Category Archives: Sales

Hiring Sales for your Startups or Small Business – Part 2

Here is Part Two of my discussion on the Best Practices for Sales Person Recruitment.  In the First Part, we discussed the key requirement of Job Profiling or Benchmarking and setting up your Recruitment Process.  These are your first two … Continue reading

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Hiring Sales for your Startups or Small Business – Part 1

After my initial preparation of this blog, I realized that its length was too long.  So I have broken this into two parts.  Part one will cover my first two points of building a job profile and discussing the recruitment … Continue reading

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A Smart Business Knows 8 Ways to Pivot Their Vision

Eight ways of pivoting (changing) products or services to stay relevant, ahead of competitors and relevant to your customers. Continue reading

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Five Success Factors From 2011

Five things to do to improve your business in 2012 Continue reading

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The Cause and Effect of Poor Sales Forecasting

What really causes a bad forecast? What is the impact to the business when you have a poor or unreliable forecast? I have found that the financial impact can be quite severe when forecasts are not reliable? How about you? … Continue reading

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Promotional Budget Split

Some expanded things on allocation of marketing dollars Continue reading

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Five Things To Do Before Year End

1. Check with your CPA or other tax preparer about where you are on taxes; you might be able to move income or expenses to reduce your taxes this year or next. We have no idea whether tax rates are … Continue reading

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Fix Your Sales Force

Haveorting an effective sales effort is key to keeping your business afloat, whether you’re an established business with many employees or a mom and pop. Ideas for fixing the sales effort Continue reading

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