Where are Your Sales and Marketing Efforts Focused?

I was recently reading an annual report for a successful company, and, as always, I looked at the words used about customers ... of the success of this business.  The annual report is written in such a way as to bring out this focus ... information. A Customer Focus In this report, I looked for more.  Specifically, I looked to see how [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 18:31:26

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Data Quality Best Practices for Salesforce.com

Executive Summary An effective plan for entering, cleaning and updating the data for your salesforce.com (SFDC) ... & marketing excellence, published its annual study of sales organizations worldwide on January 12, 2004. The 2004 Sales Excellence Report, which includes responses from over 1,300 sales executives, cited [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 23:27:22

Every Scandal Needs A Scalp; More Scalps Needed

Some housing bubble news from Wall Street and Washington. MarketWatch, “Sales of new U.S. single-family homes tumbled 2.5% in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 512,000 as sales in the West fell to a 26-year ... the number of sales, because they don’t account for canceled sales. The report is based on contracts [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 17:38:42

The Worst Market Predictions of 2008

It was February 2007 when we warned of the coming subprime collapse and the impending doom that we're now party to ... maddening, check out our free report on the Culprits of the Financial Crisis. As reported by Yahoo: "Here ... said November sales were running at an annual rate [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 00:29:33

More Retail Bankruptcies Likely

So just how bad are things? U.S. retail (and food services) sales in December were down by nearly 10% from the previous year. ( ... season represent a disproportionate percentage of retailers’ annual sales and profits, so the poor ... Inc., was auctioning itself on Wednesday after reporting that it may have to liquidate if it can’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 10:53:00

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 01 December 2008

FINTAG COMMENT Shopping. Before Google (BG), analysts had to make phone calls and visit companies to be able to write research reports ... and just like the end of the dot com era, shirts and ties are back in fashion. So when I saw Bob Diamond's ... a barometer of overall holiday sales, which account for 25 to 40 percent of their annual sales [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 09:02:43

Oil Prices Continue Slide

For all of you out there, like me, who have been very pleased with the drastic cut in gas prices, here's some more good news ... turnaround after a 4.1 percent gain in 2007. It was the first time the annual retail sales figure ... had been an increase of 2.4 percent in 2002, the year after the 2001 recession. The report helped send [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:20:51

Toyota slashes earnings forecast

Following Toyota’s official announcement back in August that it was reducing its global sales target for 2009 by 700,000 vehicles comes a new report that claims the industry juggernaut has cut its annual earnings ... of the previous year’s profit of ¥1.72 trillion yen, reports the Detroit Free Press. Toyota has previously cited [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 12:21:03

Merck Loses Vioxx Appeal

The New Jersey Supreme Court has thrown out a Merck & Co. appeal of a $4.5 million Vioxx award. According to a Business Week report, the dismissal ended the last unresolved Vioxx patient lawsuit. Vioxx was approved for use in 1999, and quickly became a blockbuster for Merck, with annual sales of $2.5 billion. However, [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 16:55:39

I’ve Tried That Investigates: Crazy Fox

It’s late at night. You don’t know why you’re up but you can’t sleep ... report published in November of 2006! The fact is, there has never been a better opportunity to work ... years? With annual revenues of more than $1.8 billion dollars! Sales in more than 62 countries [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 03:55:19

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