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True Religion Apparel, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRLG) today announced financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009. Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results Total net sales were $82.4 million, an increase of 3.8% from $79.4 million in the third quarter of 2008. Net sales for the Company's U.S. wholesale segment decreased 31.1% to $31.9 million from $46.3 million in ...

Celebrities. We love to hate them. We also love to watch their every move, laugh at their mistakes and scrutinize their decisions. Like them or not, their celebrity status means not only have they achieved career success, they’ve also got a hell of a lot to lose. And sometimes, whatever actions have helped catapult them to fame or rendered them ...

Nowadays, it’s really up to you how to take control of your professional future and ensure that you are progressing towards the right career path. Here are five proven strategies to help you get started: Talk to your boss. Have a very direct, respected and pointed conversation with your boss about your future in the company. Stress that you would ...

So much of today’s job search advice is like Mac & Cheese. It’s comfort food. It’s not very good for you, but it’s comfortable…it makes you feel good. Like Mac & Cheese, this advice is very popular – you see it everywhere. Just as Mac & Cheese isn’t an efficient food source, this advice won’t make your job search efficient. But ...

Double Your Income By Warming Up Those Cold Calls Salespeople are under a lot of pressure to win new business. This fact hit home last week when I spoke to a salesperson who uses our research. She let me know that she is expected to perform 5 demo's every week. In fact, someone from HQ calls her every Monday to find ...

Who's Firing is a weekly survey of organizations announcing (or rumoring) layoffs for the week ended 10-30-09. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting. For full listing and Trackback: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/10/whos-firing-layoffs-week-ended-10-30-09.html

How often do candidates treat their job search like it’s Halloween?  Do you dress up your resume to appear like you are someone other than you?   Take your kids Trick or Treating, there’s a more effective way for you to stand out. Trackback:  http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/10/job-search-trick-or-treat.html

Go figure: Food makers processed more peanuts over the past year than nearly any other time on record despite a national salmonella outbreak blamed for killing nine people and scaring consumers away from peanut products for months. Peanut farmers who once feared $1 billion in losses are chalking up their good fortune to a bad economy that has more people reaching ...

On a recent Sunday, Billy Olson decided to do something new. Though he'd lived in the area before, he had never visited Valley Forge National Historical Park. So for two hours, Olson took a hike. The rolling hills and open meadows were soothing, and as he recalled the difficulties faced by the Continental Army, he felt encouraged about his own challenges. ...

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 10/19/09. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies experiencing growth. Despite the recession, these companies are all expanding.   Trackback:  http://www.recareered.blogspot.com/2009/10/whos-hiring-week-of-10-19-09.html

According to some experts, companies are beginning to use Twitter to advertise and recruit employees.  Can Twitter help  you land a job?

When Amy Nichols worked as a sales representative for Verizon, she often found herself hanging around pet stores on weekends, gazing longingly at the puppies. A longtime pet lover, she yearned to start a business that involved dogs but wasn't interested in selling them. She didn't want to start a kennel, either. Her inspiration came from her Boston terrier, Griffin. Nichols ...

An economic survey out today provides fresh evidence that a fitful recovery is underway as customer demand grows in the third quarter for the first time in more than a year and the jobs outlook brightens a bit. For the first time since the recession began, the portion of companies planning to add employees in the next six months outnumbered those ...

[photo:30946] Brown-Forman Corporation Jack Daniel’s, Southern Comfort, Finlandia, Sonoma-Cutrer, Korbel and 31 other alcohol brands Brown-Forman employs 4,440 people worldwide with about 1,300 located in Louisville. Brown-Forman, one of the largest American-owned spirits and wine companies and among the top 10 largest global spirits companies, sells its brands in more than 135 countries and has offices in cities across the globe. ...

A judge has tossed out federal fraud convictions against two salespeople who used late-night infomercials to tout their stock-trading abilities and lure customers. A jury convicted Linda Woolf of Sandy, Utah, and David Gengler of Draper, Utah, in May on charges of conspiracy and wire fraud. The two were among the top earners at a company called Teach Me to Trade, ...

This article helps salespeople whose main job is to prospect (cold call) by phone. The article gives them tips about finding out how to find higher quality prospects who are more likely to buy now versus later. Please call me if you have any questions. Thank you! Silvia   Silvia Quintanilla President and Chief Sales Detective Industry Gems Research & Consulting 5178 Mowry Ave., ...

Hopes for the fledgling economic recovery got a boost Monday from better-than-expected news on manufacturing, construction and contracts to buy homes. U.S. manufacturing activity grew in October at the fastest pace in more than three years, according to a private group's measure. It was driven by government spending, businesses' need to rebuild their inventories and higher demand from overseas. The Commerce ...

The economic recovery is proceeding unevenly in its early stages, with areas hurt most by the housing slump still lagging behind other regions, according to The Associated Press' monthly analysis of economic stress in more than 3,100 U.S. counties. Counties in the Southeast, the industrial Midwest and the Southwest are still struggling and have made the least improvement, the analysis of ...

The internet loves a marketing disaster. It makes few allowances for the brands that try and fail. It never forgets. And it rarely forgives. The dreadful irony of these digital catastrophes is that they frequently befall companies that are doing their best to innovate. If Skittles hadn't been attempting to engage with user- generated content, it would never have exposed itself ...