The answer is yes! It is important that you have separate business bank accounts—be it checking, savings, money market or any other kind. You should also keep a credit card just for business use.
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Evolving Trends to Reach Buyers
An everchanging marketplace is something we all ponder. Our ability to thrive will depend on how well we keep adjusting to these changes and evolving communication trends.
Read MoreA Cycle Of Engagement
In 2015, the journey of the promotional products professional in shifting prospects to clients is more challenging than ever. With the Internet, email, texts and blog postings added to phone calls, direct mail, meetings and cold calls all constantly interrupting the day, there is so much noise out there to overcome!
Read MoreYou Don’t Need Vacation Days
Business Insider, Forbes and CBS News all report that taking vacation is good for you and the company you work for. I say to heck with it. Save your vacation days for retirement and let the Moments in Motion Calendar from Triumph Calendars by Bic Graphic take you on a little vacation at the comfort of your workspace. Let me explain.
Read MoreHow Did You Allow Yourself to Become a Commodity?
If that’s your question, here’s the snarky answer: Because you allowed it. An even more indicting answer might be because you encouraged it.
So what is commoditization? It’s the process that your buyers followed to reduce their buying decision to the lowest common denominator, price.
Read More2 Days On A Macbook Pro—Confessions of a Longtime Windows Power User
I like to keep learning and ensuring I push myself to do things I’m not comfortable with. This often means reading a book I don’t agree with or watching a news channel with a different perspective. But it also means using technology that I am not comfortable with.
Read More11 Keys to Great Success in Life and Business – Key 2: Find Your Passion
Do what you love and love what you do, and you will never work another day in your life.
If you read about people who have experienced massive success, you will find that they were passionate about their pursuit.
Read MoreIs There a Way to Handle Sales Taxes in QuickBooks If You Owe Multiple Government Agencies?
Yes, QuickBooks allows you to set up each portion of sales taxes separately as a sales tax item and then as a group sales tax. For instance, in North Carolina we must collect sales tax for state, county and transit taxes.
Read MoreDistributors and Suppliers, Do You Know What You Are Missing?
Sometimes we just miss the obvious. We are so busy doing what we are accustomed to doing that we miss opportunities right in front of us!
Read MoreGet Emotional
People buy emotionally but justify their purchases logically. When you’re a features and benefits type of salesperson, you’re touching the logic, but how can you create some emotional points of difference?
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