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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Jeffrey, I’m an independent commercial real estate lender and commercial real estate mortgage broker. ” All the people you’re talking to in the real estate business only want to get a deal done. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Best regards, Jeffrey.

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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. Their product, a program designed to combat procrastination, quickly became the best-selling productivity app on iTunes. Not bad, but hardly Zuckerbergian. This is not uncommon. since 2000.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Many of the nation’s most beautiful and productive cities — New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and others — abut the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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The “Four P’s” of Marketing a Law Firm Online

Strategy Driven

In the course of my years partnering with web developer and SEO specialist Sagapixel, I’ve learned a lot about how to market my firm. First, I learned about the 4 P’s of Marketing—Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. The First P of Marketing a Law Firm – “the Product”. They don’t teach you this in law school!

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. Many universities manage billions in research funding, but there is usually no R&D budget for their own product, namely delivering education to willing buyers. a better place to be.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. For example, the wealth effect from rising equity and real estate prices might make premium product segments more attractive in the coming years. Keep the pressure on productivity. Increase your R&D spending.

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Africa’s Companies Need to Become More Like Training Schools

Harvard Business Review

In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue. In the hospitality sector, for example, they invest upfront into luxury real estate and equipment, but rarely into training programs.