Can you tell a “professional visitor” from “someone who really wants to get business done?”
Have you ever met someone, had a brief discussion, then afterwards wondered . . .
· What was her/his name again?
· What did he/she say she did?
· Why would I care?
· Did he/she want something?
There are those that dive into a well-rehearsed elevator pitch....like a runaway train, full speed ahead without regard or understanding of where they are going.
Some people believe in the “throw enough crap at the wall something will stick” approach to selling. But when you are selling yourself, what you do or how you get it done, this method can just leave a real mess to clean up later.
Many business professionals look for business in an Apple Orchard when they should be in the Orange Grove. Would you know if you were in the right place?
When marketing your business to your peers, associates and potential clients they need to be excited to do business with you. Not just know what you do.
In this 3.5 – 4 hour workshop:
· You will learn how to market your business and build a team of strategic sales professionals that work together.
· Take a quick tour of where you are at now.
· Map out your business and strategic partners - creating clarity like never before.
· Create a concise marketing plan and set goals.
· Learn how to effectively work an event and capitalize on every opportunity.
· Many people think business networking is Facebook, LinkedIn or You Tube what role do they play in making connections?
· We will tie in Social Networking with Business Conventional Networking and how they work together.
We will learn how to capitalize on the 78% peer recommendation for your products and services.
After this workshop you will have a clear, concise understanding of how to market and communicate your business.
Because Knowledge Is Your Power,
Rita
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The site at one time was seen as the Triad's best hope to be a megasite that might attract an automobile manufacturing plant.
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This week, North Carolina lawmakers got a chance to check out a Tesla S P85 -- and so did a reporter from our Raleigh-based sister publication, the Triangle Business Journal.
The high-end electric car from Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) was on display near the Raleigh legislative building, where company executives were lobbying against a bill that would further restrict car manufacturers from selling directly to consumers, the only way Tesla moves its vehicles.
N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis took…
Ark Ventures Inc. is preparing to renovate an approximately 18,000-square-foot building on West Morehead Street for creative office space and perhaps a restaurant.
The building, 1213 West Morehead, is across from the southbound I-77 exit ramp onto Morehead. It went into foreclosure in 2012. Ark Ventures, headed by Rick and Noah Lazes, purchased the building for $750,000 from CommunityOne Bank in February.
Noah Lazes says Ark will begin renovations soon to convert the single-story brick building…
The Brightwalk at Historic Double Oaks neighborhood redevelopment in Charlotte will benefit from a $400,000 grant recently awarded to the McColl Center for Visual Art.
The center won the funding from ArtPlace America for its plans to use Brightwalk for a grant program that mixes the arts, sustainability, education and community service.
The $125 million, 98-acre redevelopment near uptown will become home to environmental art installations from the McColl Center that will incorporate themes typically…
Fun fact: Frank L. Blum Construction Co. is older than sliced bread, ballpoint pens and color television.
The Winston-Salem-based general contractor celebrated its 90th anniversary in style Thursday evening at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts downtown, which Blum renovated about four years ago.
The contractor, which was founded in 1923, is coming off a banner year: 2012 brought $83 million in Triad billing, up 32 percent from $63 million in billing the year prior. The growth helped Blum rank…
If you're a procrastinator, you're in luck. The deadline for The Business Journal's Financial Executive of the Year awards has been extended.
The deadline for nominations is now midnight on Friday, May 24, and we hope you'll consider nominating the person that makes it all add up for your company.
The awards will are given to financial professionals in the Triad for outstanding performance in their roles as corporate or institutional financial stewards.
Nominees must be the top financial professional…
North Carolina could save as much as $18.7 billion next year on health-care costs if it changed the way it finances health care.
The catch? That change would require a switch to a single-payer system in which one entity collects all health-care fees and pay related costs, says Gerald Friedman, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
“We have a system that was broken 10 years ago, and it’s getting worse,” he says. “You can’t fix it unless you change its…
Passenger traffic at Piedmont Triad International Airport decreased 8 percent in April versus a year earlier, marking the fourth straight month of year-over-year declines for the Greensboro airport.
The number of passengers traveling through PTI in April stood at 72,725, down from 79,160 in April 2012, according to the latest statistics from PTI.
Airport officials have attributed the decline in part to a loss of flights to New York. Delta now provides four flights per day from PTI to LaGuardia…
