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When Times Get Hard, Remember Your Why

When Times Get Hard, Remember Your Why

With everything going on, I’m hearing more investors and business owners wonder how we are going to get through the coming economic crisis. Whenever hard times hit, I am always inspired by my great grandfather’s story. I was lucky enough to know him for the first 8 years of my life, and my grandfather (his […]

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The Revenue Roller-coaster

The Revenue Roller-coaster

OUCH! Where did that come from?!?! Ups and downs may be fun on a real roller coaster, but when your business is on the revenue roller coaster, you’re dancing with disaster. You may think that making up temporary shortfalls with some credit will solve the problem, but in most cases you’re giving away your profits […]

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Top 5 Ways to Avoid Decision Fatigue

Top 5 Ways to Avoid Decision Fatigue

Because of all the overwhelming response to our previous post on dangers of Decision Fatigue wanted to add some posts this week on ways to avoid it. Today, wanted to go over the Top 5 Ways to Avoid Decision Fatigue: First, and the most effective is to chunk time & tasks. For example, seems like […]

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How Decision Fatigue is Hurting Your Business

How Decision Fatigue is Hurting Your Business

There was once a farmer that hired temporary day laborers to fix some things around his farm. However, the farmer was quickly impressed by this one special laborer. Each fix-it job that the farmer thought would keep that laborer busy for days, was done in only hours. He kept giving him more and more tasks […]

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Leaky Sales Pipelines

Leaky Sales Pipelines

Companies running traditional CRM programs suffer from what I call, “Leaky Pipelines.” The symptoms of this vary from company to company. Over the years, I’ve worked with many companies, and in the end, I found that companies need to get better at one thing – converting leads to sales. But, some companies are challenged in […]

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Salesforce Classic vs Lightning – What you need to know

Salesforce Classic vs Lightning – What you need to know

It’s more than just a modern-looking skin….Lightning is a completely new user-interface (UI) that was specifically designed to be mobile responsive so you can now work across the wide array of device screen sizes. So it will work on everything from phones, mini & large tablets as well as desktops. Salesforce developers went to great […]

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US B2B eCommerce Will Hit $1.2 Trillion By 2021

US B2B eCommerce Will Hit $1.2 Trillion By 2021

B2B markets are catching on to the enormous returns from adding eCommerce to their day-to-day businesses models Forrester estimates that B2B eCommerce will reach $1.2 trillion and account for 13.1% of all B2B sales in the US by 2021. At the end of 2017, Forrester expects eCommerce to reach $889 billion and represent 11% of […]

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Gamification at Work

Gamification at Work

Let’s be honest. Your team does not jump out of bed each morning full of enthusiasm and joy to make sure their schedules and to-do lists are up-to-date. But in reality, there are some things that the office critically needs to know so they can effectively manage the work schedule. Task management can be a […]

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SCORM vs Tin Can vs X-API vs Experience API

SCORM vs Tin Can vs X-API vs Experience API

There is a lot of hype around the learning APIs, and I wanted to write a practical explanation that I honestly wish I had before we invested the time and resources we did. Hopefully, this will help you make an informed decision. First, let’s start out by simplifying. Basically Tin Can API, Experience API, xAPI are […]

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Will PHP 7 Save The World?

Well Rasmus Lerdorf, the inventory of PHP thinks so. At his May 12, 2017 speech at WeAreDevelopers in Vienna, he demonstrates the amazing performance gains in PHP7. We switched our servers and think its awesome. What do you think?

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