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Stop Shaking A Stick At Sales Training
I ran across a very insightful article in CLO Magazine today written by Tina Teodorescu (I had to cut and paste that one!). The article, “How Effective is Your Sales Training Program?” talks about the unique challenges of developing an effective training program for people that fund your payroll.Tina brings light to the fact that we’ve come to rely on Sales Managers, who were in many cases top performers themselves, to develop their team’s talent. The problem is these people were promoted because of their excellent sales skills, not their employee development skills. In other cases we rely on HR or T&D to develop these programs when they don’t have a suffi

ng tools available today. Many marketers associate email marketing with spam and have concerns about being shut down by their ISP or hosting compan

Performance-Stress-Motivation: 7 Sanity Saving Business Boundaries
The lack of strong boundaries is one of the chief causes of stress, overwork and overwhelm in the business environment.What are Boundaries?Clearly set boundaries help other people to understand how you want to be treated. They are the rules, if you like, that apply when others deal with you and your business. Many of us aren’t good at establishing boundaries, something that probably stems from way back in our childhoods.As children we are often taught that other people’s needs are more important than ours. That we should obey others without question. And we were rewarded for pleasing other people and sacrificing our own needs. Sometimes we do not set b

When you factor in all the costs related to promoting via an Opt-In Email or Ezine campaign you are still getting the best return on your advertising dollar investment than using RSS, Blogs or PPC. The measurable results are significantly faster than RSS and Blogs and less expensive than using Pay Per Click marketing. Without a doubt, Email and Newsletter advertising campaigns are still two of the best tools available to promote your product or service.

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There are a great many people that are still reluctant to use what is one of the best marketing tools available today. Many marketers associate email marketing with spam and have concerns about being shut down by their ISP or hosting company

Business Pain Defined
Every company has business pain, but the pain does not necessarily mean that they have a success problem. Pain can be anything from a minor dent, as when a marketing event does not produce the anticipated results, to a major process issue, as when reporting is not accurate. As you set out to find your customer’s business pain, you should remember that you are not necessarily looking for huge issues, rather you are looking for issues that hurt the profitability of the company.For example, I once worked with a company that sold calculators. This company had a process in place that automatically ordered more calculators when the computer showed only one left in stock. On one

ng dollar investment than using RSS, Blogs or PPC. The measurable results are significantly faster than RSS and Blogs and less expensive than using Pay Per Click marketing. Without a doubt, Email and Newsletter advertising campaigns are still two of the best tools available to promote your product or service.

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Performance Evaluations - Preparing for Difficult Conversations
It's annual performance assessment time!Does the very thought of conducting a performance evaluation cause your heart rate to elevate or give you a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach?Performance evaluations are a standard management tool and managers know that providing their staff with constructive feedback is an essential part of their job. Yet there are few tasks managers would rather avoid.Why? Most managers will tell you that performance evaluations are time consuming and arduous, even when the employee is performing well. But when the employee has not been performing as expected and required, conducting a performance evaluation can become overwhelm

Pay Per Click marketing. Without a doubt, Email and Newsletter advertising campaigns are still two of the best tools available to promote your product or service.

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What Am I All About and Who Cares Anyway
No one cares about you or your business. I know that may seem shocking for many of you, but it is none the less true.People only care about themselves. They care about the results they gain from engaging your services or using your products.They only care about their growth and success. They care about the long term value they gain from working with you.Here’s the problem.You are probably communicating as if your target market cared about your business instead of their personal interests.“I’m a __________ (fill in the blank with your profession) and I help people (offering something you sell) with my services.”The problem is I and

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Loan Officer Marketing: Using Case Studies to Improve Your Credibility
Many people use case studies in their business, but few loan officers use case studies as part of their loan officer marketing materials. If you are looking for a way to differentiate yourself from your competition, a case study may be the perfect answer.A case study accomplishes three things: it identifies a problem; it shows the solution; and it documents your performance. You offer proof of performance with a case study and sway skeptical agents.Effective case studies are structured using a common formula.Three Section Case StudyThe first section of your case study describes a very specific problem. This section has to

ng tools available today. Many marketers associate email marketing with spam and have concerns about being shut down by their ISP or hosting company. The fact is, done right and by following specific guidelines you have little to fear. Follow the guidelines outlined below and you will probably kick yourself for not using this tool a lot sooner.

1) CAN-SPAM COMPLIANT: Just about everyone receives hundreds of spam-related emails per week and that is the main reason a lot of legitimate businesses balk at using email marketing. But if you are a legitimate business you only need to do a few things to make your email marketing efforts legal.

(a) Subject Line: It should not be misleading in any way. It should relate to the

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You don't have to be an actor to learn from a film set! Any organization or team can raise their effectiveness level by applying what great teams on a film set do!

Blogging has been around for decades in the form of paper journals created by the aspiring minds of the world’s individuals. Privacy used to be a must-have commodity as diary owners kept their personal autobiographies behind lock and key. However, the online version developed and exploded. Privacy became an item of the past and flaunting your personal life became the popular digital accessory. As negative as it seems, people simply love to read about other people. Have we stretched the blogging popularity to its maximum or will we continue to see blogging flourish in new directions during 2007?

Ready to jump on the blogging band wagon but not sure where to start? Read these tips and get going! Many are giving up their static websites and starting a blog. A mere paragraph with a link is fresh content. How easy is that?

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