Ask Jeeves To Have Balloon Made
Ask Jeeves has recently told Marcos Sorensen, the artist who designed the iconic butler, to start thinking on a larger scale. Sorensen, who in recent years has been limited to designing web presentations and company shirts, has been asked to help in the design of a massive balloon, for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Sorensen would be designing the balloon in the butler’s likeness.
Reciprocal Linking Overload-Any Old Link Back Will Do?
So you want to get a Google top page rank and get your site listed on the first page when an internet surfer types in your keywords, right?!? Of course you do. At one time it was extremely important to get as many sites linking to you as possible, so the Google bots would spider your site, see all of these sites linking to you, and determine that your site must be of some importance because so many others are linking to it.
Eliciting Constructive Website Feedback
“It’s good.”
“You’ve done a nice job.”
“I don’t like it.”
Consumers Beware – The Profits Are In The Fine Print
“Fees From Riskiest Card Holders Fuel Profits – Late Payers and Big Borrowers Are Becoming Cash Cows as Rates Balloon” … the headlines read in a recent article featured on America Online from the Wall Street Journal’s Mitchell Pacelle. The article outlined how banks are squeezing more revenue from consumers and more often from the ones who can least afford it.
A Professional’s Mind Set To Making It Online
Does the seasoned professional have a “leg up” on the rest of us?
Praise–A Powerful Tool for Enhancing Performance
Everyone wants to feel important. That is the highest need we all have. Making people feel important is an essential part of managing people yet sometimes as leaders, we forget this powerful tool we have at our disposal. How effective is your management style when it comes to handing out praise to those you manage? Look through this list and see how many ideas you are not using.
Brazilians Outnumber Americans in Orkut
One might think that the top users in Orkut would be Americans. Given that this is a Google sponsored social-networking site, this seems logical. But the truth is that thousands of Brazilians have become loyal devotees of Google’s popular new service.
AdMission Directories To Be Released Tomorrow
At NEXPO 2004 IPIX gave a first look at their AdMission Directory product, saying that it would be commercially available in mid-July. That time has come and IPIX AdMission is set to unveil a tool that will allow businesses to design and deploy ads for online yellow pages and directories. The launch date is July 20, 2004.
Experience–A 21st Century Survival Strategy
“If a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience will gain some money and the man with money will gain some experience.”
Don’t Just Hire New Employees–Develop Them
Are you getting ready to add to your workforce? What steps have you taken to assure that these new hires will make a successful transition into your organization? New employees should be provided a fair opportunity to develop their skills and talents and remain on the payroll. Failure to do so could result in the loss of a potentially good employee, a waste of training dollars, or the threat of legal action from dismissals. Obviously, none of these are acceptable options for the progressive-minded company.