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The Truth about REALTOR® Services with JoAnne Stiles
REALTORS ® are licensed real estate agents or representatives who belong to an exclusive association called the National Association of REALTORS®. Every REALTOR® is a qualified agent to help you buy or sell your...
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 Most Important Thing You Can Do In Your Business
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The Law of Single Handling: The ability to start and complete your most important task determines...
Lithium Takes A Stand on Customer Experience Hype
The echo chamber on customer experience is so loud it almost drowns out any creative thought you might have floating in your head. It’s coming from all corners with everyone jumping on the bandwagon....
Meet the Host of The Price of Business:
Kevin Price is Host of the Price of Business on Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK, M-F at 7 am CST;
a nationally syndicated columnist, a guest on radio and TV shows around the country, author,...
Sissy Lappin
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...
Building Customer Loyalty
No matter how good your product or service is today, there are going to be problems with it. It will not work the way it is sup- posed to work. It will break down....
The One Question Every Business Must Answer
There are two factors concerning time that determine the purchase of any product or service in a competitive marketplace. The first is called “time to market.” If you can get your product or service...
Netrepid Donates $5K In VPS Hosting Services To Startup Weekend Winners
Netrepid announced today that it will be providing over $5,000 in virtual private server (VPS) hosting to three Harrisburg, PA-area entrepreneurial teams that were awarded top prizes at Startup Weekend Harrisburg, held the previous...
The 3 Types of Risks Associated with Business and How to Mitigate Them All
Because all of business life is fraught with uncertainty, you cannot avoid taking risks almost every single day. However, you should evaluate each risk and place it into one of the following categories:
First, there...
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How to Pitch to CEOs: Jonathan B. Smith.
Kevin Price, Host of the Price of Business on Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK (on Bloomberg’s home in Houston) recently interviewed Jonathan B. Smith, founder and CEO of ChiefOptimizer, a firm that helps organizations...
Brad Tashenberg
Providing innovative software solutions for our customer's most difficult IT problems since 1981.
The Four Essential Elements Every Effective Marketing Strategy Must Have – Part 1
There are four essential elements of marketing. These are: Specialization, Differentiation, Segmentation and Concentration. You must implement and execute effectively in all four areas to survive and thrive in your business. A lack or...
Don't Waste Innovation on Products
Everywhere you turn in the technology market another company is claiming to have a breakthrough, game-changing innovation. The company will say – with an excited, child-like glee – that they are creating an entire...
7 Steps to Achieving Your Business Goals
7 Steps to Achieving Your Business Goals
Clarity accounts for probably 80% of success and happiness. Lack of clarity is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor. That’s why we...
How to Take Control of Your Time
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Should Sales Own Customer Experience?
Closing deals and driving revenue has been at the top of the agenda since the dawn of commerce. However, the sense of urgency and bewilderment about how to grow a company is at an...
The Fastest Way to Scale Your Business so that the Business Owner is Free
The Battle Against Complexity
In every part of life, and especially in business and bureaucracy, there is a natural tendency toward complexity. Step by step, even the simplest process becomes more involved, requiring ever more...
Ruby Receptionist Leaves it Mark on Telecommunications Business
Kevin Price, Host of the Price of Business on Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK (on Bloomberg’s home in Houston) recently interviewed Jill Nelson. Nelson is the founder and CEO of Ruby Receptionists, which...
7 Steps to Doubling Your Profitability
Determining Profitability
You begin your profit analysis by determining the exact gross sales revenues that you receive from a product or service, after all subtractions for defects, returns, breakage, loss, wastage and bad debts. Take...
The Estimated Shelf Life of Your Products and/or Services (It's Shorter than You Think)
Whatever it is, it is already getting old. Within five years, 80 percent of all products and services offered today will be either obsolete or significantly modified from their current form. If a...
How to Outpace Your Competition Fast
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How to Remove the Obstacles that Inhibit Business Growth
“Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fort from its accessible side.” (George Polya)
In physical terms, a single blockage of a key artery can lead to...
How to Create Raving Fans
How Do Customers Define Quality?
When Gordon Bethune took over troubled Continental Airlines, he ordered a study to determine how flyers defined quality, and what they wanted most. The overwhelming answer was “on time arrivals...
How to Avoid Procrastination in Your Business
“The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and...
About Kinetic Growth
Kinetic Growth specializes in software applications for eCommerce, renewals and recurring billing, and task management. Our team has spent years developing enterprise software and we are exclusively focused on Force.com and the Salesforce platform.
The...
The 5 Key Elements Necessary to Creating a Winning Marketing Strategy
There are five keys to offensive strategy in the marketplace. Each of these is essential. The failure to acknowledge or practice even one key marketing tactic can undermine or even eliminate your opportunities...
Innovative Software and Information Technology Stories: Alex Brown
Sullivan Alexander is a contributor on the Price of Business on Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK (on Bloomberg’s home in Houston), whom you can learn more about at,www.contureadvisors.com
Sullivan recently interviewed Alex Brown, Founder and...
How to Stay One Step Ahead of Your Competition
As your market changes, you should regularly take time out to identify your most profitable products and services. What are they today? What are they likely to be tomorrow? What could they be? What...
The One Skill that Can Make or Break a Business
The Law of Competence: You can increase your efficiency and your effectiveness by becoming better and better at your key tasks. 0 0 1 484 2763 A.G. Edwards 23 6 3241 14.0 Normal 0...
How Great CEOs Position Their Companies for Success
The management guru Peter Drucker always recommends that you examine every part of your business regularly to determine if there is anything that you are doing that you wouldn’t get into again today if...
How to Take Your Business to the Next Level – Part 1
Ideas are your keys to the future. One new idea can change the entire direction of your life or your business. One break- through can completely change the focus of your company. One...
The Law of the Most Valuable Asset: Your most valuable asset is your earning...
The Law of the Most Valuable Asset: Your most valuable asset is your earning ability.
An asset is something that yields a steady, predictable cash flow. Your ability to earn money is probable the most...
Paul J. Carroll
Five Years from the Brink
It has been five years since the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings, a shock point in an era that saw the takeover or shutdown of many household-name financial...
How to Make Sure Your Employees are Doing the Right Things at the Right...
Identify the key result areas of your business. What are the results that your company, and your products or services, absolutely have to get to satisfy your customers?
Identify the key result areas of each...
The 3 Keys to Motivating Your Team in Business
There are three keys to motivation that you can practice with all the people who report to you. They are Recognition, Rewards, and Reinforcement. Practice all three of them with as many people as...
How to Unify Your Employees Towards a Common Objective
In every organization, whether collegial, participatory, democratic, hierarchical, or any other kind of management system, there has to be a single person in charge of achieving each goal and at each point of...
The 7 Responsibilities of Great CEOs and Business Owners – Part 1
Job number one: Set and achieve business goals. This is the first area where clarity is essential. You must know exactly what it is you are trying to accomplish and how you will mea-...
How to Reach C-Level Executives: Ken Collis
Kevin Price, Host of the Price of Business on Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK (on Bloomberg’s home in Houston) recently interviewed Ken Collis, who was born and raised in Sunny Southern California. From a...
4 Steps to Dramatically Increasing Your Business' Efficiency and Effectiveness
The Law of Forced Efficiency: There is never enough time to do everything but there is always enough time to do the most important things. 0 0 1 381 2177 A.G. Edwards 18 5...
4 Simple Yet Profound Questions A CEO Must Answer in Setting Strategic Objectives
Begin setting objectives for your business or your company’s business by projecting forward three to five years and imagining a perfect future. Decide what is right before you decide what is possible. If the...
Support 4 Israel Necessary 4 U.S. & Everybody Else By John from TellMyGov
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WE NEED TO SUPPORT ISRAEL
At 1 time Egypt was the most powerful nation on earth. But when God's children were used to build that empire as slaves, 10 plagues destroyed Egypt &...
The Four Essentials of Marketing – Part 2
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You differentiate your product or service by determining and deciding exactly in...
The Ultimate Sales Question Your Business Must Have a Great Answer For
Sometimes I ask my management audiences, “If you were selling twice as much as you are today, could you fulfill all the orders?” In most cases, the business leaders will all agree that they...
How One Company Focuses Its Way Towards Excellence
Tell me about your firm (number of employees, location, type of companies you work with, etc.).
I have no employees because fulfilling government regulations is so time consuming and expensive. However, I hire several subcontractors...
The 7 Qualities of an Excellent CEO and Business Leader
The two requirements for an excellent leader are character and competence. Character refers to your personal qualities of integrity, courage, and persistence. Your competence is measured by how capable you are of leading,...
How to Remove Fear in Business
The ability to anticipate what might happen in the future, and then to inform all concerned parties of the roles they will play should a certain event occur, is a critical part of achieving...
What is Your Building Worth?
What is Your Building Worth?
If you're thinking of selling your commercial building, the buyers of commercial property are primarily interested in the income the building generates. The value of a commercial building is directly...
How to Get the Most out of Your Employees and Team Members
The word “empower” means to “put power into.” When you empower your staff by encouraging and motivating them, they become more powerful in achieving the results that you need from them. Excellent managers...
Innovative Software and Information Technology Stories: Randall Agee
Sullivan Alexander is a contributor on the Price of Business on Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK (on Bloomberg’s home in Houston), whom you can learn more about at, www.contureadvisors.com
Sullivan recently interviewed Randall Agee, CEO...
Helping Nonprofits Raise Money: Rocket Raise
Kevin Price, Host of the Price of Business on Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK (on Bloomberg’s home in Houston) recently interviewed Zach Goldstein, CEO of Rocket Raise.
What do you do to help nonprofits raise...
AT&T acquires LEAP Wireless
Multinational telecommunications company AT&T has acquired Leap, the prepaid wireless provider known for its Cricket Brand for $1.2 Billion. The acquisition comes after their failed bid in 2011 for T-Mobile US, where a $39...
The Fastest and Easiest Way to Boost Your Productivity and Free Up Your Time
“And herein lies the secret of true power. Learn, by constant practice, how to husband your resources, and concentrate them, at any given moment, upon a given point.” (James Allen)
Almost every business begins with...
What Great CEOs and Business Owners Do Better than Their Peers
Most companies sell a variety of products and services. The danger in being a “mini-conglomerate” is that you can very easily lose track of the exact costs of producing a product or service and...
The 3 Parts of a Marketing Mix that Out-Sells Your Competition Fast
What Do You Sell?
The first part of the marketing mix is your Product or service. Always define your product or service in terms of what it “does” for your customers, versus what...
How to Apply the Citadel Strategy to Create a Highly Lucrative Business
Sales and profitability are twin essentials for business success. Your ability to concentrate your limited resources and energies on your greatest potential opportunities for sales and profitability is key to your success.
A business usually...
How to Reach C-Level Executives: Charley Polachi
Kevin Price Host of the Price of Business on Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK (on Bloomberg’s home in Houston) recently interviewed Charley Polachi who is a Managing Partner at Polachi, the leading provider of...
How Great Business Owners View Their Time
Practice The Reality Principle
Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric for many years, once said that the most important quality of leadership is the “reality principle.” He defined this as the ability to see...
How to Put Your Business Strategy into Action Every Day – Part 2
Step Four. The fourth letter in GOSPA, “P,” stands for Plans. Your plans are the rungs on the ladder from where you are to wherever it is you want to go. The planning stage...
3 Tips to Bolster Customer Loyalty
Your most important asset in eliciting customer loyalty is your company's relationship with the customer. But relationships aren't measured in a net promoter score or customer satisfaction rating. They're earned by cultivating a culture...
How to Consistently Gain a Competitive Advantage
When you begin to plan your long-term future, one of the most valuable exercises you can engage in is called “zero based thinking.” In zero based thinking, you ask this question, “Knowing what I...
