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Will You Add? - Will They Actually Read Your Small Business Web Site
Trick Interview Questions: How To Handle Them
Not all questions you are asked in an interview will be logical ones that are directly related to the job itself.Remember, we all have a different personality and some hiring managers you speak with might be a bit unconventional.Some questions are asked just to gauge your reaction to them!Some individual hiring managers and some companies might ask legal interview questions that could be described as trick questions or stress questions that are used to test your ability to think on your feet and to test your reasoning skills.Here are a few such questions that I’ve heard asked during some interviews:Describe yourself in 5 words. Yikes. How can you summarize yourself in five words? Think of five words that properly describe you, highlight your character and that would be of benefit to the company and to the job such as: organized, intuitive, ethical, trustworthy, honest, professional, fair, enterprising, entrepreneurial, focused, etc.Take your pick.What hobbies do you have? opy? There have been several interesting studies about website reading patterns and usa
Not all questions you are asked in an interview will be logical ones that are directly related to the job itself.Remember, we all have a different personality and some hiring managers you speak with might be a bit unconventional.Some questions are asked just to gauge your reaction to them!Some individual hiring managers and some companies might ask legal interview questions that could be described as trick questions or stress questions that are used to test your ability to think on your feet and to test your reasoning skills.Here are a few such questions that I’ve heard asked during some interviews:Describe yourself in 5 words. Yikes. How can you summarize yourself in five words? Think of five words that properly describe you, highlight your character and that would be of benefit to the company and to the job such as: organized, intuitive, ethical, trustworthy, honest, professional, fair, enterprising, entrepreneurial, focused, etc.Take your pick.What hobbies do you have? opy? There have been several interesting studies about website reading patterns and usa
Customer Telephone Inquiries and Sales
Incoming telemarketing sales are very important to every business and each and every phone call that comes in is a potential customer. Customers will often call to ask questions and or compare prices. It is essential to treat these customers with respect and answer questions fully to their satisfaction.Every company should train there front line staff and anybody who may potentially be answering the phone how to handle incoming telephone inquiries. Often customers will not ask the correct question and it is important to make sure they get the right answer so therefore it is important to ask customer questions and in doing so you can figure out exactly what they're trying to get at and what they're trying to get done.If the customer asks the wrong question and you answer the wrong question with the correct answer then the customer is not well served. Instead the customer has got the right answer to the wrong question and still does not know what is going on. Customer education and when they ask question you must ins
You may have spent quite a bit of time designing your web site and writing the copy for it, or you may have spent quite a bit of money and had it all done by a professional designer and copywriter.Incoming telemarketing sales are very important to every business and each and every phone call that comes in is a potential customer. Customers will often call to ask questions and or compare prices. It is essential to treat these customers with respect and answer questions fully to their satisfaction.Every company should train there front line staff and anybody who may potentially be answering the phone how to handle incoming telephone inquiries. Often customers will not ask the correct question and it is important to make sure they get the right answer so therefore it is important to ask customer questions and in doing so you can figure out exactly what they're trying to get at and what they're trying to get done.If the customer asks the wrong question and you answer the wrong question with the correct answer then the customer is not well served. Instead the customer has got the right answer to the wrong question and still does not know what is going on. Customer education and when they ask question you must ins
But there are about 4 billion websites on the internet. That’s a lot of competition for your site, so how do you get people to actually read your copy? There have been several interesting studies about website reading patterns and usab
The First Days of Small Business
When we started our first business some sixteen years ago, we thought we had the answer to everyone’s need for a great rehearsal studio. Rehearsal studios are soundproof rooms, which give bands a place to rehearse their music without disturbing the neighbours.At the time we thought we’d done everything right. We had done business plans, projections, studied the market and found an area where there was a need. We found a building to lease that gave us an initial low rent while we did a fit out inside. We had covered most bases, we thought.But business always throws a curly one your way. Firstly, the building coordinator. Turned out he had more important jobs to do. We also found out later that his business was falling to pieces. In turn that delayed us. The builder. Agreed to a price, but could not deliver on time. We did get it finished, with a lot of hassle and extra money. Delayed again. The electrician. They were great. On time, on budget. The air-conditioning expert. Did not deliver. Ended u
it, or you may have spent quite a bit of money and had it all done by a professional designer and copywriter.When we started our first business some sixteen years ago, we thought we had the answer to everyone’s need for a great rehearsal studio. Rehearsal studios are soundproof rooms, which give bands a place to rehearse their music without disturbing the neighbours.At the time we thought we’d done everything right. We had done business plans, projections, studied the market and found an area where there was a need. We found a building to lease that gave us an initial low rent while we did a fit out inside. We had covered most bases, we thought.But business always throws a curly one your way. Firstly, the building coordinator. Turned out he had more important jobs to do. We also found out later that his business was falling to pieces. In turn that delayed us. The builder. Agreed to a price, but could not deliver on time. We did get it finished, with a lot of hassle and extra money. Delayed again. The electrician. They were great. On time, on budget. The air-conditioning expert. Did not deliver. Ended u
But there are about 4 billion websites on the internet. That’s a lot of competition for your site, so how do you get people to actually read your copy? There have been several interesting studies about website reading patterns and usa
Shareholder Agreements and Buy Sell Agreements - The Business Valuation Formula
Normally shareholder agreements or buy sell agreements are written by the majority shareholder's very smart and experienced attorney and are totally favorable to the majority shareholder/Corporation. The minority interest shareholders are required to sign these agreements and often do not understand all the implications of what they are signing until it is too late. I will define too late as when they are trying to exit the business and get a liquidity event at a value that is reasonably close to the value of the company multiplied by their percentage ownership in the company.There are several approaches that we see used in determining the Purchase Price for shares of selling shareholders. The most common is Net Book Value. What net book value means is that you take all the assets and subtract all the debts and you get the shareholder equity or net book value. To the untrained observer that would seem fair and logical. In reality, it is simply an accounting presentation and generally has no relationship to what the busine
igner and copywriter.Normally shareholder agreements or buy sell agreements are written by the majority shareholder's very smart and experienced attorney and are totally favorable to the majority shareholder/Corporation. The minority interest shareholders are required to sign these agreements and often do not understand all the implications of what they are signing until it is too late. I will define too late as when they are trying to exit the business and get a liquidity event at a value that is reasonably close to the value of the company multiplied by their percentage ownership in the company.There are several approaches that we see used in determining the Purchase Price for shares of selling shareholders. The most common is Net Book Value. What net book value means is that you take all the assets and subtract all the debts and you get the shareholder equity or net book value. To the untrained observer that would seem fair and logical. In reality, it is simply an accounting presentation and generally has no relationship to what the busine
But there are about 4 billion websites on the internet. That’s a lot of competition for your site, so how do you get people to actually read your copy? There have been several interesting studies about website reading patterns and usa
Job Interviews Are Predictable - So be Prepared!
For the most part, 80% of what goes on in an interview is routine and predictable. There are hundreds of books out there on what to ask and what you'll be asked. In addition to the standard questions, you need to decide what questions you are most afraid the interviewer will ask you so you can prepare and practice answers to those questions now.A common interview agenda that looks something like this:1. Introduction2. Walking to the interview room3. Small talk4. The interviewer may give you a brief description of the position/overview of the company (depends on the interviewer)5. The interview then asks:* Tell me about yourself * Job highlights/work experience * Achievements * Strengths and weaknesses * Maybe education * Maybe outside interests - community service6. The interviewer may ask you if you have any questions7. The interviewer should let you know a little more about where they are in the interviewing process and advise you of what the
t’s a lot of competition for your site, so how do you get people to actually read your copy? There have been several interesting studies about website reading patterns and usaFor the most part, 80% of what goes on in an interview is routine and predictable. There are hundreds of books out there on what to ask and what you'll be asked. In addition to the standard questions, you need to decide what questions you are most afraid the interviewer will ask you so you can prepare and practice answers to those questions now.A common interview agenda that looks something like this:1. Introduction2. Walking to the interview room3. Small talk4. The interviewer may give you a brief description of the position/overview of the company (depends on the interviewer)5. The interview then asks:* Tell me about yourself * Job highlights/work experience * Achievements * Strengths and weaknesses * Maybe education * Maybe outside interests - community service6. The interviewer may ask you if you have any questions7. The interviewer should let you know a little more about where they are in the interviewing process and advise you of what the
Online Registration Success: 3 More Short Tips
My past articles have hopefully given you some ideas on how to make your online registration campaign a successful one. Here are 3 more 'quick tips' to help your event be a great success.1. Recruit Testers to Break your RegistrationFully test your registration pages before going live with them. It is much easier to spend the time up front than to have the hassles and embarrassment of a misaligned registration form. Sometimes you can just be too close to it and need another set of eyes to do an adequate job of testing.The more testing you do, the smoother everything will go. Rehearse the registration while it is still in testing mode with several people in your organization. Ask the tech support advisors of your online registration provider to test it for you. Their expertise in event setup will ensure you're getting the most out of the application.2. Bring Back the People Who Abandon Some systems are able to automatically email people who came to register and never finished.
opy? There have been several interesting studies about website reading patterns and usability. They’re referenced at the bottom of this article.My past articles have hopefully given you some ideas on how to make your online registration campaign a successful one. Here are 3 more 'quick tips' to help your event be a great success.1. Recruit Testers to Break your RegistrationFully test your registration pages before going live with them. It is much easier to spend the time up front than to have the hassles and embarrassment of a misaligned registration form. Sometimes you can just be too close to it and need another set of eyes to do an adequate job of testing.The more testing you do, the smoother everything will go. Rehearse the registration while it is still in testing mode with several people in your organization. Ask the tech support advisors of your online registration provider to test it for you. Their expertise in event setup will ensure you're getting the most out of the application.2. Bring Back the People Who Abandon Some systems are able to automatically email people who came to register and never finished.
Website users generally leave a site that takes longer than 7 seconds to load, and the average visit length is just over 1 minute. So assuming your site loads in less than 7 seconds, you have on average, one minute to convince your visitor to stay. And how do you get them to stay? The
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