The Benefits of Catalog Sales For Your Business
Things to watch out for when selling your product in catalogs:
Giving away the farm. Many catalogs will ask for a multitude of discounts and concessions before they even place one order. You give them a set price for your product. But they insist on a lower price. They expect you to pay freight. They want an “advertising allowance.” They ask for a volume discount, a catalog allowance, and a photography fee. The requests for concessions go on and on. But beware of this game. If a catalog truly likes your product, they will usually pick it up without requiring a ton of concessions.
Quick and Easy Custom 404 Pages
By design, the server that hosts your web site delivers a 404 Error / Page Not Found when a surfer clicks on a link that the server cannot find or something else unexpected happens. The most common error page is the HTTP 404 “Not found: The requested URL/whatever.html was not found on this server.”
You Need a Five-Year Plan For Your Website
Websites change the way an organization communicates with its staff, customers, investors and general public. A change in communication is a major shift for the organization. To effectively implement such a change will take time. You need a five-year plan for your website.
Siebel Takes (Another) Shot at ASP Model
After a good bit of speculation, IBM and Siebel have finally embraced the software-as-service model with the announcement of an on-demand, hosted CRM offering. “Siebel coming back into the ASP marketplace, after previously launching and then killing Sales.com, is clearly a defensive response to the success that other vendors, specifically salesForce.com are enjoying,” says Jim Dickie, partner, CSO Insights. “I doubt that this will have a major impact on their enterprise-Fortune 500 account business, as the majority of those firms want to manage their CRM applications internally for a variety of reasons.”
Sorting Techniques
Sorting is a commonly needed operation in all kinds of programs. Luckily, for us perl programmers, perl provides a very simple yet extremely powerful mechanism to accomplish any sort you might think of. This article is about teaching the novice programmer how to sort lists of things, while showing to the more experienced folks certain techniques and ideas that could be new to them if they are migrating from a different language.
Can Joint Ventures Find You?
I want to share with you the most-powerful,yet overlooked form of marketing that exists. What is it? Joint Ventures.
Joint Venture marketing is the secret key to uncovering the hidden asset of your ability to contact literally millions of people, rapidly, with the utmost credibility.
The Ten Golden-Rules of Selling the Way CEOs Sell
Can I have a Minute of Your Time?
Some of the most advanced sales tactics I’ve ever seen were demonstrated during a weekend seminar given by two purposeful, motivated, passionate salespeople who truly know how to build relationships with executives. These two pros are persuasive and relentlessly positive.
CEOs who Sell Share Ideas on Negotiating
One of the chapters in my new book “Think and Sell Like a CEO” (Entrepreneur Press September 2002), is on the topic of Negotiating. I think it might be a good idea to share with you some of the most advanced tactics that I’ve ever seen for the all important task of getting what you deserve (or, giving up as little as possible). Here’s a glimpse of what I’ve learned so far from the people whom I considered to be the wisest, most experienced people. Not too surprising, I imagine. Let’s look at the most profound yet subtle traits for wise negotiating as practiced at the top.
J2ME Core Concepts
At the heart of Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) are three core concepts: configurations, profiles, and optional packages. You can’t write a J2ME application without understanding these concepts, because they determine the features of Java that you can use, which application programming interfaces (APIs) are available, and how your applications are packaged.
3 Suggestions for Generating Reader Feedback
One question I am asked often is, “How much feedback does your electronic newsletter generate?” (Another question is, “How did you manage to lose so much hair in just 43 years of life?,” but that’s a topic for another day).