Sunday, December 29, 2013

5 Tips For Dealing With Conflict in the Workplace

Conflict strikes most individuals, teams and organizations at some time. For most it brings about feelings of stress, anger, frustration and so on. It often results in blocked communication, lack of ability to understand others perspectives an...

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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Successful Family Business Succession Plans Require Collaboration

People reading this article are usually those right in the middle of creating their own family business succession plans. As such they have begun to understand more clearly how many facets there are to successful family business succession plans. And because historically family business succession plans were dealt with once per generation, it is extremely [ ]The post Successful Family Business Succession Plans Require Collaboration appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Leaders Don't Make Excuses

Successful business owners understand that leadership traits take many forms, in fact the expression "leadership traits" itself means different things to different people. If they expect to be taken seriously leaders who get results absolutely...

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The Most Rewarding Marketing Mistake I Ever Made

Recently, a colleague asked me, “What was the most rewarding marketing mistake you ever made in business?” It’s a great question, and I quickly had an answer for him because it was an incredibly painful marketing mistake. However, it pro...

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Friday, December 27, 2013

Trade Shows Expert Shares 3 Cutting-Edge New Technologies

‘Jetson’-Age Tools Click with Big-Event Planners Most of us think about technology on a mostly two-dimensional plane as we flick our way from screen to screen on touch glass. But today’s tech includes applications that are far from flat, s...

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John McDonough: 4 Things Parents Should Know Before Paying for College

 Financial Specialist Shares Ways to Help Your Child While Protecting Your Retirement From $20,000 to $65,000 a year – that’s the tuition cost for one year of college, says John McDonough, a money expert who helps retirees and parents plan...

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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Bottom Line Growth Strategies

There are numerous ways to develop your firm s bottom line growth strategies. Here are two of the most important and two of the most often overlooked. Take Advantage of IT Information technology helps individuals too, but the IT field would not be as large as it is today were it not for how it drives [ ]The post Bottom Line Growth Strategies appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Mitchell Levy: Thought-Leading CEO Reviews Time-Tested Principles

 Mitchell Levy: 4 ‘Aha’ Truths for a Changing Corporate Landscape Technology is moving much faster than many of our institutions – while it continues to change the way people interact with businesses, many corporate leaders are still oper...

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Local Internet Marketing For Your Small Business Success

It was 1999 when I presented the idea of local Internet marketing for your small business becoming an integral part of their normal day to day sales and marketing efforts (See Infographic) "The Internet Will Be Your Bridge to The 21st. Century" to t...

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Monday, December 23, 2013

Catherine Foster: As Self-Publishing Explodes, Marketing Expert Offers 4 Tips for Authors

Don’t Sell Your Back Cover Short! She Says The number of self-published books has exploded, growing 287 percent since 2006, according to research by Bowker, the official ISBN agency for the United States. “In 2012, more than 235,000 print...

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Betty Hechtman: Mother of Re-Invention Shares Tips for Finding Work that Feeds the Soul

Ready to Make the Jump? Now’s the Time for a Heartfelt Encore They’re called second acts, encore careers or reinventing yourself – they’re the completely new and different jobs people take in midlife or later. Today, making that jump...

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Return on Networking – the ROI of Social Media

I was never a fan of the cocktail party-variety networking scene. I will never be one to dart around a room shoving business cards into people’s hands. I prefer meaningful conversations with people, getting to know them and vice versa. Bu...

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Conflict Resolution Skills – Everyone Needs Them

Having good conflict resolution skills is absolutely essential. Conflict is a fact of life and arises in a variety of different circumstances from your personal life to your professional life. Conflict doesn t have to be a bad thing as it can help you to learn to communicate your needs, to develop creative compromises and to [ ]The post Conflict Resolution Skills Everyone Needs Them appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Conflict Resolution Skills - Everyone Needs Them

Having good conflict resolution skills is absolutely essential. Conflict is a fact of life and arises in a variety of different circumstances from your personal life to your professional life. Conflict doesn't have to be a bad thing as it can ...

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Friday, December 20, 2013

Jim Kohles: Transitioning from CEO to Retiree: Why You Need a 5-Year Plan

3 Steps You Can Take Now to Realize Your Goals Today’s 50-something CEOs tend to have vague dreams of  more fishing, traveling or sailing  when they retire, but they don’t know when that might be so they haven’t begun planning for it. ...

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Does Your Leadership Measure Up?

The top five leaders most admired by the world’s business executives are Winston Churchill, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela  and Jack Welch – in that order, according to the 2013 Global CEO Survey conducted by PwC. The qualitie...

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The Family Business Succession Planning Process

The family business succession planning process may include a number of different steps. Much depends on the size of the business. Small Family Owned Businesses Just because yours is a small business doesn t mean that the family business succession planning process does not apply to you. In fact every small business we ve ever seen can [ ]The post The Family Business Succession Planning Process appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Will Your Beneficiaries Beat the Odds?

Tips for Helping Your Family Survive the ‘3 Generations’ Rule Two-thirds of baby boomers will inherit a total $7.6 trillion in their lifetimes, according to the Boston College Center for Retirement Research -- that’s $1.7 trillion more tha...

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

How is Innovation Like Baseball?

Travelocity Founder Shares 3 Ways CEOs Can Benefit by Thinking Like a Manager “In baseball, you can fail 70 percent of the time and still be considered a strong player,”  says Terry Jones, founder of Travelocity.com and founding CEO of its co...

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Top-Selling Indie Author Shares 4 Tips for Marketing Your Book

Building a Following is a Marathon, Not a Sprint, Says Corporate Exec-Turned-Novelist If you want people to read your book, you have to be more than a talented storyteller or researcher – you will need plenty of persistence, says Darlene Quinn, a ...

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Plan Ahead for Your Online Hereafter

Asset Protection Lawyer Offers 3 Steps to Take Now Now, you really can live forever, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Many of your online accounts – from automatic bill payments to eBay – may remain active after you pass away, unles...

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Family Business Leadership Skills

What are family business leadership skills? Can family business leadership skills be learned? Are there personality qualities that make some people better leaders? We look at those questions here in this article in the context of family business leadership skills since in a family business leadership decisions often turn out to be more about [ ]The post Family Business Leadership Skills appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Kathleen Brush: Is Your Leadership Hurting the Bottom Line?

4 ‘Bad Leader Behaviors’ That Affect Productivity, Profits What can business leaders and managers learn from watching the earnings of publicly traded companies? “Plenty,” says Kathleen Brush, a 25-year veteran of international business an...

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Aiming for the Top – Tips for Women

Executive Coach Offers Her Own ‘MBA for Success’ What becomes of the women who graduate with MBAs from Harvard Business School? Do most go on to fulfilling careers, or do they drop out of the work force when they become moms? “The number th...

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June Jewell: 3 Problem Areas Where Professional Firms Can Find Lost Money

Architectural, Engineering & Environmental Firms Lose an Average 100K a Year, CPA Says June Jewell, a CPA and owner of Acuity Business Solutions consulting, says the architectural, engineering and environmental firms she works for easily lose $1...

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Monday, December 16, 2013

How Top Companies are Elevating Loyalty, Productivity and Innovation in Their Workforce

Treat Your Organization’s Most Valuable Resource with Care, Says Former Businessman of the Year When a successful formula is discovered in the business world, it’s copied and becomes part of standard operating procedure throughout entire indus...

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Lost Sales Leads: 4 Common Problems & How to Correct Them

U.S. businesses spend billions of dollars generating sales leads only to lose more than 70 percent of them simply because they don’t make contact quickly enough, according to one study. But that’s not the only way they’re losing out on oppor...

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Mastering Life Balance: Achieving Greatness at Home and at Work

5 Tips from Former Businessman of the Year Gary Kunath People are overwhelmed with the complexities of their own lives and are desperately seeking a way to maximize happiness in their home and work lives, says Gary Kunath, an entrepreneur, speaker...

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Terry Jones: 4 Ways to Turn Your Company Into an Innovation Machine

Terry Jones Travelocity and Kayak.com Founder Offers Tips for Culture Change The world’s future leaders overwhelmingly believe that today’s businesses can grow only if they can innovate – and that today’s business leaders aren’t demonstrat...

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Business Development Planning: A Time Tested Agenda

Your business development planning can take several forms. You can hire outsiders, experts in business development planning to tell you what to do. And unless they are actively helping you build the skills you ll need after their contract is up, you will have to keep them on the payroll forever. The second, and best, business [ ]The post Business Development Planning: A Time Tested Agenda appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Friday, December 13, 2013

Definition of Succession Planning Means Reorganization

Considering that planning for family business succession must get started before it can be done, it falls to you to consider the definition of succession planning first. First, the definition of succession planning must include a clear picture of the businesses ultimate destination. Well that s not the first element of the definition of succession planning, [ ]The post Definition of Succession Planning Means Reorganization appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

John Child: Top 5 Small Business Marketing Books

Top 5 Small Business Marketing Books There is certainly no shortage of great small business marketing books out there, but I thought I would take a shot at putting together my personal top 5. There's not really a science behind them, they are ju...

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What is Leadership Strategy, What Does It Mean To You?

When a discussion of leadership takes place do you ever ask what is leadership strategy? For that matter do leaders actually have the answer to that, or are they just making it up as they go along? What is leadership strategy first presumes...

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Considering Self-Publishing Your Book?

Longtime Publisher Offers Tips for Making Choices Authors self-publishing their books have transformed both the reading and writing landscape, with hundreds of thousands of authors now eschewing traditional publishing routes. Once reserved fo...

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Chris Hurn: 5 Resolutions for Your Business

Almost on a daily basis, news reports detail the marketplace factors that can affect businesses large and small. No matter what the potentially game-changing info coming out of Washington, D.C., or China, though, there are winning strategies that...

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Michael Levin: Small Book, Big Payoff?

Business people and professionals struggle with the challenges of establishing trust and preeminence both online and off. On the Internet, it’s a particular challenge for individuals and firms to stand out from the pack.  Pretty much everyb...

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Another Reason to Nurture Your Law Firm’s Culture -- Law Firm Marketing

Why You Need to Develop a Brand & 4 Tips to Get You Started There’s a strong correlation between the growth of a law firm and the strength of its culture, according to a new survey published in February’s ABA Journal. The most success...

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Business Development Tips: 13 Principles For Success

Business Development Tips - The Mastermind Genius of Napoleon Hill Entrepreneurs are a different breed. As a group, we tend to be feverishly passionate about our businesses and our work. Ironically, many traditional business groups are unabl...

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Kathleen Brush: What Will 21st Century Managers Need to Succeed?

Kathleen Brush: Expert Shares 7 Skills for Competing Globally Are the young, multiplying countries of Africa the next frontier? Which countries will be members of the EU in five years? Where is the ground safe in the Middle East? What will...

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The Business Growth Strategy For The 21st Century

When planning your company's business growth strategy what do you consider is the most important element? Remember, the success of your business growth strategy for the future success depends on the decisions you're making right now. Businesse...

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Do You Have Effective Leadership Skills?

Everywhere you look today you can find another workshop supposedly to demonstrate whether or not you have the effective leadership skills you need to survive and prosper in the 21st Century. Commonly these effective leadership skills programs ...

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Paper Mart: Ninety Two And Still Partying 24/7 365

Paper Mart: Making Parties More Fun For Nearly A Century Paper Mart is a 4th generation owned and operated family business that is celebrating its 92nd year in business. They have defied the very long odds, not only surviving from the days of...

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Friday, December 6, 2013

Elements of Business Development Strategies

Business development strategies? When we write about business development strategies we're referring to the confluence of several interdependent leadership and business growth attitudes and actions. To us business development strategies connec...

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Workplace Conflict Management Strategies - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Conflict exists. This is a simple fact of life. In any business or personal relationship of any depth, conflict will occur at times. Conflict in and of itself is not bad. Conflict is a neutral and natural occurrence. Conflict has three element...

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Do You Have A Strategic Planning Team In Place Right Now?

That was a silly question wasn't it? Not only do you not have a strategic planning team in place you never will. The result will inevitably be either a failure to realize your full potential, the missing of some key opportunities for growth...

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A Succession Planning Process: First Set Your Goals Needs

There was a great line in Alice in Wonderland that if you don t know where you re going any way is fine, or something like that. When it comes to the succession planning process nothing could be any more accurate that that. In another article we talk about the need for having a commitment to the [ ]The post A Succession Planning Process: First Set Your Goals Needs appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Today’s Small Business Marketing Strategies

Small business marketing strategies have certainly changed over the years. We have practically come full circle. For many decades, businesses relied on word-of-mouth advertising. Because of online social networks, word-of-mouth advertising has become important once again. Small business marketing strategies are nothing new. Small business marketing strategies began to evolve with the introduction of the [ ]The post Today s Small Business Marketing Strategies appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Monday, December 2, 2013

Friday, November 29, 2013

Business Succession Plans Require 100% Cooperation

Business succession plans deserve your attention sooner rather than later, because when money is involved the sooner your business succession plans get underway the more possible they become. As you are in the midst of it you already know that family business succession plans are many faceted. As it s unlikely you have been through [ ]The post Business Succession Plans Require 100% Cooperation appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Business Development Strategies for Small Business Growth

There are numerous strategies for small business growth. These are two of the most important and two of the most often overlooked. Small Business Growth Means Taking Advantage of IT Information technology helps individuals too, but the IT field would not be as large as it is today were it not for the help it [ ]The post Business Development Strategies for Small Business Growth appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Monday, November 25, 2013

Small Business Internet Strategy for Main Street

By now every company of every size has a web site of some sort, from a highly developed site created by world class designers, to Wordpress sites like this one, to database driven e-commerce web sites, to simply a Facebook page. What's often mis...

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Small Business Internet Strategy for Main Street

By now every company of every size has a web site of some sort, from a highly developed site created by world class designers, to Wordpress sites like this one, to database driven e-commerce web sites, to simply a Facebook page. What's often mis...

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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Resolving Workplace Conflicts: How Much is Conflict Costing Your Business?

Why does a dependable supervisor begin calling in sick, when you know they are not really ill, just before an important project is due for completion? Why is a valuable team leader always in a bad mood, snapping at her colleagues, coming in la...

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Friday, November 22, 2013

The Advantages of Succession Planning

What are the advantages of succession planning? The succession planning process may include a number of different steps. Developing a plan for the replacement of key personnel is typically a big part of the process. Much depends on the size of the business, and the advantages of succession planning benefit stakeholders from the smallest family [ ]The post The Advantages of Succession Planning appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Will Your Online Strategy Be Worth The Time and Effort?

Business owners always wonder, "Will my online strategy be successful?" That seems like one of the questions that is heard the most and is considered first before launching a serious effort into this previously unknown area of business. Whe...

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Conflict Management Styles by Tom Feinberg

Conflict occurs in organizations whenever a difference of opinions exists. People disagree over many things including but not limited to, policies and procedures, the overall direction of the company, and distribution of rewards. This type ...

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

How the Recession Has Changed Retirement Planning

Expert Offers 3 Tips for Baby Boomers The economy may be recovering, but some of the changes wrought by the Great Recession may be long-lasting. Anyone planning for retirement, no matter what their age, needs to take those changes into account, s...

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Leadership Development Strategies: Your Equation For Success

Leadership development strategies are the number one controllable aspect of business success in the 21st Century. Controllable is the key here. It is even more true today, with the traditional barriers to entry virtually gone, that anybody can...

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Effective Leadership Skills in Today’s Business

What are effective leadership skills?  Can effective leadership skills be learned? Are there personality qualities that make some people better leaders? We look at those questions here in this article. We often hear people talk about born leaders. It is true that some people s personalities are better-suited for leading people. They may be more charismatic [ ]The post Effective Leadership Skills in Today s Business appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Do Email Marketing Mistakes Destroy Your Customer's Trust?

Are poor email marketing mistakes killing your company's marketing? What about the way you are using email in your customer service efforts? Is email your company's friend or foe or are email marketing mistakes killing your new business and yo...

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Getting The Most Out Of Your Next Trade Show

Trade shows are a key component of every industry, association, and professional meeting. Their importance cannot be over stated for the attendees, the sponsoring organization, and the exhibitors themselves. Trade show attendees have access to...

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Any List of Leadership Competencies Includes Courage

Lists abound that are supposed to include all of the leadership competencies required to be a successful leader today. While these lists often contain a few industry specific leadership competencies, which is important since these characterist...

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Monday, November 18, 2013

The Next Generation Is Taking A Successful Company into The 21st Century

It started with a phone call I received from my client, a third-generation manufacturer in the automotive after-market industry. When their daughter left for college three years before, she had planned to become an accountant. The plan was,...

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What's Important About Your Business Development Strategies?

Someone once reminded me that there is only one direction you can coast, down. Unless your business development strategies are in place and taking you toward success you are headed toward failure. I spent a lifetime as a consultant to long-...

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Strategic Planning Nomenclature: Keeping It Clear and Simple

Developing a strategic plan should not be hard to understand. Developing a strategic plan successfully must be clear and unambiguous to avoid mistakes during execution and avoid the unintended consequences of poor communication. The most important point to be made about all strategic planning terms is their interrelationship. They must exist as an integrated “system” or “framework” of ideas. That is, they must be congruent.

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Sunday, November 17, 2013

Developing a Strategic Plan That Does Not Sound Complicated

Strategic Planning Nomenclature: Keeping It Clear and Simple It's not unusual for us to begin working with clients who have encountered frustration and confusion in their previous attempts at creating a strategic plan. The major cause for this c...

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Friday, November 15, 2013

What About Leadership and Management Skills? Leaders Must First Be Followers

What do you think when someone tells you they can teach you how to be a leader? True, leadership and management skills are requirements of success today - so why not hire some guru to teach you just how easy it is to become one? Leadership ...

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Strategic Marketing Management

"Strategic" is the word generally used to describe actions that may have an impact on the organization over the long haul. In the case of strategic marketing management you'll find the relationship between today's actions and tomorrow's result...

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Organizational Conflict: Will You Quit or Get Off The Pot?

When you feel bad emotionally you'll get sick physically, whether you are faced with personal or organizational conflict. When you are dealing with organizational conflict , especially continuing often unacknowledged organizational conflict you'...

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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Organizational Succession Planning - White Board Tutorial

Organizational succession planning is not an action (something you do today and it's done), it is a process. Naturally you have to take action to get it started and you have to continue to take action to keep if moving - but you and your next ...

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Looking For Small Business Marketing Success? Go Fly Fishing

Small business marketing success is a result of adding today's technologies to the tried and true strategies of the past - such as fly fishing. Small business marketing success today comes from the blurred distinction between sales and marketing t...

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Planning For Succession Often Requires A Business Reorganization

Planning for succession has to get started before it can be done. You will have to pick a day and from that day forward every action you take and every choice you make must have something to do with planning for succession and its likely outcome....

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

FaceBook: How To Promote Your Business Today

Knowing how to promote your business today for results right now and in the future is like trying to hit a moving target. In the old days we had to have brochures printed every time we changed our marketing strategy. We have not done that is y...

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Leveraging Social Media For Effective Business Development

Today leveraging social media is a key element of business strategic development because, while leveraging social media is typically employed to generate results for the short term, it is a necessary element of a well considered strategic plannin...

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A Great Definition of Leadership Is Here

As I love personal development, I would like to give you today a helpful and great definition of leadership. To be a great and devoted leader is all about personal growth. And the point is you have to understand the true great definition of leadership in order to put yourself on the way to your [ ]The post A Great Definition of Leadership Is Here appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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A Great Definition of Leadership Is Here

As I love personal development, I would like to give you today a helpful and great definition of leadership. To be a great and devoted leader is all about personal growth. And the point is you have to understand the true great definition of le...

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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Family Business Succession Plans Mean Strategic Planning?

Family business succession plans regardless of how simple or how complicated and no matter how large or how small the business - mean making strategic planning decisions for the future beyond just the next few years. Family business succession...

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Niche Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses: Find Your Niche First!

Niche marketing strategies for small businesses will allow you to spend you efforts and your marketing budget attracting the best prospects, those who are already looking for what we're selling. While that's obvious is it too simplistic? If al...

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Strategic Marketing Implementation

Strategic marketing implementation is what's important to your success. It really doesn't matter how much research you do, even though that's that's the second most important element of developing you marketing strategy - unless you execute th...

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Monday, November 11, 2013

Conflict in the Workplace

Workplace conflict resolution, or more likely its management is crucial for small business success. Not because of the feelings of unease and stress that surround us in a workplace filled with people mad at one another. It's because we will go...

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Small Business Marketing Research Requires Focus

Small companies think they have an easier time of it when it comes to marketing compared to the giant public companies. They believe that because they have a smaller range of products and intend to market them in a more easily defined area. ...

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The Internet Marketing Strategy for Small Businesses Explained

Steps to Choose Internet Marketing Strategy for Small Businesses Rising effectiveness of Internet marketing (IM) has necessitated small business owners to adopt efficient techniques to promote their businesses. As an owner of small business, you can hardly afford to lose the chance to win prospective clients, and to improve the profitability of your business. Having [ ]The post The Internet Marketing Strategy for Small Businesses Explained appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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The Internet Marketing Strategy for Small Businesses Explained

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Friday, November 8, 2013

Developing Leadership Skills Video

Developing leadership skills is an integral part of organizational success. No matter who is in charge today, that will change in the future so we must continually prepare for it. While there are many ways to describe what developing leadershi...

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Family Business Succession: Don't Lose Your Momentum

I always tell audiences that business succession is an ongoing process, one that should develop a sort of momentum toward the stated goals of everyone involved. For example I know you seen football games where one team, often the underdog, somehow...

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Marketing Advice For Small Businesses: Develop Relationships First

Here's a little marketing advice for small businesses you can quite literately take to the bank. In today's world of automated everything, "old fashioned" relationship building is critical - it will in fact set you apart from your competition. ...

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Can You be the Next Business Thought Leader? by Mitchell Levy

Corporate Thought Leader Architect Shares Tips Plug “thought leader architect” into the title field of a LinkedIn search and only one name pops up: Mitchell Levy, CEO of THiNKaha and author of the new book, “#Creating Thought Leaders Tweet,

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Effective Succession Planning Needs Thoughtful Goal Setting In Advance

If you genuinely expect to have an effective succession planning outcome, meaning the business continues on for decades after you have retired and your own financial security is in place, you really must begin the process sooner rather than later because the actual decisions made in early stages can have a dramatic effect on all [ ]The post Effective Succession Planning Needs Thoughtful Goal Setting In Advance appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Family Business Leadership Skills: Have You Got What It Takes?

To answer the question, have you got what it takes to be a family business leader - perhaps we should first consider whether or not family business leadership skills are learned or inherited. And whether or not family business leadership skill...

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How Small Business Marketing Strategies Will Grow Your Business Fast

How Small Businesses Use Promotion Strategies to Increase Customer Awareness and Boost Sales Small businesses (SMEs) with limited budgets and resources have to make strategic choices on promotion - that is, how to raise customer awareness of their...

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

A Planning Coordinator To Manage Business Succession Planning

In regards to family business succession planning, little or nothing good comes about by chance. And this includes the possibility of having succession planning head in the right direction as if by magic. Having a number of professional adviso...

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Small Business Internet Marketing Strategy

A small business Internet marketing strategy will differentiate your company from your less savvy competitors. And it will make your outfit a more attractive vender, supplier, joint venture partner for those next generation leaders who will deter...

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The First Step Toward Workplace Conflict Resolution

Workplace conflict resolution. What should you do if you think there is conflict in the workplace where you are? Can you manage your company's workplace conflict resolution process yourself? Or can you simply use strategies from a world class guide to workplace conflict?

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Friday, November 1, 2013

Succession Planning To Be Successful Requires Cooperation

As you are probably right in the middle of planning for your company s succession (or you would not be reading this) you already know that family business succession planning is many faceted. As it s unlikely you have been through family business succession yourself, with the exception of perhaps as a witness to what your parents [ ]The post Succession Planning To Be Successful Requires Cooperation appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Effective Leadership Skills – A Leader’s Core Strength

What does it take to acquire effective leadership skills? First, you have to be good with people. Leadership is highly interpersonal, so many people skills are involved. To name a few: listening, accepting feedback, giving feedback and resolving conflict. These are skills you use with people, and you can learn them. But people skills take [ ]The post Effective Leadership Skills A Leader s Core Strength appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Effective Leadership Skills - A Leader's Core Strength

What does it take to acquire effective leadership skills? First, you have to be good with people. Leadership is highly interpersonal, so many people skills are involved. To name a few: listening, accepting feedback, giving feedback and resolvi...

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

How To Promote Your Business With Trade Show Exhibits

Following different promotional measures in this competitive world for making your business to be known to potential customers is highly essential. Making use of trade show exhibits is one among the different promotional methods used by busine...

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Leadership Skills Different Strokes For Different Folks

Leadership skills - no matter whether yours are more like FDR or General Patton are a core proficiency of Twenty-first Century business leaders. Leadership skills certainly seems to be an integral factor for the well-known success of the mega co...

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Will Hidden Workplace Conflict Cause Your Best People To Quit?

How Come Your Most Reliable Personnel Quit And Exactly What Can We Do To Sort It Out? Whether you realize it or not about 65% of voluntary terminations at work, people who simply come in one day and hand in their resignation, is because of unresolv...

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Niche Marketing & Your Future Financial Success

Before the Internet niche marketing was done by referrals. We learned how to ask for referrals in specific terms so we'd be sent to the right prospects. In those days niche marketing was pretty straightforward. If we were looking for new customers...

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Monday, October 28, 2013

Small Business Planning for Succession is Also Strategic Planning

Planning for succession, by way of explanation, is the organized passage of the organization from the current generation of owners to the next, the people that are going to be owning and managing the business in the 21st. Century. Seamless man...

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Article Marketing Research Is Key To Content Development Success

Let's face it, no one would take the trouble writing the articles from the outset, if they were not seeking a profitable outcome. Nonetheless a lot of people, more than you might think, start writing before researching. That’s a backwards an...

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Friday, October 25, 2013

Internet Marketing for Small Businesses

Internet marketing for small business is approached differently by every sort of business. To some Internet marketing for small business means lead generation and branding. To others Internet marketing for small business means direct sales, appointments, warranty service etc.. In every situation Internet marketing for small business means making it easier and more profitable for you and your customers to do business together is the key.

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What is Succession Planning

Answering the question what is succession planning - the process, can be broken down into these critical steps. You must be willing to ask for help and then accept it. You should appoint a planning coordinator to help steer you through the process. Set those critically important goals.And then determine how you can redesign the business to fit your collective picture of the future.

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Developing a Pricing Strategy Part 1

Developing a pricing strategy does not have to be sophisticated, it just has to be done. And executed. I know you've heard the expression, "we're losing a few dollars on every sale, but we're making it up in volume" usually told as a joke. But...

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What Good Managers Do: Leadership Skills

Leadership skills as an element of management. That's what this video in all about. We selected it to emphasize what leadership skills are all about since leadership skills are such an important part of the small business success equation - on...

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Michael E. Gerber: How to Awaken the Steve Jobs in You

Anyone Can Learn What Came Naturally to Apple’s Founder Just like everyone else, small business owners get caught up in their personal economic successes and woes. They’re trying to find more time; trying to deal with the exigencies of life;...

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Succession Planning – Turning Over The Reins

Businesses of every type and size are faced with a major transition in their management at some time in their history. The ability to make this transition with a minimum of disruption to the organization and loss in continuity of strategy is critical to the future of the company. It does not matter if it [ ]The post Succession Planning Turning Over The Reins appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Succession Planning - Turning Over The Reins

Businesses of every type and size are faced with a major transition in their management at some time in their history. The ability to make this transition with a minimum of disruption to the organization and loss in continuity of strategy is c...

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Monday, October 21, 2013

What Are Leadership Skills : Personality Development Skills

Successful business owners know how to answer the what are leadership question. They also recognize that their business development strategies should always focus on growth. What they may not immediately see is the relationship between their o...

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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Succession Planning and Leadership Development by Kathleen Rich-New

In 2008, 78 million baby boomers are going to retire and they will be replaced by only 45 million Gen-Xers. This was the startling news from Andrea Bortner, Director of Learning and Development at Harris Corporation. This gap has most organ...

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Nichemanship Marketing For Sustainable Financial Success

What is nichemanship and is it still relevant to establishments and folks endeavoring to develop or refine their strategic marketing strategies and actions? According to an online marketing directory, nichemanship is an expression used to refe...

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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Video: Conflict in Workplace: Sources & Solutions

Conflict in workplace becomes destructive when anger, jealousy, and other strong emotions turn the focus away from problem solving and toward personal attacks. Destructive conflict can ruin relationships among workers, interfere with productiv...

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Small Business Marketing - The Three Most Important Keys

When it comes to developing a small business marketing strategy, do you know why so many small business owners are in such a race to get momentum, to get traction from their marketing efforts, that they forget the age old guideline-- accuracy fir...

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Darlene Quinn: Do You Have to be a Renaissance Person in Today’s Economy?

Deteriorating Job Conditions Affecting More U.S. Adults;Professional Woman of Many Hats Offers Perspective Brushes with poverty, extended periods of joblessness and a reliance on welfare is part of the “new normal” for the average American w...

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Small Business Internet Marketing and Fishing, The Connection

When it comes to small business Internet marketing the key is to be right there, where the people already looking for what you're selling already are, always in easy reach when they are all set to take action. So if your small business Interne...

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Management Succession Planning is Actually Strategic Planning

Management succession planning is the orderly shifting of the operation from the current generation of owners to the next, the people that are going to be owning and running the business in the 21st. Century. Seamless management succession planni...

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Shannon Switzer: Importance of Succession Planning Process

The Importance of Implementing Succession Planning Business owners who implement succession planning strategies are better prepared to move their company forward. These plans offer a visual blueprint that identify top personnel and successors wh...

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Friday, October 11, 2013

Interactive Teleseminars Mean New Business

To sell more of whatever we are offering we have to get in front of the right people. We will need to connect with people who find themselves searching for the solutions we offer, who're ready to buy those services, have the money - and are wi...

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Improve Your Leadership Skills Video

As a leader do your leadership skills demonstrate empathy, kindness, and commitment in ways that encourage others to follow you? Do you regularly collaborate with your successful peers, before making decisions that will effect those whose trus...

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Do You Have 21st. Century Leadership Skills?

Everywhere you look these days you will find yet another guidebook about how to develop leadership skills. Generally they present individuals with competencies and abilities we mere common folks could never hope to have. And given that it i...

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

The Fundamentals of Business Strategic Development

...And What They Mean Business strategic development joins elements of strategic planning, marketing and advertising, leadership and management development. It supplies a platform around which the choices impacting the long term failure or succe...

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Conflict Resolution and Workplace Mediation Webinar Video

In the real world of business, conflict resolution and workplace mediation is not taught in classes. Unless you mean as a result of watching a workplace mediation video you can relate to. Workplace mediation sets the tone for the sort of coope...

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Your Company's Strategic Planning Staff

Now I am not idiotic, I realize you do not have a strategic marketing team, a strategic planning team, and for that matter a strategic anything team. I am sure that everybody within your business is much too focused doing what should be accomp...

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Dead Rising 2 Off The Record Alpha Vs. Omega Helpful Strategy Tip (Leadership Magazine)

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Bose Lifestyle 235 Speaker System

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Dough Spin/Toss – Used restaurant equipment, Dough Roller

Watch this video and share it with your colleagues. Take 2, Dough Spin Toss, Not doing so well. But having fun trying ! Wanna buy a piece of used restaurant equipment, i am a dealer in the Midwest, We are on E We selected the video below to help you reach a more thoughtful conclusion about your next move. While it may or may not help you personally, they are not created equally that s for sure it just might. Something that seems obvious to you, tacky or elementary even, might be just what one of your associates needs to help them see [...]

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Monday, October 7, 2013

Leadership Stories

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Drywall Installation Tool – An Easy, Better and Affordable Way to Hang Drywall by Yourself

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HVAC Flat Rate Price Book – iPad Application Overview

Watch this video and share it with your colleagues. HVAC Flat Rate Price Book iPad Application Overview Picture Perfect Pricing is the next generation in-home flat rate pricing system for the HVAC industry. We selected the video below to help you reach a more thoughtful conclusion about your next move. While it may or may not help you personally, they are not created equally that s for sure it just might. Something that seems obvious to you, tacky or elementary even, might be just what one of your associates needs to help them see the picture more clearly. Be sure [...]

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

ASCO’s Leadership Development Program

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The Meaning of Leadership

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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Learn Leadership Skills and Personal Development – Absent Leader

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Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy (Msc) | London Business School

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Friday, October 4, 2013

Woodworking Around the Home with the Neighborhood Carpenter – 01 Building a Wine Rack

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