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Author :: Dan Richmond  |
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| Article Title :: Five Ways Web Conferencing Can Help You Sell More Products |
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| When it comes to business, any new technology will ultimately be judged on how well it contributes to improving productivity and profit. If you are selling goods or services, online web conferencing can improve your bottom line by boosting sales and lowering costs. Here are five reasons why this is so:
1. It allows you to meet with more prospective clients
If you have to physically travel to a clientÂ’s office or location, there is only so much that you can do within any given period. LetÂ’s face it, travel is exhausting and expensive not only in terms of the direct costs that you make when you travel, but also in the way that your productivity is affected eve (read full article) |
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| Category :: Communications Articles |
Author :: Fabio Marcell |
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| Article Title :: How To Speed Up Your Dial up Connection. |
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| Do you remember the days? Firing up your 200Mhz turbo PowerPC, dialling up using your 56k modem, waiting an age for your hotmail page to show up, waiting some more to check your e-mails only to have your connection die just as you hit the send button! How times change.
It's funny, once you've used broadband you quickly forget how painful the dial up connection was. I used to run my business on dial up and looking back I managed rather well. But these days there's no way I could do without my broadband connection.
There's no doubt about it, broadband is well and truly here to stay. It is of course a logical progression - streaming audio and video demand much higher (read full article) |
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| Category :: Communications Articles |
Author :: Carlo Caparras |
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| Article Title :: Selecting a Toll Free number? |
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| Toll Free numbers have gone a long way; nowadays there are hundreds of toll free companies and resellers out there that provide the same basic features. Enhancements on telephone applications enabled toll free service to acquire most if not, all of the telephone applications inherent in landline services.Consumers now look for quality of service provided by telecommunication companies with respect to appropriate pricing. The advancement of T1 lines and their corresponding circuits, colocation and cooperation between competing companies now allowed to consumer to call different networks which was just a dream 10 years ago. Now wireless phones, VoIP phones, enhanced landline, drives (read full article) |
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| Category :: Communications Articles |
Author :: Joel Kweskin |
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| Article Title :: Before you advertise, have you filled out your "Creative Strategy Form?" |
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| So you say you want a brochure? Or an ad? Or a radio spot? Okay, but…have you filled out your "Creative Strategy Form" first?Welcome to another edition of Not Your Usual Marketing Tips from JDK Marketing Communications Management.It's not just a matter of looking at a blank piece of paper - or screen - and saying to yourself, okay, I want a new brochure and here's how it will look: I'll put a picture here, put the logo there, and just write down whatever comes into my head and place it all on the inside…So you say you want a brochure? Or an ad? Or a radio spot? Okay, but…have you filled out your "Creative Strategy Form" first?Welcome to another edition of (read full article) |
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| Category :: Communications Articles |
Author :: Joel Kweskin |
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| Article Title :: Gorilla(?) Marketing |
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| A lot has been written about Guerrilla Marketing Strategies.Does that mean putting on a monkey suit to attract attention? Of course not.Or…maybe Yes.Guerrilla Marketing has been championed in recent years by Jay Conrad Levinson, who’s written a series of books on the subject. The name simply implies means by which you can implement marketing ideas through low-cost, non-traditional methods.True story: when I was Advertising Manager at Royal Insurance, I received an unusual delivery one day. When I opened the box, inside was one of those plastic foot models you see in a shoe or department store. This “foot” was wearing a sneaker…and a note attached from (read full article) |
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| Category :: Communications Articles |
Author :: Tom Weber |
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| Article Title :: How To Rember Names |
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| The ambush. We have all been there.
You are in the grocery store, pushing your cart around the corner when WHAM! You run into that woman with the big blue eyes. You met her at that local meeting or perhaps some business lunch. Either way, you remember that face. but what is her name? Before your mind can get any further than that thought, she smiles and says, "Hi Joe, how are you?" Now you are really trapped. She remembers your name!!
During my years as a professional memory trainer, I can not tell you how many variations of this story I have heard. The truth is most people have trouble remembering names. This is because our memories are not designed to learn names through verba (read full article) |
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| Category :: Communications Articles |
Author :: Catherine Franz |
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| Article Title :: A Writing Exercise That Increases Awareness And Description Skills |
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| Practice attaching words to feelings requires time to do.Without a system that helps you monitor that time, theminutes or hours could feel unproductive. With the rightexercise, you can then use that time wisely, as well as saveyou time and frustration.
Learning to apply the right words to our six senses is a topingredient to the mixture of writing. Its language bringsthe reader into the story. All of us easily know how wefeel, or what we're seeing (okay, most of the time), whatwe're hearing, smelling, tasting, and sensing, and canusually explain it in 50 words if pushed to do it. But, howdo you describe it in one or two words without (read full article) |
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| Category :: Communications Articles |
Author :: Tony Dean |
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| Article Title :: Translation Plez ! |
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| While we are here sending messages in English, there are at least one third
of the worlds population who can't read them, for English is not even a second
language for them.I refer to China.More people in China are logging on to the net every day, but most of what
has been put up on the net is in English, this can be very frustrating for them.Very few web sites I visit, and I visit very many in any given week, don't have
any way of giving translations into other languages, and I feel, this is a thing
that webmasters have got to address as soon as possible.On my own website, www.ebook-sales.com I have inserted a script code at
the top of every html page to offer (read full article) |
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| Category :: Communications Articles |
Author :: Catherine Franz |
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| Article Title :: Email Reflections: 10 Simple Courtesies |
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| Okay, you are super busy or you are down to your last email before heading home. Maybe it’s first thing in the morning, you have a full in box to read and handle, all before your meeting starts in 10 minutes. It’s easy to be in a rush and dismiss the little things, however...
...have you ever thought how your email looked from a receiver’s viewpoint? Of course you have, every day, haven't you? It is so easy in our fast-paced lives to let the little things go.
When you receive a poorly formatted email and you don't know where each paragraph starts or finishes -- the thoughts are scattered and jumbled -- here’s the reader’s self chatter in action: "What the he (read full article) |
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| Category :: Communications Articles |
Author :: Jane Sanders |
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| Article Title :: Influencing Up! Specific Communication Tips for Men and Women |
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| Erica Jong, author of the revolutionary book The Fear of
Flying, once said, “Men and women, women and men. It
will never work.” Well, I have more faith, and more
experience in the business world than Ms. Jong. I know we
can make it work, at work! - and at home, too. One of the top
five challenges facing women’s advancement involves
communication differences between women and men in
charge. But communication is also a challenge for many
men – whether they are in charge or not.I want to emphasize that both men and women would be
well served to use each other’s communication style – in
moderation. By no means should women use a masculine
style exclusively, or (read full article) |
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