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If these tough economic times have hit you hard, it’s nice to know some people are ready to lend a hand.
The folks over at 48hourprint.com are offering free business cards for 25,000 unemployed people. They use a standard template you can fill out on their website, which gives you plenty of room to add the basic contact information. You must be “officially” unemployed, as the form will ask you for your unemployment claim #.
Seth Godin asked a great series of questions recently on meeting the minimum requirements for getting things done with technology.
You can let a simple computer task or Web search take a few moments or several hours, it’s your call. But if your business has tightened up at all with the current economic climate, it’s time to sharpen your tech skills to win you even more time in front of clients, and less time tapping on a computer.
Fun idea over at Green Leads. Send a maximum of 100 business cards their way and they’ll return them in spreadsheet format, ready for import into Outlook or whatever contact management system you happen to use. We have some recommendations for a long term solution as well.
I’ve often said that business owners and sales managers that go looking for contact management and sales automation solutions for the first time are having a knee-jerk reaction to a fundamental sales problem. Something’s going wrong with sales – its not growing fast enough, large clients are leaving, they’re having trouble hiring and training new reps, etc.
So one instinctive reaction to these types of problems is to look for more information. That’s where contact management and sales automation comes in. But those sales tools by themselves won’t fix the real and more fundamental problem.
We had a little fun and asked fellow sales people about what they considered the best $100 they ever spent. Here are a few of the responses. Comments are open – what has been the best $100 you ever spent?
There’s been a new term making the rounds the last couple years: “Sales 2.0.” But as with anything “2.0,” a few are leading the charge to innovate, while others are jumping on the bandwagon simply to use the term. Here’s our take on Sales 2.0 – what it means and what it really doesn’t.
Do you have a lot on your plate right now? You know you can’t remember it all, but would you like a way to save and recall details in life that aren’t tied to contacts or calendar dates?
A few months back, I wanted to solve this problem and here’s how I did it.
We’ve been fans of LinkedIn. What you get from it without paying a dime is tremendous. But LinkedIn is getting increasingly watered down by a mass of connect-at-all-costs, slick salespeople who choose to ignore why it was created. Here’s our LinkedIn prediction for the future!
The Blackberry Productivity blog has highlighted six quick shortcuts to help feed your Blackberry addiction. Great blog over there, by the way.
Jan introduced you to PhoneTag (formerly Simulscribe). I’ve been testing it since that time. It changes the voicemail game. I’m on the phone constantly with managers, reps, and customers. I miss calls. I don’t like it to happen, but it does. Having to dial in to hear voicemails, sometimes long-winded ones, can be in itself rather time-consuming. Here’s how I solve it.
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