Attracting Visitors to Your Trade Show Booth by Ron Adler
... Companies on tight budgets can give away white papers or inexpensive give-aways that are just as attractive as the pricey ones. Give-Away Tip When choosing a promotional item give-away, think about the end user and the item's longevity. Giving away a light-up ball or toy is sure to be given to a child when the visitor returns home. That may keep the item in front of your prospect at home, but if you're a business-to-business company, it's not the ideal place to have them think of you.

5 Ways to Form Good Study Habits in your Kids by Dinorah Blackman
... In order to keep from having to get up every few minutes to fetch one thing or the other, make sure the chosen study spot has a decent supply of everything like pencils, pens, crayons, markers, erasers, sharpeners, ruled paper, white paper, calculator, etc. I always suggest to students that it might be a good idea to also have a snack readily at hand (something that won’t make a mess, though), that way you won’t have to interrupt your work because you have the munchies.

History of World / Regional Search Engines and Directories by Julie Wartes
... AltaVista provides a toolbar which is free, customizable and gives the user the research tools to perform searches and translations from their own browser anywhere on the web. Popup blocker feature on the toolbar gets rid of annoying pop-ups. The “Web search” searches within all AltaVista indexes, including the best image search on the web. The homepage also provides specific features that help you narrow your search for only images, music files, videos, news and directory based on specific ...

Headset Growth – Out Of The Call Center And Into The General Office Cubicle by Melissa Vokoun
... attention in supplying headsets and related services on a smaller basis. At present, many of those offices are relying on the office supply channel to procure their hands-free communications products, but are limited in choice to the number of SKUs at their local retail outlet. From a financial viewpoint, the adoption and use of headsets by "knowledge workers" has been shown to increase employee productivity and efficiency by an average of 23.5% (according to 2005 Plantronics White Paper).

Does Your Financial Plan Belong in a Cartoon? by Neal Frankle
... markets to get you off the golf course and on to the Costco welcome mat! Take defensive action to avoid catastrophic loss! I wrote a great deal about this in my latest book, “Why Smart People Lose A Fortune,” but if you want my white paper summarizing how you can potentially protect yourself against catastrophic loss, email me at neal@wealthresourcesgroup.com. Don’t get surprised by some fatal flaw in your financial planning. Take these steps now to dodge the boulder that may hang overhead.

A Look Into The Future Of The Headset Industry In North America And Beyond by Melissa Vokoun
... From a financial viewpoint, the adoption and use of headsets by "knowledge workers" has been shown to increase employee productivity and efficiency by an average of 23.5% (see attached Plantronics White Paper). The financial ROI on the purchase of a headset for employees in Accounting, Marketing, HR, Engineering, Administration or Mid-level Managerial functions when compared to the increase in productivity, decrease in employee absenteeism due to fatigue and "handset usage" in conjunction ...

Google Page Rank Explained by Michael Lawrence
... (each value of t represents 1 link to webpage A)C(t1)C(tn) - the number of outgoing links ( C ) on each page from page t1 to tnd - damping factorQuoting from the original Google Page Rank white paper: The parameter d is a damping factor which can be set between 0 and 1. We usually set d to 0.85. Knowing what these parameters mean and knowing the value of the damping factor we can simplify the formula from above:PR(A) = 0.15 + 0.85*(A "share" of the PR of every webpage linking to page ...

Starting a Cleaning Business and Successfully Growing It by Walt Gibson
... Flimsy paper with lopsided print, ink rubbing off and jagged edges is not the professional image that will make your prospects eager to call. Be prepared for business with professional business forms and letters. You should have: a sales script memorized to perfection whether you do in-home estimates or estimates by phone; cleaning fee estimate calculator; fee estimate letters; follow-up letters for quotes not booked; new customer letters stating hourly fees for cleaning services and ...