June 10th, 2008 — Sales Strategies, Relationship Networking, Business, Web 2.0
Well, not exactly. But L. Gordon Crovitz did write an article (Social Networking in the Digital Age) the very next day after we wrote The Conference of the Future (over on our other blog). Mr. Crovitz wrote:
“The number of us attending business conferences continues to rise, even though information can be shared at low cost in real time digitally, and despite the costs and hassles of travel.”
May 28th, 2008 — Sales Lead Generation, Sales Strategies, Business
What do you get when you mix Facebook with Oprah Winfrey and a guy named Timothy Bishop stirs them together? You get economic vibrancy in a “Going Out of Business” area of America - our disappearing downtowns.
May 20th, 2008 — Cold Call, Sales Strategies, Sales Lead Generation, Internet Research, Business Intelligence, Business Services, Information Literacy, Business
Sam Richter has a new book out called Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling. Sam teaches Internet research. So do we. Then, why on earth would we tell you about his book?! Are we nuts?
May 9th, 2008 — Blogging, Business Intelligence, Search, Web 2.0, Google
Have you ever seen those Mentos and Diet Coke videos on YouTube? The complete nut who thought that up is Steve Spangler, a member of the National Speakers Association, and, as you can tell, an explosive thinker. He’s becoming a fan of Twitter. I kid you not.
May 1st, 2008 — Sales Strategies, Sales Lead Generation, Cold Call, Internet Research, Business, Google
Sales Development Expert Dave Kurlan is the CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc. He is the author of Baseline Selling and writes the popular Blog, Understanding the Sales Force.
Recently we began using several online business social networks other than LinkedIn to target and generate leads. The results have been nothing less than astonishing.
April 27th, 2008 — Blogging, Sales Lead Generation, Sales Strategies, Business
We’ve written about Dave Kurlan on this blog before (”Put Me In Coach, I’m Ready to Sell“) - but the short version is that the guy knows a ton about selling. You can learn a lot about blogging from him - because he knows how to ask for the sale… I mean comment.
April 15th, 2008 — Relationship Networking, Business Services, Business
I’ve been trying to figure out if I’m ready for SecondLife. That’s SecondLife, as in SecondLife.com - a virtual reality world that is reminiscent of The Sims. I’ve never been able to play any video games - from Pong to SuperMario to Microsoft Golf - but I’m about to log on and try again. Here we go.
March 10th, 2008 — Sales Strategies, Internet Research, Sales Management, Information Literacy, Web 2.0
Selling Power magazine wrapped up last year with a cover story about how sales professionals could use Wikipedia on the job. You could have knocked us over with a feather.
March 3rd, 2008 — Blogging, Information Literacy, Customer Service, Business
Maybe there’s another reason behind Target Corporation’s disappointing financial results announced last week (TGT on the New York Stock Exchange in case you want to look it up).
February 19th, 2008 — Internet Research, Blogging, Information Literacy, Business Services, Business, Google
In the same decade of Fats and Elvis and Jerry Lee - a boy named Laurie topped the music world with a song that has huge implications for your business today.
Michael Benidt and Sheryl Kay
