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How You Can Recruit Sales Super Stars - Part I - Recognising Sales Sheep And Wolves - Click To Read Article
Find out how to recognise the best and the worst sales people. Then in the second article of this two part series find out how to recruit sales super stars.

How You Can Recruit Sales Super Stars Part II How To Advertise and Interview Them - Click To Read Article
Find out step by step how to create an advert and then interview sales super stars and deter the merely slick who have a great facade but who can't deliver.

Your Brochure Is Killing Your Sales - Click To Read Article
Brochures can be the silent assassins that take-out the sales you should have got. Does your brochure sell? Do you know? You can rehabilitate your brochure by listening to your customers favourite radio station...

What Does Honest Abe Lincoln Have To Do With Company Growth - Click To Read Article
Is formal training important? After all we can all learn from other employees or from outside consultants we bring in can't we? Well, in my previous life as a consultant IT project director I noticed people would often be too busy doing their own job to learn the skills of an outside consultant too. That's despite massive efforts made to train people. But unless skills are used regularly after training they fade away. Learning from others in your own organisation can also be fraught. Learning by "sitting next to Nellie" as it's known can work. But it means that any weak custom and practise procedures are copied. These weak procedures may actually be the direct opposite of the company strategy. Also if you're learning from someone because they're just about to leave the company. For whatever reason.

Social Media Can Grow Your Business - Click To Read Article
Look at why you should use social media marketing, such as Twitter, blogging, Facebook and a raft of others, to grow your business.

Setting Goals - Click To Read Article
Do you know where your company is going? Do you have a vision of where you want to be?

Review Lightning In A Bottle How To Develop Saleable Products - Click To Read Article
Did you ever wonder if your brainstorming and focus groups were effective? Wonder no more, David Minter and Michael Reid reveal the truth and add their own approach to the mix to make products flops a much less likely outcome from your creative activity.

Make Twitter Easier With These Twitter Tools - Click To Read Article
Twitter can seem overwhelming. Tame the bird with these FREE tools from a variety of developers.

Is Twitter For The Birds? - Click To Read Article
So you've signed up to Twitter. But you're unsure as to it's value. This article explains how you can get value from the social media scene and Twitter.

Does Blogging Get You More Sales? - Click To Read Article
Blogging continues to get more readers. Does that translate into more sales?

Do You Know This Secret Success Method To Learn More - Click To Read Article
Imagine you've just returned from an all expenses paid 3 day seminar all about marketing/Windows Vista/ Sales or something else you're into to. By using the methods and techniques you've learnt you'll improve your career or business. But there's a secret that Napoleon Hill has written about. Let me explain... 'Normal' learning is just like the seminar you've completed, It's the same if you go to seminars, read books, listen to tapes, CDs or DVDs. All of them work to some extent. But usually you retain less than 25% of what you've learnt in these ways. Cute, eh? You've paid to be stuffed full of knowledge for three days and you only get to keep a few hours worth. It makes you want to ask for a large discount. Just kidding. But you see what I'm saying? Listen. I am not knocking these ways. Not at all. I use them myself.

Do Your Adverts Get You Sales? - Click To Read Article
Do you know whether your adverts are getting you sales? Whatever you do don't fall for the line about "raising your profile" is just as important. Without cash from sales a great profile helps no one. Check out these 7 steps to better (more sales) advertising.

Do You Know This Secret Way To Connect With Your Prospects - Click To Read Article
If you had a magic wand the one thing you'd wish for was to be able to connect with your prospects easily and affordably. With this secret you can.

A Business Tool That Can Lead to Financial Benefits - Click To Read Article
There's an overlooked tool that is in any businesses toolbox for growth. This review explains what other leaders think.

10 Tips For Better Business Email - Click To Read Article
Ever wished you'd not sent that email? Want to know how to reduce the risk of your email being deleted?





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