How to Be a Good Salesperson: The Key Steps to Take
Good sales reps will effectively earn the respect and the ongoing trust of their prospects. Great ones earn their loyalty, admiration, and new referrals. Good reps handle objections skillfully; great ones preemptively surface the concerns and eliminate them.
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The Impact of Mental Health on Career Success: Startegies for Achieving Work-Life Balance
Tips for Adults Returning to College
Are you thinking of returning to college as an adult? It can be a scary prospect; entering into a world of young people, knowing that you’re probably not going to fit in. After being out in the adult world it can also [...]
Exposing (and Conquering) the Top 4 Fears of New Grads and Their Bosses
If you’ve just graduated, you’re preparing for a whole new life adjustment: an adventure of a lifetime that’s both exciting and scary. New norms and expectations may seem foreign, and if you don’t have someone helping you — like a parent or [...]
Women: How To Create Your Future In 7 Steps
This is a guest post by Joan Kuhl. My favorite quote from Peter F. Drucker is “The best way to predict the future…is to create it.” So you’ve been in the workforce for a few years and you’re doing great. You’ve [...]
How to Stop Thinking About Work After Hours [Infographic]
Your feet may carry you home from work each evening, but what time does your mind truly clock off? If your inner voice keeps on working into the night, you’re putting your health, relationships, and productivity in peril. Working hours have become a [...]
7 Growth Strategies Sure to Spur Fresh Success
This is a guest post by Merilee Kern. Growth. All businesses and professionals should desire it and most certainly need it. But achieving and sustaining growth in today’s uber-complex environment—whether corporate, entrepreneurial or personal career growth—takes multifaceted vision, ingenuity and agility. [...]
Affiliate Marketing Courses for Beginners When Looking For A Career Change
Affiliate marketing is a type of marketing in which the business entity recompenses affiliates for every customer they can bring in. The trend of practicing affiliate marketing to generate passive income keeps on increasing. Beginners and aspiring individuals interested in knowing more [...]
How to Successfully Ask for a Raise [Infographic]
Asking for a raise is scary for many of us, but with the right preparation and know how, it doesn’t have to be so intimidating. Research shows that many of us are uncomfortable negotiating salary or we’re afraid we’ll be perceived as [...]
How to Boost your Small Talk Game [Infographic]
Do you hate those moments when you’ve met someone for the first time and the conversation hits a pause that you can’t work out how to fill? It’s always awkward, even more so if that situation is a job interview and you’re [...]
Expected and Unexpected Ranges of Failure
By Bill Wooditch, author of Fail More and founder and CEO of Wooditch Enterprises Any time you try something new, you expose yourself to a threshold of disappointment. Video games are designed for failure. But the thing about video games [...]
How Employers Can Help Independent Workers Fight Loneliness and Find Greater Meaning at Work
This is a guest post by Kourtney Whitehead One third of all US workers are part of the gig economy—working part-time or full time, as freelance or contract employees. More than 25 million Americans started or are running their own businesses in [...]
How to Re-Energize your 2019 Resolutions and Keep Career and Life Goals on Course
This is a guest post by Merilee A. Kern As we approach the second calendar quarter, we’re entering that precarious time when many begin to flail and outright fail with their New Year’s resolutions—no matter how impassioned or well-intentioned they were at [...]
The Need for Improving Employee Productivity is Growing Exponentially
You hired a bunch of new employees, set them all to work and they are doing amazing. Already! Incredible, right? Well, more than that, it is hard to believe. Employee training is and has always been crucial for employee management. Every fresh hire needs [...]
How to Prepare for Salary Negotiations [infographic]
In today’s market, workers and employers are ready to make a deal when it comes to job offers. According to research from global staffing firm Robert Half, 55% of professionals asked for more pay with their last employment offer, a 16-point jump [...]
6 Prospective Skills in College to Make Your Career Path Easier
The real skills you take from college are less visible and even more important than the technicalities you memorize. These skills are what employers look for in every potential employee. They’ll help you become an unstoppable force in the workplace, or a [...]
How to Dress for Work Without Becoming a Clone
Whether spoken or unspoken, every company has its employee uniform. You’ll do well to become versed in the stated or unstated clothing style of the company in which you’ve landed. Having a cavalier attitude about clothing choices, especially during your incubation period [...]
5 Ways To Encourage And Reward Your Sales Team
Working in a sales department is a hard task. This is essentially true when the company you're working with is a large company. You'll not only have competition against the other brand's team, but it is also expected that you'll have to [...]
‘You, Inc.’ Is the New Mandate
This is a guest post by Ines Temple. Rapid market changes and disruptive technologies are having an unsettling effect on the job market. They’ve resulted in a new paradigm that indicates the majority of us will not be part of a company’s [...]
Content Marketing – Avoid These 5 Guest Posting Mistakes If You Want to Get Your Article Published
It’s getting harder and harder to get traffic that converts. A lot of SEO tactics have come and gone over the years, but one strategy that continues to deliver high-level results is guest posting. By landing guest posts on popular sites that [...]
Mental Health in the Workplace
According to a recent study made by Office Supplier Viking, only 35% of managers in the UK are aware of mental health issues in the work place which means shocking nearly over half cannot detect signs in work colleagues. The study found that [...]
How to Boost Organization and Productivity when you Work from Home
A lot of people think that working from home is easy. After all, you have the freedom of working when you want, where you want and how you want. You also don’t have to worry about having a boss breathing down your [...]
Avoiding the Danger of False Beliefs: Debunking 5 Popular Career Planning Myths
Some people fall into the trap of believing what they consider to be universal truths about career planning. In reality, those “truths” are anything but, and those who buy into them are doing themselves a disservice. In this article, we will debunk [...]
Work from Home 101: Tips to Making Money Effortlessly
Are you tired of your current job and want to work from home, instead? Do you want to make money in the comfort of your home without putting too much effort? Or are you simply looking for an easy and quick job [...]
Portfolios Are the Best Way to Showcase a Contractor’s Work
Any business has to juggle real-world performance and general marketing efforts, but some areas of the workforce have a more difficult time of it. General contractors, in particular, are in a unique position. They combine firm architectural standards with a heavy dose [...]
Nearly a Quarter of Workers Quit Due to Bad Commute [Infographic]
The road to work could lead some workers to change jobs, according to new research by Robert Half. The survey found 23 percent of professionals have left an occupation due to the bad commute. Additionally, one in five respondents said their commute [...]