Archive for October, 2008
Obama the Vindictive
After “Joe the plumber” had his chance encounter with Senator Obama and criticized the “spread the wealth” concept, Joe was investigated, ridiculed, harassed, and berated by the press and the Obama campaign.
Last week Biden gave an interview to an Orlando television news anchor who asked some tough questions, including how the Obama people were responding to [...]
How Accurate Are Polls?
During political campaigns people are constantly taking and reporting on polls, but are they accurate?
Polls, be they for a political candidate or for a corporation, are easy to skew one way or the other just through the wording of the questions. Let’s say that a company wants to find out what color their potential [...]
Give Your Prospect Some Space
One reason people don’t like salespeople is that we are often considered “Pushy”. That could occur for a lot of reasons, but one possibility is that we are physically too close.
Everyone has a different comfort zone when talking with someone. In some European countries that comfort zone is considerably smaller than what most Americans [...]
Judge Orders Obama to Produce Birth Certificate
Update: Even though Obama never produced the court ordered documents, the Judge in the case has now thrown the case out of court.
It smells to me like some behind-the-scenes pressure was applied to the judge in order to get the case tossed. It will be interesting to see if the man who originally filled the [...]
Dealing With A Bad Economy
During bad economic times businesses tend to make two common, (but bad), decisions.
Mistake #1
In an effort to reduce expenses management will cut marketing.
This is beyond comprehension to me. Marketing is what drives sales and creates profit, by reducing your marketing all that is accomplished is your sales will certainly drop.
Management should be reviewing all their [...]
Are You Excited?
The other day I had the pleasure of attending an educational seminar put on by suppliers in the advertising specialty industry. Three companies, each with roughly a 30 minute presentation.
The first gentleman was pleasant enough, talked about products that were “hot” and gave some selling tips. Fairly typical presentation.
The second was a young lady, (whose [...]
Discussion Groups
Are you involved in these on-line discussion groups? You can find a discussion group on just about any topic you want, Health, Business, Networking, and thousands more.
But are they useful?
I am a member of two discussion groups; the one on marketing is pretty much dead. When I first joined the group some years back it [...]
