Happy Thanksgiving from OneDegreeConnected.com!

November 24, 2011

We were trying to think of how we could say thank you to all of our readers and OneDegreeConnected.com members this Thanksgiving.  We thought of putting it on a billboard, but seeing as how we have both members and readers all across the globe we decided against it. Then someone came up with the idea [...]

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How to Do a Proper Business Audit

November 22, 2011

Most people understand the idea of an audit when it comes to the financial numbers of a business.  However, most people don’t audit other important areas of their business. What are some of these areas that you need to audit? 1) How is your phone answered?  Is it EVEN answered? If people can call to [...]

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Using Follow-up to Make More Sales

November 17, 2011

Everyone has heard that it is important to follow-up with prospects.  But why is follow-up so important, and what should it look like? Follow-up is important because the majority of people will forget about you minutes (if not seconds) after they get off the phone with you or go on to their next errand or [...]

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3 Quick Tips for Investing in Yourself

November 15, 2011

The only thing constant in the world is change.  The Internet is connecting people unlike anything we have ever seen before.  You can have virtual office assistants who greet people who come into your office via big-screen television.  You can have office assistants that answer the phone, prepare documents, and handle other work for you [...]

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7 Tips for Outsourcing Things in Your Business

November 10, 2011

Whether you are a one man (or woman) shop or a larger business with multiple employees, you will eventually have tasks come up that can be outsourced.  Outsourcing can be a great way for businesses to save money.  When that time comes you may choose to use a site such as vworker.com or odesk.com.   These [...]

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3 Steps to Take When Hiring a New Employee

November 8, 2011

If you are looking to hire a new employee in the next few months or if you have recently hired a new employee, here are 3 steps that will make them a better employee over the long-term.  These 3 steps will take place in the form of an email with answers to questions at the [...]

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How to Beat Your Competitors: Four Quick Tips

November 3, 2011

Let’s face it.  We all have some sort of competition out there.  And we would all love to know what we need to do in order to beat the competition.  Today we are going to discuss four quick tips that will teach you how to beat your competitors. 1)    Subscribe to their email newsletters.  This [...]

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Power Circles and the Dunning-Kruger Effect

November 1, 2011

Have you ever made a mistake in your business or life, and looking back you just couldn’t figure out what was wrong?  Don’t worry, there is a good reason for it.  It’s called the Dunning-Kruger effect. David Dunning, a Cornell professor of social psychology, along with Justin Kruger, his research assistant, have done research that [...]

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What You Can Learn About Business from a Movie About Baseball…

October 27, 2011

The Movie “Money Ball” has been released recently.  In case you are not aware of the movie it is based upon a book written by Michael Lewis about the Oakland Athletics Baseball team ran by general manager Billy Beane.  What makes this an interesting story is that in the early 2000′s Billy Beane successfully competed [...]

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Sales and Marketing Basics: Blocking and Tackling, Part 2

September 27, 2011

In part 1 of our article, Sales and Marketing Basics: Blocking and Tackling we discussed how much like blocking and tackling are fundamental basics in football, targeting the right people, approaching these people in the right way, and following up are fundamental basics in sales and marketing.  So why are each of these basics so [...]

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