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Toronto Business Development Centre Blog: March 2012
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This blog is a venue for TBDC staff and associates to share business related thoughts and experiences. We welcome public comments and feedback. Thursday, March 29, 2012. Thoughtful Thursdays - Is it worth it? Today's thought is about the age old topic of price versus quality. I will start with a quote from many years ago that has helped me to remain grounded when the subject comes up. Price is simple - dollars and cents. The value of the product/service is immediately lowered to that point. Thursday, Mar...
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Toronto Business Development Centre Blog: December 2011
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This blog is a venue for TBDC staff and associates to share business related thoughts and experiences. We welcome public comments and feedback. Thursday, December 29, 2011. Thoughtful Thursdays - Managing your prospect list. All your customers were once prospects. Without prospects there will be no customers. Yes we have heard it all before. Today's thought is about managing your prospect database. It is one thing to have a long prospect list and another to be working the list for maximum return. Many ti...
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Toronto Business Development Centre Blog: Thoughtful Thursdays - Is it worth it?
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This blog is a venue for TBDC staff and associates to share business related thoughts and experiences. We welcome public comments and feedback. Thursday, March 29, 2012. Thoughtful Thursdays - Is it worth it? Today's thought is about the age old topic of price versus quality. I will start with a quote from many years ago that has helped me to remain grounded when the subject comes up. Price is simple - dollars and cents. The value of the product/service is immediately lowered to that point. Subscribe to:...
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Toronto Business Development Centre Blog: Thoughtful Thursdays - How can I be different from my competitors?
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This blog is a venue for TBDC staff and associates to share business related thoughts and experiences. We welcome public comments and feedback. Thursday, February 16, 2012. Thoughtful Thursdays - How can I be different from my competitors? Differentiating yourself from the competition is often easier to say than do. Life is like that - doing is tougher than saying. What has worked for me in the past is to be up front with the customer and ask them if they would be willing to evaluate your performance and...
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Toronto Business Development Centre Blog: Thoughtful Thursdays - Assume nothing!
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This blog is a venue for TBDC staff and associates to share business related thoughts and experiences. We welcome public comments and feedback. Thursday, March 22, 2012. Thoughtful Thursdays - Assume nothing! It makes perfect sense. to me anyway. Just because it makes perfect sense to you does not mean that your prospect or anyone else for that matter shares your interpretation. They understand what I said. They know what they need. They will be too busy to talk to me. They are not my customer. Paul Cast...
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Toronto Business Development Centre Blog: Thoughtful Thursdays - Getting past the gatekeeper
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This blog is a venue for TBDC staff and associates to share business related thoughts and experiences. We welcome public comments and feedback. Thursday, March 8, 2012. Thoughtful Thursdays - Getting past the gatekeeper. Sooner or later we all encounter the obstacle commonly referred to as the gatekeeper. Today's thought focuses on overcoming this obstacle. Do not assume they can not help you, think the opposite; without them you are lost. Posted by Richard Sakanashi. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Toronto Business Development Centre Blog: Thoughtful Thursdays - More thoughts on time
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This blog is a venue for TBDC staff and associates to share business related thoughts and experiences. We welcome public comments and feedback. Thursday, February 2, 2012. Thoughtful Thursdays - More thoughts on time. Two weeks ago my post Is time your friend or foe? Talked about modifying or putting new routines in place in order to have better control over the use of your time. In other words, doing something different to buy some of your time back. Posted by Richard Sakanashi. Search The TBDC Blog.
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Toronto Business Development Centre Blog: November 2011
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This blog is a venue for TBDC staff and associates to share business related thoughts and experiences. We welcome public comments and feedback. Thursday, November 24, 2011. Thoughtful Thursdays - Tipping the sales scale in your favour. Last week I talked about about levelling an uneven playing field. Today's thoughts are on tipping the scales and creating the uneven field that works in your favour. The list of examples from last week's post. Bringing new business to your customer. Thoughtful Thursdays - ...
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Toronto Business Development Centre Blog: Thoughtful Thursdays - Managing your sales time?
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This blog is a venue for TBDC staff and associates to share business related thoughts and experiences. We welcome public comments and feedback. Thursday, March 15, 2012. Thoughtful Thursdays - Managing your sales time? As mentioned previously, a common subject of conversation with my clients is the matter of having too much to do and not enough time to get it all done. We all are subject to this in varying degrees and I have written several times on the topic. Total potential sales volume. Fearless Selli...
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Toronto Business Development Centre Blog: July 2011
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This blog is a venue for TBDC staff and associates to share business related thoughts and experiences. We welcome public comments and feedback. Thursday, July 28, 2011. Thoughtful Thursdays - Using objections to your advantage. Past Thoughtful Thursdays have talked about handling common objections. And using them to grow your business. Today's thought describes another way to approach common objections. Posted by Richard Sakanashi. Thursday, July 21, 2011. 65279;. I could not help but wonder how the p...