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Are You Winning the Battle?

How often can you honestly say that your sales managers apply this rule to their salespeople? What systems do your salespeople have in place to ensure victory, even before they

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Industrial boom shows no signs of slowing

The sheer mass of all the big box industrial buildings that have raced out of the ground in the last two years in South Florida could hold the entire populous

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Sales People Taking Shortcuts?

Logan, a software sales rep, had been having a rough day. He’d been bombarded with questions from several customers and gotten behind on work he needed to finish before the

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Solid foundation

South Florida’s hottest office towers are attracting suitors faster than debutantes at a country club.  CityPlace Tower, Courvoisier Centre, 350 and 450 East Las Olas Boulevard, and Douglas Entrance are

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Crucial Steps

Last month’s column talked about the first two steps in hiring a sales person: Identifying what an ideal candidate looks like for your organization and searching for the candidate. This

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Retail rebound

 You don’t have to look much further than the local street corner to realize retail is back in South Florida.  New retail developments have begun to spring up like lilacs

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Don’t skip a step

I’m often surprised about how inconsistent businesses are when it comes to hiring sales people. They may not have an organized procedure and many entrepreneurs rely on gut instinct.  In

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The payoff for hard work

If there’s a theme for this issue, it’s sacrifice and persistence. It starts with our cover story on Jordan Zimmerman of Zimmerman Advertising. He sacrificed by living on his parents”

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Tech Scene Can Thrive

One of the missions of SFBW is to highlight new and emerging companies in the technology field. While I love real estate, tourism and retail, our region has long needed

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Hitting the Peak

If you missed the Apogee Awards, you missed one of the region’s top networking events. SFBW attracted a who’s who of C-level leaders to our Nov. 6 program at the

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Expect a great 2015

I guess this is where someone with 30 years of business journalism and an economic minor should be ready to pick apart what’s ahead with the economy. Sorry, doubters. Like

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Cracks in Cuba policy

President Barack Obama has cleared the way for U.S. businesses to do more business in Cuba, which prompted this cover’s illustration about whether the U.S. trade embargo is springing some

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