Sales and marketing skills training: Win and grow more profitable business
We've reached late afternoon on Day Two of Linda 'Goes Back to School' Day and next up for our group was How to Achieve ROI with LinkedIn (Mark Perl) In my opinion this was a really valuable and informative session and pitched at just the right level for the audience of the day. To be honest, I … [Read more...]
If you like your food, check out the lunch, otherwise skip to the sheep... I’m not a huge foodie but it seemed a long time since breakfast (not particularly enjoyable while you’re ‘networking’ between and around mouthfuls of food – my old headmistress would have been aghast!) My … [Read more...]
An Early Bird... Daylight finally arrived and I felt like I’d watched every minute of its journey from dead of night as I went bleary eyed to meet my fellow early morning jog-, trot-, walkers. They were the Inner Flame lot - remember the morning-after-the-night-before as a teenager? This lot … [Read more...]
Background I blame Sarah Arrow mainly. Then Warren Cass... Through them I ended up attending Grow Your Business - a 2-and-a-half day retreat to learn, network and focus on my business, in particular my sales and marketing! The event came about because of a generous donation made by INTEL to a … [Read more...]
...get the first bit right and often the rest will happen much more smoothly! :-) I was surprised to read that a survey of 2000 micro businesses (those with less than 10 staff) by the British Chamber of Commerce showed that 55% were looking to increase the number of people they employ But … [Read more...]
A cool £half million for 45 minutes work isn't bad in anybody's book, I reckon - that's what Janet Jackson got paid for performing at a recent 'gig' hosted by Deutsche Bank... and, apparently, she wasn't even first choice in the entertainment stakes. It was at a 5 star golfing hotel in … [Read more...]
With so many business networks to choose form – and each set up as a business to make money for its founder – it’s not always easy for a newbie networker to know where to start. And here’s a heretical thought: Maybe you don’t need to invest in becoming a member of any of them until … [Read more...]
T:+ 44 (0) 20 7209 1284 or M:+ 44 (0) 7879 628 367 The name of this site - Small Business Training And the tag line underneath it - Sales and marketing skills training: Win and grow more profitable business ...pretty well explain the aims of this site since 2006: Good sales and marketing … [Read More...]
We’re delighted to have Ben Kench as our Guest Blogger and you’ll see you’re actually getting 3-for-1 blogs here! Ok…Selling With Social Media…we’ve covered a couple for very important points thus far. Tip one – new thinking, a new sales strategy Tip two – Be social, it’s called social media after all I hope you’ve [...]
Precised extracts from my email inbox this morning: “…the Publisher of the Orange County Register in the USA (a newspaper that is the third largest in California) says: “The Register has to become a 21st century business… We can’t have the same model that worked 10 years ago.” His approach has been to offer premium [...]