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  • Car Business Plan: Four Steps To Success
    By: Eric Powers | - Like other business plans, the contents of an automobile dealership business plan cover four primary steps towards success. These steps are opportunity, capacity, activities, and results.

    Opportunity

    The industry, customer, and competitive analysis in your business plan proves the opportunity. This should identify that customers in your local market are in need of a dealer of the type youve chosen to be because competitors are not fully servin ...

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  • 3 Parts Of A Business Plan To Focus On
    By: Eric Powers | - Each section of your business plan builds the story of your business, hopefully convincing a reader, bit by bit, of the logic of funding the company. There are three sections which are absolutely essential to this story and, therefore, to the process of fundraising.

    Executive Summary

    The executive summary is your business plan in miniature, a one to two page digest of the entire document. The main points of each section to follow are covered here and charts are used to ...

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  • Hotel Marketing Plan - A 6-part Sample Outline
    By: Eric Powers | - A hotel marketing plan is your action plan to fill the rooms of your new hotel. A marketing plan focuses on the four Ps (Product, Promotion, Price and Place), but doesn't neglect customer retention and key partnerships. All of these elements should be specific to your hotel's intended customers and the geographic area.

    1) Product - Your hotel's services

    For every hotel, the basic product offered is the same service - use of a bed for a night. Beyond this similarity, ...

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  • Contents Of A Business Plan: What To Focus On
    By: Eric Powers | - Creating a business plan can be a long process, but it is only successful if you devote the time and thought needed to each key section of the plan. Although the entire plan is important to get right in order to pass the test of funders, if you can spend extra time on the following sections it will be worthwhile.

    Marketing Plan

    Without sales, there is no business. And without marketing, there are generally no sales. Even if your business will rely entirely on enticing ...

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  • A Business Plan For A Record Label - Writing Dos And Don'ts
    By: Eric Powers | - When writing your record label business plan, pay attention to what you need to achieve in the plan and what will be difficult or even impossible for the plan to convey. The following are a few tips:

    Do Keep It Short and Sweet

    The length of your plan won't make it any more convincing and there is no a magic number of pages which will win over investors who are on the fence. It is the quality of the argument within its pages which should make it clear that you have found ...

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  • Improving Sales Results, Success In Making Sales Appointments
    By: Kate Tammemagi | - Making appointments is an essential part of the sales process in all direct selling situations. We need an appointment to give us our platform where we can apply our excellent consultative sales skills to the advantage of both parties. But making those awful appointment calls! Who wants that much rejection? They do not even give you a chance!

    Secret Number 1 Use Active Motivators
    You do not like making appointments? No-one does, and you never will! Do not even TRY to li ...

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  • Finding An Affordable Health Insurance Plan
    By: Jhon_Smith | - Health Insurance is something every person should have in order to make sure they will receive good care in case of an illness or an accident. It is a good way to not burden your family with medical expenses. Finding a Health Insurance plan which is affordable and doesnt become a burden to your monthly income is quite a task. Look for a plan that works in a lot of hospitals and make sure they are close by. Below are some of the features to look for in an affordable Health Insurance plan.

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  • A Retail Marketing Plan - Promotion Methods
    By: Eric Powers | - Planning for how to promote your new retail business does not begin just when you open your doors to customers, but as you start to flesh out the idea for the idea itself. The marketing plan and its promotion strategy are an essential part of the concept of how the business will work and succeed. Be creative when developing promotion tactics that work for your store, but don't forget tried-and-true methods like these.

    Coupons

    Coupons, whether distributed in magazines, n ...

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  • Music Business Plan: Three Principles Of Store Layout
    By: Eric Powers | - The layout of the interior of your music store includes some major decisions which will have an impact down the road on your costs, revenues, and the basic safety of the location. These are three principles of store layout to consider, whether you draw up the interior floor plan yourself, or use the help of an interior designer or architect.

    Waiting Line

    If your store is as successful as you hope, you will probably have waiting lines from time to time. For example, if ...

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  • Music Store Business Plan: Fighting Your Online Competitors
    By: Eric Powers | - To succeed in the launch of a new brick and mortar music store, you must not merely create competitive advantage relative to other music stores in the vicinity, including big chains like Wal-Mart and BestBuy, but fight online competition from iTunes, Rhapsody, Pandora, and more. Dont forget to detail your strategy for staking our your market share against these sellers in the competitive analysis of your business plan.

    These are three ways brick and mortar music stores can ...

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  • You Have Your Business Plan, But What About Your Marketing Plan?
    By: Wade Anderson | - The marketing plan that is sound and well formed will ensure that it plays a key role in the success of a business. The ideal marketing plan should consist of plenty of market research work, identify the location of the business, target a customer group, know all about the competition and market positioning as well know the product or service that is being sold by the business. In addition, the pricing of the product, its advertising campaigns and strategies as well as promotion need to be defin ...
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  • Level The Playing Field In Sales Negotiations
    By: Peter McKeon | -
    Customers perceive sales negotiations as emotionally stressful experiences. Analysis tells us that most of the customers are not pleased with the treatment they receive from sales professionals and don't enjoy the thought of sales negotiation or the particular experience as they believe it's not a level enjoying field. Customers want an honest and clear process, expecting help and guidance from a salesperson who is inquisitive about them.

    Designing a good sales negotiation is ...

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  • Day Spa Business Plan Sample: Financial Model Needs
    By: Eric Powers | - Purchasing a sample or template for your day spa business plan can be extremely valuable, but only if there is a well-done and customizable financial model spreadsheet that comes with it. To know if the financial model youre working with makes the cut, look for the following elements.

    Multiple Revenue Streams

    As the years go by, you may expect to move customer from one service to another (for example, increasingly sell massages, while at first customers only purchas ...

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  • Transitioning From In-house Operations To Sales Recruiters
    By: Sean Kanan | - As a company expands and finds itself with both greater revenues and greater responsibilities, a number of programs and services are bound to become necessary.
    Hiring a larger base of staff is usually a key part of this process, and securing a great sales team, while essential even at the very beginning of a business plan, can become even more vital during periods of growth. Sourcing exceptional sales talent, however, is not especially known for its ease or convenience.
    Often, top s ...

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  • A Record Company Business Plan - Projecting Sales
    By: Eric Powers | - Your business plan's success will hinge on its ability to convince readers that the revenues you project are reasonable. The costs are generally more or less verifiable, so it is the sales numbers where the most art must enter in. These are some methods to base these guesstimates in reality.

    Case Studies

    For the type of music you seek to produce, look at the sales statistics for artists who you consider on par with your intended roster. Use these as case studies, perhap ...

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  • WHEN TO CONSIDER REVIEWING YOUR BUSINESS PLAN Shared By: ThomReece - For running your business successfully, it is compulsory to review your business plan at least twice a year. A business plan is not a one-time document...

  • How to Create an Email Marketing Plan | MailChimp.com Shared By: gosselin07 - Email is growing fast as one of the most effective tools for generating interest and sales for your business. But, how do you create email communicati...

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  • Integrating Marketing & Sales Efforts Shared By: CONNSTEP - No strategy to drive growth and success will increase sales and market share without a successful marketing and sales plan. Why Even if you have a...

  • Incentive Insights: Don't "Undercommunicate" Your New Sales Incentive Plan Shared By: Cibereconomy - Incentive Insights: Don't "Undercommunicate" Your New Sales Incentive Plan December 01, 2009 By Chad Albrecht At this time of year, compensation...


  • Direct Sales Tips - The Best Direct Sales Companies
    By: ECP "Direct Sales Guy" | - Are you thinking about getting in to direct selling? Are you already in direct selling and not sure if you are representing a great direct selling company?

    Good direct sales companies are few and far between, so let us give you a list of qualities to look for when looking for good direct sales companies.

    Good compensation plan - Of course this is number 1 on our list, if you aren't making a decent income off of each sale, then it is going to take a lot more work just to ...

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  • Direct Sales Opportunity: Is It Right For You?
    By: ECP "Direct Sales Guy" | - Working as a direct sales consultant, direct sales rep, or whatever else direct sales companies call their salespeople, is not for everyone. Direct sales does take commitment, dedication, and time. Then why would someone want to take a position in direct sales? What is the direct sales opportunity?

    The opportunity that direct sales position brings to the table is the flexibility of time, schedules, income, and management. As a direct sales consultant, you have the flexibility to set ...

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  • A Retail Clothing Store Business Plan - Customer Analysis
    By: Eric Powers | - Your retail clothing store's business plan requires a well-thought out customer analysis which describes what type of customers will make your store succeed.

    Not Too Broad, Not Too Narrow

    When choosing your customer target markets, make sure that they are neither too broad nor too narrow. The broader a target market, the more expensive and difficult to reach it and sell to it. For example, if the target market is simply "Residents of the Tri-state Area" this will tell y ...

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  • Direct Sales Tips: What Is Direct Sales?
    By: ECP "Direct Sales Guy" | - Direct sales is a method of selling a consumer product or a service, person-to-person and away from a fixed retail location. These consumer products are sold through in-home product demonstrations, "home parties" and one-on-one selling by salespeople. Such products or services are usually marketed to customers by independent salespeople or teams of salespeople. Depending on the sales company structure, the salespeople may be called consultants, distributors, representatives, or a number of other ...
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  • Tips For Running A Successful Sales Recruitment Campaign
    By: Tim Williams | - There are lots of recruitment tips on the web however sorting out the wheat from the chaff can be confusing to say the least.

    Here are some tips for running a successful sales recruitment campaign:

    Recruitment tip one: Good salespeople are notoriously hard to come by. So the best strategy is to make sales recruiting an ongoing activity. Keep your 'finger on the pulse' and make recruiting salespeople an every day activity.

    Recruitment tip two: Have in ...

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  • Tips For Running A Successful Sales Recruitment Campaign
    By: Tim Williams | - There are lots of recruitment tips on the web however sorting out the wheat from the chaff can be confusing to say the least.

    Here are some tips for running a successful sales recruitment campaign:

    Recruitment tip one: Good salespeople are notoriously hard to come by. So the best strategy is to make sales recruiting an ongoing activity. Keep your 'finger on the pulse' and make recruiting salespeople an every day activity.

    Recruitment tip two: Have in ...

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  • How To Get Right Architectural Floor Plans & 3d Floor Plan
    By: Jeff Marsh... | - 3D Floor plan help us to show the interior of the house or complexes with furniture and floor covering. This helps our customer to visualize their property to sell or lease or rent a house or office to their customers, which everyone can understand. 3D floor plan allow some one who has no experience in reading plans to understand a layout instantly. It is such a powerful tool, because it takes much of the guesswork out of sales and leasing property.

    Benefits of 3D Floor Plan
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  • Advice On Developing A Business Growth Plan
    By: Eric Powers | - A major part of any business plan intended for professional investment is a growth plan detailing how the business can increasingly take advantage of economies of scale. Investors want to see how each $1 they invest can become $2, $3, or more over time and the best way to accomplish this is to create a foundation which can spread its costs over more and more sales. These are some items to plan for when creating a plan for growth.

    Scalable Operations Systems

    For a busine ...

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  • Entrepreneur's Business Plan Checklist
    By: Eric Powers | - A great business plan addresses the concerns and questions of a reader about the business before they can even raise them. To be certain the plan is complete, begin by checking off the following list of the essential pieces of a business plan, generally presented in this order:

    Executive Summary: A clear and concise introduction that hits all the high points of the plan.

    Company Overview: The history, products or services, and structure of the business.

    Ind ...

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  • Home Sales Rebound. What's In Store For 2010?
    By: Fritz Pfister | - The Springfield Illinois housing market rebounded with home sales jumping 14% in September to 364. The best September since 2004. The third quarter out paced second quarter home sales. The number of sales pending continue to rise which bodes well for October and November home sales. Then what?

    The news is good that home sales have rebounded, however you must place the rebound in perspective. Home sales have caught up with 2008, and look to finish ahead of 2008 by years end. What h ...

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  • Marketing Is Often Misunderstood As Sales
    By: Jameson Parker | - In India most of the business owners confuse among the related terms of marketing. This is due to little or no awareness of what marketing is. Sales and marketing means the same thing to most people in India. You will notice that a majority of Indian companies call their sales persons as marketing professionals. Till recently, with protected markets and an economy controlled by licenses, the Indian market was a sellers market. Companies were not required to do marketing.

    Only of ...

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  • Plan The Work . . . Work The Plan
    By: Wee Dilts | - Introduction

    Zig Ziglar:
    You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

    When I came to real estate sales from the safety net of the public school system where life is routine and income guaranteed, I was in for a rude awakening. I knew I was going to be good in sales but I had no idea Id have to learn how to plan and manage time. Oh, and then there was goal setting and attitude adjustment.

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  • Business Management Plan Tips
    By: Eric Powers | - A business plan must present a clear set of actions showing what the business will do, as well as how these activities will be managed.

    Executive Management

    At the top of the business organization chart must be a CEO with a vision for what the business can be, leadership experience, and, hopefully, industry expertise qualifying him or her to work in the businesss sector. The management team description should spend most of its space detailing the qualifications of t ...

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  • Why Does My Company Need A Business Plan?
    By: Eric Powers | - A business plan is an essential tool for an entrepreneur for a number of reasons. The plan, often developed with the help of a business plan writer or consultant, serves to examine the feasibility of the company before you sink a great deal of time and money into the idea, to organize a plan of attack for the management team, and to seek funding and partnerships which may enable the company to launch.

    Market Feasibility Study

    By its nature, a business planning process ...

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  • How Improving Sales Conversion Online Can Be Done With Proper Email Handling
    By: Jeff D McQueen | - Business gets pretty tough when improving sales conversion online simply doesn't happen. Most business owners doing business online and selling their products or services do not seem to realize that their websites need correcting. As you don't have the luxury of salesmen online, you need to be precise and extensive in your content on the business that is actually your face of the business.

    Visitors and potential customers would judge your product or service as well as you from th ...

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  • Things You Need To Do Right Away For Improving Sales Conversions Online
    By: Jeff D McQueen | - There is a great need for improving sales conversions online for businesses that are operating on the internet. As the economy is in a recession, there are more online businesses than ever these days. It doesn't take much money to set up and if you have a good product or service that you can offer, there is no stopping you from making money. But if your sales figures don't rise or the traffic that comes to your site is not adequately converted to paying customers, then your business venture coul ...
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  • Hot Tip For A Succesful Sales Business Plan
    By: Andrew Thomas | - When looking to build your sales business plan it helps to fully understand what the term sales actually means. We have all heard of the term new sales, which is rather old now, about 15 years. New sales took the sales out of selling and put the helping into the sales process. That is to sale a new sales agent will their customer make a decision rather than hard sell directly to them.

    Today there is a new wave yet again where we get to grips with the actually meaning of the term a ...

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  • Brilliant Compensation Plan Video Network Marketing Review
    By: BrianGarvin | - The first thing you have to do according to the Brilliant Compensation Plan Video is focus on products that have huge market potential and are expanding. Brilliant Compensation Plan Video states that success in business requires repeat sales from consumable products. You also need to be able to focus on being in front of the trends. The Baby Boomers create the largest trends in the world. From 1946 and 1964 76 million babies were born in the US and One Billion Worldwide. They control 64% of all ...
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  • Advantages Of Automating Business Plan Writing With Professional Software
    By: Andrew Thomas | - Everyone knows that to be successful in business you must have a business plan. The share volume of traffic on the internet searching for business plan examples and templates is an indication that many people do not know how to put together a winning business plan. Your business plan is important not only for steering your activities in the right direction but also for acquiring financing. Whether it is start up financing or further down the track when you need development financing, you will ne ...
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  • Business Plan Financial Section Tips
    By: Eric Powers | - A business is a for-profit enterprise which seeks to maximize the return for the owners of the business. It stands to reason that the financial section of a business plan is the most critical section to illustrate the story of how your business will create profit. The three key financial statements each have something to say to readers (such as investors, lenders, and potential partners) about the story.

    Income Statement

    The income statement should show how the company ...

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  • Revise Stimulus Plan For Economic Recovery
    By: Fritz Pfister | - The stimuls bill passed seven months ago contained an $8,000 tax credit limited to first time home buyers. At the time many believed it would have the impact of taking a knife to a gun fight. They were wrong. The tax credit combined with historically low interest rates turned out to be the driving force to stem decline within the housing market.

    What happens when the tax credit expires on December 1? What happens when inflation takes hold and interest rates are hiked?


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  • Sales Marketing Plan Strategies
    By: stoneworth india | - Design and implement a new sales & marketing campaign must be carefully thought through from the beginning. What message would you like about your company, products and services to send? What are the expected results? What is the implementation strategy? What is the cost ratio compared to the expected return?

    These are just some of the issues presented by our heads in the early stages of planning. If your goal is to think the revenue growth and expansion, I have, you need to design ...

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  • Sales Management Strategy Tips
    By: Jerry Glynn | - Sales management is not an exact science. Keeping a team of people motivated and focused on their goals requires some planning and strategies, and this article will provide some tips to help you. Sales management is a learning process, which is why there are so many different types of management styles out there.

    Consider a sales incentive system. What motivates people is sometimes hard to pinpoint, but the fact is, there are few people in this world who are not motivated by mone ...

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  • 8 Habits Of The Highly Successful Salespersons
    By: Daniel Sitter | - There are numerous skills and traits that help define successful salespeople. These traits are beneficial regardless of whether you sell tangible products, services or your ideas. Developing these skills will benefit every entrepreneur and business owner who must daily interact with others to transact business.

    Consider the following as your personal assets inventory, each is well beyond any amount of monetary value, yet each is capable of assisting you in generating great financi ...

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  • Strategic Sales Action Plan Can Increase Your Insurance Sales
    By: Cheryl A. Clausen. | - How about shaking up your sales results? Now is the time to rethink you're approach and develop a plan that gets results. If your strategic sales action plan isn't implementable and quantifiable path it won't produce results. The key elements of a strategic sales action plan include: value, unique market position, marketing plan, sales plan, and a follow-up plan. It's best to approach these critical elements in a specific order.

    Start by identifying how you will create value t ...

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  • Sales Coaching: Are You Quitting Too Soon
    By: Cheryl A. Clausen. | - When your sales are down your self-confidence plummets. Sometimes you feel like you can't do anything right. Plus your feeling the pressure of low or no revenue in all aspects of your life. Should you just quit? What if you're on just about ready to make a significant breakthrough? If you quit you'll never know. You can't fail unless or until you quit. Are you ready to admit defeat? Will you always wonder what if the next call or appointment was the one that would have completely changed ...
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  • Pitifull Sales Excuses
    By: The Sales Adviser | - Every day I hear sales people tell me why they didn't make the sale. I hear excuse after excuse after excuse, after awhile you want to shake them violently and slap them around a bit, but as a professional sale trainer and small business adviser I refrain from doing so. It would be bad for business if i did. I have assembled a fine assortment of pitiful sales excuses that I have ever heard, along with what the truth behind the excuse. If you can stop yourself from using these excuses, it would ...
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  • Sales Structure
    By: Adam Mussa | - Effective sales planning can lead any business through the doors to success. Sales plans will help clarify the company purpose and goals, as well as spell out the tactics to be used to meet expectations. Sales' planning is a marvelous tool for getting all sales associates on the same page and ensuring the same performance level from all. The use of a well-crafted sales plan can help turn any business into an achievement.

    Basically, by developing a sales plan, you are mapping out ...

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  • Sales Plan Model
    By: Adam Mussa | - A sales plan can make for a great plan of attack for any company. Using a sales plan template provides even more ammunition for making your business one which is strong. A sales plan will not only provide valuable visual information for your staff, but will also ensure that all team members remain on the same page. The further use of the sales plan template assures that everyone has the same common goals for the company in mind.

    A sales plan can be the most effective way to get y ...

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  • Strategic Sales Planning
    By: Adam Mussa | - A strategic sales plan consists of many steps to help lead your company to success and profitability. There are numerous sales presentations which will tell you so. Making sure that you follow all of the steps in the development of a strategic sales plan can ensure that all of your subsequent sales presentations are a success.

    The first step to a strategic sales plan is to know your business. Know and understand your company inside and out, and be able to identify those who may po ...

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  • A Page From An Austin Sales Consultants' Executive Bible
    By: Ben Jordan | - Any Austin sales consultant will tell you that you only get one shot to sell to an executive level decision maker.

    Furthermore, any Austin business coach you talk to will also tell you that lack of knowledge, preparation, or trying to sell something the executive cannot use or benefit from will ruin that precious one shot.

    Listen. Don't waste your time or busy executives by taking blind stabs.

    It will make you look bad and me even worse since yo ...

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  • Looking Back To Plan Ahead: 4 Steps To Success In 2007
    By: Colleen Francis | - Regardless of when your fiscal year ends, January is a great time to start thinking seriously about your business goals, and your sales plan for the year. Of course, it's always a great idea to plan ahead. But don't make the mistake of setting new goals for your career without first reflecting on your accomplishments - and your shortcomings - from 2006.

    This isn't always an easy (or pleasant) task. But to truly control the direction you take this year, you need to be fully aware o ...

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