AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM by Mike Manes I was listening recently to a business owner talk about an employees attitude problem. Initially, I took the comments at face value....

APPROACHING FRIENDS FOR REFERRALS: I by Bill Cates How do you approach friends, and others, about the work you do to get referrals? One of the challenges is that they haven...

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COMPUTER VISION SYNDROME According to a survey of 1,307 U.S. optometrists published in the Journal of the American Optometric Association, an estimated 10 million Americans visit eye specialists each...

CYBERCISES-NO PAIN, ALL GAIN For several years, Princeton University computer sciences graduate student Dan Wallach evaluated remedies for the pain of repetitive stress injury (RSI). Wallach recommen...

LET THERE BE LESS LIGHT Dimmer overhead light means greater comfort when you're working at your computer, advises the American Optometric Association. As a rule, lighting levels should be set ...

Nothing happens until somebody sells something. To make sales happen, IMMS.com Key Sales Consultant Randy Schwantz has created a comprehensive series of 43 Producer Success Lessons. Used singly or in combination, these powerful tools can help your producers build their skills and grow their sales.

It's popular to hate the press these days. Between visions of Princess Diana's mangled black sedan and MSNBC's apparent broadcasting credo of 'all Monica, all the time,' it's easy to see why. Many who don't go so far as to hate the press still distrust it, thinking that a broadcaster's emotional ties begin and end with the Nielsen ratings. Again, given today's programming, this isn't difficult to understand.