Founders Forum May 15th Meeting

Got an idea for a business, but need to meet the right people to make it happen? Then join the Founders Forum this Tuesday evening for a great time of networking and dining at the Crowne Plaza Melbourne Oceanfront from 6pm to 9pm. This group was started in 1986 and has a formula for success that has worked for many local upstart businesses. Every year since 1997 an individual is chosen for the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award in September. On Tuesday May 15th the next meeting is planned with business leaders and venture capitalists looking for the next great Brevard County start-up. In addition to the best networking of...

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Sources for B2B Lead Information: News Flash - Fresh off the Press

So you need fresh B2B leads that turn into sales like yesterday. Well we can't turn back the hands of time but we can find fresh leads by turning to the news. There are many sources where relevant information can be turned into good B2B lead information. Our survey to the left of your screen with this blog suggests a few and asks you, the reader, to answer which ones you find the most meaningful. Let's look at economic news items first, as they require the least amount of effort and the most cost effective to obtain. Since I live and work in the sunny state of Florida I have posted some sources here that I am tracking. Click these links and review the news items. 1) Enterprise Florida  Check out the multiple B2B leads here. See anything you can use? 2) Federal Funds...

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The 3 PIllars of Successful B2B Lead Generation

Whether you looking for a new client or making a sale, picking up skills in lead generation is a worthy endeavor. Information is power and it is the right information at the right time that will enable one company to close the sale and another who loses that new business because they were unaware of it. Remember "Smart is the New Rich." This series of articles will deal with the topic of B2B lead generation from tapping into the best sources to discover hot lead info to processing the data so it results in closing more sales. We will look not only at the tried and tested methods but also new techniques in Social Media and Search Engine Optimization. Quite simply put, these stories wll be layed out in the universal computer formula of Input, Processing and Output. Because of our rapidly...

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Expanding horizons for call center workers.

Call center workers no longer have to be dependent on their local economy, if they consider working remotely. Online work opportunities are constantly opening up for employees and independent contractors to work from their home location. Due to the popularity of high speed internet, cloud application and advances with new technologies such as Voice Over Internet(VOIP), workers can make a comfortable  living from their own home based office. Known in the employment marketplace as "remote workers" this type of employment is offering many tangible benefits to both the employer and employee. Virtual work environments offered through cloud technology enable employers the ability to find and retain higher skilled employees.  In addition to adopting this paradigm assists the employer...

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The 3 Pillars of Successful Lead Generation

Whether you are looking for a new job or making that sale, picking up skills in lead generation is a worthy endeavor to learn. Information is power and it is the right information that will enable one person to find that perfect job and another who may be equally qualified in not finding it. This series of articles will deal with the topic of lead generation from tapping into the sources to find that right information, to processing that data to using the information to achieve the results you are looking for. Quite simply these stories wll be layed out in the universal computer formulae of Input, Processing and Output. In this rapidly changing economy this series articles will look at places where the optimun information can be found via the internet, public record information to hard...

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Write to Success

There is a saying that goes that "The queen of all science is physics". I will borrow that and say that "That the queen of all interests is writing". One must have a deep appreciation for an interest in order to write about it. The writer gets much satisfaction out of researching their interests to obtain more expertize in their field. Writing is more than informing the reader. It is a journey for the writer. The journey involves many curves, mind disciplines, new relationships and produces other surprises along the way. Open any book and the first page acknowledges others who assisted in producing the book. Many times the author dedicates the book to the people who assisted them. To assist you with your writing aspirations it is important to find other like- minded writers. One such group...

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Finding your dream job: Secret 1 "Write It Down"

At one of these job networks, a class called Focus was held to teach job seekers the skills to focus on what they wanted in their next dream job. The class instructor Cindy said it was her last day teaching this class because she had found exactly the job she was looking for with this technique and she said it was uncanny because the previous instructor had found a job that was a close match that way too. The lesson in finding the most perfect job went like this. Take a sheet of paper, a notebook or personal journal and write down everything you would like in your next job. Everything! including the income you want to make, your job duties, the tools you want to work with, the attire you want to work in, the type of people you want to work with, the person you'll work for, the industry you...

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