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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…

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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…

The Sophistication of Public Relations: Uncovering the Latest Trends – Media Intelligence Services

The Sophistication of Public Relations: Uncovering the Latest Trends – Media Intelligence Services

Reporters and editors can often be heard quietly grumbling to themselves in their cubicles as they open their inbox, only to find it cluttered with irrelevant and spam-marked news releases. Sure, e-mail is the easiest way to reach multiple local media contacts and industry reporters, but how targeted is your contact list? Not all of your media contacts will…

Legal Considerations in Operating in Foreign Markets

Legal Considerations in Operating in Foreign Markets
Legal considerations in operating in foreign markets

There are a number of legal issues that must be taken into account in commencing operations in a foreign market. For example, areas of potential concern under the local laws of the country in which the operations are to occur include the following:

Local…

Laptops on Top & Towers Losing Power

Laptops on Top & Towers Losing Power

Since inception, desktop – or tower – computers easily outsold laptops – or notebooks. In the past, notebooks were expensive and were targeted more toward business-end users. In recent years though, things have drastically changed. Look around at schools, colleges, airports, coffee shops, or in public places. You’ll notice many more laptops now compared to just a few years ago.

To…

Kentucky Derby Festival

Kentucky Derby Festival

Kentucky Derby Festival is a not-for-profit community organization of 4,000 volunteers who work all year to provide quality entertainment that enhances the community. Produced annually since 1956, the Derby Festival has become a whirlwind of 70 special events entertaining 1.5 million people annually and millions more on-line! The Festival blasts off each April with our Opening Ceremonies – Thunder Over…

Fitness For Duty – A Necessary Consideration

Fitness For Duty – A Necessary Consideration

Like most of you, I was confronted in February by the mess left over from the ice storm. Unfortunately, we live in a wooded area with many pine trees and the wintry mix left these scattered across our driveway like pickup sticks. What’s a part-time farmer to do? I fired up the tractor and the chain saw and went to…

Are you in the middle of the greatest sales climate of your career?

Are you in the middle of the greatest sales climate of your career?

If you had your choice, which would be your preferred selling market…  a market in which you have weak or no competitors, or a market with entrenched, stabilized competitors?

The fact is if you are worth your salt, you are perhaps in the best sales climate of your career. I must be kidding –right? Consider this:

Five or ten years ago, everyone…