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Shared from Digital Marketing Lab | by Teresa Sperti

Some hail mobile as the saviour of the high street – whilst others are concerned about the impact mobile is having on bricks and mortar businesses as retail stores become showrooms for online retailers. Regardless of which corner you sit in – both points of view speak to the influence mobile is having on retail sales and that influence is only set to grow. A recent Deloitte study, titled the Dawn of Mobile Influence, affirmed the increasingly influential role mobile will play in the coming years with the report anticipating that by 2016 as much as 17-21% of all retail sales will be mobile influenced.

Shared from University of San Francisco Online

No matter how polished your pitch or how high your numbers, there is always room for sales improvement. Formal sales training – such as a sales certificate program – can help you avoid common pitfalls and add effective new tools to your arsenal of sales tactics. After all, if you’re not investing in your skills, you could be losing clients and commissions to others who are.

Shared from South University | by Megan Donley

The term “social media addiction” is frequently seen in headlines and tossed around by television pundits. But society should not be so quick to attach the term “addiction” to social media activities, experts say.

Shared from Mindjet Blog

According to OfficeTime.net, February is recognized as Time Management Month. In honor of saving our seconds, the site released its annual Top Ten Time Killers list (infographic style), as well as some tips on how to combat them.

It should come as no real shocker that e-mail is listed as the number one culprit here–several companies, including Atlassian, released similar reports last year that revealed the same results. In this particular survey, 33% of respondents reported spending between one to two hours per day contending with their inboxes, and a whopping 22% top even that. In fact, unlike all other activities, e-mail affected each and every one of the respondents. In other words, you can be certain of three things if you’re living in a world of business: death, taxes and e-mail.

Shared from Future Buzz | by Adam Singer

Must we go through this every year? Social media is still not new. It wasn’t new last year. Or the year before. In fact, it hasn’t been new for well over a decade. The web was social from day one, even if the term was popularized later on.

Shared from Future Buzz | by Adam Singer

You can’t make this stuff up. A few days ago an Applebee’s server posted the above receipt to Reddit. A rude and inappropriate response from what I would classify as a very selfish restaurant goer.

Any successful business manager will tell you that you never get the deal you deserve – you always get the deal you negotiate! 

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Shared from Linkedin | by Dave Kerpen

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