Finding an Effective Employment Sales Strategy Over ten years ago, when I was managing call centers and sales departments, I developed a solution sales and marketing strategy called PBFA. The strategy was universal in that it could be used to better understand people's needs and help them find solutions. While I implemented the strategy primarily for sales sand marketing campaigns, I believe that it's also an excellent tool as an employment sales strategy. So I launched another blog … [Read more...]
Selling Gold Memories in Hard Times to Pay the Bills
As the U.S. economy staggers along, many people are selling gold jewelry to pay their bills. In bad times, precious metals rise in value, especially gold, now selling at over $1,700 per troy ounce worldwide. Google's index for "sellling gold scrap" now numbers over 14 million. The elderly get hit the worst. Selling cherished memories, found in gold and silver jewelry, cameos, old rosaries and music boxes to profiteers, are melted down for cash. Famous or not, those who lack the basics in … [Read more...]
Young Kid–Birke Baehr–Wows TED Crowd About Food Supply
TED talks and videos, if you've seen them, bring incredible, brilliant minds to the world at no cost. I urge you to subscribe to email notifications of current, short videos, also available on iTunes. Birke Baehr, an eleven-year old kid, blew the crowd away speaking about organic vs. our mass-produced meat and other staples. Don't miss this six minute talk. It gives you hope that the young have much to teach us. … [Read more...]
Insurance and the Risks of Life in an Uncertain Universe
Have you ever thought about why we buy insurance to handle risk in our lives? After purchasing auto, home, health and life insurance, you'll probably get a sales pitch from an appliance store sales person to insure your washer, dryer and fridge. Walk into an electronics store, like Best Buy, and out you walk with a new laptop computer insured against any failure for three years. Many credit cards come with "free 90 day theft and loss protection" in case someone steals your laptop or you … [Read more...]
Want to Work for a Fun and Friendly Company?
Today I made a critical decision in my life. I will ONLY work for a company that is fun and friendly. I mean, life is too short to spend a third of your waking hours in an un-fun, not-so-friendly company, right? So I searched nationwide for all jobs with the word "fun" in them using Simply Hired, a terrific website that aggregates job listings from company websites and job boards. Then I searched for "friendly." Last, I searched for "fun" AND "friendly." Here's what I discovered. Did … [Read more...]
How We Spend Our Time as Unemployment Rises
Once again, the researchers are at work with their computer models and statistical flukes. In this case, the Labor Department recently released its 2009 American Time Use Survey telling us how people spend their time. According to the experts, here's how we're using our time in hours and minutes (2009/2007): Sleeping (8:40/8:34) Watching TV (2:49/2:37) Work and work-related activities (3:32/3:49) Leisure and sports excluding TV (2:26/2:30) House activities (1:48/1:50) Eating and … [Read more...]