Business

How To Compare Your Social Media Presence With Your Competitors

July 20, 2010
How To Compare Your Social Media Presence With Your Competitors

The only way to know exactly where you are positioned in the marketplace is to compare yourself with your immediate competitors. Online, the case is the same. In fact, if what you’re trying to compare is your social media presence, it might even be easier because there is data that’s [...]

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The New Luxury of Train Travel

June 5, 2010
Business Travelers Train Interior by Aleksandar Dimitrov

You’ve got to train around a little. We all do. But sometimes, we’re on a business trip. You’re a business person, and you’re tired of the airplane. Right? How about the train? It’s all Harry Potterish? Not any more! Never again will you be caught sitting next to Ron! You’ve [...]

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12 Practical Business Lessons From Social Psychology

June 1, 2010
Foot in Door

It’s been said many times that business is all about people. That being the case, perhaps we should stop reading management books for advice and start looking at social psychology. Very simply, social psychologists study how people interact with others – their families, friends, and yes, business partners. Smart marketers [...]

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Top 10 Biggest Price Markups

May 27, 2010
cosmetics

Mark ups are the small profit margins that retailers gain when an item is sold. It is the fundamental of business; it’s the reasons that the amount we pay is not what the item is actually worth. It’s the small amount of money the business owner tacks on to cover [...]

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Top 150 Management & Leadership Blogs

May 15, 2010
Top150

Top 150 Management & Leadership Blogs I thought it was time for a new top list on this blog. The readers of this blog know that I did this several times before, with the Top 200 Blogs for Developers, the Social Media Blogs Top 200, the Top 100 Best Books [...]

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Building Relationships & Trust

July 18, 2009
business_people

One of the biggest components of building relationships is the ability to see the human side of an enterprise; both internally and externally.  Tone, inflection, behavior – it all varies person to person when communicating via email, text, phone or even in face to face meetings. Ask yourself… have you [...]

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