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5 Modern Business Success Tips

Strategy Driven

As your modern business expands, your IT needs will increase. Outsourcing will free your IT team’s time to focus on core business objectives. If you want to change product prices, start with two or one geographic area to measure the outcome.

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Lessons from Avon

Women on Business

This week Avon CEO Andrea Jung was released from her position and stock prices soared. Business objectives should be consistent. In an international company like Avon the need for a consistent business message is so important. The company is trying to find its footing and the CEO was the unequivocal target.

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The Power of an Enemy

In the CEO Afterlife

But don’t be so obsessed with them that you allow yourself to be drawn into an emotional price war. Winning at any cost is a signal that you have lost sense of the business objectives. Know the enemy. Go ahead, hate your competitors. All you have to do is make them think you will compete at any cost.

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Successful Negotiation: 5 Effective Techniques for Better Negotiation

Strategy Driven

Recognize when the other party’s demands have become unreasonable or if the terms they suggest create an unprofitable outcome for your business and make the decision to walk away from the negotiating table.

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End-of-the-Year Tax Tips for Last Minute Savings

Women on Business

Many of the business owners we work with say they’re ready to get 2011 behind them. January 2012 beckons as business objectives glisten with potential revitalization and realignment. Guest Post by Perry Sheraw (learn more about Perry at the end of this post).

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Businesses Don’t Fail – Leaders Do

N2Growth Blog

Strategy, pricing, positioning, branding, distribution, compensation, or any number of other metrics tied to sales force productivity all rest with executive leadership. If your company doesn’t possess the talent it needs to achieve its business objectives no one is to blame but leadership.

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The Basic Social Media Mistakes Companies Still Make

Harvard Business Review

Start by basing your social strategy on business objectives, then follow that by thinking about target market, social media platforms, tools, and metrics. Different organizational objectives and target markets may require very different channels and tools. How will you know you are successful? How does your boss judge success?

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