Fake bus stop helps Alzheimer’s patients

I heard about a very interesting idea tested by the owners of a rest home in Düsseldorf, Germany.  Worried about Alzheimer’s patients who would wander off, and not wanting to make the home feel like a prison, they simply placed a fake bus stop outside.  As they expected, disoriented patients would calmly wait at the bus [...]

Selling

I’ve been reading an excellent book, Wombat Selling by Michael Hewitt-Gleason. The core idea is elegant in its simplicity:

You don’t close the sale with your customer.  The customer closes the sale.

I imagine this strikes you either as confusing, or as “duh!” obvious.  Let me expand further, because it can entirely change the relationship you have with your customers.

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Social media to expand your business

Online social media are all the rage these days – everybody wants to know how to use this new technology to improve business results.  I’ve been engaged in this myself for many years so it’s a bit surprising that it’s taken so long, but there’s good reasons for it.

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