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Everything Was GREAT!!!! Until We Started Talking Price …

Are sales leaders clear on what prevents their salespeople from executing what they’ve been trained to do? In a series of posts, we will Read More

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Hey, Quit Searching on How to HATE!!! Why Do Small Businesses Hate SEO?

SEO, SEO, SEO. If you’ve done any sort of online marketing in the past five to ten years (and of course you have) then you’re Read More

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I … Need … HELP!!!! When to Hire and Leading a Team of One

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Vistage Connect contributor David Shedd wrote this three-part series in response to issues raised for a recent CEO Entrepreneurship session — but the Read More

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Paging Alex Trebek … Is Your Sale in JEOPARDY?

How often have you heard this one? “I know for sure I got the sale.”

How about this one? “They told me for sure I Read More

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Hey CEOs, Want to $ave Cash? Here’s What Few See, That Takes Minutes …

In my last post, I described the nightmare that CEOs in America face when dealing with employee health costs, which have become the third-largest Read More

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(Sigh) … C’MON!!!! ‘How Can I Motivate My Gen Y Employees?’

“How can I motivate my Generation Y employees?”

If you’re a CEO over 40, this question has probably perplexed you in recent years. You are Read More

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The Price Is RIGHT: 5 Pricing Models Explained

Determining the most appropriate pricing model for your business is tricky and takes considerable research, planning and testing before full implementation across all of your Read More

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MOTIVATE Your Inner Innovator: Kickstarting Growth in a Stale Economy

Many organizations have enjoyed continuous growth despite the challenges of the current economy. The problem is, the genesis of their organizational growth has been driven Read More

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Fighting BACK! Three Ways USA Manufacturing Is Thriving

Small to medium-sized manufacturing companies in the USA face numerous challenges in this complex global world. Low-cost competition from China, escalating health care and other Read More

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JUST Do It … and Do It NOW: 29 Attributes to PEAK Your Profits

A reader recently asked me: “Jeff, I know there’s no secret to success, but if there’s one skill or behavior to master, what would it Read More

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It’s a Healthy Expense That CEOs DREAD … Well, WAKE UP!!!

Most chief executives in America DREAD the nightmare they experience each year when it comes time for their companies’ annual health insurance renewal.

Just as Read More

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Hey BRO, What’s the 1-2-1: Why to Customize 4 Your Clients

“Hey, Jeff: How can I get better at marketing one-to-one relationships?”

The best marketing messaging, and the best communications with your clients, comes from speaking Read More

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If the Customer Is Always RIGHT, You’ve Got the WRONG Strategy

Make a list of every company you know that would say “we don’t care about customer service, it’s just not a focus of Read More

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The SALES Power of Story Telling — and Story Tending …

2008 was both extremely difficult and exhilarating. After more than 30 years, and tens of thousands of salespeople trained in both my Solution Selling and Read More

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DOOM for Dotcom? Pleading the ‘I’m a Techie’ Defense

In January, federal prosecutors in Virginia indicted Kim Dotcom, a.k.a. Kim Schmitz, a.k.a. Kim Tim Jim Vestor, the high-flying internet entrepreneur behind the file-sharing website, Read More

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Careful!!! It’s SENSITIVE: The 5 Major Types of ID Theft

When most people think of identity theft, they think of stolen credit cards or online hacking scams. What they’re missing is the fact that identity Read More

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DON’T Rest Easy … Change It Up Before You Hear: ‘Checkmate!’

Customer attitudes, preferences, and behaviors naturally change over time. But in the last few years — given the enormous economic and political uncertainties we now Read More

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Yer OUT!!! The 3-Strike Rule: How to Develop (& Fix) Sales Channels

Increasingly, businesses are turning to sales channel relationships to sell their products. These relationships provide both parties access to markets and revenue they would otherwise Read More

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Be a Rebel!!! Going UNTRADITIONAL: Social Media 102

“Traditional marketing will get you traditional results. Untraditional marketing will get you untraditional results.”

And in 2012, untraditional marketing means moving your spend from standard Read More

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Exclusive Webinar: Boost Your Success by Selling to Other Small Businesses

Admit it: No matter how well your business may be doing, you’re always looking for that next big sale.

But if you want that next Read More

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Behind the BUST: What MegaUpload Means for Internet Business

The recent clash between U.S. prosecutors and Kim Dotcom, the brash entrepreneur behind the file-sharing website MegaUpload.com, represents a new front in the digital war Read More

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First Meeting Went Great, Buuuuuuut … 5 Hidden Weaknesses in Salespeople

Are sales leaders clear on what prevents their salespeople from executing what they’ve been trained to do? In a series of posts, we will be Read More

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Very PINTERESTing: How the Web’s Newest Social Media Sensation Can Help YOUR Biz …

Over the past weeks, there’s been an almost deafening buzz from the tech blogosphere about the latest social networking site to take the Web by Read More

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‘We Don’t Have Enough Money,’ ‘We Don’t Have Enough Time’: SUCK It Up!!!!

scar·ci·ty  noun – insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.

One belief among business owners is that they do not have enough money, time or resources. Read More

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I SOLD Yah, Uncle Sam!!! How to Sell to the Federal Government

Every year, the U.S. federal government spends billions of dollars on commercial products (e.g., office supplies, building materials, computers, furniture, etc.) and professional and technical Read More