Ideas, Ideas, Ideas

If you are in sales or manage a sales force, this is a pretty good book I would recommend you consider.

http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Pitch-Selling-Winning-Business/dp/0471789763

Belk Printing Technologies is one of the best Commercial Printing companies that I have had the honor to partner with, located in Pineville, NC.  By the way, they do so much more than just printing!  Check out there web site – http://www.belkprinting.com/

Speaking of commercial printing, here is a great news site if you want to stay up on what is happening in the world of commercial printing.  http://www.topix.com/business/commercial-printing

Are you in retail? Do you need a partner that can help you with creative marketing?  One of my good iGen customers in Charlotte is Creative Marketing Solutions – here is there web site… http://www.creativecms.com/

Also, check out this article on 50 good marketing ideas for those in retail. Truth is, most of these are good ideas for most industries!  http://retail.about.com/od/marketingsalespromotion/a/marketing_ideas.htm

Creating a blog is really easy and commercial print sales people can absolutely do it and do it quickly. I hear it took less than 30 minutes for George!  

I highly encourage “customer corner” section and have your customers tell your story!

Anyway, check out one that George Aquilante just did yesterday! It’s a great start and took less than 30 minutes! 

http://gaquilanteipp.blogspot.com/

George – great job! Looking forward to seeing your enewsletter and brainshark next :>

Chris Brogan has amazing ideas for business. If you are not following him, I highly recommend you do. Here is his article on 50 ideas on how businesses can use twitter.

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/50-ideas-on-using-twitter-for-business/

Check out this press release that i just found on yahoo finance.  “Xerox Ranked Number One in Computer Industry by FORTUNE’s Most Admired Companies Survey”

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Xerox-Ranked-Number-One-in-bw-14515279.html