Archive for August, 2008
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Why play to win the toughest customer? |
| By:deepika bajaj on Wed 27 Aug 2008 7:43 PM under Business, Marketing and Brand |
I always hear concerns why women take so much longer than men to close the sale. Did you know? Women purchase 83 percent of all products and services including: 80 percent of all health care; 55 percent of bank choice; 50 percent of all business travel 65 percent of herbal remedies, vitamins, and minerals; 66 [...]
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How to Influence and Deliver Results |
| By:Neerja Raman on Mon 18 Aug 2008 5:47 PM under Business, Careers and Job Search, Communication, Corporate culture, Entrepreneurship, General, Global Leadership, Management, Money and Lifestyle, Personal Success |
The leadership definition I like is from Charlie Pellerin, former Dir Astrophysics at NASA: “Leadership is influencing people to do willingly, and do well, that which has to be done.” Doesn’t that sound like what we all have to do? On August 2, I had the opportunity to moderate a professional development workshop hosted by [...]
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You have a Linkedin profile…so what??? |
| By:deepika bajaj on Sat 16 Aug 2008 2:40 PM under Business, Marketing and Brand |
Linkedin is a networking tool, it is not a networking silver bullet. Timeless networking principles such as “ givers gain”, etiquette, long –term relationship nurturing, and investing time and effort in others are critical. Linkedin is not a replacement for your networking efforts ; rather it is an excellent tool to facilitate some facets of [...]
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Re-energize |
| By:Melissa Stacey on Wed 13 Aug 2008 12:38 PM under Get Organized, Personal Success |
Every month I send out a Feeling Organized with Melissa organizing tip. It is typically quite short, doesn’t take a lot of time to read and is pretty easy to execute. My August organizing tip was a bit different though. This month I reminded people of the importance of taking time out of their busy [...]
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Social Media: Are You Speaking My Language? |
| By:Liz Strauss on Tue 12 Aug 2008 8:11 AM under Communication |
Machine Translations and Human Translators As the Internet helps us connect in a horizontal fashion. We’re meeting each other faster, more efficiently, and across incredible distances. Now we find the questions of communication and relationships have other barriers. The largest of these is our languages. Are you speaking my language? It’s hard enough to move [...]
