5 Email Marketing Resolutions to Ensure Success in 2016

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Ah, the beginning of another year is right around the corner.
With the holiday chaos nearly behind us, it’s time to look ahead and make plans to get the most out of 2016. For a marketer, the New Year is the perfect time to evaluate your overall strategy and determine what’s working and what’s not. Just as people promise to volunteer and hit the gym to better themselves, marketers should create New Year’s resolutions to better their brands as well. 

Have we reached the end of physics? | Harry Cliff

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Why is there something rather than nothing? Why does so much interesting stuff exist in the universe? Particle physicist Harry Cliff works on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and he has some potentially bad news for people who seek answers to these questions. Despite the best efforts of physics (and the help of the biggest machine on the planet), we may never be able to explain all the weird features of nature. Is this the end of physics? Learn more in this fascinating talk about the latest research into the secret structure of the universe.

How Attached Sales Produce Greater Value for All

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Everyone knows the old business adage “It takes money to make money.” The cost of sales is made up of a number of variables – sales salaries, commissions, expenses, and marketing. The cost of sales is also compounded by time: The longer it takes to find and close a sales opportunity, the more expenses increase.

Softening Statements to Get Prospects Talking

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Softening Statements to Get Prospects Talking
By Mike Brooks, www.MrInsideSales.com
 
One of the objections I always get from sales people who don’t want to use scripts is that they sound so, well, like scripts.  I tell them that if they sound like they are reading them, sure, but if they internalize them and then deliver them naturally, then they don’t sound like scripts at all.  

Fuji Xerox Launches New B2B Product With a Fashion Show

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“Selling print devices to large organizations, it’s not a particularly sexy business to be in, so we’re always looking for different ways to try to engage and motivate our customers,” Steven Caunce, Corporate Affairs Manager, Fuji Xerox, said. Read one to learn how Fuji Xerox used the launching of a new product as an opportunity to be creative and accounted for 34% of the Asia-Pacific sales total.

What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger

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What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. As the director of 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.

An underwater art museum, teeming with life | Jason deCaires Taylor

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For sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, the ocean is more than a muse -- it's an exhibition space and museum. Taylor creates sculptures of human forms and mundane life on land and sinks them to the ocean floor, where they are subsumed by the sea and transformed from lifeless stone into vibrant habitats for corals, crustaceans and other creatures. The result: Enigmatic, haunting and colorful commentaries about our transient existence, the sacredness of the ocean and its breathtaking power of regeneration.

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