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Five Old School Best Practices for Successful Social Media

Over the course of my career, I’ve seen an amazing evolution in the way businesses communicate. When I started out 20 years ago, PR professionals were just starting to move away from sending press releases out by mail and embracing the fax machine.

tags: business, technology, smcslc, social media, social media club of salt lake city, social media minute
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Jeff Thredgold's Tea Leaf - "Noise and Transition"

The February U.S. employment data was subject to wide interpretation in regard to how the labor market is performing, with nasty East Coast weather during much of February greatly impacting the data. Economists refer to such data influence as “noise.”

tags: business, economy, jeff thredgold, tea leaf newsletter
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How Effectively Do You Move Prospects Through Your Sales Pipeline?

There are two major problems that salespeople have with their sales pipeline. The first is having too few prospects to reach the level of sales you desire and the second is having more prospects in your pipeline than you can possibly follow-up with in a reasonable amount of time.

tags: business, business performance group, sales, tim huffaker
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Mark Your Calendars for Governor Herbert's Economic Summit and EDCUtah's Quarterly Investor Update

The Governor's Economic Summit will be held on March 29 at the Grand America Hotel. Sign up now for the early bird registration and get a discount on your reservation. See this form for the discount coupon code. 

tags: business, economic development, edcu, jeff edwards
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Putting the Social back in Social Media

Social Media is by far the largest and probably the most misunderstood concept of this generation.

tags: business, technology, smcslc, social media, social media club of salt lake city, social media minute
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Jeff Thredgold's Tea Leaf - "Wouldn't it Be Nice If...

…the President and the Congressional leadership would stop talking about being “pro-business” and actually a) promote pro-business policies, and b) remove anti-business initiatives that dominate their agenda

tags: business, economy, jeff thredgold, tea leaf newsletter
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Protecting Our Investment in Education is Key to Utah's Future

Business leaders know that focusing on core strategies during difficult times helps our companies emerge stronger than ever. With new revenue estimates now available, Utah legislators are weighing difficult choices about balancing the state’s budget. They face the same strategic issue as businesses—what decisions and investments today will build Utah’s strength and prosperity tomorrow?

tags: education, salt lake chamber, scott anderson
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Emergency Preparedness for Your Business

This week another catastrophic event took place when Chile was rocked by a magnitude 8.8 earthquake. Of course the region is devastated but it’s in slightly better shape than Haiti was, having had earthquakes before. However, this latest disaster put me in mind of the importance of emergency preparedness for small businesses.

tags: luz robles, zions bank
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Overcoming Sales Discouragement

There is only one other person that hears the word “NO” more often that a salesperson and that is a toddler; that is just the nature of sales

tags: business, business performance group, sales, tim huffaker
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2010 EDCUtah Golf for Grants Tournament Set for June 2

Come join us for one of the landmark benefit golf tournaments in Utah -- EDCUtah's Golf for Grants Tournament.

tags: business, economic development, edcu, jeff edwards
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