“No one like you”: be different to be successful
The main aim for any business or professional is – or should be – finding out what makes them different from all other competitors. Why is that? Let's try and examine it together…
Naming your price: how to determine the economic value of your work
One of the questions that our clients, especially young freelancers, ask us most often is how they should calculate the price of the service or product they offer. Knowing how to determine the price is the first crucial step to recognising your market value. Many freelance professionals and salespeople are not very good at presenting and defending their price because they are not fully aware of how to put together a quote or estimate.
Sales performance analysis: let’s start “from the bottom”!
Much of our work as consultants consists in developing the commercial activity of our corporate customers. We examine and verify their business performances and assess their results not only in terms of revenue.
Manual for Ethical Leaders – Chapter 2: Meetings
Unproductive meetings are a massive waste of time and – as we know – in business wasted time also means wasted money. Therefore it's essential that the cost/benefit ratio is well balanced when organizing a meeting! Here is a list of questions ethical leaders should bear in mind when organizing a meeting.
How to chase unpaid invoices
Chasing unpaid invoices, especially by phone, feels “rude” to most of the people I meet in my classes. For some reason we feel uncomfortable when we have to ask for payment although really that is how the wheels of commerce work: providing a certain service or goods in return for a stipulated payment.
Live Chat Customer Service
Live chats represent one of the cheapest and most powerful instruments to make direct contact with customers, and for this reason companies whose main focus is on customer service have introduced them among their channels. But are we sufficiently prepared to deal with this kind of tool?
Tips for a successful job interview
When I interview potential employees I like to ask lots of questions. Here is a list of my favourite ones, and some tips on how to answer. They are very common job interview questions so I suggest you consider how to answer beforehand.
How to write effective quotations with the customer as protagonist
A well written quote, attached to an effective email, is a great help to our business success. Let's learn to write it together.
Business evolution: we do not live on profit alone
How to analyze business evolution, grow our organizations and promote professional activities following the Maslow's Pyramid.
B for Benefits
What is the difference between a boring seller and a brilliant seller? What are the advantages, how to use them and make them explicit?