Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

We assume that people automatically understand the value of our products and services when we introduce ourselves and hand out our business card. Don’t offer to give away too many free products or services. What product or service positions you best? Marketing – It’s Simple! 4. We give away too much.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

They discussed profit and loss margins, product development and the like. When I first posed this question to a group of women executives who have joined to attend our “ WELL: Women Executive Leadership Learning ” program in March, they stayed traditional, talking about what they thought the men in the dark suits would find of interest.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

And as women, we can learn a great deal about how we behave in the work world; not to imitate our male counterparts, to align with them in positive, productive ways. It is, also a pointer to the masculine in each of us. Perceval is on a journey of exploration, of individuation, to find himself, to grow up.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. In fact, a great way to increase productivity in a workplace is to cross-train employees across departments. To be a strong leader, you need to show an unshakeable work ethic.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Take something that has already been done and repackage it in a way that attracts or addresses a need from a different target market! Sell relationships not just a service or product. Yes, a good product may encourage sporadic customers but a good relationship will establish long-term, loyal customers. Sell what you love.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In the movie, Buddy failed dismally to keep up with the production of Etch-a-Sketch toys against the skill and speed of the other elves in the workshop. Does your brand stand out in a crowd with product or service superiority? How consistent is your product or service, customer experience, internal processes, etc.?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 21, 2010

So, in keeping in this spirit and following those much wiser than me, I offer to you today a holiday gift that I hope will help with your marketing in 2011. Click here for your free download of the Red Zone Marketing Action Plan template that we use with clients to help plan, visualize and hold everyone accountable for marketing activities.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 15, 2011

Since then, I have had more and more discussions with my clients about their pricing strategies and being squeezed in this market. So I’ve spent some time exploring best practices and considering what we should recommend in this market. By Barbara Weaver Smith I first published this discussion six months ao.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

While most companies explain that they make great products, Apple is unique in that they begin by telling the consumer “ why ” they make their products. The way we challenge the status quo is by making our products beautifully designed, simple to use and user friendly. Sinek makes a case that it’s all about the messaging.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

Don’t Forget to Enter to Win Healthy Products from Agro Labs Just a reminder to enter the contest here on Women. Reminder – Enter to Win a $100 American Express Gift Card to Celebrate Administrative Professionals Day Happy Administrative Professionals day to all of the men and.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Brand loyalty is key to cultivating repeat customers who spread positive word of mouth feedback about your product or service. How would his absence affect you or the children? Is there a replacement? This is the same for your brand.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 12, 2010

About the author Lena Rizkallah of Mosaic Consulting is an attorney who focuses on legislative developments, tax and fiscal policy, and advanced strategies for investment and retirement planning and products. She also writes and presents on trusts, estate planning and charitable giving arrangements.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

They certainly would not go out of their way to do business with you or talk about you with others just because of your product or service offering. When you add it all up, you may notice that the way others “feel” about you is critically important. There are probably many others who can do or provide the same offerings.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way. It includes men, invites men as partners to rethink what we are doing to the planet, why we continue to put work ahead of family, ahead of raising the next generation, how much is enough, what really matters. We are not here to become like our men.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 23, 2010

About the author Lena Rizkallah of Mosaic Consulting is an attorney who focuses on legislative developments, tax and fiscal policy, and advanced strategies for investment and retirement planning and products. She also writes and presents on trusts, estate planning and charitable giving arrangements.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

This is a change from the 2010 law which based taxation of inherited assets on their original cost basis, instead of their current fair market value. In addition, people who inherit assets will receive a stepped-up basis on the value of assets passed to them. The Bush law did allow a $1.3

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 17, 2010

I take it as a marketing given that a business should be utilizing internet Social Media opportunities if – and this is a big IF – that business has a desire to be known farther afield than its own geographical neighborhood. Having a Page for my business on Facebook made sense for my marketing plan. But Oh My Gosh!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Please leave a comment either directly on the interview at About.com Web Logs or here on this post at Women On Business and share any tips or ideas you have to use BlogHer or either sites to market your blog and network. I love to add resources to Women On Business for other businesswomen bloggers to learn about and experiment with.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

A content writing service, for example, plays a valuable support role in product development. To get started, market your services online with a SEO friendly Website design. If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 9, 2011

Here are 10 ways to increase your team’s productivity and overall chance for success. You find yourself in a situation where you are the strongest player assigned to the team. How can you maintain the integrity of the team and affect the outcome for the positive? Define your success.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

It costs 5 to 10 times more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

We hoped to share this sense of appreciation with our future customers and so made it so that the site focuses not only on domestic products but also on international ones. Of course, we believed that our true claim to originality was with the concept behind the sister site to ShopitUPchic.com: Iwantyouroutfit.com.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

I am not a big fan of any method, procedure, service, or product that requires a hard sell to friends and family. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Figure out what is sucking up your time preventing you from being productive and profitable. Many of my medical group clients, assume “expensive advertising” when they hear the term “marketing.” When asked “how do you market your practice?” Use lingo with which they identify.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For example, we might call a long-term customer on the day his annual report is due, and take it personally when he doesn’t have the bandwidth to give us feedback on our new product offering, or we might take rejection personally when a new sales call tells us it’s not a good time, not knowing that he’s late for his anniversary dinner.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

What if you don’t have the time or inclination to dedicate resources to this type of marketing? What if you don’t understand these types of marketing avenues? We have been considering this as an option in our own product offerings.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

by John • June 6, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 2 Comments. Al thinks the stock market is pressuring the company for more top-line growth. Hammered by Wall Street in 2008, the stock has finally crawled back to its 2006 highs. Specialists focus on one product, one benefit, and one message.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

How to Create a Squeeze Page that gets Strong Results The Internet is saturated with content, sales pitches and products. . Success is a Choice We can achieve what we can conceive and believe. ~. What are the Best Ways to Create, Manage, and Build a Brand? Often times, are so enthusiastic and think they are going. Are You in Career Quicksand?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. The business management solution I suggested should also allow you to cultivate and maintain productive communications with your global business. Remain flexible for growth.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 9, 2012

” In “Marketing for Scientists” Marc Kucher listed words Jobs used to describe his products between 1998 and 2008: stunning, revolutionary, awesome, beautiful, best, tour de force, cool, remarkable. You get the point and Apple’s employees and America did too.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We've seen success with a novel approach to talent engagement: an integrated HR-Marketing strategy that teams Marketing's brand messaging savvy with HR's internal perspective and expertise. The partnership brings added value to Marketing as well. Employees, at first skeptical, embraced their new work environment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Don’t Forget to Enter to Win Healthy Products from Agro Labs Just a reminder to enter the contest here on Women. Reminder – Win 2 Tickets to Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage in NYC Don’t forget to enter to win a pair of free.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, once observed that “Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing people.” And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A brand can’t just be a promise; it must be a promise delivered.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

You might think that the corporate human resources function doesn't have much of a role in improving business processes, such as product development, operations, customer service, or distribution. But I've found that it does.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

It’s an established fact that the life cycles of companies and many products have been shrinking. In our opinion, culture is contextual, and what would have been appropriate in the 19 th century, when the company was a one-product, one-country organization, is very inappropriate in today’s far more globalized environment. (GE

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