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.

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.

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.

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.

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