Some negotiators just love to play tactical games. In this article we will look at one their favourite negotiation tactics - the Salami technique - and think about how to rebuff it.
Salami sausages are big things (often spicy) that are eaten a slice at a time. They would be indigestible if taken in a single […]

>From the book: Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam (trade
paperback; Sept. 2004) LeAnn R. Ralph http://ruralroute2.com
~ 5 ~ May-Day!
The school bus had long since disappeared over the last hill
toward the main road one afternoon when I set my books on the
kitchen table and hurried into the living room to talk to my
mother.
Mom […]

“Why does your dog sit when you tell him to and mine doesn’t?”, “How can your dog heel to you like that?” “Wow! He comes when you tell him to” - Sound familiar? If it does, you need to invest some time into a little bit of basic dog training. Starting to train your dog […]

The Pundits say the economy is slowly, but surely, recovering.
Maybe not at the rate of the mid-90s stock boom, but recovering
nonetheless.
It must be true, because ad agencies are running Help Wanted
ads. So, ad budgets are getting bigger. Tsk tsk. They have been
missing out. Actually, for maverick thinkers like you, that
should be good news.
When the Pundits […]

Special sales, super discounts and the sounds of bell ringing
fill the malls just as much as they fill our ears and
eyeballs. Shopping for that perfect gift can be extremely
difficult during this time of year. So many things to consider
that simple shopping can turn into an overwhelming task.
There are gifts of needs and gifts of […]

Hardens food guide all really started in the early 90’s it was noticed that London as a fantastic city had no Indian restaurant guidebooks at all. The idea was to design something which was handbag sized that food loving restaurant goers could use to help them to decide where is a good Israeli restaurant to […]

There is a nice television commercial that is being shown currently on the Indian TV channels. The Nokia advertisement seeks to dispel the commonly held notion that phones are used just for talking. A number of applications are shown, including video recording, still photos, MP3 music, FM radio and of course text messages. Though text […]

Did you know that it costs about 5 times more to acquire a new customer than it does to sell to an existing one? Why then is customer service generally so bad?
I’m constantly interacting with organisations as a customer, either shopping or in my business life where I’m left thinking “if only they’d done….”, or […]

Ever wondered if, apart from Google Adsense, there were other
ways of generating real revenues from Traffic Equaliser pages.
There has been some great results using the above two programs,
running Google Adsense results on page as a fast way to drive
revenues on a huge number of boiler plate pages. You can
literally build a 1,000 page site in […]

The construction industry is probably best known for the prevalent and numerous apartment, condominium, and housing developments in large cities and their suburbs today. Housing developments are just one avenue taken by the construction industry. Street, road, and highway construction is another. Schools, hospitals, restaurants, hotels, shopping malls, and tall corporate structures are the focus […]