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How to Stay Energized in Your Job Search
Several people have written me recently asking the same question: How do I stay energized and keep my confidence up while I'm looking for work? I know it can be hard, but try to focus on the idea that a period out of work is an opportunity - a time to home in on what's important, both personally and in your career journey. To help you (or someone you know) with that, I've put together some relationship-centric tips to help job hunters stay proactive.

SWaM: A Transformation in Mindset from an Adjunct Undertaking to an Economic Necessity (Report on Virginia Forum 2008)
“On August 10, 2006 Governor Timothy Kaine signed Executive Order No. 33 (2006) focusing on enhancing business opportunities for small, women-and-minority-owned (“SwaM”) businesses.
Are Your Salespeople Selling Value Like Nordstrom's or Price Like Sam's Club?
Nordstrom's was busier than Walmart and salespeople are trying to get appointments based on low price. What does this say about the state of the economy and more specifically, about discounting and trying to win business based on price? Read the exciting details...
If You Dont Budget You Need To Know This
Learn how to increase your income and be savvy with managing money!

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Successful Small Business Owners Know That Education and Training Are Investments Not Costs
To be competitive in the global market arena requires training and development of your greatest resource – Your People. If you are curious as to how to leverage those discretionary or budgeted funds so that your actions are sustainable, then take a new approach

What is Discretionary Cash Flow
The process of buying or selling a business inevitably brings up the concept of discretionary cash flow. Sometimes called owner's benefit or adjusted cash flow. It's critical for any buyer or seller of a business to understand what discretionary cash is, how it's calculated, and how it's different from profit or net income.

Proactive Time Management
Do you have all the time you need to do what you need to do? Read on to discover eighteen things you can do to increase your discretionary time while accomplishing all you really need to accomplish on any given day. The key is to carefully establishing your priorities and not wasting the time that comes your way, twenty four hours a day.
Be Thankful For Holiday Spending?
Most of us have already felt the pain of holiday spending. We are immersed in a society which thrives on the commercialization and merchandising of holidays. Are we expected to feel good about putting ourselves further into debt? Are we to be thankful for spending money on others that we really don't even have to spend on ourselves? How can we find what there IS to be grateful about? Where do we look? The answer is; NOT FAR.
Maximize Discretionary Effort
Each of us has a vast storehouse of “discretionary” effort that we either give or withhold on a daily basis. Let’s examine the factors that govern why some people freely choose to give a lot more of their discretionary effort to their organization while others, equally qualified, habitually hold back most of their potential.

12 Tips to Maximize IT Expenditures and Improve Business Productivity
IT has traditionally been a sizable portion of a company's spending. In order to improve business productivity, however, such spending is a necessity. Deliver excellent customer service and accelerate revenues by creating a cost-effective small business IT solution that can take your business to the next level.
Analyzing Competitive Ad vs PR Spending
Measuring the effectiveness of your PR process is not a simple task, especially if you don't have the budget for PR-coverage subscriptions. Just as challenging is demonstrating that your organization is better than the competition with leveraging PR to save on ad spending. Read our Ad/PR Spending Guide to start tracking your media coverage and benchmark your ad/PR-spending ratio against your competitors.
Why Rewards Cause Problems #6: Rewards Undermine Interest
We do things because we are interested in them, generally not to get some kind of tangible reward. Organizational reward systems often overlook the very powerful intrinsic motivators of their workers, and get only a tiny fraction of the discretionary effort that is available. The attached article gives some insight on this phenomenon.

Health Care Legislation Hard To Defund
Mandatory versus discretionary spending key factor in blocking Affordable Care Act and HITECH Act funding appropriations
Selling to Procurement
Even during the best of times procurement or purchasing specialists are a reality sales people would rather not deal with. As the economy tightens and companies reexamine their spending, reclassify things in terms of crucial or discretionary, the role of these professionals becomes even more critical and frequent. They make more decisions in a vacuum where value is a distant second to price, Procurement Specialist wield more power than ever before.
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