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November 2, 2013
The Way To Sequence Pricing In Proposals
I am on a little bit of a pricing strategy kick this week. In addition to removing decimals and dollar signs, consider changing the sequence of your proposal to include...
November 1, 2013
A More Persuasive Way To Display Prices
Buyers have a negative association to dollar signs and decimals. Even if it is for a fraction of a second, $39.00 feels more negative to consumers than 39 does. That's...
October 31, 2013
The 8 Best Ways To Give Employee Recognition
Happy employees - motivated employees - energetic employees. For your business to be the best in the industry, its great employees that will make a difference. The first step is...
October 30, 2013
Hero Defined
As I walked the Pepperdine University campus before my keynote, I came upon a September 11th memorial. Deena Burnett is the wife of alumnus Tom Burnett, one of the heroes...
October 29, 2013
Twenty Seconds Of Bravery
My wife said, "It took twenty seconds of bravery." Three months later she keynoted to one hundred entrepreneurs and their spouses. Krista had never keynoted before. She had never done...
October 27, 2013
It's What You Do With What Happens
I have come to believe that the events we experience as entrepreneurs are the same for us all. The founders of Google and the founder of Spanx, experienced the same...
October 26, 2013
Make New Rules
Google changed the search engine rules established by Yahoo, MSN and AOL (remember them?) from tons of news and ads on a search page, to a simple box. Then Google...
October 25, 2013
Place What You Want To Sell On The Right
The left side of the human brain performs, among other things, story telling. Not just story telling to others, but story telling to ourselves. When you look at that pretty...
October 24, 2013
The Danger Of Quoting Price Ranges
In this episode of On A Roll, Mike Michalowicz explains how quoting price ranges set both the vendor and the client up for disappointment. Instead of quoting price ranges, quote...
October 23, 2013
Know More, No More
I don't care how many books you have read (I can suggest a couple, if you like) or how much business experience you have - there is always more to...