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I thought this article attached on why the economics of solar energy for utilities' rate payers, and tax payers can be justified despite the tax subsidies needed to make it a viable energy alternative economically. It opens the discussion on this anyway.... Click on Link below to read full article: http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=971603139&gid=3031216&type=member&item=

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http://www.entrepreneur.com/grow/index.html

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The Sceptical Market Observer: A Capitalist Appeal to The Wall Street Protestors: The Virtues of a Competitive Financial Sector Heinz Nixdorf , founder of the eponymous German computer company was once asked why almost ...

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By Chris O'Connor You are an entrepreneur. You have a dream, maybe even a prototype or a real finished product! You are technically sound or are a true hunter /killer & can sell ice cubes to eskimos. You have been in business for years, probably working for someone else. Now it is your turn! You believe that you are willing to take that leap. This takes an incredible amount of courage! Many

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Google recently updated AdWords with functionality that allows its users to segment PPC ads serving tablets and mobile phones. Although this may not seem very thrilling on the surface, this new functionality could have a serious impact on how the world views marketing on mobile devices, especially since it’s no secret that tablet adoption is booming Read more:   Source: http://blog.hubspot.com/

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Want to become The Awesomest Marketer EVER? Here's a simple 5-step formula to guarantee your success. http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/14885/How-to-Become-the-Awesomest-Marketer-EVER.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HubSpot+%28HubSpot%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher Source: http://www.hubspot.com/blog

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Google Mobile Ads Blog: Tablets are changing the way consumers engage with...: "With more than 165 million tablets expected to ship over the next two years, tablets are growing in popularity and changing the way that we ..."

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Google Mobile Ads Blog: Tablets are changing the way consumers engage with...: "With more than 165 million tablets expected to ship over the next two years, tablets are growing in popularity and changing the way that we ..."

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By Robert Ochtel Planning, whether it is strategic, tactical or product planning only goes so far. Sooner or later you have to get off the planning sideline and begin to bring your product to market. The decision as to when and how to bring your product to market requires commitment. This commitment takes many forms, not least of which is the decision on how to initially fund your start-up

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by Wayne Wilkinson http://www.slideshare.net/waynewilkinson/ma-presentation-wayne-wilkinson-orange-county-ceo More information go to: http://wayne-wilkinson.com/ma/

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By Brian Halligan When I talk with most marketers today about how they generate leads and fill the top of their sales funnel, most say trade shows, seminar series, email blasts to purchased lists, internal cold calling, outsourced telemarketing, and advertising. I call these methods "outbound marketing" where a marketer pushes his message out far and wide hoping that it resonates with that

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Inbound Marketing Strategies like Blogging, SEO, Social Media Marketing are In! Outbound Marketing Strategies like Direct Mail, and Tradeshows are less effective at targeting qualifeid prospects and closing business. View PDF Presentation: http://co.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_ccboard&view=postlist&forum=41&topic=142&Itemid= Source: http://www.hubspot.com/

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Smart Grid 2010 http://slidesha.re/awt2vP

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by Jonah Lopin I am amazed at the blog-reluctance of many small businesses. I hear things like “I don’t have time to blog”, “blogging doesn’t make sense in my industry”, and sometimes even the dreaded “what the heck is a blog?” The reality is if your company provides unique products or services, you should be blogging. (And if your company doesn’t, you should probably consider a career change.)

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By Robert Ochtel Planning, whether it is strategic, tactical or product planning only goes so far. Sooner or later you have to get off the planning sideline and begin to bring your product to market. The decision as to when and how to bring your product to market requires commitment. This commitment takes many forms, not least of which is the decision on how to initially fund your start-up

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http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/meeker-mobile-slides/

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Must See BlackBerry Video

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Agencies have broad discretion in establishing evaluation criteria for their procurements, subject to some limitations set by federal acquisition regulations. Those criteria are often shaped by arguments that competing contractors make during the procurement’s capture phase. Here are some ideas to consider in shaping the evaluation criteria in your next must-win procurement. Read more... Bob

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By C. Brian Conners and W. Michael King The Gestalt Leadership Forum Series is a best of class premiere executive development program that we anticipate will transcend current executive leadership research, concepts and ideas. The Gestalt Leadership Forum Series was conceived through applying Gestalt methodologies to create this breakthrough program for executive leaders to solve today’s complex

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by James T. Stodd, C. Brian Conners and David A. Weiss The success of any service organization is judged upon the quality of its customer experience and the perceived value customers receive for the cost…health care is no exception. Granted, cost is a complicated and cloudy affair that warrants constant attention and improvement. Moreover, cost is often affected by many factors outside the scope

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How to Keep Your Best Customers

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Dave Kurlan is a top-rated speaker, best-selling author, sales thought leader and highly regarded sales development expert. Have you ever noticed that when you choose the Express Checkout it always seems to have either the slowest register clerk, or there's an old lady paying who has already taken 10 minutes to find her wallet? Have you ever noticed that during rush hour, the Express Lane for

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By C. Brian Conners If you are a consultant frustrated with how to attract new clients, you are not alone. Many consultants struggle with marketing and hope that networking will bring them clients. This isn’t exactly hoping and wishing for clients, but it is darn close. While networking is a valuable market strategy for connecting with “Centers of influence”, networking is often an indirect

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By Jim Stodd In response, businesses need to adopt new concepts and forms of organization that will help them survive and thrive not only during the downturn, but in what may be a wholly new economic reality! Organizational responsiveness to these changing customer needs, preferences and consumptive practices requires fresh thinking regarding how people organize for business and how they perform

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If your business struggles with marketing and how to attract customers you are not alone. Many companies and consultants are tired of the rejection and frustration of tried worn out advertising and networking strategies, and mystified about what creates marketing success. If you seek fresh insight into how to stop the disheartening yearning and hoping quest for new customers and instead start

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By Ray Baird - President of RiechesBaird Do you completely understand what a brand positioning statement does? Do you know how it is used and why it’s critical for your brand? Has your company adopted a well thought out brand positioning statement? Well, if the answer is no to any of these questions, you should definitely keep reading. Even if you listed three yeses, there are more than likely

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By Ed Benjamin A well-written, comprehensive proposal helps get government business. A key to a successful proposal is the outline. If you use a systematic approach, you can prepare a proposal that answers all the federal government’s requirements and receive a high technical score. First, you need to read all the sections of the solicitation very carefully and then re-read each section as you

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Consulting Professionals: Top Ten Tips For New Consultants: "Today’s post is on practical tips to being successful as a new consultant. A former manager once said to me, “do well in your first project,..."

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Consulting Professionals: What Kinds Of Consultant Careers Are Available?: "If you feel that you are stuck in a rut at your current job, you might be looking at the world of consulting and wondering what kinds of con..."

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By Vince Ferraro One of the biggest challenges for marketing professionals is to determine how to balance their time to work on both tactical and strategic marketing activities and actions. Left to natural tendencies, most marketing people and teams will work on short-term activities that help drive the business for the next month or quarter. An old HP colleague of mine calls this the “tyranny

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By Jim Stodd and C. Brian Conners Businesses need to adopt new concepts and forms of organization that will help them survive and thrive not only during the downturn, but in what may be a wholly new economic reality! Organizational responsiveness to these changing customer needs, preferences and consumptive practices requires fresh thinking regarding how people organize for business and how they

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THE OUTLOOK FOR GOLD AND SILVER

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Creating an overall direction for your company or workgroup is critical for company success. However, in business as on the battlefield you will always operate in the absence of complete information, yet you must act. As a finance executive, you make critical decisions that affect the company "mission" at hand, regardless of the uncertainty each day will bring. Your challenge is to build a

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Someone asked me a really cool question the other day. They were concerned with just being one of multiple connections that people have in their network and they wanted to know . . . How does one stand out in a sea of networking contacts? Since they rejected my initial response of “Embracing nudity on sales calls” I thought I’d offer everyone my humble Plan B which you’ll be happy to know is

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Every successful organization has at least one linchpin, some have dozens or even thousands. The linchpin is the essential element, the person who holds part of the operation together. Without the linchpin, the thing falls apart. Linchpins do two things for the organization. They exert emotional labor and they make a map. Emotional Labor is the hard work of making art, producing generosity, and

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Employment, Interest, and Money: Inflation Targeting When the Natural Interest Rate is Negative

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The Referral of a Lifetime will help you realize how priceless relationships are both personally and professionally. Besides learning how to value relationships, you will learn a number of truths that will help simplify and increase your business. Imagine the possibilities of your business and personal life by simply applying the golden rule and always putting relationships first. Read More...

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Employing the Naked Service Model allows consultants to build extraordinary trust with clients. One of the keys to the naked service model and a core value – is humility. At its core naked service boils down to the ability of a service provider to be vulnerable – to embrace uncommon levels of humility, selflessness, and transparency for the good of a client. When you espouse these virtues clients

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During the latest economic business downturn, many companies are holding their collective breaths waiting for the mid-term elections, to see which way congress will swing? The private sector has not been adding new employees unless absolutely necessary. As of late, one of the fastest growing business sectors is Interim Management positions. Companies have discovered that contracting with a proven

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Source: VoxEU.org With the advanced economies at a critical juncture, some economists are urging more fiscal stimulus while others argue that raising debt levels will stunt growth. This column presents the Reinhart-Rogoff findings on the relationship between debt and growth based on data from 44 countries over 200 years with a focus on the debt-growth link during high-debt episodes. Economics

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Economic Systems do not exist in the abstract; they are imbedded within the geographic fabric of the society - the way the land is used, the locations of homes and business, the infrastructure that ties people, places, and commerce together. These factors combine to shape production, consumption, innovation, and as they change, so do the basic engines of the economy. A reconfiguration of this

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By 2030, the CBO projects that debt will more than double to 146 percent of GDP.[1] The only good news, if it can be called that, is that the U.S. is not alone. Two recent studies by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) highlight the significance of the global debt challenge and stress the need for governments to aim higher than short-term deficit

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The fortune cookie talks about the lingering memory of bad service. How long do you think the memory of good service lasts? Research indicates that the memory of negatives lasts five to 12 times longer than the memory of positives, depending on who did the research. This means you need to have a much higher level of great service if you want to be remembered. Read More...

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"Surviving in the New World Order and How to Become Indispensible" The New Frontier Economy - A New Economic and Business Paradigm: The past economic order of debt enabled consumerism is out and a new world order – “a New Frontier” is emerging totally different in almost every conceivable way from the way we live, where we live, what we will eat, what we will buy, how we work, and more

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What will be different about the new economy? Everything. People will be different and with that, companies will be different. Non-direct networking groups such as the group in Starbucks or the growing LinkedIn and Consultants Link connections are offering a one to one assistance and support that has not been fleshed out in business since perhaps the early frontier days on the Plains of America.

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By Rick Newman - Financially Fit Home You're an expert at something? Hey, congratulations. Now, go become an expert at something else. Most Americans striving to find or keep a job know the sensation: It's getting harder to get ahead, and the demands keep intensifying. Everybody knows how the recession destroyed wealth and derailed careers, leaving millions in a hole they're trying to dig out

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In business, nothing matters more to me than free enterprise and the success of entrepreneurship across America. The values that entrepreneurs bring to business are what have made this country great over its 234-year history. But I'm concerned that the current business and political environment is so unfriendly to entrepreneurs that the death of entrepreneurship may be imminent. If

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We are now 100 plus members strong with premier caliber expertise covering the gamut from launching a new breakthrough biotech drug to being the shrink for CEO‘s. We have managerial and functional expertise and capabilities in just about every major specialty that large and small businesses need. Our strength is our independence in being able to deliver the highest quality value to our clients,

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A few days ago, I shared my view on how entrepreneurs are being squeezed out in this economy - even more so than our bigger company counter-parts who have also been struggling. A lot of people agreed — and a few disagreed – but this topic created a lot of discussion. Now I want to put forth a strategy for entrepreneurs to embrace. One which could help all of us overcome this mess. If you look

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Recession, Deflation and Deficits - John Mauldin's Outside the Box - InvestorsInsight.com Financial Intelligence, Advice & Research / Investment Strategies & Planning for Individual Investors.

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The importance of a social media strategy - Social Email Marketing

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I run a marketing services firm in OC CA and have always used networking as my primary New Business Development tool. Here are some of my thoughts on the ABC’s of networking. First of all networkers aren’t created equally. There are three kinds of people that you can put in A, B, or C Folders in your brain. First there are the A Networkers. These are the connectors. I am a connector. You will

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Capturing a VC's attention is the most important purpose of an Executive Summary. Since most VC's do not like reading business plans because of limited time, the Executive Summary must do the heavy lifting in capturing the VC's attention. Here are the Do's and Don'ts of Executive Summaries, what should and should not be included, and most importantl how to capture a VC's attention on your

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Some Interesting Facts About Referral Based Selling… By Jonathan Farrington, The JF Consultancy Some Interesting Facts About Referral Based Selling…Which may surprise you: • 40% of sales people are failing in their sales careers. • 45% of all sales people earn the average income for their industry. • A typical sales person devotes only 10-20% of their time to actual selling because a large

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Sell2USGov -- With Judy Bradt!: The New 80/20 of Government Contracting ...You know the regular 80/20 rule. Well, thanks to a new report from Victory in Procurement, an initiative of OPEN by American Express, we now have a new 80/20 rule for government contracts. Actually, it's the 86/20 rule: First-time federal contractors invest an average of $86,124 and 20 months on the road to success.

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-47718857443785476252010-06-30T15:20:00.000-07:002010-06-30T15:26:48.425-07:00

The Importance of a Positive Culture By Kevin Liebl - Kevinliebl.com - Insights On Leadership Depending on the source, statistics show that anywhere from 7 to 9 out of 10 startup companies fail within 5 years of their founding. In today’s challenging economic markets, mature companies are failing left and right. Household-named companies who seemed rock-solid and a part of the country’s fabric,

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Meredith Whitney’s macro outlook remains quite negative. She believes austerity in the USA will lead to a “very rough second half”. In terms of the jobs market she says unemployment is likely to remain high as structural problems in the private sector persist. Whitney believes the banks are “zombies” that are still loaded with non-performing loans. In addition, Whitney says the bank balance

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-8315738631222037592010-06-22T14:56:00.000-07:002010-06-22T14:56:02.377-07:00

I have been networking for years and speak on networking across the country. Networking is my primary business development tool for my marketing business. This has lead to a very large network and 9000 contacts in my iPhone. People go oh and ah and are impressed. I’m not. What I am most proud of about my iPhone data base is the diversity of my data base. I have people in my iPhone and data base

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-53642727398257872372010-06-21T20:31:00.000-07:002010-06-21T20:37:35.968-07:00

Entrepreneurs, Your Funding Strategy will Change When You Start to Engage with Potential Investors All entrepreneurs believe or at least want to believe that they are fundable. As such, they work hard to develop their business plans, executive summaries and investor pitches so that they can engage with potential investors. With their funding scenarios, product development plans and rollout

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-25077670414283722032010-06-20T16:59:00.001-07:002010-06-20T16:59:15.626-07:00

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: ClickPredictions 2010View more presentations from Ambal Balakrishnan.

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Master Influencers know that a few behaviors can drive big change. They look carefully for the vital behaviors that create a cascade of change. No matter the size of the problem, if you dilute your efforts across dozens of behaviors, you'll never reach critical mass. If your problem is common, odds are the research has already been done for you. When behaviors must be customized to your personal

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With the passing of every new year, each of us needs to understand the magnitude of social and economic change in the world. In the past, change in business and social life was incremental and a set of personal strategies for achieving excellence was not required. Today, in the knowledge-based world, where change is the rule, a set of personal strategies is essential for success, even survival.

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Research: few companies pay attention to the emotional aspects of their products and services - Social Email Marketing

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Most, if not all, entrepreneurs hope to take the short and quick path to success. This approach to success usually relies on hitting a homerun your first time up. While not only unrealistic, this swinging for the fences strategy is not the most likely path to success for your start-up company. Why? Because from the beginning your start-up company and its product “concept” or “idea” are often too

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-70571923742249104472010-06-15T09:15:00.000-07:002010-06-15T09:15:26.412-07:00

I just finished reading my advance copy of Delivering Happiness by Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh that I received at the Business Growth Conference. Overall, this was a great read! Tony’s casual writing style made it easy to pour through all 241 pages. The official release is June 7, 2010, and I recommend this reading for any entrepreneur who wants to build a solid employee and customer centric (ie

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-46691900434036077562010-06-14T09:57:00.000-07:002010-06-14T09:59:02.294-07:00

RiechesBaird - Brand Consulting Company - B2B Marketing Articles

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Building your Personal Brand

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-40761231811109824412010-06-11T17:50:00.000-07:002010-06-11T17:50:38.176-07:00

10 Ways To Build A High Value Network

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-77738579535750930182010-06-08T07:23:00.000-07:002010-06-08T07:23:10.756-07:00

Sell2USGov -- With Judy Bradt!: Who Wants to Win A GSA Schedule (FY2010 edition) ?

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Regulators have been busy searching for the cause of the May 6 "flash crash" when the market dropped by 9.3% and then recovered within minutes. I think it's a good bet no cause will be found; there is still no consensus on what triggered the one-day 20% stock market crash of 1987. But even if there was no trigger, market conditions created by the Federal Reserve's easy money policy definitely

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-82477299413275094832010-05-25T08:42:00.001-07:002010-05-25T08:42:50.560-07:00

“Every once in a while, the world is faced with a major economic development that is ill-understood at first and dismissed as of limited relevance, and which then catches governments, companies and households unawares.” ~ Mohamed El-Erian, PIMCO (February, 2010)

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-67902147505079149452010-05-18T10:13:00.000-07:002010-05-18T10:16:02.019-07:00

By Robert Ochtel Strategic partnerships can be extremely beneficial and profitable for both large and small companies. In addition, for start-up companies, a well conceived and executed strategic partnership can be the difference between ultimate success and probable failure in the market place. Accordingly, strategic partnerships are invaluable to start-up companies as most if not all of these

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-1960154197686584692010-05-09T19:15:00.001-07:002010-05-09T19:18:41.187-07:00

When meeting potential investors for the first time entrepreneurs need to quickly secure their attention. Although, the standard thinking is that you have an hour, with 20 minutes to present and 40 minutes of questions, you really only have a few minutes to secure their attention and hold their interest. Read more...

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The role of display advertising in an inbound marketing world: what makes a brand? - Social Email Marketing

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-51110597540100781272010-04-27T16:07:00.000-07:002010-04-27T16:43:10.738-07:00

Greetings! This is my inaugural post on the Consultants Link blog. Thank you, Brian, for inviting me to contribute! My partners and I are all veteran General Counsel. We handle the legal matters for the businesses we are privileged to serve. Here is a legal question that comes up from time to time: "Is there a bullet-proof liability release that will protect our business from all claims by our

Michael Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08319372635902428254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-3330290700681067522010-04-13T21:48:00.000-07:002010-04-13T21:48:49.934-07:00

Social networking usage (Facebook…) surpassed email: what does it mean? - Social Email Marketing

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-80215065777507219602010-04-11T10:20:00.001-07:002010-04-11T10:20:55.429-07:00

Foreclosed? Here comes the tax manPosted using ShareThis

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How to Cash in on the Recent Health Care Legislation (Part 1 of 2)By Joel G. Block The ink isn't even dry, and we're already starting to find out one surprise after the next about the recent health care legislation approved by Congress and signed by President Obama. The government estimated that the cost to the economy would be about $1 trillion, but it's already becoming obvious that that

Joel G. Blockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04890150092802635213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-63524604705497946072010-04-03T13:53:00.000-07:002010-04-03T13:53:25.428-07:00

The integration of email and social: social media strengthens email marketing - Social Email Marketing

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Check out this SlideShare Presentation: How to Market To Your InfluencersView more presentations from Rapleaf.

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Check out this SlideShare Presentation: The Marketing Value of InfluencersView more presentations from Ed Keller.

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April 2, 2010Even if today’s employment report shows the job market turning around, it’s probably too early for senior executives to feel safe in their corner offices.This recession has been tougher on top executives than its predecessors, and the pain isn’t necessarily over, says Doug Matthews, president and COO of outplacement and career management firm Right Management.“The recession has

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APRIL 3, 2010By SUDEEP REDDY And JOE LIGHTThe job market is showing signs of life, though its slow recovery suggests unemployment will remain high for years to come. Employers added 162,000 jobs in March, the biggest monthly gain in three years, with one-third of the growth coming from the government's hiring of 48,000 temporary workers for the 2010 Census. Despite those gains, the jobless rate

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-57532721655551424642009-05-26T18:12:00.000-07:002009-05-26T18:16:39.351-07:00

When Markets Collide, by Mohamed El-Erian, was published in May of 2008. Mr. El-Erian is well known from his previous tenure managing Harvard’s endowment and for his current role as co-CEO of PIMCO. The principle theme of the book is that we are experiencing dramatic changes in the structure and flow of global capital markets and that investors need to be aware of these shifts if they are to be

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According to Families and Work Institute, 66% of employees report high levels of job satisfaction in organizations with high levels of workplace flexibility, versus 23% in organizations with low levels of flexibility.A new resource, the Federal Department of Labor has a Flex Options program within its Women’s Bureau to help businesses create or enhance workplace flexibility policies and programs

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-35953498050662306892008-09-26T13:14:00.000-07:002008-09-26T13:23:06.898-07:00

By Jan Norman- Orange County Register Small-Business ColumnistThe local job market continues to struggle, thanks to the ongoing housing and financial industry woes, but we just might avoid a recession, according to the UCLA Anderson quarterly forecast that is being presented today in Los Angeles.“The recent employment data suggest tough times in California labor markets for the balance of the

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-1874139609553227932007-11-13T20:45:00.000-08:002007-11-13T21:00:20.201-08:00

By Randy T. Mysliviec, President, RTM ConsultingBo Di Muccio, Ph.D., Senior Director, Research and Advisory Services, TPSADuring the past decade, the growth of services as part of the revenue and profit mix of technology companies has changed how these companies must think about managing human capital. Getting the right person in the right place at the right time, effectively and efficiently, has

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-53490346821995921842007-10-24T20:06:00.000-07:002007-11-13T21:02:38.458-08:00

The 21st Century American businesses will see the maturation and dominance of the flexible workforce concept. The flexible workforce allows businesses to pay for exactly what they get, while they eliminate all the confusion, non-productiveness, liability, legalities and extraordinary efforts that having employees entails from the 20th century laws, culture, society and technology had

C. Brian Connershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634239761417327054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644372242800916539.post-37192648309265467962007-10-24T19:32:00.000-07:002007-10-24T19:42:38.423-07:00

Consultants Link Officially Launched“Consultants Link connects Business to Premium Value, Better Quality and More AffordableConsulting Expertise”SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. September 10, 2007 – Consultants Link Inc., officially announced today the launch of its business to consultants portal where businesses can access on demand the most necessary business resource – the knowledge pool of

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