Gene Marks
President of The Marks Group
Gene Marks is president of The Marks Group, a ten-person Philadelphia-based consulting firm specializing in sales and marketing technologies. Gene is the author of six books, most recently, The Manufacturer's Book Of List (CreateSpace - October, 2013).
Planning
The Good News Is 15 Percent of Galaxy Note 7 Customers Aren't Idiots
Why are 85 percent of recalled phones still in pockets, purses and airplanes despite danger of fire and explosion? For the same reasons people let their businesses slowly fall apart.
Leadership
Who do You Support for President? Then You're Fired!
You should know this without being told but putting your politics in your employees' faces is making them really uncomfortable.
Business Skills
Quick: What's 15 Percent of $129?
Business is mainly about numbers. If you don't understand that, you have more than a math problem to solve.
Starting a Business
Poop! A Startup Story Unleashed.
An entrepreneur who liked dogs far more than his corporate job looked walked a winding, messy path to launching his own business.
Golf
Nike Just Validated What I Already Knew: Golf Sucks
For everyone seeking an astronomically expensive and frustrating time suck with no health benefit, there is golf.
Twitter
11 Silly Words in Your Twitter Profile That Make You Look Like a Complete Tool
Seriously, you're "passionate" about organizational development? That sounds lonely.
Delegating
Kylie Jenner Learns a Harsh Business Lesson That You Already Know
Owning a business means being responsible for much more than you really have any control over.
Hiring
Hiring Requires Choices and Not Every Choice Is 'Discrimination'
Even the fairest of employers knows that, for some jobs, gender, age and physical ability are valid reasons for hiring one person and not another.
Priorities
You're Too Busy? No, You're Not. Here's Why.
Nobody cares how busy you are, they only care what you get done.
Marketing Bootcamp
Why Aren't More People Responding to Your Emails?
If people don't want to read your e-prose, it's time to work harder at making it more interesting.
academics
These Are the 8 Dumbest Research Studies of 2016 (So Far)
The more you study the conclusions of frivolous research, the more confidence you'll have in your gut instincts.
Problem Employees
5 Ways You Annoy Your Employer
Your job might be on your nerves, but at least you're not paying to be there.
Company Culture
This Is Why Lots of Talented People Choose to Never Work for a Big Company
You could be a very comfortable cog in that very large machine. There are reasons why you went another way.
Closing Sales
No Successful Salesperson Is Too Proud to Use Any of These 12 Shameless Tactics
There is nothing wrong with "returning'' a call the prospect said they were going to give you but, apparently, has forgotten to.
Linkedin
The 12 Types of People You Hate On LinkedIn
The thing about meeting a lot of people is that you're certain not to like all of them.