Many companies purchase a CRM and it ends up being redundant and company productivity fails to pick up. How then, do you create more value for your business by making the effort of using the CRM extensively and faithfully?

Email and SMS have become convenient modes of communicating today. Fortunately (or otherwise) they have diminished the need for face-to-face interactions.

As business professionals, the ability to say ‘no’ is one of the best skills you could acquire.

Saying ‘no’ doesn’t mean you’re a terrible person and you’re going to be reborn as an earthworm. It is a way of respecting your time, and respecting yourself. It’s no fun being a doormat.

Whatever business you are in, you might want to learn and implement the following points to create a powerful referral-generating system for your business:

BNI is a great platform for getting more leads and referrals. But look closely. I see BNI Rendezvous to be much much more than that. This chapter has helped its members to grow and evolve as individuals.

I love people, every single thing about them! Their success stories, their failures, their quirks and their ambitions. Starbucks has a saying; "We're not in the coffee business serving people, we're in the people business serving coffee". Perhaps there are things to think about here...

Outsourcing your accounting allows you to focus on your core business and to provide your customers with your best professional services.

A lot of people know that accounting is important. Whether you are investing in share markets, buying new equipment, or making predictions about future sales or expenditures, you use accounting information.

Donald Trump is the Chairman of Trump Organization and he shares his insight about the Art of Negotiation in this article.

Apart from actually building websites, one other activity that takes up a large part of my time is explaining to people how much it costs to set up a website. It is especially tiring, when someone comes to me with the question, "Can you build me a website for $500?"

The more I learn about networking, the more I try to apply that knowledge to my daily life.

The more networking sessions I attend, whether public or private, I begin to realize that there are two main categories of networkers - the hunters and the sharers.