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May 14, 2012

Tim Giebelhaus and 1 other person answered this question

Online chat rooms - What are your service excellence best practices? What are your petpeeves?

To Debbie Laskey's response, I would add that manning the chat is a full time activity. Carrying on multiple conversations is all the multitasking a person can handle. You also want to be careful how many chat sessions you allow a person to take on. ... more

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April 13, 2012

Andrew Baker selected a best answer for

What practices are you employing for your personal information security?

What are some of the top things that you do, and what are some of the key tools that you use in your personal information security quest?
These may or may not be the same as what you use in a corporate or professional capacity, ... more

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Personal Computing

April 4, 2012

Savina Velkova and 7 other people answered this question

Webinar Best Practices: What are your 3 tips for having a successful webinar?

Thank you all for the great points on delivering an engaging webinar. Here are three tips on how to promote a webinar successfully in order to build the large and active audience that you will engage through your webinar:
Email - Send three pre-event emails ... more

Jan. 7, 2012

Ehsan Alikhani asked a question

How we should design a Membership Process?

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Business Process Automation

Nov. 28, 2011

pete cowley and 6 other people answered this question

Inside Sales Best Practices: What are your 3 tips for aligning inside sales with field sales?

No offence there Nick but with that is a very very technical and long winded way of of saying pretty much all of the other people are saying. Im an ISC and i hate doing this more

Nov. 25, 2011

eMaven Kumar and 8 other people answered this question

SEO Best Practices: What are 3 best practices for optimizing a landing page for organic traffic?

1. Fill Your important web Pages With Keyword-Rich High-Quality Content
2. Use H1 & H2 Tags as headings to Make Your Landing Page Standout
3. Strategically Placed Calls-To-Action
In addition to using attention-grabbing headlines, sub headlines and high-quality content, visitors must be prompted and encouraged to take the ... more

Nov. 20, 2011

Stuart Wright answered this question

What are your best practices for closing deals during the holiday season?

I don't - I go on holiday when my customers do.
I posted a while back on what I really achieve when its not as busy, appreciate any feedback and ideas you have!
http://beatingtarget.com/?p=57 more

Sales Management

Oct. 26, 2011

Al Shultz and 2 other people answered this question at this roundtable

Expert Best Practices in Content Marketing [7/14 @ 1 pm]

How do you measure the effectiveness of your content marketing efforts?

Measure the effectiveness of your content marketing efforts by measuring CHANGES in your target audience's PERCEPTIONS and PREFERENCES over time.
If those changes are not moving in your favor, your marketing program is not working. Period.
Al Shultz
www.alshultz.com more

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B2B Marketing Week

Oct. 25, 2011

David van Toor answered this question

What are some best practices for staggering the distribution of your content?

First rule is have some content worth distributing. I think we tend to lose focus on the power of quality content and think instead about the "trickery" of how to distribute it. more

General Management

Oct. 14, 2011

Scott Albro answered this question

Which companies excel at managing their commercial real estate?

Great answer Justin. I think it's ironic that the Apple campus has been mediocre for so long. The new headquarters will change that of course. more

General Management

Commercial Real Estate

Oct. 8, 2011

Mart Prööm answered this question

What are some best practices for advertising on social media sites?

Hi Lauren! By advertising I'm going to assume you mean paid advertisement such as Facebook ads and LinkedIn ads. These are excellent because of the huge variety of targeting methods they provide.
Facebook tricks:
1. Target those who "like" your competitor. Yeah, we'd all like to win ... more

General Management

Oct. 1, 2011

Esteban Pino Coviello and 12 other people answered this question

ERP Software Selection Best Practices: What are your 3 tips for selecting an ERP software?

Absolutely agree with you Michael. Your firts paragraph is key during the first steps of the process. more

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