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Victor Arocho on Creating an Elite Selling Team

Success

He turned the experience into the inspiration for his next business, Potential Sales & Consulting Group, the suburban Florida firm he founded in 2011 to help companies develop top sales teams. “It Arocho admits he was slow to embrace the idea of spending time on social media in order to blog, write articles for websites or use LinkedIn.

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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

Success

Christie Pitts, Backstage Capital’s general partner, talks about the early days of the Los Angeles-based company and how she got involved: Working in the music industry, Hamilton learned about startups and networked with investors and entrepreneurs. She’s one of the founders Backstage Capital has enthusiastically invested in.

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7 Social Networking Dos and Don’ts

Office Organization Success

One area where business owners are seeking more and more support in is that of social networking – they find it overwhelming and don’t know what to do, so engage the services of a social media expert to manage it for them. Here are my 7 Dos and Don’ts for social networking success: 1. Link to a recent blog post or article.

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My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action - Productive & Organized

Stephanie LH Calahan

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? 5 Steps to Meal Planning Success » My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action Do you have a theme for 2011?    At the beginning of the year, I read a number of blog posts and articles from people that said they would pick anywhere from 1 to 5 words to focus their year. 

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How to Network While Traveling on Business

On The Job

She sees it as a golden opportunity to network and make new contacts. Another gold mine of networking opportunities is a hotel gym, she says. In 2012, employers spent about $225 billion on domestic travel, a 5% increase from 2011. Most of us already have a beautiful relationship with the (television) remote," she says.

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Smartphone Sales to Over Take Feature Phone Sales in 2011

Small Business Labs

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « 1 in 8 Consumers Forecasted to Cut or Eliminate Cable TV in 2010 | Main | An Overview of the Non-Profit Sector » May 12, 2010 Smartphone Sales to Over Take Feature Phone Sales in 2011 Nielsen is forecasting that smartphone sales in the U.S. will exceed "dumb" phones in 2011

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Time Spent on Social Networks Exploding; Email and IM Fading

Small Business Labs

  From the article: "the uptick in social networks led to the 28% and 15% declines in email and instant messaging, respectively. .    According to the research, Americans now spend 36% of their online time "communicating and networking across social networks, blogs, personal email and instant messaging."