Archive for August, 2007

7 Great Ways to Lose Your Shirt Using Google Adwords!

Google Adwords is a great tool! Careful use can lead tolegions of highly targeted visitors breaching the moataround your site, and demanding to pillage your products! Onthe other hand…
Adwords is also a great place to drain your advertisingdollars if you’re not careful. Like any other automatedsystem, it requires constant feeding and attention to keepyou from […]

Smart Staffing Practices: Don’t Confuse Activity with Results

Does your hiring process consist of proven practices or just a hodgepodge of activities that get into gear when someone says, "I need more people" or "Sally has left and we need someone to take her place NOW?"
Smart hiring is more than running ads, screening, interviewing and checking references. It is a series of specific […]

Who Else Knows These Facts About Trampolines

“El trampolino” was the Mexican word for “diving board”,and one of the many words in common usage, which was onceactually trademarked as “trampoline”.
The first gold medal awarded in Olympic trampolinecompetition, went to Irina Karavaeva, of Russia. Theevent, which took place at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney,Australia, was witnessed by George Nissen, the 86 year-oldinventor […]

How to Create an Attitude of Cooperation

Having been a parent educator and a PBS consultant for Ready to Learn for many years, I have had the unique opportunity to work with Head Start families, Child Care Providers, and parents as well as schools, organizations, and teachers all over the world just like you.
YES YOU ARE A TEACHER.
Every one of us is […]

Dumb Luck

I’ve never really thought of myself as being funny. I don’t have much of a sense of humor at all. My ex-husband used to tell me dumb jokes all the time and I didn’t laugh, not even to be polite like everyone else would do. Yet the strange thing is that people who’ve read some […]

Success Without Whining About Doing Your Best

In the film ‘The Rock’, Sean Connery takes a dim view of those who claim to be ‘doing their best’. He comments grimly: ‘Losers always whine about doing their best.’ Is he right? This article tries to give an answer.
In the film, two men are set the near impossible task of disabling rocket bombs armed […]