I received a letter in the mail this week from The Economist magazine. I didn’t even have to open it to know exactly what it was – yet another subscription offering me, their “preferred customer,” a discounted rate. Normally...
Paging through the Story behind The Economist
Meaningful Messages Move Companies Forward
eQ believes that cultivating relationships by keeping in contact requires sound knowledge and tested tools. But when all is said and done, the person communicating is on their own. Should he or she decide to really make it...
Mastering Communication through the Silence
How does one master nonverbal communication? Well how does one master anything in life? You study and you practice. During entreQuest training programs which are designed to help our partner companies improve the client...
There are many ways to think about communication. This is one angle. The definition of effective communication is dependent on the response you get back. Therefore, the dynamics are all about truly listening, as well as being...
A Candid Talk with Candidates
No two people are alike so it makes sense that no two candidates are the same either. Years of hiring for companies and hundreds of interviews with candidates have certainly ground this law of human nature into our heads here...
entreQuest has worked alongside a lot of CEO's, Presidents, COO's, and many a manager to grow their companies. After all, it's what we do day in and day out. So add up all those days over the years and we've learned a...
Why Sales Training Is Overrated
(*The following article was originally published in the current edition of OnPoint Magazine which is available to read at this link: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1f23836d#/1f23836d/1.) If you’re looking to grow sales,...
The Network that Keeps Your Company
About five years ago, city and statewide networking events were all the rage. We here at eQ actually built a concentrated sales strategy around attending them. We had two support staffers research every happy hour, committee...
Because eQ is so heavily invested in the power of a story, we decided to explore it at the level of two huge news stories taking the attention of the nation. The eQuest at hand was to determine who was selling their own story...