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.
January 31st, 2008 — Sales Strategies, Blogging, Relationship Networking, Internet Research, Business Services, Information Literacy, Business
Yesterday I needed a photograph for a presentation about real estate. The picture I found was free, but its value went far beyond gold. It also changed my world view and along with millions of other images it’s helping to change the entire world.
January 24th, 2008 — Internet Research, Information Literacy, Public Speaking, Google
It’s one thing to be up-to-date for an upcoming speech in familiar territory. It’s quite another thing to be ready for a speech halfway around the world. Just ask Fred Berns.
January 13th, 2008 — Blogging, Sales Strategies, Sales Management, Information Literacy, Business
This blog thing is just getting out of hand. I’m having to invest more and more time reading about stuff that can help my business, keep my up-to-date and generally make me look like a genius. And it’s all Moe’s fault.
Michael Benidt and Sheryl Kay
