Life Is A Series of Sales Presentations

February 9th, 2008

Strange as it may seem, our life is made up of a series of “sales presentations”.  Sales may not be your gig, but if you’re the boss you’re making presentations everyday.  Be it a pitch to your Board, announcing a policy change to employees, selling an idea to your spouse, or just trying to win others over to your point of view – you need to punch up your people skills for winning pitches.

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How To Build A Solid E-mail Opt-In List

February 7th, 2008

Some companies decide to send customers a free newsletter to get an email list.  But there are other ways to collect email addresses.  Sometimes having a newsletter just doesn’t make any sense for your company.  For instance, if you happen to sell dishwashers, how much information could you send your customer, daily, on dishwashers.  So, instead here are a few other options for increasing your email list.

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SIRVA Reaches Restructuring Agreement with its Lenders

February 5th, 2008

Files Pre-Packaged Plan of Reorganization -Secures $150 Million DIP Financing Facility, to Convert to $215 Million Senior Secured Exit Facility
Expects Normal Operations to Continue
Only U.S. Operations are Part of Filing

CHICAGO, February 5, 2008 — SIRVA, Inc. (SIRV.PK), a global
relocation services provider, today announced that it reached an
agreement with its lenders to restructure its senior secured debt
through a voluntary, pre-packaged Chapter 11 reorganization, which
will allow it to finalize the restructuring of its debt while continuing to
operate its business and serve its customers. SIRVA’s operations
outside of the U.S. are not part of the Chapter 11 filing.

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Blogging 101

February 5th, 2008

If writing is an art, then, blogging is one way of using words to come up with an art. This is because people who are into blogging are the ones who are artistic on their own sense, carefully choosing words that would best describe their feelings, sentiments, wishes, desires, and everything.

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Creating Your Social Networking Website Profile

February 3rd, 2008

How you would like to meet and communicate with other internet users, especially ones that share the same views and beliefs as you do? If you would then you may want to think about joining a social networking website, if you haven’t already done so. When it comes to easily finding and communicating online with other internet users, social networking sites are, perhaps, the best way to go.

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