The Impact of Trends on Business

Trends have a significant impact on business. Does your business exploit trends or do they exploit your business? What was the latest fad chased or trend adopted by your business? Why did your management team jump on the bandwagon? Has the trend or fad generated an increase in revenue or gains in efficiency and/or productivity? In today's blog post I'll examine the impact trends can have on your…

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10 Things That Sell

Each week I receive a tremendous volume of e-mail asking questions about a wide variety of business topics. I received one of these e-mails yesterday which piqued my curiosity as it was not only a great question, but it also challenged me to answer the question in a specific format. The question was: "Can you provide a list of 10 things that appeal to buyers, and explain why they appeal to buyers…

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Strengths vs. Weaknesses

Should you play to your strengths or shore-up your weaknesses? If you pose this question to a group of professionals some will answer play to your strengths, some will answer shore-up weaknesses and others will answer both. The truth is that they are all correct to a degree...The real answer lies in understanding the context, environment, and priority of the situation to which the question is…

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