How do you make yourself matter to your customers? How did selling today become such a “soft” touch? How did things like liking, loving, trusting and focusing on the mission become more important than prospecting, qualifying, looking at features and benefits, and closing, closing, closing?
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Security always has been considered anything but sexy. Money rarely flows to security projects since most executives pay little mind to security. Instead, sales and marketing receive the majority of the investment.
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Maybe … I recently contacted Intuit/QuickBooks with that very question. I was told, “Based on initial testing, Intuit has found no issues with running QuickBooks 2015 on Windows 10.”
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Life has its ups and downs. We can all rejoice about the good things we have experienced in life. As a kid, you may have done special things in sports or celebrated academic accomplishments.
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Astound me! That’s right, knock my socks off! Make me notice that you’re different. Make me talk about you—positively. Make me want to brag about you.
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Those of you who know me personally know that I am a film buff, and classic comedy historian and collector. I’ve been a member of The Sons of the Desert, the international Laurel and Hardy organization, since I was 15 years old, and I founded the Cleveland, Ohio, branch of that organization in 1973.
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Most everyone wants the latest and greatest upgrade to technology, especially when it’s a free update, like Windows 10 or IOS 9. Even enterprise software users desire the latest upgrade.
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Most of us learned the four-letter words we shouldn’t say when we were in school. We heard the words in school. We learned that we shouldn’t say those words when we repeated them in front of our parents.
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Question: Do I have to collect sales tax for out-of-state sales? It depends, and it’s complicated. State governments would like to collect as much sales tax as possible and, with declining revenues over the last several years, are looking to every possible source.
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Since I recently wrote a commentary titled ‘Are You Too Old To Rock,’ I thought I would share another thought from the world of music.
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