Knowing Your Value

Knowing Your Value Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth by Mika Brzezinski About the Reference Knowing Your Value by Mika Brzezinski is a self confession and personal growth story about how a now prominent MSNBC morning show host discovered, demanded, and won compensation more inline with that of her peers. The story is complimented […]

StrategyDriven Budget Management Best Practice Article

Budget Management Best Practice 3 – Monthly Budget Presentations

Monthly business budget presentationBudget performance is important to the successful management of any organization and to the personal performance of individual executives and managers. Consequently, budget reviews occur on a monthly or quarterly basis; allowing enough time to pass for meaningful trends to develop but not so much time that corrective action could not be taken so to ensure a business group remains on budget.
Hi there! This article is available to StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Remote Access and Dedicated Advisor clients and those who subscribe to one of the article's related categories. If you're already a Remote Access or Dedicated Advisor client or a related category subscriber, please log in to read this article. Not a client? We'd love to have you on board. Check out our StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor service options.
Jeffrey Gitomer

What’s the reason beyond BLAME? Maybe it’s YOU!

I overheard sales dialog on the airplane this morning. “He (the customer) has never responded to one of my emails, and never calls me back. The ONLY time he calls me is when he needs something.” Then back to devouring this week’s edition of US Weekly magazine. Sound familiar? Why do salespeople blame other people […]

StrategyDriven Budget Management Best Practice Article

Budget Management Best Practice 2 – Monitor the Market and Be Prepared for Change

Monitoring changes in the global marketplaceToday’s marketplace is both dynamic and complex; changing rapidly and possessing interrelationships between products, services, and commodities that are often difficult to perceive. These changes and interconnections favor organizations capable of responding to the evolving supply and demand for their current products as well as fulfilling new consumer needs.
Hi there! This article is available to StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Remote Access and Dedicated Advisor clients and those who subscribe to one of the article's related categories. If you're already a Remote Access or Dedicated Advisor client or a related category subscriber, please log in to read this article. Not a client? We'd love to have you on board. Check out our StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor service options.
Jeffrey Gitomer

Measuring the ROI of social media? There’s a laugh, and a joke.

I got an (unsolicited) email offering a webinar to teach me about how to measure, and the importance of measuring, the ROI of social media. TOTAL JOKE. And a bad one at that. Social media, business social media, is running wild – with or without you. Your customers and prospective customers are posting on Facebook […]

Recommended Resource – Advocacy

Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others by John Daly About the Reference Advocacy by John Daly provides actionable methods to effectively market ideas such that they are acted upon by the organization. Too often, worthwhile initiatives are pushed aside because they do not receive the critical level of support needed to move forward – merit […]

StrategyDriven Budget Management Best Practice Article

Budget Management Best Practice 1 – Line Item Awareness

Budget Management Line Item AwarenessThe primary organizational responsibility of every executive and manager is the diligent management of resources. This oversight is clearly expressed through the effective management of an executive or manager’s assigned budget.
Hi there! This article is available to StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Remote Access and Dedicated Advisor clients and those who subscribe to one of the article's related categories. If you're already a Remote Access or Dedicated Advisor client or a related category subscriber, please log in to read this article. Not a client? We'd love to have you on board. Check out our StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor service options.
StrategyDriven Organizational Accountability Warning Flag

Marketing and Sales – Some Sales Are Simply Not Worth Making

Some business leaders aggressively pursue every sale believing them to be the ultimate key to corporate success. Sales, however, represent far more than just dollars and cents. In fact, the revenue generated through a sale is just the beginning of the overall financial impact on the business. Sales say a lot about a company and […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

Elements from the past twenty years you can use for the next twenty!

I’m celebrating my twentieth year of writing about sales, networking, loyalty, trust, attitude, leadership, business social media, and personal development. My core of information transformed into a body of work that includes 11 books – all bestsellers. I did it while you were watching TV. I chose to write instead of watch. Last week was […]

Leadership Inspirations – Fear of Mistakes

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher