How to Say Something More Powerful than - Hello - to a CEO | Women In Sales I should warn you that there are some differences between selling to upper-level management and those further down the chain of command. While most customers at any level care about increasing sales and decreasing expenses, those in the upper ranks have additional concerns … by Michelle Nichols Let’s face it — selling to top executives can be intimidating. Relax, Peggy. Peggy went on, “I’d thought about saying something like: ‘Mr. FREEBIE MANIA. Trust me, they’ll take what you offer. This sales strategy works in more situations than just formal events. COMMON DESIRES. While Sheila’s question was about women selling to men, it really applies to either gender. I should warn you that there are some differences between selling to upper-level management and those further down the chain of command. The effect on personnel. This lesson hasn’t been lost on most VITOs. The bottom line. Nichols is a sales speaker, trainer, and consultant based in Reno, Nev.
Transporte urbano no Brasil à beira do caos » Opinião e Notícia A política brasileira anda aos tropeços. Mas o trânsito, nas grandes cidades, parou. De Fernando Henrique a Lula , muitas promessas, mas o que se vê são carros em excesso, linhas de ônibus irregulares, transporte clandestino, frota mal conservada, trens insuficientes, sistemas de metrô precários, falta de sinalização, motoristas e pedestres mal educados. A fatura para o cidadão engloba perda de tempo e de dinheiro. Em horários de pico, um deslocamento de cerca de 20 km até o centro do Rio dura, no mínimo, uma hora e meia. Até 1995, o Brasil possuía, segundo a Associação Nacional de Transportes Públicos (ANTP), uma população de 152 milhões de pessoas, das quais 120 milhões (79%) moravam em áreas urbanas. Entretanto, existem apenas 12 sistemas de metrô/ferrovias que transportam somente 5 milhões de passageiros ao dia. A falta de investimentos em transportes de massa e o aumento do número de veículos em circulação agravaram continuamente as condições de trânsito nas cidades.
GOLD News and Views 09-Apr (USAGOLD) — Gold slipped back to the $1300 zone, weighed by a firmer dollar and a rebound in U.S. equities. The market is also awaiting the release of the minutes from the March 18-19 FOMC meeting, at 2:00ET today. There is expected to broad unanimity reflected in the minutes, as the March meeting was the first presided over by new Fed chair Janet Yellen. An article in The Economist this week posits that central banks may now be financing governments on a permanent basis. That’s not the basis for QE cited by the central banks! The Economist makes the point that QE “makes democratic leaders less accountable.” The elected officials can keep cranking out trillion (or near-trillion) dollar budgets, driving the national debt ever-higher, with little consequence. I believe The Economist is correct in asserting that “what was originally a temporary arrangement has been turned into something more permanent.” Easy money has certainly been the ‘new normal’ for many years already.
10 Web Analytics Tools For Tracking Your Visitors Any blogger or site owner worth his or her salt will tell you that knowing how your site is performing is essential. You have to know what is working, what isn’t, and what trends will make your site the next “must read” stop for visitors each day. The only way to effectively do this is to have a good statistics package working in the background. However, figuring out which package is best for your site can be tricky. Until your site starts earning some revenue, you’re best starting off with something free. This list covers ten free and paid solutions that will allow your site to hit the ground running and, hopefully, show you just what a success your site really is. 1. AWStats comes pre-installed by many web hosting companies. 2. eLogic eLogic provides three levels of service based on your exact needs. 3. Google Analytics is arguably the most popular analytics package available for individual site owners. 4. ShinyStat was initially designed to monitor visits to Italian web sites. 5. 6. 7.
7 Steps to Incredible Personal Productivity Occasionally you need to go the extra mile. Sometimes you need to complete a major project, tackle a task you’ve put off, or just knock out a ton of work in one day. Here’s the best way to turn a normal workday into an incredibly productive workday: 1. Let everyone know. Plus you get the “peer pressure” benefit: When you tell people you plan to finish a project you will be more likely to see the job through. 2. There’s a cool benefit to this approach too: The longer the time frame you set the quicker the early hours seem to go by. 3. 4. 5. And make sure you plan meals wisely. 6. 7. Think about your normal workday; at some point you typically think, “That’s it.
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British Marine Federation Home SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), was a brilliant German philosopher. These 38 Stratagems are excerpts from "The Art of Controversy", first translated into English and published in 1896. Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. (abstracted from the book:Numerical Lists You Never Knew or Once Knew and Probably Forget, by: John Boswell and Dan Starer) Fiat Currency Failure Means: ‘In Gold We Trust’ (NYSEArca:UUP, NYSEArca:UDN, NYSEArca:GDXJ, NYSEArca:GLD, NYSEArca:SLV, NYSEArca:GDX, NYSEArca:SGOL, NYSEArca:IAU Kevin Kerr: No matter where you live or travel — America, Europe, Asia, South America, China, etc. — you use fiat currency, at least in one form or another. Paper money (whose value is dependent on governments and not tied to any fixed standard such as gold) is just a fact of life. Our wealth and financial health are determined by the amount of money in our investments, bank accounts and other holdings. But the influence goes beyond a government’s regulations, laws or other decrees. That is, they are subject to the daily fluctuations and whims of the currency markets. And lately, those fluctuations have been volatile … to say the least. We’ll talk about how to best protect yourself from the unavoidable dangers of fiat money in just a moment. Graveyard of Currencies You might have become very nervous watching your personal holdings evaporate as the underlying fiat currency — whether it’s the euro, U.S. dollar, yen, pound, franc or most others — loses value. Not a pretty picture at all.
Usain Bolt: It’s Just Not Normal - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog Usain Bolt‘s wonderful run in the Olympic 200-meter sprint reminds us that the normal distribution — the familiar bell curve beloved by economists and statisticians — can be wildly inappropriate when analyzing extremely selected samples. This morning’s New York Times shows Usain Bolt’s new world record, relative to the 250 greatest 200-meter sprints ever. Not only does this not look like a normal distribution, it doesn’t even look like the tail of any standard distribution I’ve ever seen: The full graphic, as a story board, is available here. (It is a beautiful example of using statistics to tell a story.) It should be clear from this chart why few thought that the previous world record would be broken anytime soon. Extreme outliers aren’t that unusual in sports. Some argue that Joe DiMaggio‘s 56-game hitting streak is pretty extraordinary.
8 Mistakes Men Don’t Make I saw two amazing women speak this week about mistakes that men don’t make. They presented eight ways that women sabotage their own credibility and results in their business and personal lives. I wish I could recommend a book on the subject by Carol Spieckerman and Lisa Carver, but they’re too busy in being retail experts. I’m no retailer, but as Spieckerman and Carver reminded me yesterday, we’re all in sales. This is going to be a series based on eight mistakes women make. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be sharing what I learned and some examples from my own failures (and successes). Image Credit: Truth Went Trendy