Online Sales Leads

12/06/2012

Here is an epiphany George Costanza experienced and found a better strategy in his life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUvKE3bQlY

Seinfeld, George decides to do the opposite but with striking results.

11/06/2012

An article in Wall Street Journey describes how medical students at more than 20 medical schools, including Harvard, Columbia and Cornell, attend an art museum intervention to improve their skills of observation. The students are assigned a painting and observe as many details as they can and then get together to discuss what they've seen. Students who partake become on average 10% better at diagnosis.

Diagnosis is a fundamental step in strategy development. Yet it is one that seems to be skipped over in many organisations. Companies are rushing to create 'the strategy.' Perhaps executives should be attending a similar art-based intervention and then train their improved observation skills at diagnosing their own organisations so that real strategic initiatives are designed rather than foolish fill-in-the-box attempts such as 'great customer service.

09/06/2012

This little anecdote is from Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people":

Schwab had a mill manager whose people weren't producing their quota. "How is it that a manager as capable as you can't make this mill turn out what it should?"

"I don't know," the manager replied. "I've coaxed the men, I've pushed them, I've sworn and cussed, I've threatened them with damnation and being fired. But nothing works. They just won't produce."

Schwab asked the manager for a piece of chalk, and asked: "How many heats did your shift make today?"

"Six."

Schwab chalked a big figure six on the floor. When the night shift came in, they saw the "6″ and asked what it meant. "The big boss was in here today, he asked us how many heats we made, and we told him six. He chalked it down on the floor."

The next morning Schwab walked through the mill again. The night shift had rubbed out "6″ and replaced it with a big "7."

When the day shift reported for work the next morning, they saw a big "7″ chalked on the floor. So the night shift thought they were better than the day shift did they? Well, they would show the night shift a thing or two. The crew pitched in with enthusiasm, and when they quit that night, they left behind them an enormous, swaggering "10."

Shortly, this mill, which had been lagging way behind in production, was turning out more work than any other mill in the plant."

08/06/2012

Yahoo! has released a new tool for your browser. http://axis.yahoo.com Pretty easy to use.

Yahoo! Axis completely redefines what it means to search and browse the web.

07/06/2012

Here is another software for presentations: http://present.me/ Quite inexpensive as well.

Present.Me is a really easy way to record and share your presentations using your we**am

06/06/2012

You know, men have not bought dieting programs in the past. Such programs were utter flops. Looks like men care only from their neck up while the women worry about their full body! That's probably why we see men with big bellies in Speedo with a hair piece!

31/05/2012

Without customers, what do you have, really? Will it still be a business?

30/05/2012

A study by Stanford and Microsoft researchers http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/1021/1/wsdm12-domain-bias.pdf ) found that consumers’ click preference is influenced by the domain. They showed some search results as coming from WebMD.com (a well-known site), and other search results as coming from genetichealth.com (an unknown site). WebMD.com got 25% more clicks.

29/05/2012

THE CIRCULAR ARGUMENT, BASED ON A DOCUMENT

1. The Bible is the word of God

2. The Bible says that God exists

3. Therefore, God exists

The argument assumes what it sets out to prove. (Example from 'The Art Of Deception', Nicholas Capaldi)

28/05/2012

A willingness not to make a sale is one of the prime requirements for making a lot of sales.

26/05/2012

Purpose. Task. One cannot really exist without the other. Purpose without task is mere dreaming. Task without purpose is meaningless labour.

25/05/2012

Prezi [ http://prezi.com/] is the new alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint. It is a cloud-based, online and offline presentation tool. You can create very cool presentations. Have a look.