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Workplace Shootings in Florida, Texas Again Put Focus on Violence on the Job The two shootings are the highest-profile incidents of workplace violence since a Yale University student’s strangled body was found in the university laboratory where she conducted research. A co-worker, Raymond J. Clark III, was later charged with the murder.
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How to Resolve Workplace Conflict Conflict in the workplace is a painful reality and a key reason for poor productivity and frustration. Do you have people in your workplace that cause problems for everyone else? Do they create additional work for others? One point is clear--conflict does not magically go away and only gets worse when ignored.
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Seven Ways to Boost ProductivityFor many small-business owners, the recession created unprecedented pressure to cut costs, trim their staffs or enact hiring freezes. Slow sales and a tight lending environment left human capital at a high premium.
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Financial Issues
6 Facts to Know Before Renting an Email ListData can make you or break you in Direct Marketing, whether it is postal, email or telemarketing!
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Technology Issues
Online Retailers Get Social for the HolidaysTo combat a slow sales forecast, many online retailers will be looking to boost their digital presence this holiday season, per Shop.org's annual eHoliday Study conducted by BIGresearch.
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New IRS Site Simplifies Small-Business Retirement PlansThe average American’s retirement plan isn’t worth as much as it was a few years ago — but offering such plans is still a huge perk that helps small businesses attract potential employees. No longer are retirement plans just for big companies. You’ll find a good selection of plans out there for companies with only a few employees and even for sole proprietors.
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Branding, Sales, and Marketing
Shops Restructure Ways to Go LocalMedia agency networks are taking steps to reinvent the $5.5 billion local buying process as they seek leverage and efficiencies.
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4 Sure Ways to Get PublicityThere are more channels for exposure than ever, but it takes diligence to keep your business in front of the right ones.
Entrepreneur.com Branding, Sales, and MarketingSEO for Twitter ContentThe major search engines have a history of evolving their indexing capabilities to keep up with new types of digital content. First it was HTML text, then blog content, then multimedia files like videos, and more recently it was flash content. Now the search engines are indexing another type of content -- tweets!
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