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How to Absolutely Crush Your Competition Fast
Increase Your Probabilities of Success
Your aim should be to increase the probabilities that the things you want will happen to you, and that you will achieve the goals that you have set for yourself....
Four Keys to Making More Profitable Business Decisions
Making Better Decisions
Here are some key ideas with regard to decision-making.
1. Delegate Decision Making
Delegate decision making whenever possible. Remember, once you have made a decision in a particular area, you almost invariably have to...
How to Turn a Business Crisis into an Opportunity to Grow Your Business
Crisis Management Strategies
When an emergency or a crisis occurs, here are five steps to follow:
1. Think before Acting
Stop and think before acting. Remember, action without thinking is the cause of every failure. Take a...
How Meetings are Robbing Your Company's Profits and What to do About it
Seven Ways to Make Meetings More Efficient
Here are seven ways to increase the efficiency and improve the results of meeting time.
1. Is It Necessary?
Ask, “Is this meeting necessary?” Many meetings turn out in retrospect...
The Seven Major Time Wasters that is Sucking Profits Away from Your Business
The Seven Major Time Wasters
There are seven major time wasters in the world of work, based on hundreds of studies and opinion surveys. Your ability to deal with them effectively will largely determine how successful you...
What Great Business Owners Do that Poor Ones Do Not
A recent study by Stanford University on the qualities that companies look for in promoting people into the position of Chief Executive Officer concluded that the ability to put together a team to accomplish...
Beth Guide
SEO 411 is a full service Internet marketing and SEO management provider. We offer all the necessary components, to owning a successful website, including on-site and off-site optimization as well as social media. We...
9 Keys to Creating an Extremely Valuable Business
There are a series of techniques you can practice to increase your business’ productivity and performance, and improve the rate at which the business gets things done. These are methods used by the most...
Four Steps to Getting More Production from Your Business
There are four main steps to high productivity, and they cannot be repeated too often:
First, set clear goals and objectives in writing. Think through what you are trying to accomplish before you begin. Ask, “What...
Four Steps to Getting More Production from Your Business
There are four main steps to high productivity, and they cannot be repeated too often:
First, set clear goals and objectives in writing. Think through what you are trying to accomplish before you begin. Ask, “What...
Raising Cash Cows in Your Business
Divide Products/Services into Three Groups
Practice “Corporate Triage” on your company, and your products and services, on a regular basis. The concept of triage comes from World War I. During the battles on the western...
Disconnected
It's amazing how much being "connected" has changed the way we do so many things in the last 10 years. If you take a few minutes to consider the things we do with our...
The Key to Spending More Time Putting More Money in Your Pocket
One of the most helpful ways for you to organize your tasks by priority is for you to use the ABCDE Method. This requires that you review your list of daily activities before you...
Sales & Marketing Alignment Begins With Your Customer
50% of B2B sales staff keep missing their quotas. It’s a problem as old as business itself. The culprit, according to sales, is the quality and volume of leads from marketing. The marketing department...
6 Ways to Simplify Your Business and Your Life………..
There are six ways that you can simplify your business and increase the quality and quantity of your results:
1. Work faster. Get on with it. Develop a sense of urgency. Pick up the pace....
How to Reach C-Level Executives: Christi Guthrie
Kevin Price Host of the Price of Business on Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK (on Bloomberg’s home in Houston) recently interviewed Christi Guthrie, who is a fashion stylist; owner of Clutch!, A fashion brand;...
How to Resolve Title Issues When Selling Your House
In this article, we discuss how to resolve title issues when selling your house.
Title issues
Some investors will buy properties at a discount to take care of title issues. At Big State Home Buyers, we...
The 7 Critical Questions that Need Answers to Grow Revenue
In strategic planning for organizations, consider the core questions in sales and marketing: “What is to be sold, to whom, and by whom, and how, and at what price, and how is it to...
The Next Big Technology Story: Kaleio
Kevin Price, Host of the Price of Business on Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK (on Bloomberg’s home in Houston) recently interviewed Adam Navarrete, Business Development and Director of Social Media for Kaleio.
Tell me about...
How Great Leaders Conduct Quality Control
More and more companies are insisting that their managers and executives get out into the field, face to face with real, live customers, and listen to them when they talk. The best military commanders...
How to Create a Sustainable Competitive Advantage
The key to business success is for you to achieve meaningful competitive advantage. As an entrepreneur, one of the advantages you can gain over your larger competitors is speed and personalization. Large companies are...
How Small Businesses Become Big Businesses – Part 1
Similar customers have similar motivations and similar needs. If you can identify a particular customer in a particular industry, position, occupation, or situation and then sell your product or service to that customer, you...
The Principle of Exploitation Applied to Business
It is amazing how many companies come up with innovations and breakthroughs in products and services and then put them aside or fail to exploit them fully in a competitive market. They are then...
How to Close More Sales and Do It Faster
For many years in selling, it was quite common to hear, “The sale begins when the customer says no.” We know today, however, that the sale begins when the customer says yes.
When the customer...
How Small Businesses Become Big Businesses – Part 2
According to PIMS Studies at Harvard University, companies that are recognized as the highest quality providers in their markets are also the companies that sell the most and sell the easiest. They can charge...
A Vital Virtue Great Companies Have that Most Do Not
Future-orientation is a key element of strategic planning and strategic thinking.
It is a major responsibility of leadership and top people in every area. Only the leader can think about the future. Only the leader...
Is Inflation Coming? Old Money Thinks so!
A few weeks ago, a headline in Culture Map by Ralph Bivins read:
“MANSION FEVER STRIKES H-TOWN Mansion fever grips the real estate market: Is a $200 million home on the way?”
As a high-end Houston...
The Price Of Business
The Price of Business :
Host: Kevin Price
Guest(s): Bryan Riley, Gregory Gwyn Williams, Stephen Simultv, Sigmund Kramer
The Price Of Business
Host: Kevin Price
Guest(s): James Capretta, Kent Batman, Harry C. Veryser, Charles Alvarez