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If you are considering adding trade data to the decision making process at your company, it is important to understand both the general uses of the information and how it can be used to answer specific questions.  More...
Asking questions by leaving messages in people's voice mail is tough, but not impossible. These 8 rules teach you how to create brief but useful messages for prospective customers, or use a question as a teaser that leaves your prospect eager to learn more about what you can offer.  More...
Because customers often use price as the dominant factor in a sales negotiation, sales pros need to demonstrate that sometimes the higher price is actually a better solution — a higher value. Here's how asking the right questions and utilizing value-added selling techniques can help salespeople satisfy their customers without getting themselves c  More...
Paul Cherry and Patrick Connor presented a sales questions and leadership questions workshop based on their Questions that Sell and Questions that Lead programs at The Snack Food Association's Annual Management Workshop in September.  More...
Explore the value of helping your customers re-evaluate their existing vendor relationships, using questions that will guide them through the evaluation process.  More...
Like a marriage, a business relationship is always two-sided. Ever faced a situation where you thought your relationship with a customer was still going strong, only to find she's got her eye on a rival vendor? This article stresses the importance of salespeople nurturing existing customer relationships and asking questions that get to the heart  More...
Search engines are very difficult to completely understand. There are no complete explanations of how their ranking algorithms work. But the very fact that the average person does not intuitively know how to crack the search engine algorithms leads to all sorts of questions; Usually variations of: "How do I get my website to the top of the search  More...
Because customers often use price as the dominant factor in a sales negotiation, sales pros need to demonstrate that sometimes the higher price is actually a better solution — a higher value. Here's how asking the right questions and utilizing value-added selling techniques can help salespeople satisfy their customers without getting themselves c  More...
One of the first questions to ask, and the hardest to answer, before starting any business venture is “Is starting a business right for me?” By starting your business after some serious self reflection you’ll be getting off on the right foot and giving your business a chance at success from day one.  More...
A great opportunity to meet author Kevin Gerard. Follow him on his virtual tour promoting the upcoming release of book three, Surviving an Altered World, in his Conor and the Crossworlds series. Post a comment on any or all of the blog tour spots and you'll be entered in a random drawing for a copy of Kevin Gerard's Conor and the Crossworlds.  More...
We continue our series of weekly SEO basics questions and answer today with a question that acknowledges the value of approaching search engine optimization holistically, but indicates a desire to keep things simple and focus on the basics.  More...
Some salespeople and managers think they'll keep clients happy by not ruffling their feathers with uncomfortable questions -- but customers can't solve problems they don't acknowledge. Here's how to show clients the bigger picture by asking them the right kind of probing questions, leading them to a happy new year of booming business.  More...
If you want to make your website better at turning visitors into customers (or subscribers), you need to understand why most of your visitors are leaving! But those people come and go without trace! How do you know what they wanted? How do you know what would have persuaded them to take action? If you owned a real-life bricks-and-mortar stor  More...
Implementation is a critical part of the SEO process. This is where we actually make the recommended changes to the Web site. It's also where way too many SEO projects go wrong. As much we try to ask all the hard questions before an agreement is signed or a single check is cut, there are some who fail to realize the commitment of time/resources  More...
1. In Google Webmaster Central, if I change the crawl rate, how soon does that take effect? Will Googlebot obey the new crawl rate immediately?  More...