This article is about how to close a deal in one call. I mean it — literally one conversation with a stranger that ends with a signed contract. There may be industries in which this technique doesn’t apply, but, for the most part, if you think this is impossible in...

Email is an incredibly important marketing tool - but only if you know how to use it.  Here are a few tips to help you up your game. No matter how many people trumpet the slow death of email, year after year, it remains one of our most enduring communication...

We all want to be our best when it matters most. But when pressure mounts, we often get in our own way and perform far below our true ability. We see the high-pressure situation as a threat, an instinct that comes from a primitive part of our brains we call...

As an entrepreneur and CEO of my own business, it's important for me to make the most of my time and put my expertise to use in the right areas. However, this is easier said than done. For many business owners and entrepreneurs, we got to where we are because...

Valentine’s Day can be a very romantic, memorable day for you and your loved one. However, if you’re part of the 1% of the world, you might find that you don’t have the time - or the loved one - to celebrate the holiday of love. Enter Ivy International, a...

It seems like almost every day a new article comes out about Millennials. By now, everyone thinks they know what they’re all about — including the problems they bring to companies trying to hire them. But pigeonholing or stereotyping someone based on the generation he or she was born into...

Regardless of how you voted last November 2016 for US President, the results of a Trump victory are shaking the pants off corporate board room execs from here to China and back. Weeks before becoming President Mr Trump seemingly in a matter of ‘Tweets’ reversed the course of U.S. manufacturing...

Innovation has been a centerpiece of human history. We humans like to credit ourselves with improving on the lives of our forbearers -- from the discovery of the wheel, the productivity of the Industrial Age, the connectivity of the Information Age, we tend to view our capacity to innovate as...

Fortunately, there is no shortage of colleges and universities out there, ever wonder how the world’s best engineering and technology programs stack up against one another? The CEOWORLD magazine’s "Education Institutions Ranking Report, 2017" has released the world's best universities for engineering and technology, 2017 list. It would come as...