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Stay Ahead of a Slowdown
As the economy appears to be slowing down again, business basics become even more important. Maintaining the fiscal discipline and successful sales techniques that you have used to survive the last few years is paramount. Getting your business processes in … Continue reading
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Nexstar Owner’s Spotlight in New Jersey
Another successful Nexstar Network Owners’ Spotlight Series event wrapped up recently in New Jersey. The event, dedicated to connecting Wall Street to Main Street, was attended by a contingent of 200 enthusiastic Nexstar members. Wall Street business reporter Betsy Stark … Continue reading
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Special Offer: Free Printed Flat Rate Price Book
You can meet NSPG’s Mike Conroy at the QSC Power Meeting on April 7 – 9, 2011 at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN. You may still be able to register to attend, so contact visit the QSC website to … Continue reading
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Quick Tech Tip – Customer Choices
It’s easy to create a range of solutions in your Flat Rate Price Books with NSPG software. Let’s say you want to set up a special group to improve your sales process for water heater replacements. The idea is to … Continue reading
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Give Them a Choice
Our advice to clients as they set up their sales process and their Flat Rate Books always includes providing choices for the customer. At its simplest, this concept offers Good, Better, Best solutions to common problems. This is easy to … Continue reading
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Quick Tech Tip
The Numbers Cruncher Quick Job Calculator is a fill-in-the-blank form that allows you to quickly quote any job based on just a few pieces of information. This is a simplified live version of the Task Grid built into NSPG Flat … Continue reading
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NSPG Sales & Support Office Schedule
The NSPG Sales Office and Premium Phone Support will be closed the week of December 5th. Standard email technical support will still be available through support@nspgweb.com during that week. To thank you for your patience, we will offer a 10% … Continue reading
Signs You’re Not Charging Enough
If you’ve looked at all of your costs, and you can’t cut any more, your only real option is to raise your rates. Knowing your actual breakeven can make this easier to do. Your choice will be to continue to short change yourself and your employees by charging too little, or you can ask your customers to pay a more reasonable price. Continue reading
Thanks
We’d like to thank the PHCC, QSC, and all the outstanding individuals we met last week at Connect 2010 in Las Vegas. It’s always a pleasure to meet with the people who are actually getting the work done every day. … Continue reading
The Cost of Delay
Last month we took a look at how most small businesses tend to put off decisions and actions until “just the right time”. This month, we’ll discuss why we all do this, and a few tricks to help us all … Continue reading
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