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Ten ways feedback can help your job search

In these trying times it is tough to keep your momentum going, here are a few feedback tips you can use to invigorate your job search:

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  1. Identify the college course, position or business you've most enjoyed and retrace…
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Added by Diane Rines on June 18, 2013 at 7:02am — No Comments

What is the business upside of networking socially?

    How do people improve their business by effective networking? Let's look at some of the reasons people network socially:

  • Keep in touch with contacts and improve your chances for new job, venture or other opportunities.
  • Increase you sphere of influence.
  • Do research on consumer…
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Added by Diane Rines on June 17, 2013 at 10:30am — No Comments

Is networking magic?

    Networking is not magic or is it?  So many tell you to polish your elevator pitch and make it sound natural.  However, is it really natural?  Are you going to go to the hardware store to give your spiel to the plywood?



    You spend the majority of your time in the grocery store, with your kid's…

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Added by Diane Rines on June 14, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments

Are you disorganized?

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Here are the top ten signs that you have too much junk:

  1. Your neighbor calls the city on you.
  2. You find neon orange stickers…
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Added by Diane Rines on June 12, 2013 at 10:30am — No Comments

10 ways you can energize your resume and elevator pitch

     Due to the volume of resumes that recruiters receive, it is important to keep your resume updated with powerful bottom-line information.  Objectives are typically too vague and cast a wide net and one-liners keep you in a tight job niche.

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Added by Diane Rines on June 11, 2013 at 7:00am — No Comments

What is your biggest problem TODAY?

    The funny thing about a canned pitch is that it never addresses the problem of the day. If you are using a canned telephone script, is that going to increase your conversions?

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Added by Diane Rines on June 10, 2013 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Do you find yourself more disorganized with tech tools?

    The technology tools industry prides itself on doing things automatically, more efficiently and with less paper. What? We don't spend as much time printing receipts so we are theoretical ly saving trees.

Are we any better organized as a professional?…

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Added by Diane Rines on May 30, 2013 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Do you wish you could attract more customers to your business

 

Learn the simple reasons Why people buy and

How to get more of them to buy from you!

David Hepburn Jr. is a speaker, business coach and the author of the forthcoming book “Personal Development Precedes Everything.” He has trained thousands of business and sales people across the country. He is owner of Mentoring Your Success and the creator of The Mastermind Roundtable as well as several other successful…

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Added by David Hepburn Jr on May 30, 2013 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Why invest in Technology?

    In a recent crowd funding seminar hosted by NSB Keane, the speaker, Russ Perry, mentioned a Crowdsourcing website which assisted entrepreneurs to raise funds for their product. The site, KickStarter, was unique in that entrepreneurs could raise funds without an equity commitment to the investor. Hands rose …

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Added by Diane Rines on May 28, 2013 at 11:43am — No Comments

Is your social media plan to "sink or swim"?

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Added by Diane Rines on May 17, 2013 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Are you qualifying your networking leads?

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    Virtually…

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Added by Diane Rines on May 6, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments

Do You Have a Brand Name Flight Plan?

    Have you ever been asked about your strengths/weaknesses in an interview? This is revealing your blunders, but you always follow-up with your strengths and lessons learned. Many auto-biographical works have been written that reveal the person’s mistakes. Overall, this shows the human side of the story and makes the person a more credible role model. It is important to have a professional online image, so reveal only what you feel comfortable talking about and what you…

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Added by Diane Rines on April 27, 2013 at 8:30am — No Comments

Can Small businesses compete on a larger scale and a tighter budget?

How can small businesses effectively compete with larger companies? Social Media changes rapidly.  The same tools that are available to large companies are available to small budget businesses. In a corporate video, Scholastic mused that their blog is scrappy, but what they really meant was they use inexpensive…

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Added by Diane Rines on April 18, 2013 at 10:30am — No Comments

Breast Health Awareness

Breast Health Awareness

Every month of the year is designated as a disease of the month. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The headline article in many Internet articles, Blogs and Magazines will promote--"The Fight Against Breast Cancer." In spite of all the research, chemotherapy, radiation, breasts removed, walking for breast cancer, pink parties for breast cancer, cancer is on…

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Added by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on April 17, 2013 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Computer Training in Tempe, Arizona

Dynamic World Wide Training is an 11 year old training center that focused on JUNIPER training for 8 years and 3 years ago, added on Microsoft Technical training and Microsoft Office training for end users.

 

We also have training on other Technical areas such as Cisco, Authorized VMWARE, Adobe, Comptia, Project Management, Juniper, and a huge area called BUSINESS SKILLS - if your in Arizona and interested in any of these technologies or need business skills, browse the classes…

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Added by Randy Johnson on April 15, 2013 at 11:09am — No Comments

How do you create a great elevator pitch?

                  

 

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A great elevator pitch will answer…

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Added by Diane Rines on April 15, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Would you like your business in our business directory?

    The Phoenix Pros are putting together a business directory and pinned interactive map as a service to our premium PleaseCheckin.com members. With the pinned map, potential customers may click on your pin to see your business information and get directions to your office from their mobile phone or desktop computer. See the Phoenix Pros Map and Business Directory tabs on http://PleaseCheckin.com.

    Join today as a premium member (30 day free…

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Added by Diane Rines on April 8, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Would you like to help with community service projects?

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  Sometimes we get too caught up in our own lives and business that we don't think about others often enough. We forget that there are still people struggling and needing our help.



    When I first arrived in…

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Added by Diane Rines on April 8, 2013 at 9:30am — No Comments

Would you like to offer classes to our premium members?

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    Will you offer webinars, live classes or workshops to our premium members? Speakers receive free premium membership and event marketing for every month they conduct an approved class for our premium members. Topics can…

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Added by Diane Rines on April 4, 2013 at 9:30am — No Comments

Event attendees are on mobile devices - Are YOUR events mobilized?

Are you really expected to be a PRODUCTIVE networker in a crowded room where you can't possibly meet enough targeted people? Yes, in an ideal world you could ask for an appointment prior to attending the event but will that person meet you if you are not what they are looking for?…

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Added by Diane Rines on April 2, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

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