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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 Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 11/23/09. 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. Trackback: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/whos-hiring-week-of-11-23-09.html

  Much has been written recently about the rise of the knowledge economy  and it’s impact on the sales profession and that It could signal the end of sales people as we know it. Hopefully you will agree that that is absolute rubbish. Yes, many unprofesional sales businesses will suffer because their sales staff are not adding any value. Salespeople ...

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

This is a link to a scribd print of a recent article published in the ISMM magazine about modern day propsecting and cold calling. Its called "How to crack tough nuts" The article offers insights into modern ways of approaching prospecting that negate the need for gatekeeper dodges and trying to get round no name policies.

This is a link to a scribd print of a recent article from the Institue of Sales and Marketing Management magazine called - "How to research you marketplace". It offers modern day propsecting tips to enable you to leverage technology to be the Industry networked sales expert.

Sit in front of laptop. Lie on couch. Eat pickles for lunch. Back to laptop. Feel sorry for self. Feel sick of self. Tear hair out in frustration. And ... back to couch. If this is your 9-to-5 routine, you're probably like 14 million other Americans: unemployed. And in addition to the frustration of looking for work, you might find yourself ...

Many job seekers can find Linkedin company pages to be a useful tool in their search. This often overlooked Linkedin feature allows the savvy candidate to gain an edge with companies they target. What can Linkedin Company Pages do for me? To find out how Linkedin Company Pages can help you find unadvertised positions, read: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/can-linkedin-company-pages-help-you.html

Thanksgiving is next week. Job seekers and career changers – Where’s your next job? If you can’t answer that question, what can you do to help your job search during the holidays? Find out some little used, yet highly effective strategies for the holidays at: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-almost-thanksgiving-do-you-know.html

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 ...

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

Sometimes, a person will lose their job through no fault of their own. The whims of a psychotic boss, an economy in shambles, or a simple misunderstanding can have an otherwise satisfactory employee packing up his or her cubicle. Other times, a person will lose their job because they have done something so incredibly foolish, you wonder how they ever ...

Who's Firing is a weekly survey of organizations announcing layoffs for the week ended 11/13/09. 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. Trackback: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/whos-firing-layoffs-week-ended-11-13-09.html

Creative social media use gives job seekers a way to beat the odds. When government figures list unemployment as 6 times greater than job openings, you've got to try something different to be noticed. Here’s a list of 5 Ways Social Media Gives Job seekers an Advantage. Trackback: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/5-ways-social-media-gives-job-seekers.html

Linkedin has released some interesting upgrades in the past week that can help job seekers. Linkedin’s two big new features are Linkedin Follow and Linkedin Twitter Integration. How can these new features help job seekers? Trackback: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-can-linkedins-new-features-help-job.html

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 11/9/09. 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. Trackback: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/whos-hiring-top-employers-week-of-11-9.html

America was not always obsessed with low prices, writes Atlantic Monthly correspondent Ellen Ruppel Shell, but over the past century our thirst for bargains has transformed the world's economy - and not necessarily for the better. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture explores the effects of our focus on low price. The idea sprang from a trip to a shoe ...

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 ...

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 ...