Marketing and selling are hard things to do deliberately. We all do it all the time unconsciously, but to actually ask for money is often difficult for those not used to it.
What is the purpose for your site?
I had a meeting with a client a few weeks ago and I shocked myself completely.
The client requested that I design a Flash intro for his site. Before I could think twice the words had already come out of my mouth.
Software Project Manager Primer
Have you recently found yourself pushed into the role of project manager? Are you wondering what to do next? More and more often, IT professionals are finding themselves rather suddenly propelled into project management roles – and many don’t know where to begin. Well, there’s good and bad news – no one automatically knows how to manage a project. However, if you want to be successful at it, you have a substantial learning curve ahead of you.
Dealing With the Technophobic
Almost all of us in the industry deal with those that require support for tasks that we feel that they should be able to take care of on their own, whether it be an end user, a customer, or someone working in your department. How many times have you had to help someone create a shortcut on their desktop, change their default home page or print a document? Do you have a co-worker in your IS department that isn’t at the technical level that they should be? How often do you have a customer request support for the same problem every few months/weeks/days?
Tap into Employees to Get Good Ideas
Today’s article discusses gathering and implementing suggestions from your employees. This can be a valuable tool, not only for the obvious benefit of having many heads at your disposal, but also because it lends to employees feeling valuable and appreciated. Read on and enjoy! Only 41 percent of surveyed employees believe the typical company listens to employees’ ideas.
The average American worker makes only one or two suggested per year; the average Japanese worker, however, submits hundreds of suggestions to his or her employer annually.
Planning For Disaster Recovery
We are only human. We cannot plan for everything, not everything is foreseeable, but we do learn from history do we not? In every seminar you attend for Disaster Recover or Business Continuity, you probably threw your nose up at the price offering that was mention as well. Why should we have two sets of everything? I don’t want to even pay for the one I have. For any IT department that’s treated like the companies Cancer, you know EXACTLY what I mean. This is usually the case until its too late… Disaster Recovery is one of those subjects that many technicians pay no attention to.
The Secret From The King Of Pay Per Clicks
At Joel Christopher’s recent Master List Builders’ Workshop in San Antonio, Texas, Marlon Sanders told the audience that I was “The King Of Pay Per Clicks.” He explained that there was no investment he could think of that gave a faster or better return on your investment than pay-per-click search engines. After all, I had done campaigns where I earned $7for every $1 invested.
Building Your Resume
Q: What is your resume?
A: It is your first opportunity to sell yourself.
Q: What does your resume do for you?
A: It gets your foot in the door.
It is what makes the difference between getting an interview and not getting one. I would like to give you at least a few tips to help you create a more effective resume. Recommended Reading:
Three Steps to a Professional Image
One of the biggest reasons home-based business entrepreneurs often fail to attract customers is that they also fail to create a professional image. A professional image is an element of your credibility and without credibility winning customers is an uphill battle.
Blogs Gone Wild! Microsoft Challenges Google
The blogs and web forums are going crazy over the widely reported story that Microsoft is challenging Google for search supremacy. In an article at Microsoft and NBC owned MSNBC.com, Microsoft said that it is taking aim at privately held Google.