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Selling Beyond Price

Jason Forrest, an EO Fort Worth Member and CEO of Forrest Performance Group Price isn't enough to set one product or service apart from the competition. Answering the question, "What makes us unique?" and developing three signature features provides a simple but effective training method to prepare sales teams to speak confidently and persuade customers to choose you over other

November 6, 2015

Market Yourself Without Trying

By Andy Bailey, an EO Nashville member and Chief Acceleration Officer of NationLink Wireless As business owners, we don’t like to spend money on things that cost more than they return. Our company is no different, and we have found some creative ways to make “stuff” that we already spend money on work even harder for

November 5, 2015

Huddle Up! Seven Minutes That Can Change Your Company

By Brian Scudamore, an EO Vancouver member and founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Meetings can be painful. A quarter of all office workers complain they spend more time in meetings talking about work than actually doing it. In fact, research suggests that unproductive meetings may be the biggest time thief on the job. But they’re not the

November 5, 2015

Lessons Learned from My First Time on the Inc. 5000 List

It's a one-of-a-kind experience to make the Inc. 5000 list, and this entrepreneur took advantage by learning all she could from it. Inc. published lessons learned from Fran Biderman-Gross, an EO New York member! Fran Biderman-Gross, an Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) member from New York, is the Founder and CEO of Advantages, a purpose-driven design, marketing and

November 4, 2015

Knowing What You Know Now…

Knowing what you know now, what one piece of advice would you give your earlier self? We interviewed four people for Octane magazine. Check out their responses...! “I would tell myself to always listen to my gut feelings, and not to agree to something just because the ‘experts’ say so, even when my instincts say otherwise.”

November 4, 2015

“Where I’m From…”: Reflections from an Oklahoman Entrepreneur

Family heritage and the physical spaces in which we were raised have a great impact on us, as entrepreneurs, for better or worse. Technology consultant and EO Oklahoma member, Mr. Kraettli Epperson, shares why his home state produces such unique entrepreneurs: As a fourth-generation Oklahoman, whose grandparents, great uncles, and great-grandparents included a turn-of-the-century Oklahoma oilfield wildcatter, a

November 3, 2015