- The Widening Gap
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written on February 22, 2011
by Kenyon Mau
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Employee Development
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In May of 2010, it became apparent to George Wilson, president of Metairie, La.-based Barriere Construction Co., that what was happening at his company demographically was also happening nationwide. Increasingly, older workers were reporting to more highly-skilled supervisors their kids' ages. The gap was widening.
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- Happy Chinese New Year
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written on February 22, 2011
by Tameka Taylor
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Diversity Awareness and Education
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The Chinese New Year 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit and began on February 3rd. The Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and lasts for 15 days.
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- Leading a Sales Force of One
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written on February 17, 2011
by Joe Mayer
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Relationship Selling Strategies
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For many small businesses, sales and marketing are the key components to success. Without customers seeing value for their operations in the products and services you offer and willingness to pay you adequately, no business can exist. So how do you lead a sales force if it consists of just one person and that person might be you? Here are five tips to make sure you leverage sales.
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- The IT Word of the Day- VIRTUALIZATION
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written on February 10, 2011
by Ryan Shorts
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Business Technology
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Historically servers have run a single operating system and required a dedicated machine to process applications and data. The new trend is virtualization, which allows you to run multiple virtual machines or VM’s on a single physical computer.
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- Why is Unemployment Stuck at Nine Percent
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written on February 10, 2011
by Frank Fantozzi
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Business Financial Planning
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When a recession strikes, an unfortunate by-product is that many workers are let go, and not always for economic reasons. A dark undertone plaguing unemployment is that many companies view difficult economic times as an opportunity to let go of marginal performers.
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- What Can Winter Teach us About Public Relations
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written on February 03, 2011
by Katherine Bulava
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Public Relations
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As I stare at the snow STILL falling outside my window, two things come to mind: (1) I’m grateful to work from home and (2) Cleveland winter is a lot like public relations. It’s persistent, it’s long-lasting and it’s as much about what you see as what you don’t.
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- The Bigger the Better
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written on February 03, 2011
by Phil Stella
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Networking Strategies
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It’s not about the size of your network -- it’s about the relationships you build. I’ve been networking for a long time, and over the years, I’ve made many contacts who fell off the map and many who I still carefully nurture as valued business and client acquaintances.
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- What Do You Do AFTER Your Elevator Speech
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written on February 02, 2011
by Phil Stella
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Networking Strategies
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As COSE members and wannabe Power Networkers, many of us polish our finely crafted Elevator Speeches or 30-second commercials and deliver them with passion and purpose every chance we get. Great. So let’s assume you’ve just done that at a COSE networking event … now what do you do?
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- Sexual Orientation- No Gender Expression Explored in Book- My Princess Boy- Part II
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written on February 01, 2011
by Tameka Taylor
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Diversity Awareness and Education
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In my last article, I discussed a children’s book called My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis. In review, on the surface, it is about a little boy who likes the color pink and wants to wear dresses.
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- Where is Your Organization Today- Part V
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written on February 01, 2011
by Eric Kurjan
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A Checklist of Tools for Business
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This is Part V of a series of articles on diagnosing your organization’s current condition. Use this handy tool to help determine where your organization stands today.
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- Increasing Your Odds for Success
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written on January 31, 2011
by Joe Mayer
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Goals: Setting and Achievement
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The New Year is finally upon us and we have survived all the re-runs of last year’s highlights on TV and most of us have had time to analyze last year’s failures and successes and have set new goals for this year.
The challenge will be to stay motivated to accomplish our goals.
Multiple studies found that 90% of yearly goals are not accomplished and that a whopping 45% are abandoned just after one month.
So how do we ensure that things will be different this year and we will buckle the trend of the same old, same old this time?
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- Personal Relationships Are Still Key for Public Relations Professionals
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written on January 28, 2011
by Jason Therrien
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Public Relations
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New tools emerge every day to make the public relations professional’s life easier, especially when pitching a story. Although social media platforms provide wonderful support in disseminating information, personal relationships and traditional pitching is still the best foundation for receiving the best news coverage.
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- Understanding QR Codes
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written on January 27, 2011
by Administrator One
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Social Media
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QR (Quick Response) Codes may not be new to the business world, but they are now taking the mobile marketing industry to an entirely new level. They can be quickly read with camera-equipped mobile phones that are loaded with the proper code-reading software. Just snap a photo and be directed to a website, v-card, or application. A growing number of marketers such as Best Buy, Verizon, and Starbucks have been experimenting with campaigns this past year.
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- What I Enjoy Most About Being a Difference-Maker as an Entrepreneur
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written on January 27, 2011
by Frank Fantozzi
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Business Financial Planning
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Many view entrepreneurs as nonconformists seeking greater control over their own destinies. This is true, along with the many other common beliefs, including the fact that we thrive on the agility and lack of red tape and bureaucracy.
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- Employer Pays Employee Disability Termination Suit
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written on January 26, 2011
by Scott Lawson
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Liabilities Within the WorkForce
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According to a recent press release from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), a group of supermarkets operating in the Chicago area recently paid $3.2 million to the EEOC to resolve a disability termination lawsuit. The supermarket group, known as “Jewel-Osco”, was accused of violating the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”) by terminating disabled employees without offering “reasonable accommodations”.
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- The CEOs Practical Overview of Cloud Computing- Part I
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written on January 25, 2011
by Laura Pettit Rusick
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Innovation in Technology
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Have you wondered what all the excitement on cloud computing is all about? Or maybe you’re positive you need to move all your systems into the cloud? We would suggest a measured strategy is in order.
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- Designing Your Management Team - Vetting your C-Level Management Foundation
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written on January 21, 2011
by Ted L Moss
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Recruitment and Safe Hiring Practices
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Assessing executive talent is usually a long, exhausting process. Designing Your Management Team usually takes several rounds of interviews ending up in a broad pool of qualified candidates.
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- Questions to Ask Yourself When Creating Your Unique Brand
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written on January 20, 2011
by Katherine Bulava
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Public Relations
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Many small business owners I meet are vibrant, energetic and passionate people – you really have to be to have the guts to turn your back on the security of a 9 to 5 in order to follow your passion for whatever it is you do. It’s that passion that makes you, and therefore your brand, unique.
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- Sexual Orientation Explored in Book, My Princess Boy
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written on January 20, 2011
by Tameka Taylor
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Diversity Awareness and Education
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I was recently introduced to a book called My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis. As the title implies on the surface it is about a little boy who likes the color pink and wants to wear dresses.
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- Marcellus Shale- Energy Solution and the Environmental Threat
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written on January 19, 2011
by Darrell Bragg
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Waste Reduction, Recycling and Composting
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The drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale rock formation that extends into eastern Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia, creates both an economic boom for the states and for communities where the drilling is done. This could provide a possible long-term and cleaner energy solution to using coal and oil. Recent history tells us, however, that the environmental impact when human error and technology fail can be costly to local families and communities, and could be far more reaching if adequate safety oversight isn’t in place.
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- Ways for Renters to Make Their Businesses More Energy Efficient
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written on January 19, 2011
by Eli Auerbach
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Greening Your Business
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One of the most complex challenges for small businesses to becoming more energy efficient is the often complex relationship between tenants and property owners, commonly referred to as the renters’ dilemma. Because the costs and benefits of energy efficiency are disproportionately shared between the parties in most rental situations, there is often little incentive for either party to actively pursue it. Despite these challenges, there are ways for commercial renters to experience the many benefits of energy efficiency.
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- Interpretive Storytelling
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written on January 18, 2011
by Rachel Downey
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Branding
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One of the great things about Brands is their ability to tell stories—helping people connect to organizations, products and places. Interpretive Programs dive even deeper into the function of storytelling. An Interpretive Program, as it relates to environmental graphic design, is a system of signs, graphics and other visual elements that share short stories reflecting on the history, people, culture, ecology and architecture of a place.
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- Selling a Business to Someone Opposite of You
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written on January 18, 2011
by Kipp Krukowski
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Buying and Selling a Business
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When selling a business, sometimes the buyer for your business is someone entirely different than you would think.
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- 2011 Economic Outlook- A Mix of Clouds and Sun
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written on January 12, 2011
by Frank Fantozzi
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Investment Management
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Neither the bulls nor bears are expected to take a significant lead in the New Year as we expect the economy and the markets will be range-bound throughout 2011. Bound by economic and fiscal forces that will restrain and not reverse growth, we believe the markets will provide modest single-digit rates of return.
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- Referrals- by Kelcey Lehrich
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written on January 11, 2011
by Phil Stella
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Networking Strategies
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Every sales representative, entrepreneur and business professional should have multiple sources of new clients, but almost every one of these individuals will tell you that the best source of new business comes from qualified referrals.
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