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Your (Virtual) Operator is Standing By from Smart Money's Small Biz You need to immediately make a strong, professional impression for your clients to take you seriously. You want them to make contact and imagine a corporate army at the end of the line, even if your troops consist of just a dedicated three or four. The solution for more and more small businesses is voice over IP, or VoIP, the shorthand for phone systems that run through the Internet rather than over traditional telephone networks.More
Small Businesses Urged to Prepare for Disruptions From Swine Flu from The Washington Post The Department of Homeland Security has urged small
businesses to devise contingency plans allowing them to operate in the event a number of their employees become infected with the H1N1 virus. With half of the nation's private-sector employees working at small businesses, federal officials said they want the enterprises to take precautions to prevent a disruption to the economy as the virus, also known as swine flu, wends its way across the United States. More
Why Your Advertising Isn't Working from Business Week Recently, an AdweekMedia poll of LinkedIn members posed
this question: "Of the ads you see in a typical day, how
many engage your attention?" A remarkable two-thirds of respondents said "a small minority of them." Another quarter answered "none of them." Together, that's 91 percent. Only one in 100 respondents said "most of them." Ouch. The good news is that you can take steps to fix it.More
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Great Customer Service: Remembering the Little Things from Retail Customer Experience When a company has to downsize, picking up additional responsibilities can make employees feel overworked, over-stressed and under-appreciated. If you're a manager, what can you do to keep your employees focused on delivering great customer service? What small, yet meaningful, rewards
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Set Your Company's Message Free from Entrepreneur Let go of the idea that you need complete control over your message. Very few companies are able to maintain control and
still create buzz. Apple comes to mind, but think about how much the company must spend - all the time and resources necessary to maintain such a tight-lipped atmosphere. For most of us, it's better to throw the message out there and then let it do its work.More
How to Use Language That Employees Get from The Harvard Business Review It's not just what leaders say; it's also how they say it. In studies on executives who have instilled a great sense of purpose in others, introduced powerful brands, or managed successfully in turbulent times, researchers found that they often use terms and metaphors that resonate with their employees. More
This Five Letter Word is the Key to Marketing Success from Fast Company If you are skeptical that brands still matter, or if you are trying to run a business
and make numbers and don't have the patience for brand consultant-speak or theories, here is a quick, simple refresher on good old fashioned branding that works today, that can help you frame your marketing and other operational tactics...to drive business results.More
