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Experienced sales and marketing gurus and high-performing businesses in the B2B space shared their top 10 secrets to successful B2B selling with SmartCompany.
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‘Sell smart’ is the mantra today among business to business marketing and sales professionals. From the time of launching an all out attack on every single name one could gather in their database, b2b marketing and sales has evolved int to a more careful, well thought out and strategic approach based on qualifying prospects before engaging them. K
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Slate's BizBox takes issue with the NFIB's position on the auto bailout, instead saying that small business owners should support it, but should use it as a jumping-off point to score concessions for themselves.
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Signs indicating a potential U.S. recession are all around: collapsing home values, soaring oil and precious-metal prices, a falling dollar, rising unemployment and, perhaps most ominously, reduced business spending. While it's still not certain that a recession is inevitable, the recent string of gloomy government and private statistics make an
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Shannon Paul wrote a really clever post the other day about Cultural Immersion for the Social Media tourist. She’s hitting on something that’s been nagging at me. We keep saying that listening is the first step to participating in social media. But companies who are seeking to better understand social media (and it’s application for their busines
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Hacking is big business, and business is good since black hats discovered they can fund their activities through identity theft. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that about 9 million Americans have their identities compromised every year.
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Is "Contact Us" the Only Lead Generation Form on Your Website?
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Achieving exponential growth in your business is probably easier than you think, in fact if you can make a snowball, you can do this…
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Tired of the usual fast food available in her community, Tsedale Tadesse decided to open her own Froots restaurant. Tadesse, a mother of a one-year-old, can now give her neighbors the option of healthy and fresh foods in her quick service restaurant. Froots offers healthy salads, wraps and fresh fruit smoothies at an affordable price.
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Small businesses finally are getting their own little piece of the federal government’s ballooning bailout package.
U.S. officials announced the federal government as part of a broader package will lend up to $200 billion to institutions that originate consumer loans and business loans backed by the Small Business Administration. The rationale
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Chaitanya Sagar's posts in Small Business Trends and SMBCEO.
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Given present economic realities, most IT executives we talk with these days are far more interested in ways to achieve short term cost savings via unified communications then they are in the promise of UC to improve productivity, or even to apply UC to improve business processes for top line revenue improvement. Sure it's still fun to talk about
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Lead lists and business contact data are an integral need of almost every marketer or sales person in some form or the other. Whether you need to build a list of target customers or you simply need to locate one decision maker within your target account along with contact details, here are some sources you should take a look at to find what you ne
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Twitter can be a great marketing tool. But keep in mind: Twitter is a social network. Therefore, you have to treat Twitter like a social network if you want to make it work for your business.
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Are there ways you can further strengthen your customer relationships, or do you think you already know everything there is to know about them? "Why" questions give you invaluable insight into the motives behind your customers' actions, letting you probe deeper into what really motivates them and what they truly value in doing business with yo
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