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Emery Express and Consolidated Freight; an end of an era
By Lance Winslow - 1/4/2008

What many may not realize is that Emery Express was also a CF Company. You see John C. Emery, Sr. founded Emery Air Freight in 1946, when his company became the first air freight forwarder to apply for a common carrier license from the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). While Emery envisioned his compan...

The 11 Best Money Saving Ideas of All Time - Part 3
By Palyn Peterson - 1/4/2008

At any time in history, no matter what the current state of the economy, no matter what the current trends, no matter what the unemployment rate is or where interest rates lurk, some money-saving ideas stay true. Some of you may have heard of these ideas before, others may be entirely new to you. B...

What I learned About Soda Vending Machines
By Mike Corbin - 1/4/2008

Soda vending machines come in all shapes and sizes but the most common style are the stand-alone full sized machines. Soda vending machines have lots of capacity. Even my old one that I paid too much for had a capacity of over 500 cans with 7 total selections. That`s a lot of soda which also means t...

Keeping your Business Card visible
By Bette Daoust, Ph.D. - 1/4/2008

Famous quotes that keep you thinking. Have you ever listened to a speaker and they say something that you want to make note of and use later? More than likely, you will write it down and then file it away, never to be uttered again. The saying could be motivational or it can be something that change...

The Demand for Business Security Cameras
By Damian Sofsian - 1/4/2008

Businesses with employees to monitor were the largest purchaser of security cameras prior to the 9/11 attacks in New York City. Up until that time all kinds of businesses were interested in protecting themselves from employee theft of valuable items or even more valuable, sensitive information. Empl...

The Top 5 Issues Facing VP`s of Sales
By Brian Lambert - 1/4/2008

A recent study of 2,663 sales organizations by Think Training, Nightingale Conant, and Trainique uncovered five areas that shed light on what separates the best from the rest (visit http://www.revegrowth.com/free_articles.htm for a copy) Issue one - A poorly defined sales process. 82% of all CEO?s ...

Prospecting -The Importance of Repetition
By Bill Truax - 1/4/2008

When we talk about our BLITZ CALL® System for prospecting and making cold calls we say that it is easy to learn, simple to do, low key, repeatable, measurable, and effective. People seem to understand each of those characteristics except the word repeatable. Repeatability is important in virtually ...

Prospecting -The Chinese Definition of Insanity
By Bill Truax - 1/4/2008

The Chinese definition of insanity is, ?Doing the same thing over and over, but expecting a different.? How appropriate for Prospecting. I talk with sales people all the time who have trouble with Prospecting, yet continue to Prospect the same way. I don?t bother to ask them why, since that is a b...

Hispanic Media Training: How It Can Benefit You
By Elena Del Valle - 1/4/2008

How can media training help you create a successful Hispanic market campaign? There are plenty of examples of Hispanic market campaigns with a broad range of results. Many of you have heard of the infamous airline that invited travelers to fly ?naked?. In the same way, the slogan for pork as ?the ot...

Asset Management System
By Alison Cole - 1/4/2008

The term "asset management" refers to the process of managing the capital portfolios of a company by a professional management team. The team can invest capital in any of the following areas. Fixed Income Securities are investments that provide fixed periodic returns. Since the interest rate on thes...

Starting Your Own Nursing Agency Business
By Florence Gale - 1/4/2008

It?s no secret that the United States has a nursing shortage, one that promises to grow to alarming proportions. Too many nurses are retiring, and too few are entering the profession. To compound the problem, within the next 5 to 10 years, over 76 million Baby Boomers are scheduled to retire from th...

How`s Your Net Working?
By Betty Mahalik - 1/4/2008

In recent weeks, I`ve had the opportunity to pass along no fewer than five referrals to other people in my network. I also recently received a very professional and non-pushy email from someone I`ve never met, who is a member of an organization I`m part of. He introduced himself briefly, mentioned h...

Wear Your Best Gold To Go Shoot
By Terry Price - 1/4/2008

If you are looking for a gold necklace, there are so many different styles and fashions to choose from it can be confusing. A gold chain necklace is very versatile and goes with nearly any fashion you want to wear. If you prefer a smooth and delicate look or even a bolder look, you can achieve thi...

Don`t Put All Your Promotion Eggs In The SEO Basket
By Gary Mchugh - 1/4/2008

One of the most frequent questions I get asked by my clients is "What is the best way to promote my site?" If a brand new webmaster asks me that question then I will take as much time as I can possibly muster to answer their request, before they learn about and put on the SEO and ranking blinkers s...

Have You Fallen into a Monkey Trap?
By Damien Senn - 1/4/2008

Have you ever stopped to think about how you might catch yourself a monkey? Well, it`s simple really, even for the monkey trapping novice. Here`s what you need to do?. Step 1: Go to where monkeys hang out. Step 2: Put a stack of peanuts in a small jar tied to a rope. Step 3: Go hide in the bushes (h...

Leadership Skills Coaching - Manager as Coach - Getting Past the Hype
By Megan Tough - 1/4/2008

The Old Way ? Command and Control
Although workplaces and management styles have come a long way in the last decade, the command and control style of management behaviour remains common practice in many companies. This management approach basically means that employees are told e...

Finding the Right Way to Motivate Your Employees
By Chris Widener - 1/4/2008

Fear, Incentives and Growth Zig Ziglar says that there are three main ways to motivate people in general and employees specifically. They are fear, incentives and growth. Let`s take a look at each one. Fear. This is not good. Number one, it isn`t right, and number two, it doesn`t work well in the lo...

Lessons from Donald Trump and The Apprentice: A Career Coach`s Perspective
By Cathy Goodwin - 1/4/2008

What can we learn about careers from watching Donald Trump and The Apprentice? 1. Recognize that job tests don`t always correspond to job realities. Hundreds of companies screen candidates through psychological tests, stress interviews, group interviews, role-playing and a whole lot more. Do thes...

Saying One Thing, Doing Another...
By Colin Shaw - 1/4/2008

This week I was asked to speak at an internal conference for a bank. The subject was how to build a great customer experience. However, the reality was somewhat different to the title. I sat listening to speaker after speaker - all coming along with the same message ?how can we stuff more products i...

Trusting Your Gut: How to Lead Using Your Instincts
By Mark A. Paul - 1/4/2008

We were all born with natural instinct. We cried when we were hungry - not because we were taught to, but because it was our instinctive response to our physical need. Emotion calls on instinct too. The ?flight or fight? response to fear is one most of us have experienced and, with the adrenaline po...

The Forgotten Advertising Tip
By Anita DeFrank - 1/4/2008

I`m sure while you have seen many tips on advertising, many that talk about testing and tracking your ads, I`m sure that this one important tip is rarely mentioned: Running more than one ad at a time isn`t the greatest idea. While it seems like a good idea to spend your monthly advertising budget al...

The Perils and Pitfalls of Pay-per-click Advertising
By Cari Haus - 1/4/2008

In this age of speed dialing, T1 lines and other forms of high-tech instant gratification, many webmasters find themselves tempted to engage in pay-per-click advertising. After all, if you?ve just designed a state-of-the-art website, there?s nothing quite as gratifying as a steady stream of traffic...

Resilience
By Oscar Castello - 1/4/2008

I. INTRODUCTION The term resilience, which is of frequent use in the psychotherapy area, has recently started being used in the corporate field. In fact, this term came up in our language as a technical term, with the following meaning: ?The power that certain materials ?mainly metals- have of resum...

How a Digital Camera Works
By Jakob Jelling - 1/4/2008

The digital camera is not something of a magic box that came out of the blue and made wonders! The digital camera is very much like the conventional analog camera, but the technology has been altered. It also contains most of the associated components that the conventional camera contains, like lens...

Ben Franklin Didn`t Quite Get it Right
By Terry Mitchell - 1/4/2008

When Ben Franklin said "a penny saved is a penny earned", he didn`t quite get it right. Actually, a penny saved is worth more than a penny earned. Do you find this statement shocking? I am about to prove to you that what I`m saying is true. Most people erroneously believe the best way to strengthen ...

Culture Management and Creativity
By Kal Bishop - 1/4/2008

Many concepts in the fields of managing creativity are very much applicable to culture management in general. The same concepts that foster creativity and innovation also maximise human capital potential, increase productivity, reduce costs and maintain competitive advantage etc. Some of the many co...

E-Marketing Deliverability Issues
By Kath Pay - 1/4/2008

Does it seem to you that when you view ?openings? within your statistics, that fewer recipients seem to be opening your campaigns?... Where: There are 3 places your email can go once you have hit ?send? on your latest e-marketing campaign: 1. The Inbox. Safely delivered (and hopefully read!) 2. Junk...

How PR Makes a Manager`s Life Easier
By Robert A. Kelly - 1/4/2008

Things are pleasant for many business, non-profit or association managers when their public relations people deliver newspaper and talk show mentions, informative brochures and videos, and special events that attract a lot of people. But things could be much more pleasant for those managers if ...

5 Creative Evolutionary Leadership Niche Strategies!
By Bill Thomas - 1/4/2008

I have a short story to share with you about an important skill many leaders need to develop, use and perfect. Life is a journey. The signposts along the path pointing out the way are many and are sometimes hard to understand. We hear news stories telling us it is the dawning of a knowledge-based so...

Are You Too Old To Go Back To School?
By Deanna Mascle - 1/4/2008

You want to go back to school and continue your education. Perhaps you`d like to earn your first degree or ou`d like to earn a new degree in a different field. You`ve been dreaming of that degree but haven`t dared believe your dream can come true because you think you are too old. You aren`t. It rea...

Is your Online Business Customer-Friendly?
By Philippa Gamse - 1/4/2008

Customer service is increasingly seen as one of the most valuable uses for a commercial World Wide Web site.  Your Web site is available on a 24 hour, seven days a week basis.  So it is well worth exploring ways in which your customers can virtually ?serve themselves," without the need for overtime ...

Direct Mail Rules of Thumb
By Brian Knapp - 1/4/2008

First and foremost - You should identify your target market. Target your direct marketing lists. Identify who you are selling to, and why they should buy from you instead of your competition. Keep in mind that placing your offer in front of 100 targeted response leads that have shown an interest o...

Buy A Business With A Broker And You Could End Up Dead Broke, Wondering What The Heck Happened
By Art Hamel - 1/4/2008

I will be honest with you: I don`t like business brokers. In fact, I`ve only known a small handful during my entire 50 years of buying businesses I would deal with. That I trust. That didn`t try to purposely screw me over.
Now again, that doesn`t mean they`re all crooked. Just the ones I...

What Your Eye Doesn`t See
By Eric Hartwell - 1/4/2008

My mother used to say ?what the eye doesn?t see the heart doesn?t worry about?. To this day I don?t know what she was on about and why she used to say it to me when I was just a young boy. Moreover, there are plenty of things I worry about without witnessing them first hand. Indeed, I contribute, wh...

Building a Strong Brand Marriage
By Rod Whitson - 1/4/2008

If brands are about relationships, why not build a strong brand marriage? I?m not suggesting you actually walk down the aisle with your customers. But maybe the time has come to look at brand relationships in a different way? We all know that the best brands make strong emotional connections with t...

3 Questions That Will Get More Prospects To "Listen" To What You Have To "Say"
By Ernest Nicastro - 1/4/2008

One of the most profitable advertisements in history was a print ad for the Sherwin Cody School of English. Written in 1918, the ad ran for over 40 years, generating millions of inquiries, and millions in sales. Penned by the legendary adman and copywriter Maxwell Sackheim, its captivating headline ...

Credit Union Benefits: Give Employees a Raise at No Cost to You
By Nicole Soltau - 1/4/2008

In times of economic uncertainty, it is important to be creative with the benefits offered to employees. One of the best benefits that a company can offer to its employees is a credit union membership. Many credit unions will agree to give memberships to the employees of a certain company. For a com...

Non Products Exist in this World
By Arvind Kumar - 1/4/2008

?Both the market and the distributive channel are often more crucial than the product. Products are within the business as the accountants define it. They are within its legal boundaries. Economically the other two areas are as much part of business.? - Peter Drucker, Managing for Results. According...

Want to Light a Fire Under Your PR?
By Robert A. Kelly - 1/4/2008

Yes? Then do something positive about the behaviors of those important external audiences of yours that MOST affect your operation. Those embers can leap into flame when business, non- profit or association managers use public relations to alter individual perception among their target publics, ...

Personalized Search Versus Personal Choice
By Kevin Kantola - 1/4/2008

Personalized search is a hot topic especially since Yahoo! and Microsoft have announced they are aggressively developing this service. Most likely, people will be leery of personalized search if they think that this is just be another way for companies to market to them. Search engine research has s...

Corporate Fraud-In Praise of Jail Time
By Scott Pearson - 1/4/2008

Finally, we are beginning to see real serious consequences for some of the players in the frauds that have been so prominent in the recent news. A third Enron executive is now sitting in a jail cell, and one WorldCom top dog has been arrested. Even Martha Stewart has finally been indicted. It?s abou...

What Every Manager Should Know About How to Prevent Customer Service Conflicts
By Etienne Gibbs - 1/4/2008

There are five techniques that have been proven to be effective in resolving, minimizing, and preventing conflicts. And by conflicts I am referring to any of the following that may take place between two or more people: misunderstanding, miscommunications, arguments, disagreements, mixed messages, f...

How Roman Abramovich Became a Billionaire at Age 34, and Why Most Managers Struggle
By David Ferrers - 1/4/2008

When he was only 36 years old Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea Football Club. Within a year he had spent £90m on new players and Chelsea finished 4th in the league. Mr. Abramovich?s reaction was to fire the Manager in 2004 and bring in Portuguese coach Jose Marinho. In 2005 Chelsea won the Premiersh...

How to Deal With Salespeople
By Steve Kaye - 1/4/2008

If you are an executive, you may sometimes feel like a open jelly sandwich at a picnic. Every crazy critter in the world wants to bite into your budget. Here`s how to protect your time and preserve your sanity. Ask questions Many salespeople work from a script. Rather than let them read it, interrup...

What Can Model Airplanes Teach You About Trading?
By David Chandler - 1/21/2007

I was devastated! I just couldn`t believe it. I was 10 years old and my dreams were shattered. I never wanted to look at another model airplane again! But I`m getting ahead of myself. Let me start at the beginning. When I was about 8 years old my older brother got interested in model airpla...

An Introduction To Point Of Sale Software
By Jakob Jelling - 1/17/2007

Point of sale software gives business owners a convenient way of checking out customers and of recording sales. It can keep a record of the store inventory, updating it when an order is processed. It can also print out receipts, carry out credit card processing, track customers, etc. Point of sale s...

Let The Market Choose Your Price?
By Stuart Reid - 2/4/2006

Setting the correct price is hard for any on-line business, and there are plenty courses and manuals dedicated to this delicate subject. You want to have a price that will make you a profit, obviously. But you also want to have happy customers who feel you`ve charged a "fair" price. The problem is...

Is Accumulating a Net Worth of $1,000,000 Easy? Yes and No
By Mike Matthews - 1/22/2006

After purchasing Anthony Robbin`s Get The Edge program, I was a bit skeptical that it would provide much value. I can honestly tell you that it has dramatically changed many areas in my life. Many of my new or old goals are finally in clear focus, I`ve been taking action on a daily basis and more of...

Managers and PR: One Thing Is Clear
By Robert A. Kelly - 1/19/2006

As a business, non-profit or association manager, you have a clear choice when you set up your public relations. Arrange your resources to generate a variety of product and service plugs on radio, and in newspapers and in magazines. Or, use a broader, more comprehensive and workable public rela...

The Top 10 Reasons Businesses Succeed
By Jan B. King - 1/15/2006

Only one of every 5 businesses makes it to its 5th year, and fewer still make it to 10 years. What do the successful businesses have in common? 1. The experience and skills of the top managers. Over half of business failures are directly related to managerial incompetence. 2. The energy, persi...


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