Archive for December, 2008

Ten Convention Travel and Attendance Tips

Whether you are planning to attend a Convention for business or for personal, a little pre-planning before you leave will help you manage your time so you can get the most out of your event.

Ten Convention Travel and Attendance Tips:

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Accountant Cover Letters 101

So you’ve got the basics down for writing a cover letter that shines. Address the hiring manager directly (name is spelled right, of course), have a gripping opening sentence, be direct and straight-to-the-point, basically market yourself so that you stand a cut above the rest in that pile of application letters for a job that many people want. You could even add those famous last words in the form of a postscript, really get your foot in the door. Simple enough, right? Something that’ll get you an interview, stat. Well, not if you’re an accountant applying for a position in an accounting firm. If you’re writing an accountant cover letter, it’ll need a little more work and some strategy to get your foot in the door.

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Interview For Success

According to Luther Epting, director of the Career Center at Mississippi State University, the average person of this generation will change careers six times in their lifetimes. Pair that information with the unstable job market due, in part, to the rise in the number entering the job market and employees taking later retirement, you must work harder to convince interviewers you are the best for the job. Unless you have a guaranteed foot-in-the-door, then you must ensure that your interviewing skills are honed to perfection. This article offers to help you toward that goal.

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Trade-in Items, How to Avoid Killing Your Sale

Many businesses accept trade items into transactions. Master salespeople will determine if a trade item is present or possible during the qualifying process.

When a trade is present, it’s important only to find out that fact during qualifying. It’s not the right time to get into discussion about trade value.

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Medical Billing – Not Just A Job

A lot of people think that they’re just going to get a job in the medical billing industry, like it’s the same as going to a Burger King and telling the manager that you know how to throw a hamburger patty on a grill and some fries in a vat of oil. This is not so the case with medical billing, regardless of what part of the industry you get into. There is extensive training involved and a number of rules and regulations that you need to be aware of. On top of all that, you better have a good handle on technology because most medical billing is pretty advanced in that area.

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Is Knowledge Power?

We have all heard the term, “Knowledge Is Power.” The term in fact is very true, the more knowledge that you can acquire, the more you open yourself to opportunities that did not exist in your life. But there is one big problem with this power of knowledge.

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Power Tools of Power Closers

I’d like to outline five different powerful tools that are used by all power closers. Anyone who masters these skills who does not possess them already will surely see profound results.

The first concept is that power closers are intensely goal-oriented. Talk about goals and goal-setting these days seems to have become very cliché. In spite of this tendency, super-successful individuals who are driven to accomplish well-planned and clearly defined goals are distinguished from those who are mediocre. They know exactly what the bottom line is and exactly what they have to do to meet it. Not only this, but successful sales people typically push the bottom line so they increasingly out-produce previous records.

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Telecommuting Jobs And Data Entry

Learn What Skills Are Needed For Telecommuting Jobs And Data Entry

Whether you are looking for telecommuting jobs and data entry, or just data entry jobs, there are some things that you will need to know. Come on in and let us inform you about data entry.

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Business Marketing – Let a Martian Run Your Business

Although I have never read the book ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’, by Dr. John Gray, I believe it compares the thought processes of men and woman to those of Martians and Venetians (people from Venus not, in this case, Venice). The idea being that Martians and Venetians are totally different, likewise, both human genders should be regarded as totally different. To understand each other they should each try to realize that these differences exist and then learn to understand one and other better.

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Purchasing Promotional Pens

Promotional pens have become very popular in the business sector and they can be seen with corporate logos all over the place. We all have use branded promotional pens without realising the value of it. If you open your office drawer you are likely to find some promotional pen imprinted with witty quotes, company names, messages, or some company contact details. With some of the UK’s leading suppliers, you will find a wide range of promotional pens ranging from ball pens to engraved metal pen sets. In comparison to other promotional items, pens are a very easy and affordable way to advertise your company name, logo, brand message. They are highly effective in spreading a goodwill factor because your message exchanges hands with care and use.

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7 Ways To Create Information Products To Promote Your Business

If you are a service professional, you don’t sell cars, or clothing, or jewlry or anything tangible your potential customer can touch or inspect or take for a test drive. Instead you sell the ultimate intangible, yourself and your knowledge.

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Basics of Brick Fundraising

Brick fundraising is a great way to get decorative bricks to line a pathway or as a façade on a wall or entry way. Brick fundraising allows donors to pre-purchase bricks with there names that are later incorporated into the design of a new annex or building.

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Using 360° Feedback Surveys to Identify Training and Development Needs

A 360° feedback survey is a tool used by an organisation to evaluate an employee’s performance and development needs. It is aimed at providing individuals and groups with information regarding their strengths and development or training needs. Feedback is gathered from an employee’s co-workers, managers, direct reports, customers and others using a questionnaire covering areas such as competencies, skills or abilities and job performance. The data gathered is then compiled into a report showing the employee’s strengths and weaknesses according to the people they work closest with.

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Your Project’s Team Building Success Potential Index

Project managers and those associated with projects typically like to measure things. You use words like tons-per-day; cubic-feet-per-minute; megabits-per-second; and so on.

Here is a new one for you. Would you be interested in knowing the team building success potential index (TSPI) of your next project? If so, here is a non-scientific, but very pragmatic, way to predict it.

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Using Online Presentations to Reduce Transportation Costs and Generate More Business!

Has this ever happened to you? You drive thirty to forty-five minutes to get to your first appointment. You arrive at a prospective client’s office and the CEO is not there! What about this situation? You are scheduled to talk with the president of a company that is exactly fits your target market. Unfortunately, your appointment abruptly ends after only fifteen minutes. You thought that you had an hour! Your first meeting begins twenty minutes late due to phone call taken before your scheduled meeting with the vice-president. How would you feel after these appointments?

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