Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Being helpful comes with a price, and the price is more work. By Maribeth Kuzmeski Oftentimes, there is more risk in customer service when the answer to our concerns is “yes.” Can you help me? Will you make an exception and do this for me just this once? Could you look into this issue I’m having?

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 2, 2011

Beginning on January 1, 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will group people by the actual number of weeks of unemployment, up to five years. There's a price to be paid for the excesses of the past decade; the U.S. Source: The New Yorker, January 3, 2011. Jobs have been lost and hiring is slow almost across the board.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

For example, when gasoline prices skyrocketed a few years ago we heard from one side of the red-white-and-blue stage show that it was because Americans were wasteful and driving gas-guzzling SUVs. Of course, these prices quickly find their way to the end customer, the little guy, who is paying more for everything and can't figure out why.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 21, 2011

For example, I know of an investor who buys time-share condo's in Florida at bargain prices and then rents them on a weekly basis at top dollar to Snow Birds and sun-seeking tourists during the Winter months. Cecala, publisher of trade publication Inside Mortgage Finance , estimates hard-money loans will account for about 1% of the 5.5

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

She is also moving into a bigger space in her building at a bargain price! As a business owner, I suggest you talk with your landlord about rent prices, you may be surprised to find out they are willing to lower your rent just to ensure you stay around.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 6, 2010

However, that’s a small price to pay for the positives that are derived. By being available as a mentor to other women – and also to men – we can lead by example as professionals and leaders, give others the benefit of our experience and perspective, and reap the reward of seeing others succeed in part because of our input.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996.  She became CEO of Avon in 1999, and in the past 9 years, she has helped to grow the company to achieve an annual revenue of $8.7

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Avoid controversy, maintain a high likeability factor, consistently and proactively engage your customers, be a business of character that engenders trust and confidence with your target market(s), produce a quality product or service at a competitive price point, and provide great customer service. must all reflect high standards of quality.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Some of the things you should vary and test are: • Promotion offered • Price • Free offers • Graphics • Free Trial • Color • Font • Mail Format • Length • Day and time of emailing • Subject lines and body copy • Response device (reply to email, visit website, etc.)

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 11, 2011

Main | There Will Always Be "Others" » January 11, 2011 Expect to Earn It Children and adults alike fantasize about becoming big successes. THAT'S why we stop and stare when they perform, THAT'S why we pay super high ticket prices to see them live, THAT'S why we read their books and tac their posters on our walls.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

I have watched many a well intentioned executive get sucked into gossip in an attempt to help, only to pay a big price down the road for their error in judgment. If that doesn’t work, and you must get involved, offer to accompany the person with the problem in addressing the individual they have an issue with.

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Chris Brady

MAY 19, 2010

Excellence only comes with a price, and sometimes paying that price will almost bring us to our knees. It's a condition that afflicts some people once they realize greatness will exact a price from them. » May 19, 2010 Puffy Faces  Struggles and obstacles are a normal part of high achievement.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

It costs 5 to 10 times more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 18, 2011

During a time of high gasoline prices, distribution disruptions and a declining national economy in the mid-1970s, I was general sales manager for an RV and Marine industries equipment supplier. Source: The New York Times, December 18, 2011. We don’t know what normal consumption looks like.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

include: MacDermid, Sanofi-Aventis, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Raytheon, USDA, Catalina Marketing, Nielsen Media, Starbucks, Fortune Brands, U.S.C., Â She has been published in leading industry magazines and ghost authored a number of chapters for books published by Linkage, Inc and Pearson Education. Johnson & Johnson and others. in Zoology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How to price 8 million tickets in a way that allows equitable access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games.".

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How many times have you witnessed someone holding-out for a higher price, better valuation, evolving markets, technology advances, or any number of other circumstances that either never transpire, or by the time they do, the opportunistic advantage had disappeared?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Hewlett-Packard's 2011 acquisition of the British software company Autonomy certainly falls in that category. Even at the time, news of the acquisition contributed to a 20% drop in HP's share price. More often it's a problem related to what we call the Art of Finance. The idea of finance as an art sometimes puzzles people.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The resulting "have and have not" economy is shaping each retailer's pricing strategy. Walmart, for instance, is concerned about its customers' finances, while high-end retailer Saks Fifth Avenue is selling luxury items at full-price and recently reported a 5.8% Price matching appears pro-consumer, doesn't it?

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 5, 2011

  And now for the new contest, our first of 2011! Posted by: Matt Foote | January 05, 2011 at 09:50 AM New gift ideas for 2011! Posted by: Matt Foote | January 05, 2011 at 09:50 AM New gift ideas for 2011! Posted by: Carmine Villani | January 05, 2011 at 10:08 AM 21st Century view finder!

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? While both require sacrifice, success comes at a great price and is often based upon the compromise of values. Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

An additional argument in support for CEO term limits is based upon the premise that the price of CEO terms that last too long goes deeper than the obvious performance metrics…that there is somehow the missed opportunity of a different vision, never heard and never realized.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

But Everything has a price, there is no smoke without fire!!!! Self evaluations are a great gut check, but even better gut checks come from being critically assessed by others. link] ATIG Dear Mike, Transparency in communication can help us to do better. should anything be transparent?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: What a great observation about the "price" of loyalty. Blind loyalty is not the same a true loyalty because there is no foundation to underpin it. As a result it will be misused, abused and eventually broken. Thanks for sharing your insights Dale. Loyalty is not free, nor is it cheap.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The big thing for me is I know when I add something to my life and work, there's a price to pay – time wise! So, I 'm thinking, why not take a piece of that and post it a few times a week and see what happens? Something has to be subtracted. We only have so much time. I wonder how many bloggers families pay?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. You might not always be able to slash your prices lower than those of your competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing. Global clean energy investment also peaked in 2011, at $317 billion, and was down 20% from that peak in 2013. Cheaper natural gas prices have only made it harder for the still-nascent sector to attract investment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering. Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

Our understanding of pricing has come a long way since 1890 when Alfred Marshall published his treatise on the economic scissors of supply and demand. Pricing is no longer a purely economic challenge to be addressed through studies of market elasticity. Rather, pricing today must be focused on value exchange. Smith, PhD.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., In the life and retirement services area, start-ups such as LearnVest offer personalized financial advice at fixed prices that most middle-class consumers can afford. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

He decided to go after Salesforce.com with a Software-as-a-Service Customer Relationship Management product at a price-point that was one sixth of what Salesforce.com, the market leader, charged. The initial cash needs to come from revenues, not financing. Not even any kind of bank financing. It was not an earth shattering idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

In 2011, U.S. Contrary to what many economists then believed, Friedman argued that, higher inflation does not reduce unemployment, and that the best monetary policy was one that kept prices stable. Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) Why can the U.S. The difference isn't their debt and deficits.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I hope your inspiring and heartfelt thoughts cause others to reflect on the great price that has been, and is continuing to be paid to protect our freedom. It is because of men like you that we all have the privilege of freedom. Best wishes Bo… [link] mikemyatt Thank you Mark.

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