Coach for Careers

If you think all coaches wear sweat suits and dangle whistles around their necks, think again. There's a whole new breed of coaches who have nothing to do with zone defenses or corner kicks.

Bringing SQL Server Data into Client as XML Data Islands

One of the most frustrating things to me is seeing developers doing new things, but in "old" ways. A classic example is one you may have seen yourself: Here we have a sophisticated client - side application that runs in Internet Explorer, we use XML Data Islands and XSLT transforms and parameters, templates, and we even use XMLHTTP from the client. And along with this…

Top Tips from the Best SEO’s in the Business

Keywords Know what you want to be found for. You should know the top two or three terms that are most important to your Web site and have incorporated them into a 25-word description that doesn't use marketing hype, which can then be submitted to human powered directories. You should also know a list of the top 10 to 100 terms you'd like to be…

Are You Busy… or Productive?

Are you busy or are you productive? The question is innocent enough. But can you handle the truth? Recently I was doing some consulting with a client who carefully examined how his sales representatives spent their time. He concluded that they actually spent less than 5 percent of each day engaged in the act of selling! Imagine, 95 percent of each sales day spent on…