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Make the Most of Any Holiday: 3 Strategic Marketing Tips

It’s not all that difficult to market your business at the end of the year for those huge Christmas and New Years sales, but the smaller holidays are less intuitive. For Valentines Day, Mother’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day and other holidays, it can be challenging to come up with creative hooks to bring in new […]

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Young Professionals: It’s Not an Oxymoron, Right?

Note from the Editor:  This article was originally published in the Reading Eagle’s Business Weekly and is re-posted with their permission.  It was contributed by Dr. Santo D. Marabella, The Practical Prof(R). * * * * Young professionals. Is this a contradiction of terms, or what is called an oxymoron?  After more than 25 years, I still love […]

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Tethered to Technology

Note from the Editor:  This article was originally published in the Reading Eagle’s Business Weekly and is re-posted with their permission.  It was contributed by Dr. Santo D. Marabella, The Practical Prof(R). * * * * Today, The Practical Prof makes a stunning revelation:  I suffer from a serious syndrome known as TTT – Tethered To Technology. Here’s […]

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4 Strategies to Increase Workplace Collaboration

When you enable employees to collaborate freely, you set the stage for business growth. Many people don’t feel like their employer facilitates collaboration, however—in a worldwide survey on workplace communication conducted by Queen’s University, 39 percent of respondents felt their organization didn’t collaborate enough. These findings indicate a desire to work together and communicate effectively, […]

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Can Artificial Intelligence (Machines) Be Also Creative?

I am hearing a lot about emergence of the new revolution of artificial intelligence, and that it will be exponential in comparison to the industrial revolution etc., but I am still hearing things like the individual will still have an edge in terms of creativity and innovation, since machines cannot think creatively! The reality is […]

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Everything You Need to Know about Brand Licensing

Pete Canalichio is an expert with over 20 years of global experience in the areas of Brand Strategy and Brand Licensing, working with brands such as The Coca-Cola Company and Newell Rubbermaid. Recognized as a leading expert he is frequently asked to speak at branding and licensing conferences and leading business schools globally. His firm […]

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4 Excel Functions Every Business Professional Needs to Know

Microsoft Excel is powerful. You can use Excel to solve simultaneous differential equations, develop financial statements and run a statistical analysis on large data sets. The power of the program comes down to the user’s creativity and the software’s copious functions and formulas. With the introduction of Excel on the new Apple iPad Air, you can […]

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Mobile Market Domination [Infographic]

Imagine a time when you were absolutely unreachable. A time when friends stopped by, unannounced, in person, neighbors chatted from front porch swings, and letters were written by hand and sent in the mail. If you needed to reach someone, it wasn’t easy. When the US military began using “walkie-talkie” radios for infantry battalion during […]

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Build a World-Class Customer Service Team Now

A product is a tangible thing. From the framework of relationship marketing theory, a product can never create or maintain a connection. This ability to develop long lasting relationships falls to the customer service team. Customer care is more than simply fixing problems. It is establishing a continual link between your customer and your business. […]

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Happy 4th of July! Check out What We’re Giving away Right Now

Happy 4th of July from Flevy.com!  Here are the current free downloads we are offering across all our campaigns: Flevy Tools https://flevy.com/powerpoint-plugin Our most popular giveaway, Flevy Tools is a robust PowerPoint plugin that allows you to dynamically generate 10 common business diagrams. These include Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams, Waterfall Charts, Booz Balls, Approach Diagrams, […]

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Let’s Be Honest, Do You Run Effective Meetings?

There are good meetings and there are bad meetings. Bad meetings appear to drag on forever. They never seem to get to the point and are a waste of time. Wasting valuable resources in unproductive and inefficient meetings can be one of the biggest avoidable costs for any business. Effective meetings leave us energized and […]

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UPDATE: This article will no longer be updated.  All updates are now being made directly to our Business Toolkits section.   Due to the rapid growth of our documents library, we have developed a less manual way of organizing our documents.  We have organized documents into Business Toolkits, where each toolkit is focused on a specific business project […]

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