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Sales

Guidelines on Setting Goals when Selling

A goal is “something toward which effort or movement is directed—an end or objective.” Customers’ goals always involve either achieving a positive result or avoiding a negative one. One of your primary sales responsibilities is to motivate customers to understand their goals. Making goals measurable provides customers with that motivation. Goals […]

Leadership

In Business, the Purpose of Knowledge Is Action

When considering how knowledge affects personal decision making and reasoning, we need to understand what knowledge is and how it relates to information. We distinguish between knowledge and information by recognizing that they are fundamentally different. Information consists of data organized to characterize a particular situation, condition, context, challenge, or opportunity. Knowledge consists of […]

Law

The Benefits of Hiring a Professional Trademark Attorney

The first thoughts that come in mind, when one hears the words, ‘trademark attorney' are usually- "must be very expensive, I can't afford one!" However, in reality what you really cannot afford, is not hiring a trademark attorney to protect your most valuable business asset-your trademark! The Wikipedia definition of […]

Business

Types of Business Projects

Projects come with different requirements related to scope, timing, cost, number of disciplines involved, various priority lists, and other variables depending on the organization’s purposes. Every project within academia, government, industry, and not-for-profit organizations will have specific requirements. A product or process research project extending over many years will have […]

IT

Best Practices for Working with Help Desk Software

In a perfect world, you would deploy help desk software in your organization and magically, your IT department would become structured, attentive, efficient, and customer-focused. The number of tickets would reduce by 30%, the time to close them would be cut in half, your salary would quadruple, and you would […]