by Linda Fayerweather | Apr 22, 2013 | Business Culture, Business Improvement
Are you playing checkers or chess with your staff? If you are playing checkers, you see each and every interaction with your employees as having a few simple moves – single slides or jumps – and each has the same “skill set”. But in chess, part of the strategy is...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Apr 20, 2013 | Business Improvement
In the ocean called business standing out can mean life or death for your business. When people take notice they are more apt to pay attention to your business. If people are paying attention they are more apt to use your business. So I have one question for you. What...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Apr 7, 2013 | Business Improvement, Image & Marketing
A website is your business’s image to the world. Anyone, no matter what day or time can get on the Internet and view your website. That first impression can either help your business or it can hurt it. Here are 4 reasons your website is hurting your business and...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Apr 1, 2013 | Business Improvement, Customer Service & Culture, Selling
This past week I was contracted to redo a module in a web application because the sales team was misrepresenting that part of the application in their sales process. The sales team wasn’t trying to mislead anyone, they honestly thought that part of the...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Mar 24, 2013 | Business Improvement, Personal Improvement
It only takes an extra minute to do it right or fix a problem but it will take a lot longer to fix it if you let it go. This holds true for anything and everything. Forget to change the oil on your car, if you let it go long enough it will damage your engine. Instead...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Mar 18, 2013 | Business Improvement, Business Management, Employee Management, Personal Improvement
Lead, follow or get out of the way. Failing to know which to do is probably one of the most annoying and frustrating things I have to deal with on a constant basis. It is usually one person on the project that is suppose to lead, follow or get out of the way that...