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Skills 360 – Defending your Ideas (Part 1)

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Welcome back to Skills 360 for today’s lesson on how to defend yourself and your ideas in a competitive world.

Some people might think that good ideas will win the day, simply because they’re good ideas. But it’s not that simple. If you’ve got good ideas, you’re going to have to convince people of their value. And you’ll definitely have to defend them against all the people out to criticize or compete with you. It’s a dog eat dog world, as they say, and you want to make sure you’re not the dinner.

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VV 35 – English for Sales Management (1)

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In this Business English Vocabulary lesson, we’ll look at vocabulary and collocations related to sales management. A sales force is made up of sales reps who try to identify leads with potential customers called prospects. A sales rep must qualify these prospects as they move down the sales funnel. At the end of the funnel, a rep hopes to close a sale, or make a deal.

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Business English News 25 – Big Data

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Big Data

Explore the impact of Big data on business in this Business English News lesson.

By now, odds are you’ve heard the term “Big Data”. The thousands upon thousands of giga, tera, and peta bytes that are collected everywhere around us has caused concern for some, and jobs and wealth for others.

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