From the monthly archives:
November 2011
This came across my desk via email. The source of the original email is unknown. I also don’t know how true the stories are, but regardless I felt they were well worth sharing.
1 – First Important Lesson – Cleaning Lady.
During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?”
Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, cark-haired and in her 50′s, but how would I know her name?
Customer negotiations can be tricky, particularly when it comes to cornerstone deals for start ups. The negotiation process shouldn’t be one sided, resulting in one party winning and the other losing. The ideal outcome for any negotiation is a win-win for both your client and your company. Below are some little gem’s of advice thanks to Inc.com and were based upon a conversations with sales expert Randall Murphy, (president of Acclivus R3 Solutions), and negotiating expert James C. Freund, author of the book Smart Negotiating.
Every entrepreneur has the dream of building their business to the point where they can take 12 months off. But are we being realistic? Inforsurv’s CEO, Jared Heyman took a 12 month sabbatical. How did his business survive?
What’s Greece got to do with your business? How worried should you be? And what’s the silver lining? It’s all here.
Last week it almost looked like Europe might just have stumbled on a solution to its debt crisis. But no—it turned out to be just another head fake in the stumbling battle to save the world from a second global financial crisis.
Now, you don’t have time to study the nuances of the European Financial Stability Fund or the finer points of Greek parliamentary procedures. (You’ve got a business to run!) So here are the five questions—and answers—you should be asking about the debt crisis.
