In today’s economy many companies are looking for top notch sales professionals with a good amount of experience. This could potentially make it very difficult for those who are seeking their very first sales job after graduating from college since you will have little to no experience; or do you? One of the things you [...]
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Getting Your First Sales Job
What Are We Teaching by Example?
Education is supposed to be the backbone of America and as parents and educators alike we know the best teaching comes from that done by example. With this in mind, is anyone asking what we are teaching our kids by the examples that are coming through loud and clear by politicians, business executives, the media, [...]
Dream Gone Bad
When people look back on the history of this country there is no doubt in anybodies mind that The Great Depression was one of the hardest time periods in our history. During the Great Depression the body of American withered and withered and almost died. But one thing that most people do not seem to [...]
Kevin Smith vs. Southwest Airlines
If you haven’t heard by now, Kevin Smith was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight for violating their “persons of size” policy. What ensued can only be referred to as the Twitter version of the Dresden bombing campaign from Smith toward the airline.
Smith, with over 1.6 million followers on Twitter, quickly reached a large audience, [...]
Getting to know your Mortgage Lender
I recently asked a Realtor friend of mine if she knew someone who could help me decide if now was the time to buy a house or not and she put me in touch with a mortgage lender that she not only uses but trusts. I had the pleasure of discussing my situation with him [...]
Do What You Love and Love What You Do
While being able to do what you love sounds nice, there are some people that just can’t make a living doing what they love to do. Those people have to decide to either find an alternative way to make a living or continue to starve out the meager living doing what they love. What many [...]
Judging the Unemployed
I’m sure you have heard the stories of all those terrible people out there (wherever there is) who are hurting the credit card companies by not paying their bills or letting the rest of us down by refusing to pay their current mortgages; thus causing this awful economic downturn. If you listen closely, these “people” [...]
The Problem with Many Senior Citizens
Last week I got an email from my father who is 75 and extremely conservative these days as he only listens to talk radio and my step-mother. It also does not bode well that he lives in Texas where there seems to be a movement these days to just be obstinate when it comes to [...]
The Luxury of Lawn Care
For years I did all my own lawn and garden care till I threw my back out and was forced to hire someone to come in a mow and trim my lawn. I had every intent of taking that chore back over after I got better, but I have to tell you, I haven’t. My [...]
In Debt & Desperate
Growing up my father was very adamant about paying off your obligations. He and my mother paid for a business that went bad from the time I could remember till the year after I graduated from high school. It’s why they had no money to help my brother or I through college. My dad use [...]
