50% Of Agency Relationships Last Less Than 2 Years
Research shows that half of the agency/client relationships out there last less than two years. This is from a sample of about 140 companies with an annual marketing spend of at least $2 million, including Citibank, General Mills, IBM, GE, and ESPN.

Date: 2007-12-28

Access Your PC from Anywhere
Here’s how it works: You simply log on to GoToMyPC and your office desktop instantly appears on that computer. It’s so easy! You have full access to all your files, programs, email and network.

Date: 2007-12-13

Hire The Ultimate Money-Making Employee
Stop worrying your latest employee’s background check is going to show a criminal record and dispose of the hiring process all together! Take a product tour of Infusion CRM- the all-in-one solution.

Date: 2007-12-12

Forgetful Micromanagings
Sometimes you run into management that is an interesting mix of styles if not a weird almost contradictory management style like the forgetful micromanager.

Date: 2007-12-10

6 Keys to Using Web Conferencing to Help Your Business
IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte (formerly WebDialogs, Inc.) is offering you an opportunity to receive 25% off your web conferencing services*, which is equivalent to getting three months of service at no charge!

Date: 2007-12-06

Skills Can Be Taught, Personality Is Forever
Employers are putting an increasing focus on employee personality to ensure that they can work within the team framework, and have a better understanding of the job requirements. An excellent write up in the SeattlePI goes in detail on the subject, and is something that I have noticed that more and more clients are doing. They want people who can hit the ground running, work within the confines of the job, and get along with people.

Date: 2007-12-03

Online Meetings Made Easy
GoToMeeting is an easy, secure, cost-effective Web-based service that lets you hold instant online meetings from your office, your conference room, your home office — with participants in any location. So you can do more and travel less. Which means you can save more money and make more money.

Date: 2007-11-29

Are You Too Smart For Your Own Good?
Recently Andy Hagans sent me a link to a 1924 article titled Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men, which has a couple killer quotes in it. The first is how to succeed in business: That criticism may be justifiable, for I am mediocre.

Date: 2007-11-19

Screening Interviews & Culling Resumes
One of the best things you can do when trying to fill a position is to do a screening interview. What I am seeing as I go through the screening interviews is that many folks are misrepresenting their skills on paper, and that means they would be chewed up in an interview.

Date: 2007-11-05

Management Mistake - Playing Favorites
Few bad management practices can destroy office morale faster than a manager who plays favourites. Accompanying the disillusionment of the staff members, with the guilty employer, is much lower productivity and work output levels.

Date: 2007-10-22

Managing By Embarassment
In my speaking engagements, I often talk about my experience working at ibm.com, a huge Web site any way you slice it-millions of pages, dozens of languages, over 90 countries, thousands of people.

Date: 2007-10-08

Dark Blogs: Bad Idea For Crisis Communication
More and more, I hear communicators counsel their organizations and clients to maintain a "dark blog" in the wings, ready to be activated in the event of a crisis.

Date: 2007-09-26

No more trips to the post office
Print postage on letters and packages right from your office. Save time and money while you're at it. Enjoy the convenience of a digital postage meter and avoid the hassle of going to the post office.

Date: 2007-09-07

Long Distance Employees
Virtual companies are now part of the mainstream business landscape. While the vast majority of organizations take a bricks and mortar approach, businesses with no real estate beyond bits and bytes are finding their niche as well.

Date: 2007-09-04

Track The Life Cycle of Your Website Customers
Ektron CMS400.net lets you do more than just what you need to do on the web, it also lets you do everything you want to do on the web...

Date: 2007-08-23

Business Disaster Management
Disaster can strike a business at any time. Crises can range all the way from failed shipments and lost accounts to natural events like hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes.

Date: 2007-08-20

Managers And Lousy Internal Communication
It will come as no surprise to anybody who has ever held a job that managers are often lousy communicators. Even if you have leaders who communicated well, you undoubtedly had co-workers who weren't so lucky.

Date: 2007-08-06

Eliminate Employee Reluctance To Suggest Ideas
One of my pet peeves in the office is walking out into the main work area and asking a question meant for everyone, only to have it met with resounding silence.

Date: 2007-07-23

Pre-Employment Screening and Lies
It is a well-known fact that people tell lies. Having accepted this fact it is reasonable to assume that applicants for employment positions will tell lies, or at least believe it to be acceptable to jazz up their CVs by exaggeration.

Date: 2007-07-09

Hiring: When Being Smart Just Isn't Enough
Hire the best people that you can find, the problem is hiring the best people you can find. Marc Andreesen though has some really helpful hints in probably one of the most concise hiring practices manifesto I have ever read.

Date: 2007-06-25

The Lament Of A Hiring Manager
Like most bosses, I have jobs that need to be filled. They are very specific in what we need, and what the qualified candidate will look like in terms of skills, both technical and in personal communication and team work.

Date: 2007-06-18

Building an Online Community
Ektron CMS400.NET, the industry's leading Web Content Management Solution, let's you do all you need to do on the web and everything you want to do on the web...

Date: 2007-06-07

Successful Leadership - Beware The Silver Bullets
We are all tempted to keep looking for that one person, that one application, that one solution, that one customer that will make all the bad things go away and breathe new life into whatever we've been stuck with.

Date: 2007-06-04

Startup Hiring: Signs You Might Have A Winner
Many startups that I'm advising, invested in or otherwise involved in, including my own startup, HubSpot, are hiring. This is a good sign (generally), because growth is usually a sign of success -- or at least optimism.

Date: 2007-05-21

Know When To Pull The Plug
When business people think of sunk costs, if they ever consider the concept at all, think in terms of throwing good money after bad. While that is part of the definition of what constitutes a sunk cost, there is much more to the story.

Date: 2007-05-14

Leadership Vs. Management
Leadership vs. Management; what is the difference? Leadership theorists and researchers suggest that there are clear and convincing differences between the two. By understanding the differences, we must first define the terms.

Date: 2007-05-07

Need New Ways To Motivate Your Staff?
You've tried them all - balloons, contests, posters and cake. How do you keep your associates energized day after day, year after year? How do you energize yourself to come up with new ideas to motivate and inspire them?

Date: 2007-04-30

Why Trusting Your Workers Could Boost Your Business
Trust is perhaps one of the most important things in life, as it differentiates the relationships we have with all the surrounding people. Of course, the amount of trust an employer puts on his workers makes an impact do.

Date: 2007-04-23

Develop Your People To Their Full Potential
Smart leaders and managers know that it is important to build and maintain the value of their greatest resource - their people. It's difficult to develop the potential of your people if you have not ascertained their existing skills, knowledge, and abilities ? in other words, their competencies.

Date: 2007-04-09

Misconceptions About Employee Incentives
Having good intentions is unfortunately not enough at all to make employee incentives work for your company. If you want to spend your money on a truly worthwhile cause, do make sure first that you're not suffering from any misconceptions about employee incentives.

Date: 2007-03-26

Strategy Before Tactics
If you have no defined strategy then what ever tactics you employ probably won't meet your goals. How many of us in the information security business bought a product, tool, policy or process from a company because we needed to meet a legal...

Date: 2007-03-19

Positive Approach To Employee Discipline
Smoothing the Consequences of Miscounduct with Accountability. For seventy-five years, American organizations have used a fairly standardized procedure to handle familiar personnel problems such as absenteeism, poor performance, and other misconduct.

Date: 2007-03-12

A Secret No One Tells New Managers
The Merriam-Webster dictionary lists two meanings for "confrontation." There are "a face-to-face meeting" and "the clashing of forces or ideas." Both are part of being a boss, but hardly anyone tells that to a new manager in advance.

Date: 2007-03-05

Strategies For Hiring The Best Employees
A few years ago I wrote a column in which I compared managing employees to herding cats: just when you think you have everyone organized in a happy little group and going in the same direction one cat breaks from the herd and heads off to do its own thing.

Date: 2007-02-19

Leadership: Take Away Their Excuses
Excuses. If you're responsible for the performance of a group, you've heard excuses. Your job is to get rid of those excuses. With excuses gone, the real slackers stand out from the crowd.

Date: 2007-02-12

Employee Performance Appraisal - Ideal Assessment Form
Conventional wisdom says that there's no such thing as a perfect employee performance appraisal form. And with so many sorry examples of appraisal forms around, conventional wisdom might almost seem correct.

Date: 2007-02-05

Leadership As A Boss In The Workplace
Do you give your employees the type of leadership in the workplace that they come to expect? What is it that you think they do expect from you as the boss?

Date: 2007-01-29

What Your Workers Want From You
Workers are human beings. That may seem obvious to you, but because of that simple fact, we've got decades of behavioral science research that can help us understand what they want.

Date: 2007-01-15

Managing The Workforce Of Tomorrow
If you are in a leadership position today, here are ten ideas to help you successfully lead the newest generation of workers-Millennials or Gen X. They are different and here is why.

Date: 2007-01-08

Employee Turnover And Your Business Profitability
It is interesting that for all the charts and graphs displayed at meetings that you have attended t hat never once have you ever seen a graph of the true and major cost of "employee turnover".

Date: 2007-01-03