The difference between a new account and a new relationship (Eagle-Tribune Online)

3. Tell the reader what he will LOSE if he does not take the recommended action. Fear of loss is a great motivator.

The difference between a new account and a new relationship (Eagle-Tribune Online)

I made the sale! Great. Way to go! Okay, now calm down. What kind of sale? Any chance for an up-sell? A referral? Another sale? The sale is just one small part of the relationship. It's not the beginning of it, and hopefully it's not the end.

Readers respond to NFL's photographer vestÂ plan (Daily Herald)

We asked what you thought of the NFL's new policy requiring sideline photographers to wear bright red vests embossed with small corporate logos from Canon and Reebok.

Execs Who Rock (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Eight lucky bands are leaving the conference room for the concert hall as finalists of the Seventh Annual FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands. The first music competition of its kind, the FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands provides amateur, company- sponsored bands the opportunity to lose the tie and briefcase and pick up their passion.

www.SmallCapConference.org to Feature 14 Undiscovered Emerging Growth Companies at the Penn Club of New York City, on ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

NEW YORK----Flaherty Financial News and WallStreet Research announced today that fourteen emerging growth companies will present their corporate strategies at the second joint Flaherty Financial News/WallStreet Research Small Cap Conference on Tuesday, August 14th, at the Penn Club of New York , 30 W. 44th Street.

Women in Business Profile: Marilyn Winborn (Montgomery Advertiser)

It's funny how a few extra beads turned into a jewelry shop, a Web site and eventually a Web design company.

Quant quake shakes hedge-fund giants (Market Watch)

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Some of the largest firms in the $1.5 trillion hedge-fund industry have been hit this month by big losses among so-called quantitative funds, which use computer models to generate trading ideas.

Keep an eye on the value traps (The Australian)

BARELY a week goes by without someone exhorting Australian businesses to become "more global".

Tread lightly, travel fully (Asbury Park Press)

Traveling to a seaside New England clam shack for fried clams. Listening to jazz in New Orleans. Visiting a small organic coffee farm in Guatemala.

Execs Who Rock (Broadcast Newsroom)

CLEVELAND , Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Eight lucky bands are leaving the conference room for the concert hall as finalists of the Seventh Annual FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands.

At Random: Sam Watts (The Valdosta Daily Times)

I met Samuel â€œSamâ€ Watts for the very first time nine days ago on the Lowndes County Courthouse lawn at the 100 Black Men of Valdosta Inc.â€™s 12th annual barbecue cook-off. It was a Saturday, and I was covering the event for this newspaper. He was one of more than a dozen contestants.

The difference between a new account and a new relationship (Eagle-Tribune Online)

I get up every day and shower and put on a dress and leave my family to go to work for a living. I come home after dark, I'm dead tired, and I just fall onto the couch and go to sleep in front of the TV." I nodded. **** was getting worked up. "You, on the other hand," she said as she pointed at me, "are home when I leave in the morning. You're home when I get back from work. You have a nice house, a nice car... and as far as I can tell you don't even have a job. So I want to know how you do it!

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