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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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When I started as a government contract consultant in 2005, I would accept all kinds of consulting: sales and marketing, certification, business development and contracts. When a client comes to me and asks for a service outside my area of focus, I refer them to one of my partners, with whom I have a pre-negotiated referral fee.

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Customer service agents are not FBI hostage negotiators and should not be expected to tolerate screaming profanities, unrealistic goals, and vulgar behaviors. How to survive customer service blunders in the world of social media I heard the term “social vampire” in 2005 when it.

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Smallbizlabs Bidding on Newsweek

Small Business Labs

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « More Evidence Facebook is Taking Over the Web | Main | Increase in Unemployment Rate Good News » May 06, 2010 Smallbizlabs Bidding on Newsweek The popular magazine Newsweek is for sale.    We're - well let's just say we're not that. 

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Bioteams Part 4: The Team Organization Zone

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T his article was originally published in 2005 by Ken Thompson and Robin Good. Team Ground Rules capture succinctly the non-negotiable membership behaviour rules for being a ‘good standing member’ of the team. Introduction. The second barrier to pests and parasites is team ground rules.