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Angie Noll is the Owner of Reconciled Solutions. She is a Certified Profit First Advisor and has an MBA from Loyola (Chicago). Fall is in the air, and I’m breathing in the scents of fourth-quarter planning. As an entrepreneur, I revel in wiping the slate clean. This is when creativity and dreaming flow. And as the owner of a company that specializes in bookkeeping and profit acceleration, I think this is a particularly good time to create your sales forecast for the upcoming year. Before getting started, I suggest taking stock of the past 12 months, noting market changes and measuring how you were able, or unable, to adapt. Entrepreneurship is a fluid journey, and the outcome of even the best-laid plan will never fully match up with the goals you developed in the prior year. It’s crucial to be able to look back at last year’s plan and identify where changing circumstances made some fluidity necessary. How did shifting your plans impact your volume, margins, energy levels and ...

A digital commerce expert and the co-founder at Kinex Media Inc, a creative digital agency in Toronto. Websites are undoubtedly the new storefronts. Today, people rely largely on digital platforms to do online shopping, and this trend has given a great boost to the e-commerce industry. Merchants and business owners strive to create a great online presence for their e-commerce business when it comes to attracting more and more buyers online. More often, they try to accomplish this by choosing an optimal web design for their web platform. A good e-commerce website design can be an effective strategy to skyrocket business sales. It can have a great impact on customers "walking" in and out of your online store. It is worth noting here that a good website is not just about aesthetics, but about its usability and accessibility too. From the smallest venture to the biggest enterprise, building an online website that is catchy and that offers a rich user experience can generat...

Jim Berryhill, DecisionLink Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder, is on a mission to transform customer value into a strategic asset. Doing business today is more complicated than ever. The days of closing a deal with a phone call or a handshake are long gone—and things are certainly not going to get any simpler from here on out. A whole range of factors, including the increase in digitization, globalization and ubiquitous use of technology, is only serving to heighten market competition—not to mention complexity. In the current business landscape, sales teams are under huge pressure to make their interactions with prospects and customers more meaningful, impactful and effective. In today’s always-on world, technology plays a vital role. Automating tasks and collecting valuable data across your entire sales cycle is no longer simply nice to have: It’s now a must. But many organizations that have already invested in sales technology are not seeing their desired returns. That’...

CEO & Founder @ Refocus, VP of Marketing @ Coding Invaders. EdTech enthusiast, investor, mentor and marketing expert. According to an article in HR Daily Advisor, mistakes in hiring sales managers can cost a company an average of $2 million in lost sales. These lost costs also impact recruiting, training and salary expenses. How you hire and the processes you develop in your sales department can affect the well-being of your current specialists, the speed of processing applications, how you deal with rejections and how your sales team and marketers work together. At my current company, we have found five effective tools that have helped us double sales in a highly competitive educational technology market. I would like to share them here with you. 1. A Three-Step Hiring Process Every year, companies all over the world spend billions on sales recruitment, training and development. The three-step hiring system can help you make reasonable decisions about applicants befor...

Whilst not intended as a comprehensive primer (happy to think about that if asked), I recently found myself participating in a Zoom call with a Mini-major film studio recently where the concept of NFTs appeared to have passed them by. After a short discussion it became clear that they couldn't really see how NFTs might disrupt the film sector so I though some random musings on NFTs might help! "This year we will continue to see NFTs grow and eventually become mainstream." Aleksander Larsen, Sky Mavis Introduction For good reason, "non-fungible token" (NFT) was Collins Dictionary's word of 2021. Actually, two really good reasons exist. The first is that NFTs are gaining momentum in a big way lately, and many are rushing to the dictionary to find out what exactly they are. The second reason is that NFTs could be about to change everything! NFTs are digital content pieces linked to a blockchain. Think dispersed digital databases like the one that ...

It’s hard to go wrong with a technology degree. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, computer science is the STEM major with the highest job offer and job acceptance rate. Perhaps that’s why a recent CareerBuilder survey revealed that from in the 2010s, the number of students completing science technology degrees grew by nearly 50%, and the number of computer and information science students rose by almost one-third, making these two degrees among the fastest growth rates in the U.S.?? A degree in a computer-related field can lead to a variety of well-paying and high-demand jobs. The best tech jobs pay significantly more than the average median wage of $34,750 and have projected growth rates that are faster than the 11% overall rate anticipated for the average U.S. job. By sorting through data from several sources, including the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and jobs website GlassDoor, we compiled the following list of the ten best ...

Digital selling works. In fact, B2B companies now expect a seamless digital sales experience, with studies revealing 70 - 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote human interactions and digital self-service over traditional sales reps.  The Covid-19 pandemic certainly helped fuel this digital-first mentality, as buyers and sellers had no choice but to go online.  Here’s what I really find interesting, though: Only 20% of B2B buyers want to go back to in-person sales.  As businesses increasingly turn to digital platforms to engage with suppliers, so too must your sales team.  Many B2B businesses have yet to develop a clear digital sales strategy — and, as a result, are missing out on opportunities to sell to customers where they already engage and transact.  If you want to succeed in today’s increasingly digital landscape, you need a digital selling strategy that works. So, let’s explore how to do exactly that. In this article, I’ll explain the ...