June, 2009

ACCENT Marketing Services Takes Home Bronze at Contact Center World.com’s Top Performers Conference

ACCENT’s New Albany and Farmington contact centers honored for Best Contact Center, Best Supervisor, and Best HR Support Professional in the Americas

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., June 19 /PRNewswire/ — ACCENT Marketing Services, an international provider of customer lifecycle management solutions, received several honors at the 2009 Contact Center World.com North American Top Ranking Performers Conference.

Out of over one thousand applicants, three employees from ACCENT’s New Albany, Ind., and Farmington, Mo. contact…

Kentucky Fried Chicken Cooks Up Chari-T’s: a KFC Philanthropic Fashion First

KFC Offers Budding Clothing Designers a National Stage for a Good Cause

LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 18 /PRNewswire/ — As summer fashion season starts to sizzle, KFC is encouraging everyone – from budding fashion designers to college students – to literally design the shirts off their backs to benefit KFC Colonel’s Scholars(R), a charitable initiative providing students nationwide with much needed college scholarships. And, to heat things up, KFC is…

Time Management by Values

Time Management by Values

Time Management by Values

Time management has been a topic of conversation, discussion and argument for more than 20 years and little has been resolved. Terms like “workaholic” have come into our language with little in the way of accepted belief about the exact parameters of this “disease.” We decry the need to work longer hours…

Creating Your Own Fireworks – The Explosive Power of Good Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Creating Your Own Fireworks – The Explosive Power of Good Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Creating Your Own Fireworks – The Explosive Power of Good Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Thunder Over Louisville has been the Derby Festival kick-off event for the past 19 years. It is an air and pyrotechnics show, unrivaled by any other city in the USA; and, Kentuckiana gets to call Thunder its own. Each year I head out to the riverfront, Thunder is bigger…

Gallopalooza

Gallopalooza

Brightly decorated life-size fiberglass horses will begin appearing throughout our community in mid-April. These Gallopalooza horses and entrepreneurs have a lot in common. They both start with wanting to create something from a blank canvas, nurturing it as it develops and then basking in the joy and excitement of seeing it through to fruition. They both need passion, creativity, energy…

Tax Act of 2009

Tax Act of 2009

Stimulated Yet?

The new economic stimulus package known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009. The $787 billion new law, which contains nearly $300 billion in tax relief (of which $280 million is concentrated in the first two years), is a massive and…

Jeaneen Barnhart and Doreen Dehart Executive Summary

Jeaneen Barnhart and Doreen Dehart Executive Summary
Executive Summary Questions Answers from Jeaneen Barnhart and Doreen Dehart

Q1) What time of the day you are most productive?

D. I am most productive from 9:00 a.m. to noon, but creative thinking/ concepting can happen anytime of the day or night.

J. My creativity usually starts to flow after lunch and can…

Travelex Re-signs Agreement with U.S. Bank:

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Technology… the double-edged Leadership Sword

Technology… the double-edged Leadership Sword

Even though my grandmother passed away nearly 20 years ago, I can still recall a conversation she and I had one evening about everything she had witnessed in her lifetime. My grandmother was born in 1914 and since that time we have accomplished a great deal. Prior to the birth of my grandmother, three key inventions took place: Transatlantic radio…

Sponsorships Lead Small Businesses to Solutions for Success

Sponsorships Lead Small Businesses to Solutions for Success
In challenging economic times, it’s more important than ever to get your company in front of perspective clients. Unfortunately, advertising can be expensive and doesn’t necessarily help you stand out from the crowd. So how can you get noticed by an active audience likely to purchase what you’re selling?

It’s time to get creative. It’s time to try sponsorships.

If you think…