Identity Theft Victims: Consumers and Businesses

October 21, 2009

Identity theft happens every day to people from all walks of life. It is estimated that up to 9 million Americans have had someone use their personally identifying information like name, Social Security number, or credit card number, without their permission.
What can you do to combat this crime? Detecting that you have been a victim [...]

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Beat the Flu with Google Wave

October 2, 2009

Here I sit, once again in self imposed flu quarantine trying to restructure email threads from various participants from a week’s worth of an important document creation. In spite of my team’s efforts, the final posted and published version was missing two important details.
As is usually the case, the error was not caught in [...]

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DOJ CIO Reveals Upcoming Tech Opportunities

September 22, 2009

The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Vance Hitch addressed upcoming technology opportunities for small businesses that trade with the federal government.
While most of the opportunities appeared to be highly technical and infrastructure related, there is confidence that small business sized recomplete items will be available for 1st QT FY11 for the information technology sector.
Specifically, DOJ’s [...]

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Pre-Paid Legal Goes Viral

September 16, 2009

Pre-Paid Legal Services (NYSE:PPD) announced the marketing program re-launch with Blastoff Communications. LLC of DALLAS, Texas. Through an exclusive deal with Blastoff, Pre-Paid Legal Services will use the Blastoff online platform to market legal services.
“The Blastoff online marketing platform provides a perfect fit with the Pre-Paid Legal Services direct selling business model,” said Harland [...]

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Sales Fascination

September 7, 2009

On the opposite conumdrum of the sales challenge are those that sing the praises of the Sales profession. Actually, it’s not hard to find the facination. In what other profession are you challenged to bring to bear so much psychology related to our needs, wants, dreams and egos? Who else can control [...]

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Sales, A Necessary Challenge

July 2, 2009

The notion of being an active participant in the sales industry is not terribly appealing. For most people, the sales profession ranks somewhere below a lawyer without the huge fees. Most would admit that the mere mention of a sales person brings up images of loud and unscrupulous car sales man wearing a [...]

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