Archive for April, 2008

Are Recruiters Reading Your Resume

Here’s one email that is very popular in my inbox.

The story goes like this….

“I submitted my resume at the site of , but other than a thank you email, never heard back. I have a lot of good skills and a solid education, why did I not hear back…”

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3 Keys to Safeguard Your Energy

As a solo-entrepreneur I stand by the quote, “how you spend your energy is how you measure your success.” However, this was true even when I worked as a high-school teacher. No matter our profession, if we’re wasting energy, we’re limiting our productivity and potential.

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Consulting Case Interview Preparation Guide Part 1

In general, case interview is very common in interviews with consulting companies, interviewer will measure a candidate’s attitude toward risk and comprehensive logical analysis ability with some cases, to see whether a candidate is flexible and can adapt quickly.

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Fostering Change In European Union

The year 2004 was an exceptional one for the European Union (EU) with the historic enlargement to include ten new member states and the signature in Rome of the Treaty establishing for the first time an EU Constitution. That momentum continued into the first half of 2005, marked by the beginning of the ratification process for the European Constitution.

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When Is An Amaray Case Not An Amaray Case?

Amaray has long been considered the market leader in media packaging – particularly for DVD cases. And, for a long time, the company had been a victim of its own success with the term “Amaray case” becoming synonymous with “DVD case” regardless of what brand. Polyline, however, is starting to see a reversal of this trend. Fewer people are using the terms interchangeably; most customers prefer to use the term “DVD cases” when placing an order.

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Ten Promotional Items To Motivate Your Sales Staff

Rewarding your sales staff is a great way to motivate them to get out there and make sales, but choosing rewards for them may have you stumped. Cash isn’t always the best motivator – after all, they already know that more sales equals more cash. Promotional items – with and without your company name on them – can be great motivators, especially when combined with a little creative thinking. Here are ten promotional items that your sales staff will happily work toward earning.

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Pharma Sales Jobs: Secret Strategies to Winning Interviews Through Job Boards

Pharma Sales Jobs are EXTREMELY competitive these days; therefore, you simply must go all out in order to gain the job of your dreams.

If you’re wondering if one of those “go for it” strategies includes job boards, then you’re right…but only if you know how to use job boards to your advantage. Not sure? Then read on…

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How to Protect Your Business from Credit Card Fraud

Everywhere you look there is information on how individuals can protect themselves from credit card fraud. This information can be found at banking institutions, libraries, on TV, on the Internet, its everywhere. However, that isn’t the case for businesses. How can your business protect itself from these fraudulent individuals who make purchases for products or service online or over the phone? Like most business, you may ship the products before discovering that the credit card is stolen. In this case, your company suffers the bill and the true owner of the credit card cannot be held reliable.

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Making Search Engine Marketing Really Work, Small Business

Search Engine Marketing is a very useful tool for getting a particular product noticed by a particular demographic. However, the amount of traffic one receives hinges on many different things and events.

Many marketers have experienced lack luster results in their attempts to utilize search engine marketing because they failed to understand the complexity of launching a successful search engine marketing campaign.

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Medical Billing – DME Software Navigation

It would be really nice if when a medical biller opened up the software used to do their medical billing, a little voice said something like, “Press letter A for Administrative Options”. Unfortunately, medical billing software doesn’t speak to us. Add to that the fact that there is so much involved with medical billing that the menu systems are massive and you’ve got a real monster on your hands. Talk about walking through a Dungeons & Dragons maze. Fortunately, the navigation for most DME software packages is pretty standard, which makes finding your way around fairly easy.

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Getting Your Prospect to Say NO!

Selling begins when your prospect says no!

I’m sure you’ve heard or read that before. I, at one time, had a very bright and successful salesman, selling my imported German made tape recorders, which had many features never available before on any other tape recorders. In those early days a store usually sold only one brand of recorder.

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Promotional Writing Padfolios – A Professional Choice

Are you considering investing in a promotional product campaign? Are you wondering what item will best work for your business to attract new clients? Are you currently making important decisions regarding specific promotional gifts? Are you rewarding your current employees or showing your appreciation to hardworking staff for other reasons? Perhaps you are planning some type of conference or special meeting and would like to give away an imprinted item related to the nature of the event. While there are a plethora of products available to suit your unique needs and goals, the writing padfolio might be the best solution to your upcoming promotional campaign.

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Get The Job You’ve Always Wanted! The Power of Personal Branding (Marketing)

Looking to get that job you’ve always wanted? Or maybe you want to get accepted to one of the toughest schools in the country. Personal Branding (Marketing) may get you there…

Ok I’m beginning to sound like the infomercials I wake up to at 3 in the morning. Usually I just smash the front of the tv with my half dead hand. Sometimes I think I’m lucky enough to have the remote curled under my arm so I can conveniently shut the TV off. But, usually it doesn’t work and I have to throw it at the wall and visually and physically assault the TV in an effort to get the real estate opportunities off of the screen.

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Dental Promotion

Dental promotion is easier than you think, especially when you consider the latest advances
in technology. From now on when you think of dental promotional items, you do not have to think
“refrigerator magnet”. A successful dental promotional strategy is worth a lot more than pens
or buttons or such. Let’s see how :

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Importance of a Sales Funnel

The notion of a “funnel” is an apt metaphor to look at the process of selling. Prospects go into the top of the funnel, the big part, and then we winnow away at the unqualified prospects, gradually cultivating them through a sales process, until an order comes out of the bottom of the funnel. A simple enough concept, but not necessarily so simple in practice.

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