All Blog Posts Tagged 'practices' (5)

Lately, I've been getting a number of questions about how to get people to open their e-newsletters and e-blasts. Well, there are a number of things to take into consideration. 1. Use an email marketing service such as Constant Contact. Constant Contact works diligently with all the various ISP's to make sure your e-newsletters and e-blasts end up in the recipients inbox and not in their junk/spam folder. 2. Make sure you'… Continue

Based on yesterday's blog, exactly how does an organization hold it's base? 1.0 Review your current accounts and sort based on the following criteria: 1.1 Highest revenue accounts over the last 12 months (20% that produce 80% of your revenue) 1.2 Highest margin accounts (20% that produce 80% of your margin) 2.0 Build a priority list of the top ten current accounts: 2.1 Accounts listed in both revenue and margin as A accounts 2.2 Accounts just listed in the highest revenue as B ac… Continue

Our first series of economic news commentary posted today is a wake-up call for all business owners. Here is our analysis of the current market: * the Dow's bottom will be around 4000 * the S&P Index's bottom will be around 350 * unemployment will be close to 10% by the end of the year, 20% by the time the market finally bottoms (another 25% increase this year, 3 X the current rate) * the contraction could last until 2012 What does it mean for your business? 1. All of your e… Continue

Erle Frayne Argonza As I’ve been stressing in previous articles, “it’s the economy” that count much as top agenda to be addressed by policy makers, bureaucrats and growth stakeholders in the USA. And this should be the primary concern of the political bigwigs when election comes by the end of the year. A policy shift that will veer away America from the destructive flames of the ‘virtual economy’ founded on predatory finance, back to the ‘real economy’ based on tangible outputs in manufacturin… Continue

Recent events have made me ponder as to why certain people are great leaders and others not so much. My career allows me the greatest opportunity of all, of going into other businesses and assessing what it is they are doing that is benficial and non-benficial to their company. I am an accountant/business consultant/independent contractor. This is the greatest job ever! Not only do I get to analyze other people's businesses; in the process I learn more and more everyday what is good common sense… Continue