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Flossie.com, a New Zealand-based, female-centric Web site full of fashion, beauty, sex and dating, entertainment and career tips, recently launched. In an effort to convey the site’s abundance of content for women of all ages, Flossie.com launched a campaign on a busy New Zealand street using a vending machine that dispensed living, breathing,  More...
Follow these 10 critical strategies and you will inevitably exploit opportunities, prevent failures and advance your career.  More...
It doesn’t need to be. Just follow these 7 practical steps to creating a great referral business and in less than six months you’ll unlock a majestic mountain of fresh, ready-to-buy or sell leads.  More...
Do you ever wish finding the perfect job could be as easy as one, two, three? According to new research, it might be as easy as red, yellow or blue. That's right; by determining which primary, secondary and achromatic colors you prefer most and least, you can figure out a successful career path based on how you approach work, the types of work  More...
With a recession looming and job opportunities becoming scarce, many people are looking to entrepreneurship as a new career path. How will the upcoming American election impact small business owners? Here’s my take on how small business friendly Obama and McCain are:  More...
When marketer Tom Fishbourne started drawing cartoons poking fun at senior management, all his marketing friends thought he was committing career suicide. But then, he started seeing executives pop up his distribution list too. Today he has 10,000 subscribers to his weekly cartoon and he landed his recent hot job because of his cartoons, not in sp  More...
Jodi Smith wasn't always so outgoing. In fact, she was so shy in high school that she knew "maybe three people out of a class of more than 1,000" when she graduated. Heading to college, however, Smith made the conscious decision to reinvent herself, "just to see what would happen." Well, her experiment seems to have worked. After a decade  More...
When my wife, Cari, and I recently launched four new hyperlocal blogs, our reason was simple: to help Cari’s real estate career by positioning her as an expert on our local area. Our goals are business-oriented, and that colors all the decisions we’ve made in planning and executing on a hyperlocal blogging strategy. If you’re starting a hyperlocal  More...
How does an orchestra and choir instructor transform from a leader in music to a leader in business? Find out from my interview with Hugh Ballou. Hugh has had a very unique career that includes an orchestra instructor, author, director of ministries and leadership expert. Today, Hugh talks about his new book, Transforming Power.  More...
In these days of competitive work life, one needs to be multi-skilled person to have a great career. You need to develop communication skills, you need to cultivate good etiquette, you need to need to acquire leadership qualities and finally you need to become a great learner to move your career on steroids. There is no place for slow learners and  More...
Everybody wishes to have a successful career in his/her life and also aims to reach the top most position in his career. It is nothing but natural. To achieve success, the minimum required two things are, we have to strive hard and have a good plan of action. What are the secrets of successful? How to improve ourselves?  More...
To err is human. But to persevere is a feat that often separates the successful from the mediocre. In business—as in sports, politics, and the arts—many of the greatest and most influential leaders share a history of failure. Automaker Henry Ford and animator Walt Disney both stumbled badly with early business ventures. Early in his career wit  More...
Getting yourself and your business unit into the mind-set of thinking about labor efficiency modeling is one of the keys to running a profitable business. The last time you looked at your current standards was when? Do you know what the correct production efficiency from each of your job codes is, even yours? What is your monitoring frequency?  More...
Nickerson PME is one of a growing number of small business owners who feel comfortable offering students an internship experience without financial compensation. It's a model that is becoming increasingly controversial within the higher education community, where career-services professionals say students should be paid at least minimum wage. Com  More...
If a promotion is one of your goals for the next year, are you doing everything you can to make it happen?  More...