately implement a strong, no-holds barred, book marketing and promotion strategy to sell your books fast.

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