Don’t show me your first draft
When I was doing my post-grad certificate in magazine journalism at Ryerson University, I remember slaving over the first assignment for our writing class. Everyone was eager to hand in something really good to our teacher, Wendy Dennis, a contributing...
Categories: Trafcom News Tags: Art of writing, Conference podcasting, content, Employee communications, Jim Long, Marketing, New Jersey, Podcasting, PR, Steve, Steve Lubetkin, Toronto, Wendy, Wendy Dennis
Volcker Optimistic Financial Overhaul Will Include His Rule
Paul Volcker expressed optimism that a financial overhaul containing a version of his proposal to limit bank risk would pass in Congress.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: Obama, Paul Volcker, U.S., Wall Street, wall street banks
Credit Unions, Commercial Banks at Odds Over Lending Turf
A proposal to double the percentage limit that determines how much credit unions can lend to small businesses is drawing sharp criticism from commercial lenders, building upon an already thorny relationship between the two.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: john magill
A Look at Case-Shiller, by Metro Area (March Update)
The S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city home-price index, a closely watched gauge of U.S. home prices, was mostly flat in January from a month earlier.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: home price index
Do You Hate Cold Calling? Here’s a Way to Eliminate the Fear, Failure and Rejection
If you’re anything like most professionals, me included, you’d rather lose your right arm than make a cold call. It’s uncomfortable, you feel like you’re a used car salesman, and it doesn’t feel at all like the client-focused approach you know you should be using. So most of us put it off, or we ask others to [...]
Do You Hate Cold Calling? Here’s a Way to Eliminate the Fear, Failure and Rejection is a post from: Get More Clients in Less Time: Proven Strategies from Ian Brodie
Categories: Ian Brodie Tags: Art, Art Sobczak, Bob Bly, Bob Burg, Book, cold calling, Ho, Ian Brodie, Jill Konrath, Paul McCord, Selling Professional Services, smart calling, Zig Ziglar
Secondary Sources: Fiscal Policy, Debt, Education and Employment
A roundup of economic news from around the Web.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: social security fund
Economic Hit From Crisis: A Very Big Number
The global loss of economic output as a result of the banking crisis may be between $60 trillion and $200 trillion, Bank of England Executive Director for Financial Stability Andrew Haldane said Tuesday.
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Critic Group Urges Fed to Act to Control Inflation
The guys on the shadow open market committee are old school.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: Chairman Ben Bernanke, Charles Plosser, claremont mckenna college, Fed, Gregory Hess, Janet Yellen, Marvin Goodfriend, Michael Bordo, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco
Secondary Sources: Unskilled Graduates, Regulation, Saving Rate
A roundup of economic news from around the Web.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: Arnold Kling, Ben Bernanke, college, DAVID LEONHARDT, Phil Izzo, public sector employment, Yves Smith
The Role of News in Blended Search – Observations & Best Practices
We’re starting this Spring Break week off with a very rare guest post from TopRank Marketing client, Jiyan Wei. Jiyan is Director of Product Management at Vocus, Inc. where he drives product platform strategy and roadmap execution for PRWeb. I’ve presented on panels with Jiyan several times at search marketing conferences, talking about the virtues [...]
Categories: Online Marketing Tags: B Forum, Bing, blended-search, Guest Posts, jiyan wei, News, news optimization, Press Release Optimization, prweb, SEO, vocus inc