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10 Common Sales Mistakes to Avoid
If you blow it at a face-to-face meeting, you'll have wasted both your time & your client's. Avoid these goofs to turn more prospects into paying customers. Read story
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How to Master Any Skill
Once you've mastered a skill, it becomes automatic. Here's how to get it right, without the pitfalls. Read story
How to Overcome Fear: 5 Tricks
Fear is the main obstacle to success in business--in business as well as elsewhere. Don't let it rule your life. Read story
Brand vs. Branding: When Less is More
When it comes to branding, the larger danger is spending too much, rather than spending too little. Read story
Bad Boss? 7 Management Moves to Avoid
Don't be tempted to use these cheap tricks. There are better ways to handle employee challenges. View slideshow
How to Be Liked at Work (or Anywhere)
These 6 simple rules virtually guarantee that the people you work with will want you around. Read story
Become More Optimistic: 6 Smart Tricks
To acquire a more positive attitude, all you really need is a more powerful vocabulary. Try these linguistic shifts. Read story
How to Fix Your Presentations
If you want your audience to make a decision, you need to tell a good story. Here's how to avoid Death by PowerPoint. Read story
Be More Profitable: 12 Easy Tricks
These easily implemented tweaks will help you cut sales costs while increasing revenue. Read story
6 Emotions That Make Customers Buy
Customers make decisions at the gut level. Here's how to use the customer's emotions to your advantage. Read story
5 Ways to Look More Professional
Sometimes little things make a big difference. Here are some easy ways to get a competitive edge. Read story
Is an MBA Worth the Cost?
An MBA can cost you upward of $100,000. Will the investment really to pay off? Read story
Are You a Sales Star? It Depends
The ability to sell at the highest level is the result of genetics. But this doesn't mean you can't be a sales star. Read story
How to Sell Using Voice Mail
Calling a decision-maker but getting voice mail again and again? Here's how to get the ball moving, even without a live conversation. Read story
True Stories: Manipulating the Boss
Think your team is devoted and loyal? These harrowing tales might make you think twice before overlooking your employee's bad behavior. Read story
8 Ways to Build Customer Loyalty
Top salespeople use these simple rules to keep their customers buying from them--even in the face of steep competition. Read story
How to Be Happy at Work
If you're unhappy at work--or anywhere else, for that matter--it's because you've made yourself unhappy. There's an easy way to change that. Read story
5 Traits of Highly Successful Salesmen
Are you cut out to make the sale? Make sure you've got these characteristics--or else learn to develop them. Read story
6 Ways Employees Manipulate You
Chances are, at least sometimes, your employees have you dancing on a string. Here's how they do it. View slideshow
Selling to a Huge Firm: 6 Simple Steps
Selling to a corporate behemoth takes time, effort and patience. Use this map to track your customer's buying process--and stay one step ahead. Read story
Why Sales Hates Marketing: 9 Reasons
Here's why your marketing team and your sales team can't get along. Hint: The sales team is probably right. Read story
10 Questions That Create Success
Want help focusing on what really matters? Ask yourself these on a daily basis. Read story
How to Sell a Great Idea: 5 Steps
No matter how great, it won't sell itself. Use this simple strategy to present your idea to investors, customers & colleagues. Read story
10 Difficult Employees (& How to Handle Them)
These workplace characters can create endless headaches if not managed well. Here's how to get them out of your hair. View slideshow
9 Rules for Online Sales Presentations
Web conferences and webinars are wonderful sales tools, but you must use them properly. Read story
Make the Sale Without Cutting Your Price
This simple, 3-step approach helps you sell against a cheaper competitor--without having to discount. Read story
Are 'Booth Babes' an Effective Marketing Tool?
Many companies are still hiring eye candy to staff their booths at trade shows. What do you think of this widespread practice? Read story
How to Make a Successful Cold Call
There's a quick and easy way to get a potential customer interested. Here's a step-by-step guide to the conversation. Read story
Entrenched Competitor? Make the Sale Anyway
Here's how to level the playing field when your competitor has the inside track. Read story
12 Easy Ways to Increase Sales
Make these easy tweaks to your sales process to create a huge increase in sales revenue. Read story
Will That Prospect Buy From You?
Once trust is established, a potential customer is far more likely to buy. Read story
How to Hire Your First Sales Rep
Thinking of hiring somebody to sell for you? Here's how to ensure that you hire somebody who can help your business grow. Read story
Most Shocking Business News of 2011
The year 2011 definitely had its share of big-time surprises. Here are the news stories that surprised and astonished most of the business world. View slideshow
4 Great Motivational Videos for 2012
Need a little boost to get the year off to a strong start? Watch these short clips & you'll feel like taking on the world. Read story
Hey, Microsoft & Apple: Grow Up!
Outlook and the iPhone should work together seamlessly, but Apple and Microsoft refuse to stop squabbling. Read story
Beware of Sales Superstars
Some sales stars are master manipulators who can rack up big numbers--but at the cost of long-term growth. Read story
New Year's Advice: Don't Sell to Jerks
When you sell to people you truly can't stand, you make yourself less effective and hurt your sales growth. Read story
Brand & Market Your Company in Just 5 Minutes
Here's a quick and easy way to create a memorable brand for your company. Just don't take it too seriously. Read story
How Big Government Shafts Small Companies
A recent Gallup poll says that more Americans are afraid of 'big government' than 'big business.' Small businesses should be afraid of both. Read story
10 Surprising Brand Winners of 2011
Some corporate, personal and conceptual brands captured unexpected headwinds in 2011. Here are 10 of the best-known. View slideshow
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