Tweet Setting goals – and meeting them – is vital to operating a successful small business. Still, it’s hard to make time for goal setting when you have so many mundane, but vital, daily tasks to complete to keep your business running. A new video from the Coffee Coaching technology blog sponsored by HP and Microsoft features entrepreneur Andrea Sittig-Rolf, CEO of Sitting, Inc., a strategic business development consulting firm, and her tips for setting and reaching sales goals. 1. Keep your goals realistic “If saving $1 million is something you’ve dreamed about, maybe it’s possible … in your lifetime or even in a 10-year period. However, it’s likely that saving $1million in one year is unrealistic,” she says. “Turn [...]
Read More »“Our scoring system identifies the top supplier diversity comapnies on connXus.com. Buyers receive points for each opportunity they post on the connXus.com site, and additional points for awarding a contract to one of our supplier members,” said connXus.com Founder and CEO Rod Robinson.
Read More »Using connXus.com, YMCA of the USA found a terrific new supplier, right in its own backyard. According to YMCA of the USA Director of Strategic Sourcing Val Casteneda, “If it weren’t for connXus, we may not have found them.”
Read More »Tweet After the country’s long economic slump, it looks like temporary staffing indicators are stabilizing and the percentage of companies looking to hire temporary staff could rise in 2012. Meanwhile, a late 2011 survey of more than 17,000 companies across the U.S. and Canada points to the potential increase. A hiring trends survey by Express Employment Professionals, a large privately-held staffing company, showed hiring trends in the commercial and light industrial sectors hold promising opportunities, and 32 of respondents planned new hires in those job sectors. In addition, 28 percent planned to add office clerical and administrative staffers. Other promising areas for temporary workers were in the clinical/healthcare, customer service, food service, general labor, and maintenance, medical/dental/nursing and sales sectors, [...]
Read More »Tweet The fast-paced and ever-changing tech world offers suppliers a dizzying array of methods to choose from in digital marketing. It seems like every month a new way to market your services is invented, and it can be hard to decide which marketing techniques will work best for you. With a new year upon us, there are some early trends you’ll want to take a look at as you start or revise your own digital marketing strategies. An insightful article in the Boston Globe’s Global Business Hub blog, “6 Digital Marketing Trends to Watch in 2012“ says that “King of Search” Google, will be looking for quality, relevance and timeliness in content when deciding how to rank web pages in [...]
Read More »Tweet Happy New Year! I am excited to inform you that we will soon launch an enhancement to the connXus website aimed at providing our growing supplier community with additional content and tools aimed at accelerating the growth of their businesses. At connXus, we refer to this enhancement as “connXperts”. connXperts are functional experts who will contribute relevant content for the benefit of the connXus.com community. Our initial key functional areas of focus are as follows: Marketing & Selling Financing & Capital Small Business HR Small Business Legal Small Business IT Leadership & Motivation We are extremely excited about rolling out this new feature in the coming weeks and look forward to introducing you to our “world class” group of [...]
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The ConnXion Point is the blog for connXus.com, an online service connecting small, minority- and woman-owned businesses with companies seeking to hire diverse suppliers.
I'm Rod Robinson, founder and chief connector of connXus.com. I've spent 15 years in the procurement business as a minority business owner, company procurement officer and industry consultant.
The ConnXion Point will focus on issues, events and news about procurement and supplier diversity. So, whether you're purchasing or selling, we'll have information you can use. We also hope to facilitate a healthy, respectful exchange of viewpoints on issues surrounding supplier diversity and procurement.
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