A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu Pinterest Power: Market your Business, Sell your Products, and Build Your Brand on the World’s Hottest Social Network By Jason Miles and Karen Lacey Copyright 2013/McGraw Hill Price $20.00 230 Pages with Index Interested in Pinterest? This is the right book Let’s be honest Pinterest is hot right now. […]
You Gotta Break Some Eggs!
I don’t know about you but this drives me absolutely nuts. You’re in a meeting, you come up with a good idea but before you finish getting your idea out there, this guy across from you. You know the one, he graduated from the Dilbert School of discouraging new ideas jumps in with that smart […]
Book Recommendation – The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu: The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great By: Joel Peterson with David A Kaplan Copyright 2016 Amacom Price $15.95 Pages: 126 Index A great guiding light of the straight and narrow. Doing the right thing is not always easy in business but it […]
Stop Limiting Yourself
Figure out what your customers want and give it to them. To succeed in business today especially a custom business where you’re making products based on not your designs but the customers’ designs you have to be flexible. You have to listen to what your customers want today and what they are going to need […]
Book Recommendation – Beyond The Sales Process: 12 Proven Strategies for a Customer-Driven World
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu Beyond The Sales Process: 12 Proven Strategies for a Customer-Driven World By: Steve Anderson and Dave Stein Copyright 2016 Amacom Price $27.95 Pages: 264 with Index The section on sharing a Vision for success with your customer is the best I have ever read on the subject. You know […]
To Get Sales You Have To Have Salespeople
Man, how many times I am going to have to say this? For those of you loyal readers who have been checking out this column for years I apologize in advance and won’t blame you if you want to sit this one out because you’ve read it all before right here and yes too many […]
Looking For Business In All The Right Places
I just read a new book called appropriately enough The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts are the Emerging HOTSPOTS of Global Innovation by Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker, a book that everyone in business today should pick up and read. This is by far the most optimistic book of the year because it […]
Book Recommendation – The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an environment that energizes everyone
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu: The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an environment that energizes everyone By Shawn Murphy Copyright 2016 Amacom Price: $24.95 Pages: 224 with index The world seems to be a more pessimistic places these days and the workplace is no different. As we share our worries and our concerns over everything from […]
Stop Leaving Out The People!
How many times have you been on the phone in the middle of one of those quagmire calls, you know the ones, we have all been on them; you’re trying to get some help for that new software you bought, or your calling the utility company to see why your bill went up for no […]
Book Recommendation – The Worlds your Stage: How Performing Artists can make a living still doing what they love
Book Recommendation From: Dan Beaulieu 3/16/16 The Worlds your Stage: How Performing Artists can make a living still doing what they love By William F. Baker, Warren G. Gibson, Even Leatherwood Copyright 2016 Amacom Price: $19.95 Pages: 219: With Index and Notes Not all business is business. We have certainly, not until recently anyway look […]