As long as there has been a world wide web to use as a media platform, those of us working with it have carried on a vigorous debate that might be called the "content vs. utility" question. Reasonable people can disagree on the question, and frequently do, staking out extreme...
Try as we may to stuff up our planet and numb our brains with unnecessary junk, there remains many delightful human behaviours. One is how we instinctively help the people we like. In business, this translates to acquaintances and friends who rave about us, promoting us to...
Do you hide behind technology? Or do use your email as a weapon? Perhaps you're one of those people who believes your worth in an organisation is directly related to the number of emails you write. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to John Ogier...
The ability to close -- easily, quickly and consistently -- is the single most valuable skill that any sales professional can have. And as with any great art, it's important to remember, and practice, the basics. by Geoffrey James
YouSendIt.com just picked up $14 million in a third round of funding. If you don't know the company, the premise is simple: People go there to send big files, whether using the free service or buying a subscription. I've used the freebie version a number of times when I was...
A reader writes: I have been in my sales job job now for about 3 months. I have just found out that I am going to be deploying. I am still at work and will continue to work until I have to leave for active...
If your business model involves complex sales proposals, you know how difficult it can be to get the writing process started. Here's a trick from the uber-guru of proposals, Tom Sant, author of Persuasive Business Proposals. Before you and your teams...
Think email is controlling your work life? Check out the in-box of John Halamka, the chief information officer for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. According to a recent Boston Globe story, Halamka "leaves 50 percent of his day's schedule open for responding to...
If your iPhone service plan doesn't include text messages or you routinely burn through your monthly allotment, here's a trick for getting unlimited SMS without spending a penny. In a nutshell, you install the iPhone AIM client iTunes link, then add new AIM contacts in your desktop instant-messaging program (iChat, AIM,...
Two new studies say 10 to 26 percent of shoppers are "Never Greens," whose reactions to environmental claims ranges from apathy to outright anger. by Lisa Everitt
The more headlines I read about the spat with Yahoo on one side and Microsoft and Carl Icahn on the other, the more the parent in me wants to call a time out and send everyone to their respective corners. At the beginning of the month, I titled a post,...
After four years, a Federal District Court ruled that eBay is not legally responsible to keep users from selling counterfeit Tiffany products. It's good news for the online auction company after recent legal losses over trademark and counterfeit issues: The ruling marks a dramatic turn in eBay's recent courtroom...
Managers who manage their time well not only get more accomplished, but they also set the tone for employees to be more proactive about their own schedules. Melissa Raffoni, author of the Harvard Business Review article "Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way?", shares techniques that will help you...
The boss is coming! Look busy. Here is the City offers some tips on "how to look busy" even if you're not... But don't let yourself become too busy, lest it drive you to an early grave. Apparently, a senior car engineer at Toyota in Japan was clocking up an...
What do Tyco Services, Huatai Group, Ford Malaysia, L'Oreal Argentina, Barclay's Bank of Ghana and The Ethical Investment Company of Australia all have in common? Each is among the 630 companies the United Nations Global Compact has booted off of its worldwide list of participants for failure to submit a...
Maggie Jackson's book Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age," is getting real buzz. I got this subject line in my email yesterday: Are You Feeling Distracted? (My first thought: just about every minute of the day.) Are you feeling saturated...
In honor of today's iPhone 3G launch, here's a clever new app that taps the new model's GPS capabilities: G-Park, which helps you navigate back to where you parked your car. All you do is tap the Park Me button optionally adding details about where you parked. Later, when you...
As someone who flies frequently but whose only loyalty is to the airliner that can get me the cheapest seat to where I'm going, I almost always find myself with a bunch of miles spread out over a bunch of frequent flier programs. Which is why I have subscriptions to...
If you don't delegate, you won't actually kick the bucket. But there are times when doing it all by yourself makes you feel like you're ready for an early grave, right? It that sounds like you, executive coach Leila Bulling Towne has some advice on how to hand off and...
Going in vacation this summer? With the high price of fuel, increasing the costs of plane trips, road trips and even train trips, you might be better off staying home with a good book. But for how long? That depends on where you live. As BNET1's Jessica...
