| Silver Plated Engravable Business Card Case-Golf | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:15:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | Get sporty with this business card holder accented with a Golf motif on plain surface which can be engraved with your initials. It would make a perfect corporate gift or a proud personal possession. If you wish to get this item engraved, please email us to make arrangements. Engraving prices start at $10 for 3 letters.... | |
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| | | Low-tech thieves targeting gift cards | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:49:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | For an increasing number of people, the answer is a gift card, but experts warn the high-tech gift certificates are susceptible to a deceptively low-tech scam. It works like this: thieves target stores where cards are displayed near registers or at kiosks, and write down the identification number from the cards. With the numbers in hand, they wait until the card is activated. Then they use the identification number to make online purchases, quickly wiping out the card's balance. Though officials from the Better Business Bureau and the state attorney general's office say they haven't received any reports of the scam locally, stores may still be vulnerable. "I haven't heard any talk in the store about that, but I did see it online," said David Boermeester, a supervisor at Kohl's Department Store in Framingham.... | |
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| | | Qtel denies shortage of SIM cards in ongoing promotion | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:49:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Business Reporter CUSTOMERS intending to benefit from the Qtel's Hala promotion have been landed in a fix due to the shortage of SIM cards at many Qtel outlets. Several customers who had gone to Qtel customer service centres to secure a pre-paid mobile connection at the current offer price of QR100, which is a 50% discount on the nominal price, had to return empty handed because of SIM card shortage. A customer said he had gone to two distribution outlets on D-Ring Road in the last two days but could not find the SIM card at either places. Finally, he got one from the Al Najada outlet. Sources said there was a heavy demand for Hala connection due to two ongoing promotions. Already a “bundle offer" is available under which select Nokia handsets and Hala SIM cards are available for “very attractive" prices.... | |
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| | | The great art of corporate schmoosing | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 12:48:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | It may not be found in any dictionary but it is practised by a lot of business folk in India and around the world. When I came to India five years ago, I was a mere novice at how to schmoose effectively in India. For those not familiar with this technical term, it is not a profanity as it sounds but ones ability to mingle effortlessly in corporate gatherings and meet the right people, in the right fora, at the right time. Put politely, it is at one extreme social networking while at the other, it is aggressive personal selling. The subtle but important difference between networking and schmoosing is that where the former centres around generating business contacts, the latter is about amassing business cards from influential people from every walk of life. You want to go on a walking holiday in the southern slopes of Uttaranchal and need a villa to stay in? Well, you should know somebody who knows somebody with an available villa.... | |
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| | | WorkChoices decision 'good for business' | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:49:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | A HIGH decision affirming the constitutional validity of the Federal Government's workplace laws was good news for every business, NSW lobby group ABL State Chamber said. The court rejected a challenge to the laws by the states and two trade union organisations which argued the Government did not have the right to use the Constitution's corporations power to create a single national industrial relations system. ABL State Chamber Kevin MacDonald today praised the court's ruling. "It means Australia can now have a national system of workplace relations instead of six separate systems," Mr MacDonald said. "WorkChoices has already won the economic argument with increasing employment, record low disputations and falling terminations. "Now, WorkChoices has won the legal battle and Australia is now assured of a single system of workplace relations." "The critical thing from this decision is that Australia has a national industrial relations system.... | |
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| | | Line of greeting cards serves higher purpose | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 10:50:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Lafayette native is enjoying rapid success after leaving the high-tech business world for a venture that was prompted by a higher calling. Angela Morrow has created c4yourself, a new line of contemporary Christian greeting cards and desk calendars that use a fresh perspective to provide inspirational and uplifting messages. Using photos of common objects, including a baby in a bathtub, bottle of nail polish and the king and queen of hearts from a deck of playing cards, the front of the greeting cards open to an inspirational message that sends the receiver to specific verses in The Bible. "A lot of people are thrilled with the uniqueness and a lot of people really enjoy the approach of sharing faith," said Morrow, who was Angela Hale when she lived in Lafayette and graduated from Purdue University with a master's degree in 1999.... | |
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| | | Fantasy football: Midseason fantasy forecast | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 6:50:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | You've already seen your share of midseason reviews and report cards, which are useful if you're wondering why your team is 3-6 and how many horrible players you have. But we're in the business of trying to help you by telling you what will happen. So here are some players who will win second-half awards and help you reach the postseason: Quarterback I'm keeping the faith in Jake Delhomme, who has two good receivers in Steve Smith and Keyshawn Johnson and whose team's running game has struggled. The Panthers' second-half schedule does not look so difficult and their only potential bad-weather games are in Weeks 12 and 13 at Philadelphia and Washington. Except for your playoff weeks, look for the Lions' Jon Kitna to also be a star. But Week 15 at Green Bay and Week 16 at home vs.... | |
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| | | Warhol 'Cards' to Jazz: 10 Companies Honored for Arts Support | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 2:51:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Business Committee for the Arts last night honored 10 companies -- ranging from financial- services providers to a jewelry retailer -- for their support of the arts. The organization, known as BAC, was started in 1967 by David Rockefeller to encourage businesses to get involved in the arts. This is the second year BAC has named a top-10 list, but it has handed out the honors to U.S. companies since the group began. Among the criteria for selection: a long-term commitment to the arts, community leadership, and the ability to get employees involved, said Judith Jedlicka, president of the group. The six judges were split evenly between arts groups and businesses. The companies cited were: Advanta Corp., a financial- services company in Spring House, Pennsylvania; Bison Financial Group, a privately held financial-planning company in Lafayette, Indiana; aerospace company Boeing Co.... | |
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| | | Invitation to burgulary | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 12:47:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | We live in an older, very pretty part of town, with lots of mature trees -- trees that need trimming fairly often. Both local and out of town tree service companies know this, and on what seems to be a weekly basis, business cards or flyers are stuck in our door, or merely tossed on our driveway or on the front lawn. We are both retired and often spend two or three days out of town. You can bet money, when we return, there will be at least two business cards from tree trimmers or soft water companies stuck in the door, and there is no way of knowing how long they have been there, advertising to the public, "No One Is Home." This is an invitation to being burglarized. Do you have a suggestion on how to stop these thoughtless people from creating a real danger? I should tell you that three families on our street are joining in this request for your advice -- we are all longtime readers and feel that we know you, after reading so many of your articles.... | |
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| | | Intelligent Imaging Solutions: Visioneer Announces The RoadWarrior Receipt And Business Card Scanning Solution For | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:49:10 AM by Blog57 Team | | Visioneer, Inc., a leader in intelligent imaging solutions, today announced the Visioneer RoadWarrior, an easy-to-use, yet powerful mobile scanner for handling all the document needs of the business traveler, from expense receipts to business cards and documents for only $199.99. The RoadWarrior software enables scanned receipts to be combined with virtually any expense report form. Business card software provides capture, recognition and exporting to leading contact managers, PDAs and smart phones. The RoadWarrior is also an ideal solution for scanning and converting documents into searchable Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files that are easily organized, shared and better protected. Visioneer also signed a distribution agreement to bundle Google Search Tools that allow road warriors to quickly find documents and maps for important business meetings.... | |
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