• Marketing
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• Customer Service

Marketing

• 12 Great Ideas to Increase Sales
• An Allegory: The Emperor's New Marketing
• Brand and Deliver!
• Brand Warfare (PDF)
• Branding: Making a Name for Yourself
• Customer-Centric Product Definition—The Key to Great Product Development
• Empower Your Employees to Be Mini-Marketers
• Executive Speaking Placement Program
• “Guerrilla Publicity”
• Keep Your Brand Alive During a Downturn
• How to Build a “Constant Customer Creation Machine”
• How to Build a Corporate "War Room" to Conquer Your Competition
• How to Create Tactics that Bring Strategic Planning to Life
• How to Gauge Your Brand’s Health
• How to Use Sarbanes-Oxley for Competitive Advantage
• How to Write Web Microcontent—Headlines, Decks, Buttons and Links—That Works
• Integrating Marketing With Customers' Experience: Blueprint for Success in Managing Your Brand
• Is the CEO a Threat to Successful Brand Alignment?
• Mercer Management Journal - A "mindshare" manifesto (PDF, 414 Kbs) Special Report
• Mercer Management Journal - Ready for the next move? (PDF, 443 Kbs) Special Report
• Mercer Management Journal - What ever happened to Burma-Shave? (PDF, 224 Kbs)Special Report
• Mercer Management Journal - How Conaco broke the convenience store mold (PDF, 149 Kbs) Special Report
• Mercer Management Journal - Making every employee a brand manager (PDF, 227 Kbs) Special Report
• Pulling Icons Back from the Brink
• Secrets Revealed on How to Expand Your Business by Creating New Markets
• Selling on the Net: Are You a Retailer or Wholesaler?
• Successful Relationship Marketing
• The Brand's the Thing
• The Ten Biggest Marketing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
• There once was an ugly duckling
• Using Offers to Raise Response
• Using Your Sales Skills to Market Yourself
• Want to Transform Your Business?
• What Really Makes Women Buy?
• Why You Should Gear Up Your Marketing in a Slow Economy
• Words That Sell
• You Can't Build a Brand Without Your Employees

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Sales

• 12 Great Ideas to Increase Sales
• Self-Assessment: Are You a “Born” Salesperson?
• Clinch that Sale by Asking the Right Questions
• Close That Sale.
• Current Trends in Sales: Companies Plan to Alter Their Pay Mix, Not Further Cut Jobs, According to a New Study
• E-Commerce Allows Companies to Easily Reach Customers While Also Increasing Sales
• Earn the Right to Do Business with People
• Finding the Right Sales Leader When Times Are Tough
• Five Tips to Inspire Your Sales Force to Success
• Four Ways to Build Revenue in a Sagging Economy-Without Spending a Dime!
• High Performance Selling (PDF)
• Get the Edge in Professional Selling—Stay in Touch!
• How to Cultivate a Network of Endless Referrals
• How to Hire the Best Telemarketing Employees
• How to Recognize a "Bad Prospect"
• Improve the Sales Process by Focusing on Your "Ideal Customer"
• Make Every Conversation a Sales Call
• Motivated to Succeed
• Motivating Your Sales Force in a Tough Economy
• Selling Strategies: How to Deal with “Price Grinder” Customers
• Some Customers Aren't Worth Having
• Strengthen Your Sales “ABs.”
• Ten Timely Tips for Mastering the Complex Sale
• Ten Ways to Become a Savvy Negotiator.
• The Accidental Salesperson—How to Take Control of Your Sales Career and Earn the Respect and Income You Deserve
• The Presentation Trap: Why Making Presentations Can Cost You the Sale
• The Three Traps of Selling Conventionally in a Complex World
• Time Management Tips for Salespeople
• Winning Strategies for Closing Complex Sales
• Why Don’t You Want What I Want? How to Overcome Resistance

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Customer Service

• 10 Ways to capture customers
• 12 Customer Service “Don’ts”
• AMA Talks to Mark Merkow and Top 10 Initiatives
• Are You Organized for Effective CRM?
• Coaching from Customer Reports
• Customer Experience Management Survey Results
• Don't Look Now, but Your Customer's Problem Is You
• Earn the Right to Do Business with People
• Effective Customer Relationship Management Depends on Every Employee in the Organization
• Essential Attitudes for D-A-T-I-N-G Your Customer
• The Golden Rules of Customer Service
• Keeping Customers Satisfied—Profitably
• Keeping Your Cool When the Customer Gets Hot
• Ken Blanchard Explains Why “It's Never Too Late to Build a Customer-Focused Company.”
• Nine Times When You Should Thank Your Customers
• Nine Ways to Improve Customer Retention
• Perfection IS Possible in Meeting Customer Demands
• Six Cardinal Rules of Customer Service
• The Customer Revolution: How to Thrive When Customers are In Control (PDF)
• Teaming up with Your Customers

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