Boost Revenue with Better Visibility through CRMS

Onsite CRM Software

The nature of the Internet and the many changes brought about by it and related technologies ultimately mean that your customers and your marketing team are spending a lot more time talking to each other. While this can be a good thing in the long run, it puts a serious burden on your staff. One of the things you need to consider is whether or not everybody your team is going to be on the same page when talking to their customers.

That’s where your customer relationship management system can really pay for itself and then some. A CRMS lets every person in your company see the same information about every customer every time. This insures that the entire team is working together instead of each one starting over with new and different data every single time.

But CRM doesn’t stop there. A great system is going to do so…

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Practicing and Taking Vows on Your Own

Lama Surya Das

John E.:

I have been reading your books for many years and am now.  They bring me peace and hope.  In my area we have but one Buddhist temple and it is Kadampa not Dzogchen. I have purchased a copy of The Buddhist Path.  I’m seeking advice: can I just practice Dzogchen, take the Bodhisattva vow on my own and do my best in my own way?  Thank you so much.

Lama Surya Das:

Sure, you can fruitfully and even joyously just practice Dzogchen, take the Bodhisattva vow on your own, and do your best in your own way, as you say…no problem there.

Buddha himself said, on his deathbed lying beneath a Sal tree in N India, these final words, “All conditioned things are impermanent, work out your salvation with diligence.” Then he slipped into nirvanic peace and deathless ease, as ‘tis said. I suggest that you could learn a little more about…

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6 Time Management Tips from the Buddha

Lama Surya Das

Among all the substances we misuse and abuse, the greatest is time. Time is life; we squander it at our peril. Killing time deadens ourselves.

Almost everyone I encounter complains that they don’t have enough. But where did it all go? Why aren’t our labor-saving devices and faster means of travel and communication liberating us? Or at the very least, providing us with more leisure to accomplish the things that we want and need to do, or letting us simply slow down and enjoy what we’ve worked so hard for?

Does anyone have time today? I do! During the 40 years I’ve spent studying and teaching Buddhism, and in the process of writing my new book, “Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now,” I’ve learned how to find, make, and keep time.

Actually, it’s not time we lack; it’s focus, awareness and a sense of…

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