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Communicating to Executives Effectively - 123 9am PT 1 PDU Communication is one of the critical and visible components of a project. The timeliness, quality, and means of how information is decimated can dramatically affect the outcome of a project and the perceived effectiveness of the project manager by executive management. It is critical for a project manager to realize that there are different styles and techniques needed to successfully  more...

Preserving Precious Capital Attacking the SEVEN Most Significant Capital Wasters in Your Company Times are tough and capital preservation is at the top of every executivea ™s priority list. But specific techniques necessary to rapidly eliminate waste and reduce operating costs can be difficult to define and even more difficult to implement. If you manage ANY type of an organization, you have waste which steals precious capital from your enterprise. Now, more than ever, it is important  more...

Business Strategy Foundation How strongly placed are you in formulating, understanding and executing your company business strategy. Get the foundation to successfully lead & grow the business. The a Business Strategy Foundationa program is designed to help entrepreneurs or future business leaders get a perspective of how business strategy can be formulated and executed. It is delivered in a pragmatic, interactive  more...

Telecom eLearning Course You can learn Telecom ( GSM/ CDMA/ WCDMA/ WiMAX ) from anywhere using web power ( internet) and stay ahead on learning curve.  more...

E-Mail Communication: Power, Peril, and Protocol Learn what to do before you press Send American businesses sent 1.4 trillion e-mails last year, and the vast majority were short missives hastily typed and fired off without much thought. You re addicted to its speed, but have you mastered the correct use of the tool? A poorly written e-mail can damage relationships, ruin a sales opportunity, and even limit your ability to move up within your  more...

Use Customer Service to Win Loyal Clients Differentiate By Making Client Satisfaction Pervasive Throughout Your Organization When service is blas , price becomes the decision driver for customers. If you aren't committed to delivering a high-level service experience, be prepared for a never-ending price war that slashes your margins. Today's marketplace demands that companies deliver consistent, stellar service to retain their existing  more...

Process Management for IT & Professional Services Firms Restore Profitability and Become Scalable Through Process Efficiency As a leader of an IT or professional services firm, you know that cost containment is critical to survive and thrive. Without it, you can't provide competitive pricing on proposals making it difficult to compete. Yet, there is a key part of your business that is draining your profits without you knowing it process management! IT  more...

Process Management for Manufacturing & Construction Firms Restore Profitability and Become Scalable Through Process Efficiency As a leader of a manufacturing or construction firm, you know that cost containment is critical to survive and thrive. Yet, there is a key part of your business that is draining your profits without you knowing it process management! Manufacturing firms that do not have documented processes and workflow become inefficient,  more...

Secrets to Delivering Presentations That Win Business Learn the key presentation techniques that lead your prospects to buy from you Whether you are a small business owner or sales professional, your skill in grabbing your prospect's attention during a presentation determines whether you get the account or if it goes to your competitor. Many think that great presenters are born, not developed. Not true! You can learn the secrets to engaging your  more...

Effective Writing for Sales Professionals Learn to Use Sales Writing for a Competitive Edge With the economy in strife, there are fewer sales opportunities in play. How do you make sure you are the one who wins the account? You need a competitive edge that will push you over the top and there is one at your fingertips. Sales people who master written sales communication get the account and the commission. Dr. Julie Miller, author of  more...

Advanced Customer Service Planning for Services Firms Align Your Firm s Service Delivery With The Desires of Your Clients According to the American Society of Quality, 68% of clients leave because of an attitude of indifference from a company employee. Excellent customer service doesn't happen by accident. It is designed, planned, and scripted to account for every aspect of the customer service experience. Most services firms cross their fingers  more...

Driving Business Development Using Modern Principles of Productivity Get More Business By Getting More Done Business development is simple build relationships and secure clients/customers. But getting it done is hard. To develop business, you must consistently repeat a series of small steps, but executives and professionals often fail to do this because they lack a simple, easy-to-use method for getting it done. The result is missed opportunities to grow and  more...

Social Media Savvy How to Develop a Free Marketing Campaign that Delivers Profit What have you heard about social media marketing? Do you believe that Facebook and MySpace are just for teenagers? Do you know that the Obama Campaign maximized the power of the internet through social media to garner the power of close to 10,000,000 fans and supporters? What could that do for your business? In this webinar you will  more...

How to Sell Consulting Services to the Federal Government Leverage the unprecedented spend by this market segment Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent today by the federal government on consulting services. Right now, their leaders are being judged by how quickly they can spend their money to help drive the economy through the stimulus plan. Yet, if your consulting firm is not well-positioned to pursue this market, you will be left out of  more...

The Busy Professional's Guide to Social Networking Leverage this Power In Just Minutes A Day Social networking is hot, but you are still sitting on the sidelines. You hear about LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, blogging and perhaps, it's all so overwhelming with your plate already full with other initiatives. Getting involved with social networking can help you and your business grow without a huge time investment if you know how. Lynne  more...

Profitability Strategies for Service Firms Find the cost sinkholes that are draining your profits Business leaders in service firms are under enormous pressure to find opportunities to reduce costs. While you have already undergone a round of cost-cutting, the cuts did not produce the expected results to the bottom-line. The company is relying on you to create cost reduction strategies without damaging the brand, but you've exhausted  more...

Organizational Skills For Professional Business Women Rediscover Your Productivity Mastery CRMs, PDAs, and cell phones were supposed to help you become more organized and productive. Instead, they've caused you to become more scattered, disorganized, and overwhelmed. Some data in here, some contacts in there, and appointments in all of them. Keeping yourself organized has never been more difficult or frustrating. As a professional business woman,  more...

Create a Client Experience to Grow Your Financial Advisor Practice Strategies for Developing a Consistent, Memorable Impression Over 80% of surveyed clients said they were dissatisfied with their financial advisor. That's pretty scary if that includes your client base. You certainly can blame the economy for some of your client s frustration but are you responsible too? How you define the client experience affects, not only retention, but also the new clients  more...

Process Management for Manufacturing & Construction Firms Restore Profitability and Become Scalable Through Process Efficiency As a leader of a manufacturing or construction firm, you know that cost containment is critical to survive and thrive. Yet, there is a key part of your business that is draining your profits without you knowing it process management! Manufacturing firms that do not have documented processes and workflow become inefficient,  more...

Secrets to Delivering Presentations That Win Business Learn the key presentation techniques that lead your prospects to buy from you Whether you are a small business owner or sales professional, your skill in grabbing your prospect's attention during a presentation determines whether you get the account or if it goes to your competitor. Many think that great presenters are born, not developed. Not true! You can learn the secrets to engaging your  more...

Lead People, Not Companies ...any. But what many business leaders don t recognize is that you can t lead a company you lead people. Your employees are the ones who can bring about financial change in your organization. In other words, you need to stop paying lip service to your team and build a people-centric culture. Billy Arcement, author of Searching for Success and 30-year leadership coach, teaches cutting-edge  more...

Wellness Strategies Following A Workforce Reduction ...strategies to address the wellness of the survivors so that you can have a healthy bottom line. In this webinar, you will learn how to: Help your employees manage stress so that it does not take its toll on their health Motivate and teach staff how to establish a healthy lifestyle to reduce the risk of illness Restore energy and creativity to the workplace Instill an  more...

How to Re-Energize Your Sales Team In Tough Times Learn How to Re-engage and Motivate Your Sales Organization Budget cuts, lost accounts, and staff reductions have left your sales organization fatigued. Once, they were so committed to your company and product that they oozed with passion. Those days are gone. You can see the lost, unfocused look on their faces and you don't know what it will take to get them back on track. You tried praise  more...

Master Cold Calling to Drive Revenue Techniques to Get Your Foot In the Door Technology has created tremendous barriers for sales people. From caller ID to voicemail to professional screeners, reaching the decision-maker has never been more challenging. When you finally reach them, you have a mere few seconds to capture their attention or you get the dreaded click and opportunity is lost. For most sales people, the prospecting call  more...

Put the Relate Back Into Relationship Strong client relationships emanate from understanding 'what s in it for the other person.' When your business relationships are all about the products and services you offer, then you become a commodity vendor that will eventually win business only based on your low price. Provide value beyond what your clients expect, and you become a true business partner, one where clients are willing to pay  more...

The Sales Compensation Conundrum How to Develop a Truly Effective Sales Compensation Plan Developing a sales compensation plan can be a pretty intimidating undertaking. What are the most critical decisions you need to make? What compensation plan structure will motivate your salespeople to achieve the targets you set for them without producing unintended consequences? Sales performance expert Alan Rigg has helped hundreds of  more...

Survive and Thrive In Economic Turbulence How to build business by ensuring your teams are right-sized, well-managed & clear-focused In a troubled economy, it s more critical than ever that every employee pulls his or her weight. To maximize profits, each person must be making the full contribution for which they were hired. As a leader, you must eliminate redundancy and lack of accountability or you ll lose money. Lean, focused teams  more...

Dogs are born to hunt. Is your sales staff born to sell? What is more important, nurture or nature? When it comes to sales, they both are important. Sales DNA refers to the internal qualities required to be successful in sales . Some examples include - no fear of rejection, no need for approval, money motivated, positive outlook and many others. When a new hire lacks these traits, many frustrating hours of coaching and training will be wasted. The  more...

Advanced Negotiation Techniques: Hear more yes and a lot less no at the bargaining table When is the last time you heard . . . 'If you want this contract, then you need to do it our way.' 'No . . . that won t work.' 'You re not paying attention to us. We can t agree to that.' Ouch! Now you are back at square one! The other guy just rejected your counteroffer. The problem is, in your heart, you knew the solution would work. You re left thinking, 'What just happened?' If you  more...

Using Search Engine Optimization To Grow Your Business Myths, Legends, and Facts for Effective SEO for Your Website 'Why is my competitor getting ten times the website traffic that I do?' The world of search engine optimization (SEO) is a mystery for most. Conflicting information and inconsistent advice make you wonder if there truly is a method to getting search engines to highly rank your website. Some (maybe your competitors) have figured it out,  more...

Investing In A Recession Buy, Sell, Or Do Nothing? What every investor must know to protect and grow their wealth The recession has created a culture of investment paralysis. Should I pull my money out of the market and put it under my mattress? Do I put my dollars in a savings account and earn 2%? Buy, sell, or do nothing? For most people, there are more investment questions than answers, but inaction now can be worse than making a bad  more...

Align Vision, Mission, and Strategy to Reach Your Goals Leadership Strategies for Managers Yogi Berra said it best, 'Be very careful If you don't know where you're going you might not get there.' As a business leader, your organization needs to have a vision - and a plan to implement it - to reach your goals. If not, your team will be unfocused and underperform. Many think that creating a vision is too difficult and time consuming while others think  more...

How to Prevent Foot in Mouth Disease - A Prescription from The PR Doctor for Healthy Media Relations Public relations is essential to any comprehensive marketing program. At its best, a well-run PR program can increase exposure to your business dramatically while significantly reducing your advertising costs. Poor public relations, on the other hand, create missed opportunities and can even do significant damage to your business s reputation. This webinar will present Public Relations DOs and  more...

Unconventional Marketing Strategies for Small Business Owners Boost revenue and profit in this stressed economy Small business owners are struggling now more than ever to grow revenue. Cash flow is limited and return on investment (ROI) dictates where this money is spent. You need to question where to invest marketing dollars how to measure performance and what to expect from ROI. Your marketing budget must be invested wisely or you will suffocate your  more...

Improve Morale Following A Workforce Reduction Techniques That Reduce Stress and Gain Productivity 'My workload is overwhelming I m stressed to the max!' Employees who survive a layoff do not come away unscathed. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt create unmanageable stress levels preventing them from performing at optimal levels and reduces morale. Stress restricts creativity, damages morale, and reduces productivity...and your company can t  more...

Managing Difficult Employees In Key Positions Five Proven Strategies to Maximize Expertise and Minimize Angst Difficult people wreak havoc in your company. You know that. Difficult people who hold key positions are even more problematic. When leadership power, authority and decision-making fall into the hands of an employee with poor or non-existent people skills, you are likely to be losing up to 40% of your profits: money going out the  more...

Board of Directors Accountability Avoid Operational Catastrophes It's all over the news. Publicly traded, household named companies in the financial world out of business. As a business executive, you rely on your board of directors to reduce the risk to your company. Yet, many boards put their firm at risk of SEC action or even criminal investigation. How do you know if your board of directors is applying the appropriate level  more...

Marketing Strategies to Reach the Gay and Lesbian Community Learn how to reach this powerful, niche market segment According to the Selig Center for Economic Growth, the gay and lesbian market is the 3rd largest consumer segment with a buying power of $720 billion. This rapidly growing market can be a key revenue source for your company - IF you know how to reach them. Fear and a lack of knowledge of this market segment may be keeping you from creating a  more...

Drive Employee Productivity in Challenging Times Strategies to Regain Focus of Your Team Budget cuts. Employee layoffs. Doubled workload. Your employees are being asked to do more with less with all of these factors contributing to productivity paralysis. Yet, as the manager, you re accountable for ensuring productivity goals are achieved despite all of these hurdles. How do you regain control in this sticky situation to achieve corporate  more...

Successful Trade Show Strategies In A Down Economy Trade show exhibiting can cost tens of thousands of dollars per show which is why many companies are closely evaluating whether to cut trade shows from their budgets. While the knee-jerk reaction is to skip the show this year, it may not the best decision for your company. How do you select the right shows and maintain a strong booth presence when your dollars are limited? Barry Siskind, author  more...

Article Publishing to Grow Your Business or Consulting Firm How to Build Your Reputation and Generate Revenue Using Articles The first thing clients do when looking for a consultant or researching your business is to check Google. One of the easiest ways to dominate search engine results is article marketing. Done correctly, articles help prove your expertise and generate leads. Incorrectly, article marketing becomes a drain on your time and can even  more...

Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling If you are involved in business development, sales, or account management in any way, you ve probably 'cold called.' Any time you meet with a prospect without knowing about them, their industry, their issues, and how your company is relevant to something they care about, you run the risk of losing credibility and worse, losing the deal. In 'Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling' you'll discover  more...

After the Handshake Networking Strategies to Propel Your Business 'I shook a lot of hands at the event but now what? How do I turn the business cards I collected into real business relationships?' Networking is a powerful way to convert suspects into prospects if you do it correctly. Unfortunately, most professionals don t. Instead, you have dozens of tongue-tied conversations at industry events worrying whether you  more...

Social Media Savvy How to Develop a Free Marketing Campaign that Delivers Profit What have you heard about social media marketing? Do you believe that Facebook and MySpace are just for teenagers? Do you know that the Obama Campaign maximized the power of the internet through social media to garner the power of close to 10,000,000 fans and supporters? What could that do for your business? In this webinar you will  more...

Accountability versus Blame This webinar is about being more effective in your responsibility to someone else. Accountable individuals have the ability to manage others, are great collaborators and have a willingness to cultivate enthusiasm. Does this sound like you? If not, then be sure to attend this session. Do your employees have the motivation to achieve what you want? Does achievement make difference in the success of  more...

Cash Flow Strategies for Entrepreneurs Small business owners and entrepreneurs are specialists when it comes to their trade, but they are rarely financial specialists. As a result, when an owner wants to know what actions make sense to increase cash flow and profitability specific to their operations they rely on already overworked resources such as their accountants, controllers, bookkeepers, and CFOs to translate the company s  more...

The Renegade Approach to Consultative Selling When you look back at your monthly sales results, did you spend more time making friends or generating revenue? If you invest the same amount of time with every prospect it results in a full pipeline, but with few or no sales. The key to sales success is being able to separate those prospects ready to buy from those who are not. If you can t identify real prospects, you re wasting precious selling  more...

Secrets to Delivering Presentations That Win Business Learn the key presentation techniques that lead your prospects to buy from you Whether you are a small business owner or sales professional, your skill in grabbing your prospect's attention during a presentation determines whether you get the account or if it goes to your competitor. Many think that great presenters are born, not developed. Not true! You can learn the secrets to engaging your  more...

Secrets to Delivering Presentations That Win Business Learn the key presentation techniques that lead your prospects to buy from you Whether you are a small business owner or sales professional, your skill in grabbing your prospect's attention during a presentation determines whether you get the account or if it goes to your competitor. Many think that great presenters are born, not developed. Not true! You can learn the secrets to engaging your  more...

Customer Service Strategies to Increase Revenue See Your Business Through the Lens of Your Customer When dollars are tight, customer loyalty is easily lost. When the service with your company slips due to budget cuts, the customer exodus becomes massive compounding your bottom-line issue. You can't afford to have your customers feel your pain as they represent a tremendous opportunity to grow your business. It s critical to deliver WOW!  more...

Name Your Price and Get It! Strategies for Effectively Handling the Money Conversation 'If we don t lower our price, we won t get the business!' Just as kryptonite paralyzes Superman, the price objection stops sales people in their tracks. For some, it triggers a paralyzing fear. Others don t know how to resolve the concern. Drop the price? Walk away from the deal? Hold firm? There are tell-tale signs that tell you exactly  more...

Got Business Challenges, Issues & Opportunities? Then Get Strategic Thinking & Planning Now The day-to-day hassles of running a business can be overwhelming. Before you know it, all your time is spent working in the business instead of working on the business. This is a common mistake that can be costing you and your business BIG TIME over the long haul. In this webinar, participants will discover the benefits of implementing strategic thinking and planning in the execution of their  more...

Success Strategies for Small Business Owners ...identify the critical activities that must get done so that you can best align your time, effort, and resources. He takes the broad spectrum of distraction and helps you focus on the right activities, at the right time to ensure the success of your business. In this webinar, you'll learn how to: Identify the right areas of your business to measure and use those metrics to drive change  more...

Strategies to Find Your Next Job Fast! Learn How to Conduct A Successful Job Search Post a resume on a job board, respond to a few online job ads, call a couple of recruiters and still no job opportunity is in sight. The typical job search lacks a game plan, focus, and direction leading the search to take, what feels like, forever. With today's competitive job market, you can't afford to thrash about; you need a job search strategy.  more...

How To Be An Online Spy (and use what you find for business success) There is an incredible amount of information online about what s going on at companies and with people. The problem is when you look for information using popular search engines, most people receive thousands and sometimes millions of results. In 'How To Be An Online Spy,' you ll learn the inside secrets on how to find information on companies and  more...

Too busy for you? Learn 5 quick techniques to benefit your health picture. It is hard for the busy professional to know what to eat to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The choices you make today at your business luncheon and dinner sales meeting impact your mood, metabolism and mental clarity. In this webinar, you will learn practical tips on how to know what food is suitable for consumption, and how to implement these tips into your busy day from renowned Wellness  more...

Brand Busters: How What You Say And Do Can Ruin Your Reputation Do your customers seem confused when they interact with your sales or customer service departments? Have you had trouble getting the clients or projects you really want? Is your marketing and advertising failing to bring the results you need? It could be that you re busting your brand sending out signals through your words and actions that contradict the brand image you want to project. By  more...

Forecasting & Pipeline Management How to Eliminate Stalled Opportunities from Your Company s Sales Opportunity Pipeline What is the condition of your company s sales opportunity pipeline? How many of the opportunities have been stalled at the same step in the sales cycle for weeks or months? If sales forecasts and opportunity pipelines are inaccurate, or if opportunities do not close in predictable time frames, it can wreak  more...

How to Grow Profits In a Recession ...economic times. These are real-world, practical skills that you can implement immediately into your business environment. He will push you out of your comfort zone, forcing you to move from reacting to circumstance to proactively planning your corporate strategy for sustainable profitability. In this webinar, you will learn how to: Formulate a game plan designed to maintain or restore  more...

Critical Thinking for Business Leaders How Outcome Based Thinking Can Change Your Results The higher you climb up the leadership ladder, the more important 'conceptual skills' are to your ability to drive organizational success. Leaders who possess conceptual thinking skills can leverage critical thinking and problem solving techniques that produce faster, better results. Those that continue to approach issues the same old way are  more...

Keys to Unlocking Your Employees Potential Strategies to Improve Employee Performance As a manager, you feel the pressure to keep your top performers happy and dedicate your time trying to get subpar performers to rise to the challenge. You've been tasked with delivering results, but unless your employees take ownership of their performance, the goals will not be met. If you haven't been trained how to develop your team or don't have the  more...

How to Become Recognized as an Expert And Monetize Your Expertise! 'I know more about that subject than her! How come she is always the keynote and I'm always the attendee?' You have the experience done the research and created a unique approach but you are also a well-kept secret. You work hard chasing prospects and are constantly asked to share your knowledge for free. How do you go from being knowledgeable to being recognized as a  more...

How to Build a High Performance Sales Engine Develop the foundation for your sales organization 'We have one guy who brings in 90% of the company s revenue. What are we doing wrong?' You re right to be concerned. Your company s financial success depends on the rainmaker s ability and motivation to sell. Plus, if you lose your top performer to a competitor, it could destroy your company. If this sounds like your company, you need to address  more...

Develop A Marketing Plan to Retain and Grow Your Customer Base Uncover the Secrets About Your Customer's Buying Habits You've heard it before. It's much more costly to find a new customer than to expand the buying relationship with an existing one. While the concept is not new or revolutionary, most companies don't know what drives their customers to buy, and what else they can sell them. Worse yet, they leave the door wide-open for their competitors to  more...

Create an Accountable Workforce to Grow Your Bottom-Line Lead Don t Manage Your Employees to Success Searching for answers to fix your bottom-line? Don t panic -- the answer is right under your nose. Your most valuable asset your employees -- can come to the rescue. You can grow your bottom-line despite the economic woes if you build an accountable workplace. Leadership expert, Joel H. Head, former Partner with Ernst Young, LLC and Principal with  more...

Investing In A Recession Buy, Sell, Or Do Nothing? What every investor must know to protect and grow their wealth The recession has created a culture of investment paralysis. Should I pull my money out of the market and put it under my mattress? Do I put my dollars in a savings account and earn 2%? Buy, sell, or do nothing? For most people, there are more investment questions than answers, but inaction now can be worse than making a bad  more...

Negotiating With The Big Dogs How Small Businesses Can Contract Without Losing Their Shirt Every small-business owner dreams of landing big clients. But doing business with the big guys doesn t automatically mean big profits. Their executives and procurement officers are well-trained and ready to put the squeeze on you during contract negotiations. If you can't hold your own in the negotiation, be prepared to sacrifice all of  more...

Process Management for Manufacturing & Construction Firms Restore Profitability and Become Scalable Through Process Efficiency As a leader of a manufacturing or construction firm, you know that cost containment is critical to survive and thrive. Yet, there is a key part of your business that is draining your profits without you knowing it process management! Manufacturing firms that do not have documented processes and workflow become inefficient,  more...

Use Customer Service to Win Loyal Clients Differentiate By Making Client Satisfaction Pervasive Throughout Your Organization When service is blas , price becomes the decision driver for customers. If you aren't committed to delivering a high-level service experience, be prepared for a never-ending price war that slashes your margins. Today's marketplace demands that companies deliver consistent, stellar service to retain their existing  more...

Secrets to Successfully Cold Calling Executives Most sales professionals start the pursuit of new accounts by cold calling lower-level or middle-management contacts because it fits your comfort level. Cold call success is not about comfort, it's about being effective. By immediately reaching the executive-level decision maker, you can reduce the sales cycle and be better positioned to win the account. If you want impressive results from your  more...

Software Development for Business Executives ...s delivery dates, or fail altogether. The good news is that you can avoid these deadly pitfalls if you know what questions to ask and when. Gary Gack, 40-year software development executive and Wharton MBA, bridges the gap between IT departments and business leaders. He teaches you what to ask your team so you can make informed, educated decisions on software development projects. He shows  more...

Get Ready, Set, Go! How to implement profitable strategies in this uncertain economy! Feeling the stress of a strained economy? Economic challenges create great opportunities for the savvy business leader/owner. Cycles are a critical part of the business process for every organization. Learn to take advantage of the valleys by strategically positioning your organization for new opportunities. Implement improvements to your internal structure. Create profitable business strategies  more...

Social Media Savvy How to Develop a Free Marketing Campaign that Delivers Profit What have you heard about social media marketing? Do you believe that Facebook and MySpace are just for teenagers? Do you know that the Obama Campaign maximized the power of the internet through social media to garner the power of close to 10,000,000 fans and supporters? What could that do for your business? In this webinar you will  more...

Lead Generation Techniques in a Slow Economy People Are Still Buying, But Are They Buying From You? Media is bombarding us with stories of economic doom and gloom, but everywhere you look there is proof that people are spending money! Football stadiums are still packed every Sunday, stores are full of shoppers and restaurants are full of patrons. People are being pickier with how they spend their money. Your challenge is how to get them to  more...

Master LinkedIn to Increase Sales Secrets that drive prospects to you LinkedIn to generate sales? Absolutely! Yet, few know how to leverage the advanced functionality in LinkedIn to find prospects and better yet, have them find you. In the competitive sales arena, everyone is looking for the edge when it comes to reaching prospects, but few can leverage the power that lies within LinkedIn. Tim Hagen, LinkedIn expert and  more...

Managing Employee Stress To Improve Morale and Drive Productivity 'My workload is overwhelming I m stressed to the max!' Fear, uncertainty, and doubt create unmanageable stress levels preventing employees from performing at optimal levels and reduces morale. Stress restricts creativity, damages morale, and reduces productivity...and your company can t afford these ramifications. Dianne Crampton, author of 'Melting Your Stress Within 30 Days,' helps companies  more...

Fearless Cold Calling Overcome Your Fear of Cold Calling to Drive Sales Many sales professionals thrive selling face-to-face, but freeze at the thought of cold calling. There are many reasons why they avoid cold calling, but the number one reason is fear of rejection and failure. This fear causes an epidemic of sales paralysis that results in lost sales opportunities, missed quotas, and lower income. Leslie Buterin,  more...

The Cold Calling System That Works! Reach the Top-Level Decision Makers to Skyrocket Sales! Sales professionals find cold calling painful. But if they don't do it and do it well they have no sales. Prospecting is a slow, uncomfortable process as you strive to reach the top decision maker. If you can't 'Reach The Top Dog,' you can't generate sales and your income is at risk! Leslie Buterin, author of 'Secrets to Scheduling the  more...

Partnership: Separating the Creeps From the Jewels It takes a lot of courage to exchange a dependable paycheck for the unknown of business ownership, no matter how thrilling it sounds. You can t just put mortgage payments or college tuition on hold while you ramp up the business. So you find a business partner to share the risk. At least that s the thinking for over 40% of the successful businesses started each year. But if you ve ever been in a  more...

Become An Effective Solution Sales Person Powerful Techniques to Drive Your Sales Career to the Next Level What is the determining factor in who wins a sale? Is it price? No! Is it the product knowledge of the sales person? No! Prospects can learn product information easily enough on the web. Buyers expect sales people to formulate solutions to their problems, not push their wares. Yet, many sales people say they are solution sales  more...

What to do Before, During, and After It Hits The Fan - Developing a Plan for Crisis Management When a business is facing a crisis, there is little time to react effectively. Also, the stress created by a crisis often limits rational thinking and can lead to costly mistakes and mis-steps. This is why it is essential for both large and small businesses to have a crisis management plan in place. Minimizing the damage from a crisis can prevent an unfortunate incident from blowing up into a  more...

How To Build A Million-Dollar Business Remove The Obstacles That Prevent Business Success You set out to create a million-dollar business. What you have is a J.O.B. -- Just Over Broke. The painful realities of owning a business being tied to the office 24/7, putting out fires and managing employees have left you in tactical mode. You're stumped as you try to re-discover the strategic mindset you had when you launched your business.  more...

Improve Morale Following A Workforce Reduction Techniques That Reduce Stress and Gain Productivity 'My workload is overwhelming I m stressed to the max!' Employees who survive a layoff do not come away unscathed. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt create unmanageable stress levels preventing them from performing at optimal levels and reduces morale. Stress restricts creativity, damages morale, and reduces productivity...and your company can t  more...

Organizational Skills For Professional Business Women Rediscover Your Productivity Mastery CRMs, PDAs, and cell phones were supposed to help you become more organized and productive. Instead, they've caused you to become more scattered, disorganized, and overwhelmed. Some data in here, some contacts in there, and appointments in all of them. Keeping yourself organized has never been more difficult or frustrating. As a professional business woman,  more...

Business Development Secrets for Consultants ...differentiates you from the competition No cost ideas that you can immediately implement to grow your business Marketing techniques that build awareness without emptying your wallet High impact growth areas to leverage in a slow economy for rapid business development As an added bonus, you will receive Dr. Drew's whitepaper 'Business Building Techniques' to help you implement his teachings  more...

Drive Employee Productivity in Challenging Times Strategies to Regain Focus of Your Team Budget cuts. Employee layoffs. Doubled workload. Your employees are being asked to do more with less with all of these factors contributing to productivity paralysis. Yet, as the manager, you re accountable for ensuring productivity goals are achieved despite all of these hurdles. How do you regain control in this sticky situation to achieve corporate  more...

Email Marketing for Consultants and Entrepreneurs Build a Loyal Following and Keep Business Flowing Most consultants live by the feast or famine rule except those who master database cultivation and relationship building. Your email list is the lifeblood of your business and it takes proper care and feeding to generate revenue. Promote too much, people unsubscribe. Promote too little and you get no business from the campaign. Those who have  more...

Leverage Buyer Styles to Win More Sales The missing ingredient that keeps you from closing more Finally, you have the meeting with the decision maker that you have chased for months. No sale! You just could not make a connection with her. Was the prospect a jerk or was it your approach that caused the meeting to go badly? Sales people who approach every prospect the same way have a 75% chance of blowing the meeting! There is a critical  more...

Give Your Elevator Speech A Lift How do you stand out in the crowd in a competitive environment? Your prospects are getting inundated by confusing marketing messages making it difficult to sound unique. The sales people and entrepreneurs that get in the door are the ones that can quickly and powerfully communicate their value. Your 30-second commercial had better hit the mark -- or you re going to lose sales and referral  more...

Five Magic Questions From the days of Socrates the ability to 'Lead others through the power of questions' has set those with the skill apart from the rest. Yes we all ask questions, the real question is how effective are these questions! You will gain the following insight into this powerful, yet rarely used skill set. Understanding why questioning is so powerful a communication tool. Understanding the Five Levels  more...

How to Develop a Strategic Plan That Works For You The manager's key to creating competitive advantage Do you ever get the feeling that you are throwing darts while blind-folded? As a business leader, how can you expect to make this year your best year ever without having a well-defined plan? Perhaps, you have a strategic plan, but it s hiding under the cobwebs in your office. In these challenging economic times, having the right strategic plan  more...

The Secret to Closing More Sales Closing is certainly an important sales activity, as the time, effort, and resources invested in managing sales cycles are wasted if orders are not secured. However, the real secret to closing sales is doing a great job at the FRONT end of the sales cycle. In other words, it is the quality of the work that is done during the OPPORTUNITY QUALIFICATION stage of the sales process that determines  more...

How to Develop an Effective Sales Compensation Plan The most common sales compensation question my company receives is, 'What is the standard (salary, draw, commission percentage) for (an industry, product or service, geography)?' Unfortunately there are very few standards that apply to sales compensation. The variations in sales compensation plans are infinite, and there is little published research that provides compensation details (salary or  more...

Driving Business Development Using Modern Principles of Productivity Get More Business By Getting More Done Business development is simple build relationships and secure clients/customers. But getting it done is hard. To develop business, you must consistently repeat a series of small steps, but executives and professionals often fail to do this because they lack a simple, easy-to-use method for getting it done. The result is missed opportunities to grow and  more...

Use Customer Service to Win Loyal Clients Differentiate By Making Client Satisfaction Pervasive Throughout Your Organization When service is blas , price becomes the decision driver for customers. If you aren't committed to delivering a high-level service experience, be prepared for a never-ending price war that slashes your margins. Today's marketplace demands that companies deliver consistent, stellar service to retain their existing  more...

Create a Client Experience to Grow Your Financial Advisor Practice Strategies for Developing a Consistent, Memorable Impression Over 80% of surveyed clients said they were dissatisfied with their financial advisor. That's pretty scary if that includes your client base. You certainly can blame the economy for some of your client s frustration but are you responsible too? How you define the client experience affects, not only retention, but also the new clients  more...

Driving Business Development Using Modern Principles of Productivity Get More Business By Getting More Done Business development is simple build relationships and secure clients/customers. But getting it done is hard. To develop business, you must consistently repeat a series of small steps, but executives and professionals often fail to do this because they lack a simple, easy-to-use method for getting it done. The result is missed opportunities to grow and  more...

Migrating from a Product Sales Person to a Solution Sales Person What is the determining factor in who wins a sale? Is it price? No! Is it the product knowledge of the sales person? No! Prospects can learn product information easily enough on the web. They don't need a sales person for that. Buyers expect sales people to formulate solutions to their problems, not push their wares. Yet, many sales people say they are solution sales people, but can only say the  more...

Leveraging LinkedIn to Grow Your Business This webinar will answer the question, Can I really use LinkedIn to grow my business? We look at the growth of social networks and the power of 'We'. We will talk about how to give your LinkedIn Profile a makeover. We talk about the settings that will allow you to make specific choices about how your profile is viewed and what kind of foot print you leave behind when you view other profiles, if  more...

Create a Sticky Lead Nurturing Process Use e-marketing to increase qualified leads and shorten sales cycles. According to Marketing Sherpa, 64% of companies with a lead nurturing process are dissatisfied with their results. Every company needs more sales-ready leads. But, unless nurturing content syncs with the way they think, the dissatisfaction will continue. Your leads have taken control of the buying process. They decide when or  more...

How to Sell Consulting Services to the Federal Government Leverage the unprecedented spend by this market segment Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent today by the federal government on consulting services. Right now, their leaders are being judged by how quickly they can spend their money to help drive the economy through the stimulus plan. Yet, if your consulting firm is not well-positioned to pursue this market, you will be left out of  more...

Driving Cash Flow and Profits For Small Business Owners Critical Action Steps To Improve Your Bottom Line The economy is squeezing small business owners. If you are to survive and thrive, you need to be focused on the right activities and metrics for your small business. But, what are they and how do you achieve them? Jack Howe, 30-year business coach, teaches small business owners how to grow sales, profits, and most importantly, cash. Selected by  more...

How Marketing Can Help Sales Sell More Sales Enablement Drives Revenue Growth PACE research finds that salespeople only spend 23% of their time actually selling. Salespeople spend too much time in early-stage lead generation instead of late-stage selling. They clamor for more qualified leads, but only follow up with about 30% of the leads marketing provides. With budgets tightening and sales cycles lengthening, companies can t  more...

How to Create Profitable Customer Relationships Leveraging Your Marketing ROI Into Client Retention Has your business lost customers in the last 5 years? Can your business afford to spend dollars recruiting new customers only to lose those customers to your competition? Technology and globalization have created a very competitive business climate making it more difficult and more expensive to attract and retain customers. Your company s  more...

Predictive Analytics for Business Leaders As you grow your business, you rely on financial statements to make important business decisions. Whether you re planning a new business or preparing an exit strategy, your financial planning success hinges on choosing the correct metric as your driver. The right reporting metric is like a personal credit score get it wrong and you ll jeopardize your livelihood. But choose it correctly and your  more...

Strategies to Find Your Next Job Fast! Learn How to Conduct A Successful Job Search Post a resume on a job board, respond to a few online job ads, call a couple of recruiters and still no job opportunity is in sight. The typical job search lacks a game plan, focus, and direction leading the search to take, what feels like, forever. With today's competitive job market, you can't afford to thrash about; you need a job search strategy.  more...

Admission in USA UK - Top universities Top Programs - Efficient Services The RAIAA Admission Cell is a one-stop centre for applying to universities abroad for all under graduate, graduate. We help you shortlist universities that match your requirements and are suited to your profile. The admission process is an elaborate one with various parameters attached to it. Once you're enrolled with us however, you can leave all your worries behind. Our comprehensive  more...

The 2-Step Life Transformation Process If you re uncertain about your future, lack career satisfaction, and feel bored or burned out, then this Webinar is for you. Do you work hard but wonder whether the work you re doing really have value? Are you getting out of bed for yet another day of unfulfilling work? Do you have a desire for a greater joy, meaning, and fulfillment? You re not alone. Many seek, but few know how to realize  more...

Should You Write a Business Book? What Every Potential Author Should Know Before Writing a Single Word As any published author will tell you, writing a book will help grow your business. But writing a book can consume massive amounts of time, cost a lot of money, and distract you from the business of serving your clients. Before jumping on the book-writing bandwagon, discover the questions to ask to determine whether it s the  more...

Help Your Employees Get Healthy, While Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits ...s to help rescue your company from the economic crunch. But you can only cut staff and spending so far. In the end, a healthier workforce will actually save money and deliver better results. To truly grow the bottom line, you must do something to improve employee health as a way to lower costs. Frank Hone, author of 'Why Healthcare Matters: How Business Leaders Can Drive Transformational  more...

Help Your Employees Get Healthy, While Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits ...s to help rescue your company from the economic crunch. But you can only cut staff and spending so far. In the end, a healthier workforce will actually save money and deliver better results. To truly grow the bottom line, you must do something to improve employee health as a way to lower costs. Frank Hone, author of 'Why Healthcare Matters: How Business Leaders Can Drive Transformational  more...

Extrovert or Introvert? Why Can't We Talk To Each Other? What does it mean to be an introvert or an extrovert? How do the two communicate differently? And why do they irritate each other? We will do a simple exercise to find out if you are an introvert or extrovert and what this means in the way you interact with others. We will discuss the differences in the way these two types communicate and give strategies to understand the two very different  more...

Starbucks Summits and other Coffee Shop Meetings So many of today s social and business exchanges take place at the local coffee shop. Lean how to turn these into money maker meetings. We examine the proper rules of conduct for various meetings. Why are so many business meetings taking place out of the office? How can you take advantage of this in your business? Do you know all the new rules of engagement during such meetings? In this webinar  more...

Marketing Strategies to Reach the Gay and Lesbian Community Learn how to reach this powerful, niche market segment According to the Selig Center for Economic Growth, the gay and lesbian market is the 3rd largest consumer segment with a buying power of $720 billion. This rapidly growing market can be a key revenue source for your company - IF you know how to reach them. Fear and a lack of knowledge of this market segment may be keeping you from creating a  more...

Blasting through Career Roadblocks Whether you are feeling blocked, frustrated, stressed or afraid to move forward, you can BLAST through these career roadblocks and be free to achieve your goals. The time is NOW to take charge of your life and declare your independence! Unleash the power of EFT and discover how quickly and painlessly you can achieve your goals. During this 60 minute hands on webinar, you will: Learn the Basic  more...