Remember that taking care of yourself gives you the energy necessary to take care of others.

A lack of information and mispereceptions may be one reason why we hesitate to interact and market to people with disabilities.

ROI takes into account campaign cost > response rate > conversion ratio > AND profit per sale.
DON’T STOP AT RESPONSE RATE!

As we pulled together a plan at the Chamber to get our business community through the disaster, we realized we had lost the basic foundation of a community with their physiological and safety needs met.

Only the courageous thrive in the real world of sales and successfully create sales by guiding their vessel through rough waters. Unlike a captain of a vessel, who is supreme master of his vessel, with everyone on board and working to a fixed cause, a salesperson is guiding a vessel where not all are committed and quite possibly have plans of their own to sail in another direction.

Be a top salesperson, instead of an average salesperson – Set strong and clear objectives. Find a target that motivates you, put it in print, break it down to a daily objective and go for it!

As cleanup from this year’s record floods continue in the Fargo-Moorhead region, a new report from the American Lung Association is providing the city some badly needed good news.

Leaders of the country, state, cities, and schools were challenged and given an extreme opportunity to do their jobs. Student and community leaders had opportunities to grow and shine in their leadership skills.

Published April 2009 at www.talentmgt.com.

By Tory Clarke

Organizations should encourage, value and support extracurricular volunteer efforts, not just because it is the right thing to do but because these volunteer activities will increase employee engagement, underscore the employer brand, support recruitment and retention initiatives, and develop valuable workplace skills that ultimately will help the employer succeed.

We all know that these are “tough times” for our Chamber, members, community and region as the Flood of 2009 continues.