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June 20th, 2009UncategorizedThere's no question that 2009 will continue to be a challenging year. Organizations of all sizes and across industries are scaling back budgets, but not expectations. Here's the opportunity: marketers can stand out by taking a long, hard look at their customer data and making sure it is as accurate as possible. Here are some tips to maximize your customer data. -
June 19th, 2009UncategorizedSocial media, social networks and now the social graph. The language might sound modern, yet the concept is timeless. Brad Fitzpatrick, a Google engineer and a respected thinker on the subject, describes the social graph as "the global mapping of everybody and how they're related." Fortunately for marketers, technology not only enables connections between people, but between people and brands.
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June 18th, 2009UncategorizedCustomer experience management starts with an understanding of a customer's perception of their interactions with an organization. With the proliferation of social media, creating a program to effectively manage the customer experience is more complex than ever. Customers have a lot of choices on whether, how and where they interact with your organization and how they get information about products and services. How you respond to these choices determines the customer experience, which in turn defines brand experience and brand equity.
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June 17th, 2009UncategorizedImagine an economic collapse in which millions of people lose half of their life savings and their trust in the country’s largest financial institutions is severely shaken. To help restore trust in the financial sector, the government creates a savings system operated by its postal administration. Sound unrealistic?
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June 16th, 2009Uncategorized
The question has come into everyone’s mind at one point or another.”How do I make money fast?” Luckily for everyone who has ever had that question come to mind there is an answer! There are several ways to make money quickly online, now we will venture through the online category.
3 websites to make money online.
1. Associated Content.
2. Cash Crate.
3. Forum booster.Let’s begin with associated content. Associated content should be the number one stop for those people who frequently ask themselves, how I could make money fast. Associated Content requires you to write content, which in other words for those who aren’t familiar with the online language, content means articles.
Associated Content requires that you write articles for them, they will pay you anywhere from $3 to $40 for your content.
Most of the time however the bids that they place on your content are for much less than $10. However, this is still a great way to make money online if you can type several articles per day. You may be surprised to see how easy it has become to earn a part time income through writing for Associated Content.
The next site that we will talk about is Cash Crate. Cash Crate is a site that pays you to take surveys. They may pay anywhere from a dollar to possibly a hundred dollars, just for you to take a survey.
Doesn’t sound too bad now does it? The reason they pay you to complete surveys is that companies are willing to shell out loads of cash for in-depth information from their consumers to find out exactly what they word on the street is about their product or services.
They even have a daily survey on the homepage that is guaranteed to make you some extra income; the guaranteed survey on the homepage pays $0.80. It may not seem like much but do the math, over a 30 day time period. That is almost $30 extra dollars just for taking surveys.
Are you still asking yourself that question, how do I make money fast? Well if writing tons of articles and taking surveys doesn’t really sound like your cup of tea, there is always the alternative of Forum Booster.
Forum Booster is a website that pays you $0.10 for each post you make on a forum. This is great for those of us that would be searching and posting on forums either way, why not get paid for it? If you can post sixty posts in 1 hour, you can make $6, which is not that bad for earning money online.
It may not be minimum wage, but you have the advantage of being in the comfort of your own home. You can be in your pajamas sipping coffee while working on posting on these forums. Each post should be a minimum of 12 words, which is not difficult to do at all.
Overall there are tons of ways to make money quickly online but these are just the tried and true and the best of the best.
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June 15th, 2009UncategorizedCareer employees earn 4 hours of sick leave for a full pay period (80 hours), or at a rate of 5 percent. Some career employees are currently taking sick leave at approximately the same rate, liquidating their leave bank. The Postal Service’s sick leave absence rate (absenteeism) was 4.3 percent in 2008.
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June 14th, 2009Uncategorized
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Tuesday that many job hunters are being approached with e-mail offers of employment. Invariably they ask for money up front. Consumer advocates warn they are likely scams, the newspaper says.
The U.S. Consumer Protection Agency received several thousand complaints a year about bogus headhunters and employment and placement agencies. It’s only getting worse with an estimated 3.6 million more U.S. workers unemployed.
“There’s always people out there willing to take advantage of people’s misery,” said Chris Thetford, director of communications for the Better Business Bureau of Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois. “I’ve never met anyone who had to pay to get a legitimate job.”
There are efforts to try to catch these predators. For example, the Federal Trade Commission filed a federal court complaint in November against a Georgia outfit charging $120 to $140 for materials to help applicants pass a U.S. Postal Service qualifying exam.
In early 2008, the Ohio attorney general fined a personnel service for enticing clients to pay $389 for a connection to nonexistent jobs.
But, the experts say, beware because more scam artists are out there.
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June 13th, 2009UncategorizedIdentity theft is the fastest growing crime in the nation. One of the many ways criminals steal your identity can happen right at your front door. Your mailbox is a prime target for identity thieves, who can find a wealth of mail, bills, and private documents
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June 12th, 2009Uncategorized
HP announced today that laptop computer batteries have been recalled as a fire hazard due to risk of overheating. Affected models are HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario, HP, and HP Compaq computers sold from about August 2007 to March 2008. Find out if your computer is affected and get a replacement battery at HP's site. -
June 11th, 2009Uncategorized
A Wall Street Journal story highlights one potential amendment to credit card reform legislation, which could allow vendors to charge different prices depending on how you make your purchase. Under the Durbin-Bond amendment, if you pay with a credit card, you'll also have to fork over the fee the business will have to pay for accepting your transaction that way. Pay by cash or debit card and you'd get a discount. A business executive interviewed in the story says as things now stand, businesses are forced to pass credit card fees on to all customers.
As part of a sweeping bill to change the rules for credit cards, a pair of senators are pushing to lift constraints that Visa, MasterCard and other credit card networks impose on merchants' ability to offer discounts for paying by cash or check.
Retailers have long chafed under the restrictions, which make it burdensome for them to make transparent to consumers the fees they pay to credit card companies. Those fees amount to tens of billions of dollars a year. The result, they complain, is that cash-paying customers unfairly end up sharing the cost of letting other customers buy on credit.
"Cash customers pay a penalty because we take credit cards," said Jeff Miller, president of Miller Oil Co.
The Norfolk, Va., company, which runs 44 Miller's Neighborhood Market stores in Virginia and Florida, says 60% of its transactions involve credit cards.
"It's just a weird thing that a vendor like that can dictate to us how we're allowed to sell our product," Mr. Miller said.
What goes unaddressed is whether businesses that try a tiered pricing system will drive credit card users away rather than coaxing them into paying differently.
