Monthly Archives: November 2011

Bootstrap Your Business

Posted on November 30, 2011 by asechmentor@gmail.com

How to start your company while working your regular job. Continue reading →

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How to feel better instantly and sell more consistently

Posted on November 23, 2011 by connie@exceptionalsales.com

As salespeople if we are active in our marketplace every day we’ll have some type of challenge or obstacle; right? How can you ensure that you’ll keep yourself in a good psychological place no matter what challenge arises? canada free … Continue reading →

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Fix Your Sales Force

Posted on November 21, 2011 by asechmentor@gmail.com

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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Is Your Business Franchisable

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Jack@franway.com

IS FRANCHISING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS Franchising is a different business from the business you are currently in. Therefore, just like anyone who enters a business they are not experts in you need to have good advisors and people … Continue reading →

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“SENSING” USING EXPERIENCE AS A TOOL

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Jack@franway.com

“SENSING” USING EXPERIENCE AS A TOOL As a businessperson you accumulate experience over years of business activity, that experience becomes your inventory of knowledge that allows you to see patterns in what is happening in business. Those patterns that occur … Continue reading →

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Marketing vs. Sales

Posted on November 14, 2011 by asechmentor@gmail.com

Michael Evans had an excellent post in the Harvard Business Review on the difference between marketing and sales that I’d like to share with you readers: “Sales and Marketing should arrive at one to three USP’s, that are memorable emotional … Continue reading →

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Really Bad Customer Service (part 3)

Posted on November 11, 2011 by asechmentor@gmail.com

About six months ago, American Express, probably as part of a loyalty test program, offered me, and I accepted, an American Express Gold Card, with no credit limit and interest bearing. In fact, I proposed to them that they limit … Continue reading →

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How to Get the Dough When the Checking Account is Low

Posted on November 9, 2011 by asechmentor@gmail.com

I had lunch with one of my Solutons Forum clients today, and whose cash flow had dried up in the last couple of weeks. So, I thought I’d share some collection ideas with you: 1. Have the sales rep make … Continue reading →

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Building Value – The Inconsequential Business Owner

Posted on November 4, 2011 by kandreassen@Acceler8.net

All owners understand (at some level anyway) that they will someday leave the businesses they have created. Let’s assume for a moment that tomorrow you leave your business permanently. If you are an Inconsequential Owner, your exit will have no … Continue reading →

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School’s Electronic Payment System is Working!

Posted on November 1, 2011 by asechmentor@gmail.com

We know that many of you have tried to take courses in the last two months or so, to be thwarted by problems in our electronic payment system. The problems were related to the purchase of the American School of … Continue reading →

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