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Seven Myths That Screw Up Sales
If your sales success isn't where it ought to be, you may be operating under the weight of one or more persistent and pernicious myths about selling. Here they are: Myth #1. All qualified prospect are potential customers. Truth: Only certain...
Tags: Geoffrey James, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sales Strategy, Myth
Blog posts 2008-05-01
Lessons from High Tech Hokum, Pt 2.
In Part 1 of "Lessons from High Tech Hokum," I pointed out three high tech product concepts that never fail to generate excitement and interest in the press, even though they contradict actual experience in the real world. I believe that the unfailing popularity...
Tags: Geoffrey James, Management, Sales, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Y2K, Sales Strategy, Myth
Blog posts 2008-02-28
How to Enable Viral Change
Since we just posted a blog on innovation management and the organizational changes digitalization and globalization require, it seems appropriate to link to a series of myths about change management. Viral Change TM first listed 15 myths, and has been responding to each myth, one by one, in a series of posts dating...
Tags: Lori Deschene, Human Resources, Strategy, Management, Tools & Techniques, Workforce Management, Leadership, Globalization, Change Management, Myth
Blog posts 2007-11-20
Five Myths of Managing Up
Do the traditional rules still apply when it comes to keeping your boss happy? Myth #1: Always be in the office before your boss arrives. Conventional wisdom: If you're even five minutes late, the boss will think you're a slacker. Why it's...
Tags: ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS, INTERNET, Instant messaging, BNET Feature, myth, boss, CEO, management, business skills, team, Geoffrey James, Human Resources, Sales, Telecommuting, Sales Force Management, Workforce Management, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Team Management
Articles 2007-03-12
How to Be a Great Marketer
If you're new to marketing, welcome to a function that nobody understands and everybody thinks they know better than you do. Looking back on a long career, I learned a number of lessons that I think contribute to being a successful marketer. They dispel some popular myths and you'll notice...
Tags: Myth, Professional Development, Marketing Research, Career, Marketing, Steve Tobak
Blog posts 2009-04-07
Busting Market Myths
Forget what you think you know about investing. Investment strategist Rob Arnott explodes some of the most widely held myths about what really works.
Tags: Myth, MoneyWatch, Financial, Financial Market, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, investing, myths, risk, reward, stocks, bonds, securities, market, Eric Schurenberg, Rob Arnott
Videos 2009-03-11
Six Job Hunting Myths Debunked
Everyone wants to give job seekers advice, and while much of it is useful, some guidance may miss the mark. Because the employment market is constantly changing, ideas that once worked well may no longer be effective. This doesn't mean you have to second-guess everything you hear, this paper explains...
Tags: Job, CareerBuilder, Job Hunting, Myth, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2008-01-01
The Top 10 Ways To Handle The "Age" Issue
It's an age-old problem: once a job seeker hits 40, age discrimination suddenly becomes an issue. We've all heard the stories and we've all read the studies - perfectly talented workers passed over for their younger counterparts. It's a real issue - so real, in fact, that legislation has been...
Tags: Myth, Worker, JobZilla.ca, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2006-11-07
Ten Myths About Credit Management
There are many myths about credit management. Some of these myths are the creation of customers, order entry personnel, and salespeople. Here are ten of the more common myths discussed in the article, just read on.
Tags: Credit Management, Computer Sciences Corp., Myth
White papers 1995-01-01
Five Myths of Contract Management
"For years the corporate contract has been an under-appreciated document in the business world. This habit of taking the contract for granted has led to the development of a number of myths regarding the field of contract management. For corporations, these myths minimize the need for a task-specific contract management...
Tags: Contract Management, Myth, iSource, Service Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Five Commonly-held Business Myths
This article mainly emphazises upon five Commonly-held Business Myths. These myths has to be cleared in order to make organisation effective and better. These 5 myths are: He who makes the best decisions wins, Where there are no risks, there are no rewards, An uneducated opinion is a dangerous resource,...
Tags: Myth, Strategy, Security, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Myths That Menace Selling Success
Selling is a tough job. By its very nature, selling can produce enormous stress, particularly when deals are falling apart, take longer than planned to conclude, and change at the last minute. There are various myths with respect to sales. Some of these include: It worked then and it will...
Tags: Myth, Youngstown Publishing Co., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
White papers 2001-02-05
13 Myths and Facts About Downsizing
It is very much possible that layoffs might hurt business. There are various myths relating to it. Some of these myths include: Jobs are secure at firms that are doing well financially, companies that are laying off workers are not hiring new ones, downsizing employees boosts profits etc. These myths...
Tags: Downsizing, Crain Communications Inc., Myth, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2003-01-01
Seven Costly Myths About Managing Contract Workers
Businesses can be led to believe they are saving costs by classifying workers as independent contractors instead of employees. Ultimately, this could be costly. This article focuses on seven legal myths, myths that can lead businesses to believe they are saving money by blinding them to the costly legal risks...
Tags: Myth, Worker
White papers 2003-01-01
The 5 Most Dangerous Email Marketing Myths
Article clears up some of the misconceptions that one might be having. Article puts together a list of some of the most common myths regarding email marketing, and answered them using cold, hard facts. One must pay attention, because if one buys into any of these myths then one is...
Tags: Myth, Email Marketing, MarketingOnInternet.com, E-mail, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Myths of Psychological Testing for Candidate Selection
There are certain HR Professional and Business executives who choose not to use pre-employment psychological testing in their hiring processes cite a number of reasons for their decisions. Four of the most common objections we hear are based on myth instead of reality. These are 1) "we'll be sued;" 2)...
Tags: Hiring, Myth, Zero Risk HR, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2002-01-01
The 7 Myths of Selling for Smaller Firms
Selling for an SMB (especially on the "S" side of "B") can be challenging, especially if you're used to working for a larger firm.  There's usually not much in the way of sales support, and people often end up doing multiple jobs. All of that is...
Tags: Truth, Myth, Smb/Sme, Recruitment & Selection, Sales Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sales, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2009-06-19
Myths And Realities: Financing Start-Ups
One of the most important things you will do as an entrepreneur is to raise the money you need to finance your new business. Unfortunately, there are a lot of myths about financing new businesses. This paper outlines a few of the myths and point out the realities. You need...
Tags: Financing, American Express Co., Myth, Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Investment, Management, Finance
White papers 2008-10-24
Blogger Follows: Craig Calls Out the "Urban Myth" that He Hurt Newspapers
In a kind of "Follow Blogger Friday," we call out two small items that you may have missed, one of which quotes Craig Newmark saying that the idea that Craigslist damaged newspapers is an "urban myth." by David Weir
Tags: Myth, Blogger, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-11-06
World's Most Dangerous Sales Myths
Five mistaken beliefs about selling which create failure rather than success. by Geoffrey James
Tags: Belief, Myth, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2009-11-03