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Email Top Distraction for Workers
Published July 06, 2012
Workers face lots of distractions over the course of a normal workday, but none is bigger than answering emails, a new survey has found. Forty percent of the surveyed workers said they spend one to three hours answering emails each workday.
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Should Your Small Business Advertise on Facebook?
Published July 02, 2012
Small businesses may not want to automatically write off advertising on Facebook, especially if it is done correctly and expectations are managed.
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How to Hurt Your Bottom Line? Anger Job Candidates
Published June 21, 2012
Employers take note: hell hath no fury like a job candidate scorned. New research has found that companies can face a backlash depending on the way they treat applicants during the search process.
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Customers Want Companies to Listen to Their Feedback
Published June 19, 2012
Businesses may want to listen a little more carefully the next time shoppers give them feedback. New research has found that a majority of shoppers feel that their feedback is falling on deaf ears, and as a result, many shoppers say their loyalty to certain brands is being negatively affected.
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Turning Minor League Baseball Teams Into Major Success
Published June 18, 2012
Peter Kirk, the chairman of Opening Day Partners, which owns four teams — the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, the York (Pa.) Revolution, the Lancaster (Pa.) Barnstormers and the Sugar Land Skeeters, Houston — in the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, has done this by blending the tried-and-true business idea of putting the customer first with the simple pleasures of baseball.
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The Magic Phrase That Just Might Get You a Job
Published June 15, 2012
It turns out a little thanks can go a long way, especially when it comes to improving your chances of getting a job. In fact, new research found that a majority of human resources managers said they enjoyed receiving a thank-you from a job candidate and sending a note was helpful to their job chances.
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Surprise! Bosses Value Social Media More Than Employees
Published June 14, 2012
Bosses who see social media as a great way to build workplace culture do not have the support of their workers, new research has found. In that research, 41 percent of executives thought that social media was important in building and maintaining workplace culture, but just 21 percent of workers shared their view
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Think Before You Hit ‘Send’: Employees Want Pointless Emails Banned
Published June 12, 2012
Workers say they are getting too much email and they want their employers to help rein it in, new research finds. A majority of workers in a survey said they are in favor of their company enacting policies that would eliminate the number of irrelevant emails they receive from fellow employees.
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Eight Ways to Prevent a Data Breach
Published June 11, 2012
The nightmare of a security breach at your small business has become more of a possibility in recent years. Despite that trend, a majority of small businesses are not taking steps to try to prevent a data or security breach, new research has found.
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Social Shoppers Prefer Public Feedback from Businesses
Published June 11, 2012
Social media has had a big hand in making people's lives less private and that includes their interactions with businesses. In a recent survey, a majority of consumers indicated they would rather receive a response to their comments on a public forum such as Facebook and Twitter than by a direct method such as an email or a phone call.
