Back to School Savings by Cheryl Johnson
... Many national drug store chains, with rebate programs, offer school supply sales in addition to rebates that result in free items. For the most part, I use all the money saving strategies that I use year round to save on back to school supplies. As with any budget expense, combining money saving strategies to maximize savings is the best strategy. Planning and budgeting for back to school supplies is the best strategy. A good budget plan is like a good friend. It keeps you strong and steady.

Fives Paths to $100,000 Per Way Part 1: Gidget's Way by Sean Farrington
... Editor’s Note: Last we heard Gidget is doing well, she has given up the Twinkies and peanut butter all together and has plans to record a new CD this year called “Sugar Coated Java Beans.” As you can see that though Gidget’s business strategy is very lopsided, it is well within the realm of reality to book 3 gigs per week. Anyone who has the ability to grasp some simple booking tools and techniques should be able to do this as a minimum. Plus with only minor increases in crowd sizes, ...

How To Get A Raise by Laura Browne
... Let your boss know that you want specific feedback so you can get the raise in the future. Ask to set up a time to meet about this again and review your progress. If you can’t get a raise now, consider other items that you can ask for: a bonus, a spot award, attendance at an industry conference, or a really exciting assignment. You can also ask for an interim review in 3 or 6 months. Then start planning – it’s never too early to start developing your strategy for getting a raise.

Sales 201: Learning Tools of Your Trade by Daniel Sitter
... • Your Sales Plan: You cannot hit a target that you cannot see, so why would you step out of your door without a plan? Many average and less-than-average salespeople do every day, and then wonder why their sales are flat. A sales plan is a tool that is indispensable to the superior salesperson. An effective sales plan is, in reality, an extension of goal setting. You can develop your plan using a word processor, but a spreadsheet allows much greater flexibility and practicality.

The Fortune Is In the Follow Up by Mikael Karlsson
... Your marketing strategy of “following up” will eventually pay off in sales. TWO MAILING LISTS Personally, I have a list of some 50 photobuyers that I know are constantly looking for the kind of photos I make. These people get emails from me quite often with news about what I have to offer. I have another list of about 300 photobuyers that I know occasionally need my kind of images, and the people on this list get an email once every quarter or when I have made a major change on my site.

How to Set (and Get) the Right Prices by Jay Lipe
... A better strategy is to maintain your current prices while seeking cost reductions to maintain your margins. Another bad pricing decision “If I drop my price to $15, then will you buy?” Here, you signal to a buyer that your list prices are not final. Sensing this, buyers will negotiate harder and the resulting price reductions will cut into your margins. Instead, think about coupling price discounts to the buyer with equivalent reductions in your offering.

Indian Mobile Infrastructure - To 3G or Not To 3G by Braham Singh
... Whatever the counter-arguments out there, the fact that 3G services in The UK still resort to distress sales of basic voice services to garner a customer base, says it all. Unlike EDGE, going 3G does not just involve software upgrades and the math becomes more daunting by orders of magnitude. For starters, the air-interface/ frame structure (WCDMA as against TDMA) is totally different. This means changes at every cell-site in the network. And then of course there is the entire wherewithal ...

Coaching Every Play! by Jeffrey Summers
... Etc, Etc, Etc…You need to spend time with each employee in order to set goals for them (yes each individual employee needs a goals action plan!). And the best tool is Transactional Management. Failing to develop great players. Great players aren’t born, they are made. You might be able to hire what you consider “A” players, but they are really only “A” level opportunities waiting for you to develop them into “A” level players. Just because a great player got to the “Pro Bowl” with one team ...