b2blinks, b2b links,b2b News, Articles, B2B Company, Business-to-Business Information

by Justin Hitt, Strategic Relations Consultant, http://justinhitt.com/ In an excellent article presented by Forbes magazine called Some Billionaires Choose School of Hard Knocks by Matthew Herper he presents interesting statistics about the some 234 US billionaires today. Mr. Herper presents the fact that 18% of these billionaires never received a college degree ; many of them never finished the degree programs they started – a statistic that might make you want to quit school and run off on your latest ideas. I would ask you first to look at the other statistic he is indirectly presenting – a statistic that says roughly 80% of the 234 US billionaires have completed a college education . Billionaires have attended the School of Hard Knocks to build their fortunes, but it is not hard work alone that produces their greatness, many times college enhances their opportunities for earning their billions. First hand I learned that hard work alone will not get you greatness, my small busines...

y Scott Gingrich, The CRM Coach, http://thecrmcoach.com/ Having a project come in On-Budget is the holy-grail of project management, especially when it comes to CRM projects. With their 70% failure rate, CRM projects represent a significant risk to a small business' financial health and warrants more 'measure twice, cut once' consideration before beginning. Coming in On-Budget does not mean you managed to squeeze your project into whatever arbitrary budget you came up with when you first started. It also doesn’t mean that you started with an overly generous budget. It does mean that you develop a budget that takes into account an analysis of 4 critical areas: Payoff . You need to know exactly how your CRM system is going to generate ROI. This will help you focus your project on the right areas. By knowing how you expect payoff to be achieved, you can plan to achieve it. Risk . You need to figure out where the risk is in your project because 'risk=expense'. By figu...

If you're looking for a lucrative home based business, direct marketing may be just what you've been looking for; Offering you the possibilities of making your dreams come true. What is Direct Marketing? Direct marketing is offering a product or service directly to the consumer via mail order, Internet sales, personal sales, etc., with no middleman involved. Many direct marketing companies are now being operated right out of the home. Home based business is the waive of the future and can offer you a wonderful opportunity to actually be able to compete with the large, well established companies with large bank accounts. That's what is so wonderful about the Internet. You don't have to have a large bank account to succeed. You just have to have a little "know how." 10 Steps to insure your success 1. SET YOUR GOALS What do you want to accomplish? Do you want a new home? Do you want to save for your children's college education? A new car? You can have whatev...

Running a successful business used to be dependent on what you knew. Then, who you knew became important. In today's economy, it is far more critical to what you extent you know someone. So it's not what you know or who you know, but how well you know them that really determines the amount of business that can be generated by a contact. Networking is the process of meeting people (also known as contacts), either through a contact that you initiate or through an introduction by a third party. Networking allows you to meet, and establish a relationship with, people who may not have heard of your business through any other means. Like the name implies, this is work! It's not called Net-sit, Net-talk, or Net-eat. It's Net-work!! In order to make it productive for you, you need to learn proper way to do it. There are some important steps to follow for successful networking: Pick Your Functions To Attend Business people like to associate with other business people, so attend ...

An important aspect of marketing online is the opportunity to achieve targeted, measurable results. However, marketers are told repeatedly by the Internet establishment that traffic is the solution to online success. Based on the law of averages, this premise is not too far off the mark; the more people hit your site, the more responses you will receive. Quantity is therefore an important aspect of surviving online. If you want lots of hits, you want your site in front of as many eyeballs as possible. But what about quality? What if these hits are uninterested visitors who will never buy from you? For those seeking a more cost-efficient means of selling more successfully online, attracting a higher quality stream of visitors -- interested, pre-qualified visitors ready to buy - is definitely a better alternative. The challenge facing many is that they feel they must make a choice: Quantity versus quality. But this is not a choice to be made. Both can be achieved simultaneously by having...

Search Engine Use Increases Sharply, Edging Towards Email as the Primary Internet Application Search engines have become an increasingly important part of the online experience of American internet users. The most recent findings from Pew Internet & American Life tracking surveys and consumer behavior trends from the comScore Media Metrix consumer panel show that about 60 million American adults are using search engines on a typical day. These results from September 2005 represent a sharp increase from mid-2004. Pew Internet Project data from June 2004 show that use of search engines on a typical day has risen from 30% of the internet population to 41%. This means that the number of those using search engines on an average day jumped from roughly 38 million in June 2004 to about 59 million in September 2005 – an increase of about 55%. comScore data show that from September 2004 to September 2005 the average daily use of search engines jumped from 49.3 million users to 60.7 millio...

Recent debate started me thinking about how some marketing strategies can be right for one Website, but wrong for another depending upon the site's purpose and the underlying reasoning behind the action. If an action doesn't directly and logically plug into site goals then there are likely more profitable ways to spend that time and effort. Publishing third party articles on a Website is one of those marketing strategies that can be right for one site yet wrong for another. Publishing Guest Articles As A Website Marketing Strategy Publishing guest articles as one of your Website marketing strategies can help broaden the amount and quality of content on a site, which in turn can lead to a more solid, stronger reputation. James Edwards of Umbrella-Consultancy explains: "IMO having quality articles on your site will show that you are...someone who embraces the industry and respects the work of others. Most research scientists post links to other respected scientists' wor...