Billy

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Business mentor and adviser to owners of SMEs, mostly. Contributor to Irish Tech News. Searching for truth in the news.
146 articles written by Billy

Celtar are proud to be project managing the second Your Business Day event on Friday, 9th of December 2011 in the Science Gallery, Pearse Street.

” We are delighted to be part of this major initiative from Greg Swift, Liam Barry and the team at DCEB” says Billy Linehan of Celtar, “already seeing the lineup it has been called the small business version of the Dublin Web Summit!”

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How to Get Started, Implement and Deliver Results
in a very difficult environment.

I see that change management consultants Eddie Molloy, Ian Kierans and the Advanced Organisation team are holding a new training programme for senior managers in the coming months.

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It is said that the essence of selling is understanding your customer’s needs, and convincing him or her that you’re the best supplier to meet their requirements.

I’ll add – that to sell you need to be in an optimistic frame of mind, seeing opportunities for the customer and for yourself in each sale.

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It’s been said that if you want to recruit good sales people “hire optimists”. Working with many sales managers over the years, we have debated what makes a “good” sales rep many times.

Here’s a look on the right behaviours for sales people – and the wrong behaviours!

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Rewards, ask not what the company can do for me?
A characteristic of motivated companies is how they use remuneration and reward strategies to align the goals of people with those of the company.
At Celtar we observe that in many organisations staff are rewarded for average performance.

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Tories following Brian Lenihan’s example?

Today we are bringing you a summary of the relevant economic and business information that was announced yesterday in Chancellor George Osborne’s first Budget.

This will be of interest for those already trading in the UK, or planning to

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Looking back we now recognise the negative influence of PR agencies, lobby groups and spin doctors hyping up the property speculation of the Tiger years. Much of the PR industry here mimicked the activities of their lobby group colleagues in Washington, promoting short term policies and deregulation.

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