Archive for February, 2010

PowerPoint Notes – A Simple Tool to Improve Your Presentations

You probably already know that one of the cardinal rules of PowerPoint presentations is not to read from the slides as you make a presentation. If you do, your audience is soon lulled into turning their attention away from you and exclusively to the screen. Worse yet, they may be thinking, “Why didn’t she just [...]

Cold Calling – A Surprising Way To Gain Insider Information

If you knocked on all the doors in your neighborhood, you’d learn a lot about the people who live around you. Did you know that the same thing is true when you make cold calls to sales prospects? Certainly, cold calling is primarily a prospecting tool. VSA makes telephone calls every day for our clients [...]

How Can You Be Innovative?

A couple of months ago I went along to something called an Innovation Partnership. I was quite excited about it – I’m a great believer in trying new ways of doing things, opportunities for thinking outside the box and a chance to discuss ideas with new people. This had all the ingredients of a useful [...]

South Africa – New Call Center Hub?

According to most professional surveys Indian call centers and BPO outsourcing facilities are still world’s best. However, according to UK-based marketing services specialist Ion Group, South Africa is catching up and may pose a strong challenge to India.

5 Mistakes That One Has To Avoid In The Career

In this article I would like to describe some mistakes that most of the people are doing while changing their domains to get a few more bucks. Don’t make these 5 mistakes in your career. 1.Don’t go for the job in another unknown domain: Leaping into another field is the worst thing that you are [...]