Your ability to sustain a long-term advertising program shows customers that you’re a successful, reliable brand
I recently purchased a new digital TV. Normally, Circuit City (CC) would have been on my list as one store in which to shop, but the struggles the company was facing (followed by its decision to declare bankruptcy) made me [...]
Online Businesses for Women
Women considering starting or buying an online business should take several factors into consideration. To fully understand the commitment required to create and/or maintain an online business can often end up being more than anticipated.
Many experts agree however that an online business is a great way to make money because it is growing so quickly. [...]
Some News on Home Based Business
Home Based Business
Home based businesses are increasingly more popular as people seek a more equitable home-life balance. Many can achieve this by securing a job which allows telecommuting or by starting their own home based business.
In today’s economy, a lot of people are looking for ways to supplement their income and a home-based business is [...]
Build A Profitable Online Business
When planning to start a new profitable online business it is critical to stay focused on the ultimate goal which is creating a higher standard of living for yourself and your loved ones. If you start to loose that focus and get frustrated you must take a break and relax because your success depends on [...]
Brickyard Bricks In Brief
“The purpose of Your Business Brickyard is to re-energize business owners and their businesses with the strength generated by a better foundation built on a strong purpose and the perfect execution of the basics. This seemingly simple formula has been forgotten in an era of “me too” strategies and frequent and disconnected jumps to the [...]
Turning Web Browsers Into Buyers
Imagine you owned a grocery store in which roughly half the people who loaded up shopping carts suddenly left them full in the aisles and took off without buying a thing. Most merchants would consider that a crisis, but on the Web, it’s the norm. The median abandonment rate is 40 percent for consumer-products companies [...]
Turn a Service Into a Product
If you run a service business and have plans to sell your business someday and cash out, you may be in for a rude shock. The value you thought you were building in your business may not be there.
Why not? A number of reasons. Here are a few:
First, buyers may view you as being too [...]
Time Management
A Time management question relating to office gossip
On the last presentation of the effective leader manager course, one delegate asked me an interesting question that you too, might have wondered about.
During the time management section of the course, we were talking about “the best use of your time” .
I was suggesting the idea that distractions [...]
Sales Productivity
Do you know what I find baffling?
The number of Sales Managers that believe the short cut to improved sales productivity and effectiveness is to only hire candidates with a lot of industry experience and a great track record.
I know your staring at your computer screen with that RCA dog look thinking. Ok, Martice finally [...]
Network Marketing?
I had a conversation today that inspired me to write this post. The conversation was not a very successful conversation as the person on the other end of the line seemed to think that Network Marketing was a ridiculous business to be involved in. I asked him if he was a business owner and he [...]