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Who's Firing is a weekly survey of organizations announcing (or rumoring) layoffs for the week ended 11/20/09. 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. To see the entire list, read: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/whos-firing-layoffs-week-ended-11-20-09.html

NEW YORK - A solution to the world's urban transportation problems could lie in two wheels not four, according to executives for General Motors Corp. and Segway Inc. The companies announced Tuesday that they are working together to develop a two-wheeled, two-seat electric vehicle designed to be a fast, safe, inexpensive and clean alternative to traditional cars and trucks for cities ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are you looking for a job, but think you can't find one because there just aren't any opportunities out there? Think again. There are a few companies that are still growing and thriving despite, or maybe because of, the economic downturn. SalesHQ did the research for you and compiled a list of 15 workplaces that aren't laying people off and that ...

'Netflix says that it will continue to offer the current bundled service.' - Movie rentals are a big business for many companies and traditional movie stores have been around for many years. As technology matured and the speeds of internet connections increased, streaming video online became a popular pastime for many users. Netflix started out as a mail order movie rental ...

Hopefully, you're not still under the illusion that if you're talented and hardworking, somehow people will notice and you'll get your just rewards. A lot of career Cinderellas are still out there waiting around for that prince of a promotion or raise to come, getting more disillusioned and depressed with every passing day. Getting promoted means getting noticed, which is not ...

 really nice article on choosing the correct sales trainer

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LONDON-British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Monday it will pay $2.9 billion to buy American dermatology business Stiefel Laboratories Inc. - only the latest deal in a flurry of mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceuticals industry. GlaxoSmithKline will also assume $400 million in debt and has agreed to a further payment of up to $300 million depending on performance, bringing the ...

The fight against a legal settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of copyrighted books is starting to resemble a heavyweight brawl in the library.

According to this article there are a set of lies that sales reps tell their sales managers that most sales managers know are bogus.  Read this brief article to find out what they are.

WASHINGTON — Leaders of the White House economic team and the Senate's top Republican bellowed about bonuses at a bailed-out insurance giant and pledged to prevent such payments in the future. From one Sunday talk show to the next, they tore into the contracts that American International Group asserted had to be honored, to the tune of about $165 million and ...

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SAN MATEO, Calif. — The scene is prototypical Silicon Valley start-up. Open floor plan. Barren walls. A ping-pong table that sits idle because workers are hunched over laptops watching videos. And the boss couldn't be happier. "When I see that, I know they're doing their job," says Lior Delgo, CEO of VideoSurf, a new website with a singular mission: to make ...

'Not available for delivery until 2011.' - Pioneering electric car company Tesla Motors has unveiled its new Model S electric sports sedan. It will have a range of up to 300 miles (482 km), and be able to go from 0-60 MPH in 5.5 seconds according to Jalopnik. It will also be able to seat seven passengers, through the use of flip-up seats stored in ...

According to research sales professionals believe that only 23 percent of the leads they get from marketing are worth following up. Here are some rules for creating great leads.

This article takes a very different perspective on the management of sales people who are not performing.  Unlike other articles that claim that all people can be coached into meeting performance expectations, this article talks about there being circumstances where it is better to cut your losses with some people.  Very interesting.

Worldwide sales of semiconductors made a better-than-expected turnaround in April, but remain well below last year's totals. Global chip sales reached $15.6 billion in April, an increase of 6.4 percent over March, but down 25 percent from April 2008 sales of $20.9 billion, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported Monday. "The better-than-expected 6.4 percent sequential increase in April sales was driven by ...

DETROIT - Americans bought more cars in May than in any other month this year, drawn by fire sale prices that pushed General Motors and Chrysler's sales above expectations despite their forays into bankruptcy protection. Overall sales were still 34 percent lower than a year ago. But low gas prices encouraged the sale of bigger gas guzzlers while small cars stacked ...