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The Blessing of Complaints: How Rantings and Ravings Can Help You Succeed
Smilor Ray
3/26/2001
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When customers complain, you're getting market intelligence for free. Treat every gripe as a chance to fix the problem and build your company's reputation for good service.

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Wild and Crazy Guys: How Entrepreneurs Build Culture
Smilor Ray
1/15/2001
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Entrepreneurs can create a company culture that reflects their values and motivates employees by experimenting with unusual events and activities in the workplace. Here are some ideas to jump-start your thinking.

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Experience on Stage
Smilor Ray
2/26/2001
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Entrepreneurs can bring valuable experience and charisma to a classroom. This article describes techniques that can make or break your lecture and have students lining up for more instead of nodding out.

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The FUD Factor: How to Persuade Customers to Buy
Smilor Ray
10/30/2000
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Understanding your customers' state of mind is only the first step in the process of closing a sale. Fear, uncertainty and doubt can be increased or decreased, using a few simple techniques.

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Three Universal Laws of Marketing: How to Get Customers to Beg for Your Product
Smilor Ray
11/27/2000
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Entrepreneurial success awaits companies that are not just better but different. If you keep your promises and sell more than just product, you'll be irresistible.

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Leaders and Laggards: How to Speed Products to Market
Smilor Ray
11/20/2000
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To sell more and sell faster, study the bell curve of prospective customers to find out which ones are most likely to be early adopters. If your product improves their performance, they'll influence others to buy.

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The Entrepreneur's Rosetta Stone: How to Read a Business Plan
Smilor Ray
12/25/2000
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Financiers decode business plans, looking for the secrets of probable success. If yours shows a customer-driven opportunity that your company's talent, passion and skin in the game can actually pull off, they're more likely to be impressed.

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Developing Online Publications
Smart Todd
9/1/2006
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Online publishing is a key tool for building credibility and growing relationships for your business. To attract customer attention to your products, direct your communications to the right customers with the right message.

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Reaching a Sisterhood of the Needy
Smale Alison
6/29/2010
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It is now part of the lives of many professional women in the developed world to worry about what to do to improve the lot of their less fortunate sisters.

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A Formula For Sales Success
SittigRolf Andrea
6/1/2010
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Like every salesperson, I have a set quota I'm responsible for meeting each month.  The difference is, it's self-imposed since I'm my own boss.  Small-business owners might be happy to learn there is a formula to help you reach your goals consistently each month.

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