Microsoft Great Plains is main Microsoft Business Solutions accounting package for the US market. You should probably expect some issues when you have software development company to be bought by big player – in this case Great Plains Software was bought by Microsoft (Bill Gates was a friend to Doug Burgum – owner and leader [...]
As a business owner, you already know how important it is for your customers to feel safe about doing business with you. After all, if a customer even suspects he may not receive everything he was promised, then chances are he’s taking his business elsewhere. So to prevent that you offer guarantees, secure payment methods, [...]
Are single black women too independent? Too sure of themselves, too eager to express their opinion (and dis yours), too unwilling to listen and be submissive? Are today’s black women even capable of ‘following’ a strong black man? For all my single brothers out there who have asked me these questions many times [...]
You know what makes me really happy? Drinking a Starbucks latte while doing my grocery shopping at Safeway. Getting my Godiva fix at Barnes & Noble. Cheap thrills, I know!
Ever wonder why McDonald’s is inside many WalMart stores? Or why you can buy the board game, Cranium, inside most Starbucks locations?
These are not just lucky [...]
Linda felt like she had reached a plateau in her cleaning business. For the past 3 years, she’d run the same ads in the same publications with the same results. She would generate enough new clients to make up for the ones she lost due to normal attrition, but she was never quite able to [...]
The Pitchers: Sales
Let’s say you have a new baseball team in town and it’s almost time for the first game of the season. Your sales force is ready to sell a variety of package deals for the season. However, there’s a major stumbling block as they prepare to approach potential buyers. No one knows about [...]
If you, just by coincidence, read my short article about pleasure and pain called “The cockroach test”, you know already why exhilarating business goals are important. For the major rest of readers here is a brief summary.
Pleasure and pain are the two states human life bounces in between. At the very basic level we all [...]
Getting your website listed in Google quickly simply requires that you know what Google is looking for and how to apply that to your site. Fortunately, what Google is looking for is pretty easy to understand and use in your marketing plan. Start with these suggestions as soon as possible so you will increase your [...]
Top leaders…
Are VisionaryTop leaders have a very clear understanding of where the organisation is going and a clear strategy for getting there.
Communicate Really WellGreat leaders ensure that their message gets across to all in the organisation – clearly.
Are ‘People’ peopleHaving a love for people helps these top performing leaders build relationships and develop wonderful team [...]
Indulge me for a moment.
Forget that Google is a search engine. Just for a moment, imagine it is a style guide. A very different kind of style guide.
Instead of this particular style guide being written as a static book by an expert or two, it is written by studying the searching and browsing habits of [...]