By Kostas Panagias, on July 27th, 2010%
You can use it to do amazing things and get a sound competitive advantage in sales and marketing
You spent several hundreds of Euros (or dollars) in the latest Smartphone model; perhaps an iPhone, a Blackberry, a HTC (like me!), etc. You have huge touch screens, lots of apps, fancy graphics and interfaces and you showoff. Admit it! One of the reasons of that purchase was just for showing off.
But you can certainly use your latest gadget to help you with your work. I mean REAL help. It’s way more than sending emails and having your contacts organized. Those are for kids. You can do great things and perhaps the most important application installed in your Smartphone is excel (for Windows Mobile or similar products for other platforms).
I will concentrate mainly in sales administration and help, but certainly you can use it for other things too (such as marketing functions, production functions, etc.). After all, we are all salesmen!
Let’s start!
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By Kostas Panagias, on July 26th, 2010%
New act for the development of the economic environment and businesses in Greece is about to be discussed in the Parliament tomorrow and to pass soon. In order to provide the necessary environment for new investments into the country, important incentives will be given especially in the field of taxation.
An example:
For an investment of 100 million . . . → Read More: Bold incentives for new investments
By Kostas Panagias, on July 25th, 2010%
5 out of 6 Greek banks succeeded in the European stress tests. 92 European banks participated in these tests. 1 German and 5 Spanish . . . → Read More: Banks’ stress tests
By Kostas Panagias, on July 21st, 2010%
The transition of Fnac (Greece) to Public was made in a couple of days. 2 of the 3 stores of Fnac have reformed to Public in less than 4 days. There has not been made any remodeling of the stores yet; those will be done gradually over time. The 3rd store will operate regularly as Fnac . . . → Read More: Fnac transition to Public
By Kostas Panagias, on July 21st, 2010%
The bad thing with business blogs is that you cannot reveal all the information available to you. The reason for that is obvious. I cannot expose information considering our operations or our competitors’ intelligence. I cannot reveal my strategic plans and / or policies in order to outperform competition and increase sales, revenues, profits, or lower . . . → Read More: Business blogging and disclosure
By Kostas Panagias, on July 19th, 2010%
Aldi, the large German multinational super market chain, has recently decided that will stop its operation in Greece by the end of this year. Aldi has recently entered the Greek market with great ambitions and has already launched 38 stores. This decision was released just one week after the announcement and immediate closure of Fnac in . . . → Read More: Aldi: the second multinational to leave Greece…
By Kostas Panagias, on July 13th, 2010%
The following numbers have been published in the “Ta Nea” newspaper and are based in two separate researches of the:
“National confederation of Hellenic Commerce”
and the “Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry”
70% of entrepreneurs state that they don’t have profitability anymore
40% of them cannot respond to their financial obligations
30% are thinking of downsizing
22,5% may change the country . . . → Read More: Economic Crisis in Greece: Some Numbers
By Kostas Panagias, on July 13th, 2010%
It’s very frustrating to interact with people “dangerously” inappropriate to conduct any sort of business activity. Unfortunately, there are lots of them in the retail sector. People are hired only on the criteria of low salary demands and are completely uneducated on selling or managing. It’s very sad and drives . . . → Read More: N00bs in retail!
By Kostas Panagias, on July 11th, 2010%
Fnac exited the market of Greece this weekend. The company has decided that Greece is not an interesting market for them anymore.
5.8 million Euros are the losses of Fnac in Greece since it’s started its operation 5 years ago. Their concept (hi-tech & culture) was unique at that time and the company was very ambitious at . . . → Read More: Fnac stops its operation in Greece
By Kostas Panagias, on June 22nd, 2010%
This article concerns wholesalers due to some distinct characteristics of wholesaling such as repeated sales orders, selling to clients (retailers) and not to end-user customers and clients buying from many vendors at the same period of time. The latter is very important because the game is about who gets the bigger portion of your clients’ buying . . . → Read More: Wholesaling
