Obama is still urging Congress, run by the Republican majority, to extend the year’s tax cuts for middle class Americans through 2012. Though it’s easy to blame party politics, there are deeper issues at work in the delay, including how to make up the lost revenue. At this point, however, no consensus has been reached..
Retailers still reeling from the Thanksgiving weekend sales have turned in their numbers and the picture is very interesting. In short, between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, this past weekend was the most successful four days for retail ever. What does this say about our society? It says it’s shopping season! More importantly, what do..
Advances in technology have given businesses so many more opportunities to connect with their customers. Almost every business recognizes the importance of having a functional website, text promos, along with social networking profiles on Facebook and Twitter. Our culture is so technology-based that most people rely on the Internet for information, and it is the..
A 360 feedback survey is a great way to help out employees that participate together in a business. In a 360 degree survey, feedback is offered by all those individuals and fellow employees that surround that particular employee. It’s as though the employee is in the middle of a circle and that circle around them..
Did you know that a permanent Post Office Change Of Address form forwarding request can make your address available to marketing firms that have your name and previous address? When this occurs, changing a mailing address keeps the junk mail coming. This all occurs through the National Change of Address List (NCOA). Through this list,..
Using a 360 feedback survey you can find out how to improve your organization or you can learn specific behaviors about yourself that you need to focus on improving. These surveys are effective as you can use them on your staff members to help them measure one another based on their performance or you can..
There are many misconceptions about filing for bankruptcy, a lot of myths and fears surround the daunting concept of declaring that you have to declare bankruptcy and throw in the towel… so to speak. Filing for Chapter 11, 13, or 7 Is Not the End A lot of people will speak about the exorbitant costs..
“While many allergy medicines block histamine, Singulair blocks leukotrines, an underlying cause of allergy symptoms” so goes the introductory line of this advertisement for the now defunct allergy medication Singulair. When a person sees this advertisement whom just happens to be susceptible to the horrors of animal dander, pollen, dust mites, microscopic spaceships that fly..
With the recent anti-government protests in the Middle East, as well as the modern 24-hour news stream and pervasiveness of mobile internet capabilities, crisis communication is perhaps more important now than any other time in history. During a time of crisis, whether it is a criminal allegation, investigation, natural disaster, large protest, or other unusual..