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It’s Time To Manage! Tip of the Week by Stephen Davies
Time Accountability Hiring When you are hiring new employees, ask candidates about their time management abilities. The best employees are those that can prioritize their work and handle interruptions, so be sure to ask relevant questions to probe in those areas so that you hire somebody who has those skills.
Tweet up + Festival = RocTwestival…
The night that I arrived in Rochester, the organizers of RocTwestival were holding their annual tweet up to raise money for a charity. The last two years, HJMT Communications, LLC has been a sponsor of the event, but unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend. Lisa Gordon, who runs our Rochester...
A Day in the Life of HJMT’s VP of Client Services, by Lori Alexy
Whenever I meet someone new or are interviewing someone, they usually ask me, "What do you do? What is a typical day like for you?" I always tell them, every day is different, and it really is! So I decided to share one of my days with Hilary's followers, so...
Waiting For An Appointment?
The other day, I went to my acupuncturist's office for an appointment. I left work at 12:15 pm for a 1:00 pm appointment in Long Beach. It was snowing, the roads were icy and I couldn't find a parking spot. I drove around the block once and ended up parking...
A Simple IRA?
In my business there is no pension. Social security may not even be a priviledge when I’m about to retire, let alone my staff, so I started to look at various options. My good friend, Adam Rude is a financial planner in Rockland County. I called him. To be honest,...
How Many Friends Do You Have on Facebook?
I am an advocate for building a community and developing friendships online for business development. But, when I hear that my son is "friending" everyone under the sun, including his older sister's roommates and her friends of friends, it makes me wonder. If we are not using Facebook for business,...
Meet My Folks…
My parents are amazing people. Last night I got a call from my dad all excited. "I just got you a huge lead," he said. "What do you mean?" I asked. "Mom and I went to a respiratory conference in Boca and there was a man there from a large...
It’s Time To Manage! Tip of the Week by Stephen Davies
Phone: VIP Phone Line If your key customers expect you to answer the phone at all times, get an Internet phone line and give them a "VIP" phone number to call. Set it up with a unique ring on your system and you'll know that calls on that line are...
Seven Ways to Target Your Social Media Activities
Having a social media strategy in place is more important today than ever before because most businesses have a presence on social networking sites. More than 550 million members worldwide have a Facebook page and Twitter usage is estimated around 720 tweets per second in June 2010. And these are...