Archive for January, 2010

Work harder not smarter?

Go ahead and slap your forehead in disbelief when I tell you this – it is hard to sell to someone unless you know who they are. Yet most of the sales people I talk to cries about the ugly state of their data. Most complain that they don’t have time to clean it. Data, [...]


Creative fund-raising in a down economy

Bake sales may work for raising funds for your local school … but imagine selling vegetables from your garden to help support a hospital.  That was the case in 1880 for Alexian Brothers Hospital after it opened in Chicago.  In fact, $15.34 was the revenue raised from the Alexian Brothers vegetable garden, along with $70.00 [...]