Ask ten small business marketers the cost effectiveness of the various sales lead generation methods that they use and half will put on a guilty look and confess that they haven’t taken the time to gather the information necessary to figure it out.
The Art of Selling (and Some Tips to Help You Manage Your Sales Team)
Selling. Cold calls, introductions, interviews, appointments, proposals, referrals, call cycles, building rapport, listening, asking for the order, overcoming objections, closing the sale, and rejection. There’s a lot to know about the business of selling. No wonder many people are a bit overwhelmed when they are asked to do it.
How to Manage Link Trades
A link exchange campaign has to be managed very intelligently!
Using JMX to Manage Web Applications
The Java Management Extensions (JMX) standard is gaining adoption within the J2EE community for the management of applications, as well as application servers and other infrastructure software. JMX makes it possible to manage and monitor applications using a choice of management systems and consoles, including SNMP consoles. It also simplifies the task of making applications manageable, i.e. management instrumentation, and enables improved management of deployed applications in the enterprise.
If you Can’t Measure it, you Can’t Manage it
Intranets don’t self-organize. Without planned, centralized information architectures and clearly defined published processes, they become unproductive. Intranets often have applications that either don’t work properly, are too difficult to learn, or have no clear business benefit. Applications, like content, must be able to establish a clear return on investment.
Publish What you can Manage
There is a view in some organizations that an intranet is only for staff, so you can publish what you want. Quality content matters as much on an intranet as on a public website. Get your content right to begin with. Keep it right by removing out-of-date content.
Manage Your Self-Esteem
To make a HUGE success of your creative small business, you need to get good at marketing. And to get good at marketing, you must develop HIGH self-esteem. When you find yourself engaging in negative self-talk, or giving less than 100 per cent to marketing, it means you have self-esteem issues.
10 Great Simplifying Ideas To Help You Manage Your Busy Life
Simplifying doesn’t mean giving up what you want. In fact, just the opposite.
5 Steps to Better Manage Your Customers’ Expectations
You have completed your project on time, well within schedule and with great quality deliverables. You can feel your customer trying to distance himself from you. You are at a loss to understand why.
Site Maintenance: What does it take to manage your website?
Every action has a beginning phase where you launch your activity, a middle period in which you must sustain and develop it, and a conclusion. Many people set up a website enthusiastically but then they find that they don’t have the skills or knowledge to maintain and develop it. So, what are the challenges in this middle phase of a website’s life and how can you meet them?
Updating the site: The beauty of a website is that it is not static like a brochure or printed document. You can change it to reflect new products or new developments in your enterprise. You can launch new campaigns, and at any time you can add more content.
The problem for some companies and individuals is that after they have paid a good amount of money to have their site built, they do not have any personnel who can make changes to the website, such as adding new text or photos etc. One solution to this is to make sure you have a good maintenance plan included in the contract or agreement you make your with your web designer, so that minor changes can be made by your original designer