2012 February | WTAMU Incubation Works

Customer Service: not just for customers

Posted on: May 16th, 2012 | by adminIW | No Comments

Written by Cori Burns, Marketing Director for the WT Enterprise Center. For more information about the WT Enterprise Center visit www.IncubationWorks.com. When you are growing a business, the critical and key element for that growth always comes back to people. The people on your team and the culture you develop can make or break your growth. The [...]

I Love Local Commercials

Posted on: May 7th, 2012 | by adminIW | No Comments

Written by Brian Whipple, Program Coordinator of the WT Enterprise Center. For more information about the WT Enterprise Center visit www.IncubationWorks.com. I have a strange confession to make. . . I love local commercials. It is kinda a guilty pleasure of mine. I especially love cheesy car commercials. And yes, I can say that Bobby [...]

About Reserves. . .

Posted on: April 30th, 2012 | by adminIW | No Comments

I drive differently on 1/4 tank of gas. I consider spending differently when my bank account is running low. I act differently on fewer hours of sleep. I perform differently when a deadline is looming. When I’m in survival mode, creativity goes out the window. Having reserves in every area of our lives offers us [...]

The Innovation Pattern

Posted on: March 20th, 2012 | by adminIW | No Comments

Written by Brian Whipple, Program Coordinator of the WT Enterprise Center. For more information about the WT Enterprise Center visit www.IncubationWorks.com. There are probably thousands of blog posts claiming that there are indeed steps to innovation. And I, by no means, can verify the accuracy of any of them. Nor do I want to claim that [...]

What Does Success Look Like to You?

Posted on: February 1st, 2012 | by adminIW | No Comments

Written by Cori Burns, Marketing Director of the WT Enterprise Center. For more information about the WT Enterprise Center visit www.IncubationWorks.com. Being an entrepreneur means moving fast, being passionate about moving faster than others, and for most entrepreneurs, success. What is success exactly? I think most entrepreneurs and even clients of mine would say that success [...]

Do You Have the Stuff of an Entrepreneur?

Posted on: January 25th, 2012 | by adminIW | No Comments

Written by Jeff Reid, Associate Director of the WT Enterprise Center. For more information about the WT Enterprise Center visit www.IncubationWorks.com. A while back I read an article entitled, “What is The Stuff of an Entrepreneur?” by Jim Hatch and Jeffrey Zweig. The article outlined five characteristics that seem to be common with successful entrepreneurs. Interviews [...]

Would You Hire Tim Tebow?

Posted on: January 9th, 2012 | by adminIW | No Comments

If you are a football fan, then you probably have heard of the recent hype around the Denver Broncos quarterback, Tim Tebow. Even if you aren’t a football fan, then the subject has probably been brought up around the water cooler. The attention he has gotten over his faith has made national news for some [...]

The Golden Rule of Customer Service

Posted on: December 20th, 2011 | by adminIW | No Comments

My wife and I were talking the other night about how she was having a hard time connecting with one of her clients. She said that this lady always treats her as a salesperson. (She Is) So I popped off that maybe she wasn’t giving the customer what she wanted, and I don’t mean product. [...]

Enterprising Ideas with Amy Keuper

Posted on: December 15th, 2011 | by adminIW | No Comments

As entrepreneurs, we all understand the difficulties associated with generating leads and closing sales in a competitive market. With many businesses fighting for the same dollar it can be easy to get lost in the crowd and become unsuccessful in sales efforts. This Enterprising Ideas training was with Amy Keuper, a sales expert from a [...]

10 Techniques to Help You Become A Better Listener

Posted on: December 6th, 2011 | by adminIW | No Comments

I would like to share some information I learned at a recent International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) monthly meeting. This program has been pre-developed by IAAP for educational use by their individual chapters. According to Diana Bonet, author of The Business of Listening, most of us spend about 80% of the workday communicating. Listening [...]

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