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Features & Expert Voices
Smart Presentations: Ban "Safe" Presentations
If the most memorable thing about your presentation is how it looks, why even bother presenting? It's time to go out on a ledge and risk it all to make a lasting impression.
Principles of Persuasion
Whether you're conducting a one-on-one interview, motivating your sales team or delivering a keynote address, your success as a leader is defined by your ability to persuade with clarity and passion.
Marketing Lowdown: Make the Most of Media
If you don't keep your name around constantly, it's forgotten as quickly as last year's Miss America.
Sales Architects: The Salesperson's One-Word Job Description
Everyone is searching for answers on how to sell in a down economy. Many feel that the sales game has changed, but in reality the economic challenge has forced salespeople to improve their skills and refine their approach.
The Way I See It: Getting CMOs to Step Up
Here's a decidedly sobering fact to ponder: Chief marketing officers have the shortest tenure of any business executive. And with a recession in full force, marketers now need to prove themselves to the CEO and to the board more than ever before.
Market Smarter in 2009
Here are strategic recommendations to achieve marketing success in 2009.


SALES & MARKETING STRATEGY
Is E-mail Hiding Your Personality?
You know that it's your personality and message that distinguish you on the phone. But, when you write, you have to be really careful that the words you choose let your personality shine through.
Making the Case for State and Local Government Sales Strategies
As the year winds down and you map out your plan to maintain and improve next year's bottom line, it is a great time to consider creating or enhancing a presence within the state and local government market.
The Fourth-Quarter Fix for Frantic Sales Managers
Anxious about making your sales numbers before the end of 2008? Don't be. Sales strategy and peak performance expert George Ludwig lays out some strategies for helping your team hit your revenue goals before the clock runs down.
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Harnessing the Power of Personalized Images and Text in Direct Mail
The biggest question when you create a personalized URL (PURLs) is always, how do you motivate customers to go there?


MANAGEMENT
Be a Well-Loved Boss in 2009
If you're a manager, supervisor, department head, senior executive or business owner, it's more important to be respected than to be loved. But here's a secret: You can be both.
The Un-Comfort Zone: Deadlines Work
Sometimes we need to be put into a box before we can think outside of it. A deadline is just such a box.
Thought Leadership Is a Company Attitude
It's essential for companies and organizations adopting a thought leadership strategy in their business communications to have an attitude—and an agreement—that there's a lot more to discuss than just the product or service that's driving revenue.
10 Roadblocks to Effective Workplace Listening
In the workplace, you'll earn the respect and trust of coworkers if you have a well-developed ability to really listen to others when they speak—and respond in a way that shows you heard, care and fully understand.


MEETINGS & TRAVEL
On the Road: Portland
Portland has really done it right.
Sales Talk: A Conversation on Conversation
But before talking about the specifics of conversations, it's helpful to know a little about language and its significance.
Five Tips for Creating a Stand-Out Sales Presentation
Looking to create that perfect eye-catching sales presentation to lock in some last-minute Q4 sales? The you had better rethink your strategy and take your presentation to the virtual scale.
Getting Business from Educational Seminars
Do you host educational seminars and often wonder why you don't get the results you want from the effort? To really get results from these events, you need to be very clear about what return you want.


TRAINING
Body of Knowledge—Needed to Use the Phone?
They can't see you on that sales call, so does it matter that you're scowling, slouching, or maybe even making funny expressions? Maybe—if body language really matters when talking on the telephone.
Sales Training: A Great Question Reveals More Than a Great Answer
Uncover great sales talent—worth training—with better questions.
Sales Training Institute Opens in New Jersey
The first consultative sales curriculum to be licensed by the State of New Jersey wil begin classes in Jan 2009.
Coach to the Habits of Success, not Luck
Prior to delegating the methods in which to perform a certain task, it is important to work with teams on their habits.


TECHNOLOGY
Case Study: Kodak Group Thinks "Big" For Sales Efficiency
Kodak's Graphic Communications Group was facing an integration challenge.
Seeking Out Virtual Watercoolers
Why is it that Google and Facebook work online, but sales professionals revert to scuttlebutt to uncover information that, in all likelihood, has been stored on an in-company portal for their benefit?
Troubling Touch Technology
Research says new touch-screen capacitive mobile phones not the wave of the future as once thought.
Debilitating Demo Diseases
Here is a compendium of debilitating demo diseases that commonly afflict sales, presales and marketing teams when preparing for and presenting demos.


 
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