Establishing Sales Leads

Establishing Sales Leads If you do a search for "get sales leads," you'll find several companies that will sell you "leads" by the thousands. But... how many of those will turn into actual sales? Is this the right approach for your business model? If not, what is the best strategy to grow your sales pipeline? If you have others in your organization contacting customers, then how do you empower them with the tools they need to maximize their success?Continue...

Learning from the BP Oil Spill Disaster

Learning from the BP Oil Spill Disaster Late on the evening of April 20, 2010, an explosion ripped the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig, owned by British Petroleum (BP), located about 50 miles southeast of Louisiana's Gulf of Mexico coastline. 11 lives were lost. What if this were your company? Do you claim that your business is "socially responsible?" How will you back that up when the time comes? There are many lessons to be learned from the BP Oil Spill Disaster presently and probably well into the future.Continue...

Post Mortem on Securing WordPress

Post Mortem on Securing WordPress A couple of days ago we were hit with one of the shared hosting mass infections going around. It took us nearly 8 hours to fully recover. It was very frustrating, but it was a learning experience. There isn't one web application that is 100% secure.Continue...

Today’s Site Issues

Today’s Site Issues It's nearly 8PM here and we think we've cleared off all the malware from our hacked site today thanks to the team at GoDaddy. We were made aware of this when a client called and stated that he got a "malware" warning from Google when trying to visit our site.Continue...

Updated: Seminar on Using Blogging in Your Writing Career

Due to scheduling conflicts, we will not be the featured presentation at the May 8, 2010 meeting of the Louisville Christian Writers Group.Continue...