Business Skills

Marketing Skills: Inexpensive marketing tactics that work

Marketing skills


In your locality: - Posters in windows and on notice boards, and in staff rooms of local businesses. - A promotional stall at a local car-boot market or county show. - A stall or leafleting p...
Business Skills

Marketing Skills: A Simple Guide To Advertising And Copywriting

Copywriting | Marketing skills | Advertising


The best advertising is Word Of Mouth. - David Ogilvy   Ads with people in them score higher. - Starch Research   The Ad writing Acid Test: Create an ad for your service. I...
Business Skills

Marketing Skills, The Ultimate Guide

Marketing skills

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  Don't sell the steak, sell the sizzle. - Anon.   Sell the crunch not the apple. - Anon.   The buyer buys the seller not the salt. - Anon   U...
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How To Be An Effective Coach

Business management skills


1. What is coaching? Coaching is about giving instructions or demonstrating a particular skill to a 'trainee'.   Coaching vs training: Unlike Training, coaching may not use pract...
Business Skills

Things A New, First-Time Manager Should Know To Succeed

Business management skills


When they make you a manager/leader Being a manager is a full-time job, helping and guiding your people to finishing their tasks on time - goals and priorities, task list, responsibilities chart, t...
Business Skills

Business Management Skills: How To Be An Effective Executive/Manager

Business management skills


Effective managers, - Ask 'what needs to be done?' - Ask 'What’s right for the enterprise?' - Develop action plans. - Take responsibility for decisions. - Take res...
Business Skills

Business Management Skills, The Ultimate Guide

Business management skills


0. What is a business? A business is an entity whose sole purpose is to create and keep a customer.   Companies have three responsibilities: - make a profit - satisfy employees, an...
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Project Management Skills: 14 Useful Methods For Project Analysis And Planning

Project management skills


They range from the simple task lists/time tables and action plans to complex ones such as Critical Path Analysis.   1. Risk/impact probability chart - prioritizing risks - X axis (i...
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Project Management Skills: A Simple Guide To Effective Project Management

Project management skills


Project-work is the future of work. - Tom Peters   You have no future unless you add value and create projects. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter   The Ideal Project is one where pe...
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Negotiation Skills: 10 Questionable Negotiation Tactics




1. Wince: A visible negative reaction to someone’s offer - E.g. Acting stunned/surprised when the other party give their terms.   2. Silence: It can be a very useful tool. When they s...