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How To Better Sell Yourself

How do you sell yourself? Tricky question, you would say! Especially for most people, who have nothing to do with the marketing or the sales ring (and even they don’t want to)! But, marketingis not just for marketing or sale people. Today to know how to market, how to sell and more importantly, to know how to sell yourself, is an essential skill for every person who he/she is active in our modern personal, business and social environment.

You may think, marketing or selling is not necessary wh...

How to Provide Value

Value is not an easy concept to grasp at first! It needs a lot of experience to understand it and even more experienceto be able to provide valueto the people you associate with. The problem with value is that it means something different foreach one of us. And it does not related always to money!

For me, for instance, extra value in a project is to provide more tools and ways to continue the stakeholders to pursuing their objectives. On personal level, providing value means to make people doi...

Act-On – A Marketing Automation Platform!

Severalweeks ago, I had the pleasure to attend a real-time, 1:1 demonstration of an excellent piece of software, of Act-On by . Sergio has done an excellent job, in introducing me at the basic functions of this platform, can make the marketing automation a breeze!

Marketing & Sales Processes

Marketing and sales today, is the core of many of ouractivities! We develop products and services, and we try to sell them in an international market environment, trying to find out the be...

10 Types of Learners You Can Run Into When Imparting Online Training [Infographic]

Here is an excellent infographic (developed byShift) describing the 10 types of learners you can encounterwhen employonline training procedures.

In a distance learning procedure, you can meet many different types of learners, each with his/her own characteristics and needs. Here is a excellent infographic, described exactly these types of learners!Check it here!

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The Concept of Failure

The concept of failure is not as the failure itself. It relates on how you deal with a failure. Everyone in his/her life have to deal with one or more failures in various fields!The point is not what happens, is what you do with what’s happened!

There is no fixed solutions or a standard formula relate to failure. The experience is different for different people and the way you copewith it, provide you with the appropriate “skills” tocorrect the problems, you may create and remedy the situation...

Do you know AIDA?

Do you know AIDA? I have the pleasure to introduced to AIDA several years ago (it must be more than 20, time do fly) and it never disappoint me! It, I said? It! Yes, it not the act of my crazy spell-checker! You see, AIDA is not a she, it is an it! AIDA is a powerful technique and an acronym used widely in marketing and advertising to describe the ways a viewer engaged to an advertisement or to an event!

Who AIDA Is?

AIDA is an acronym stands for the four basic triggers you should achieve with...

The Personal Cost of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is a complex concept with very simple (and humble) origin. It is basically the process of developing a business, company, startup, organization or venture aiming at bringing something new (and needed) resource in the world! This is what I was thinking when I had finished the university and I still believe today. It is not about money. Or at least is not JUST for the money. Entrepreneurship, for me, is a disruptive process, aiming at fill in existing requirements (needs if you...

7 Tips To Boost Productivity [Infographic]

This is a very interesting inforgraphic developed by Paul Manwaring of Internet Marketing Hustle. In this infographic, Paul describes various ways to help you make your mind and body more productive!

A Gift For 2015

Be the best of what you would be! This is your gift and your mandate.A gift is always a gift and a gift is always welcome! This is my gift to you for 2015. I hope you would like it!

If you would have a wish for the new year, what that would be?Would you like to be richer? Would you like to be happier? Would you like to be more successful? Would you like to be more healthier? Whatever you wish would be, this is the time to achieve it!

And my gift to you, is that you can actually do it! Whatever...

Value-Driven Leadership

Leadership is not an easy task! Especially when you want to employ a value-driven leadership in your activities. It was (and still is) one thing that I had always in my mind when I had to lead a project and especially in my first steps! It was something that I repeated again and again, as my personal mantra, to help me focus on the important issues of the project at hand! And it is something that became a sort of a habit of mine!

In a project sometimes things are going as planned and sometimes...