Monday, February 12, 2007

Small Business and Technology - by Luis Luarca

Small Business and Technology - by Luis Luarca: "Traditional business management has had to make room for a new facet of business: technology. Through the years traditional business management has had to marry its strategies with the proliferation of technology where every business owner from Starbuck's to Jim's Auto has had to incorporate technology into its everyday operations.

The problem is that in the late nineties business believed technology was going to be the solution for every business problem, but it wasn't until recently that business managers realized that technology will fail if not implemented properly. That is, traditional business management must seamlessly marry itself with technology. "

Five Power Questions To Break Through Sales Stalemates - by James Delrojo

Five Power Questions To Break Through Sales Stalemates - by James Delrojo: "Often in the selling process you reach a point where the prospect tells you that they would like to buy your product but there is a real reason why they simply can't do that at this point in time. In most cases this is not actually true, although the prospect may genuinely believe that it is.

Here are five questions that can help you blast through this stalemate and get the order."

Seven Ways to Get From Whining to Winning - by Kevin Eikenberry

Seven Ways to Get From Whining to Winning - by Kevin Eikenberry: "Maybe your first thought when you think of a whiner is little kids you sometimes see in a shopping mall or some other public place whining because they aren’t getting their way. Or maybe you think of people you work with (or have worked with) who always seem to be complaining about something.

Their whining may be about little or personal things like, “Why can’t we get better coffee?” or “why don’t we have a dental plan?”. Or maybe the whining is about bigger business issues like, “if marketing would just build a better plan, we’d all be better off,” or “Why can’t IT keep the e-mail running?” "