Where do you and your team stand? ? Business Management Daily ...

Have you drunk your organization?s Kool-Aid?

Yes? That?s fine, but remember the difference between your group?s internal image and the way it is perceived in the real world.

One disadvantage of propaganda is that those generating it often end up believing it, blinding them to reality.

Effective leaders work hard not to fall for their own propaganda. In fact, a case can be made that the best leaders don?t bother wasting time and money cultivating an image.

Whatever your decision there, make it a habit never to underestimate your competition. Be truthful with yourself and others about your own contributions. Above all, be clear-eyed about where you and your team really stand.

? Adapted from AMA Business Boot Camp, edited by Edward T. Reilly, Amacom.

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Hanwood Holdings are pleased to announce their new movie investment offering - Henry 5

Set 50 years into the future, an over populated Great Britain is totally reliant on France for its electricity. With spiralling costs and with Britain close to bankruptcy this is no longer a tenable position. Only one path is left open... war.

(PRWEB UK) 27 February 2013

Henry 5 is a story of political intrigue and personal ambition that not only reminds us of the Bush / Blair years and the invasion of Iraq, but also sentiments that Shakespeare expressed 400 years ago are as relevant today as they were then, and will be in the future.

Society has not yet descended into a post-apocalyptic maelstrom but the nation is broke and morally in terminal decline. With echoes of Blair and Bush?s invasion of Iraq (which many believe was to do with oil), the King (Henry) decides with his cabinet to ?cook up? a war dossier so that he can ?legally? invade Britain?s closest neighbour - France.

France provides the UK with its electricity and still has wide-open spaces with 100 hectares more land per 1 hectare of England?s soil. Britain is now over populated and breaking at the seams so a fast cabinet decision is pushed through parliament - WAR. Shakespeare provides us with the richness of language to convey this apocalyptic vision perfectly.

England?s only hope of survival is to carry out two tasks in the war manifesto:

1) Take France and control the electricity, gas and coal, which the UK can no longer meet their price demands for.

2) Contain all of the non-British (and the French think non French) within the strict borders of a renamed United Kingdom.

This coup can only be sealed by Henry if he becomes victorious and marries Katherine the daughter of the King and Queen of France. A war cabinet is assembled and the French are denounced as war profiteers ? a decision is passed and war is declared?.

With a planned all-star cast including Ray Winstone (The Sweeny, Snow White & The Huntsman, The Departed, Sweeny Todd), Sir Michael Caine (The Dark Night Rises, Inception, Harry Brown, Batman, The Italian Job), Sir Derek Jacobi (Gladiator, The Kings Speech, My Week With Marilyn), Vinnie Jones (Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, X-Men, Gone in Sixty Seconds), Gerard Depardue (Life of Pi, 102 Dalmations, The Man in the Iron Mask, Green Card) & Lord Richard Attenborough (Jurassic Park trilogy, The Great Escape, Hamlet).

If you would like more information about investing in HENRY5, please call Hanwood Holdings Ltd on 0845 862 3090 or email info(at)hanwoodholdings(dot)com

Gary Collins
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hanwood-holdings-pleased-announce-movie-investment-offering-henry-081422061.html

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Stringer wins 900th as Rutgers tops South Florida

Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer wipes a tear as she stands with athletic director Tim Pernetti and her team to celebrate Stringer's 900th career win in an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Piscataway, N.J., Rutgers defeated South Florida 68-56. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer wipes a tear as she stands with athletic director Tim Pernetti and her team to celebrate Stringer's 900th career win in an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Piscataway, N.J., Rutgers defeated South Florida 68-56. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Fans celebrate as Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer wins her 900th NCAA college basketball game on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Piscataway, N.J. Rutgers defeated South Florida 68-56. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer celebrates her 900th win after defeating South Florida 68-56 in an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Piscataway, N.J., . (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer celebrates with her players on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Piscataway, N.J., after defeating South Florida 68-56 in an NCAA college basketball game for Stringer's 900th win. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Not much has come easily for C. Vivian Stringer during her Hall of Fame coaching career.

So it was fitting that it took her five tries to become the fourth women's basketball coach to have 900 victories. She finally reached the milestone Tuesday night with Rutgers' 68-56 win over South Florida.

Stringer joined Pat Summitt, Jody Conradt and Sylvia Hatchell in the exclusive club. Maybe a half dozen more women's coaches might gain entrance over the next few years. Only three Division I men's coaches have reached 900 victories ? Mike Krzyzewski, Bob Knight and Jim Boeheim.

Stringer, who was the first coach in men's or women's basketball to take three different schools to the Final Four ? including Rutgers in 2000 and '07 ? fought back tears as her team celebrated their coach's entrance to the group.

Associated Press

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How Much Longer Will Your "Easy" - Search Engine Guide

It seems to be a common song and dance in SEO--once the search engines give the thumbs up to particular link building tactic like blog commenting or guest blogging the spammers come out of the woodwork to use and abuse that tactic for as long as they can. As the old adage goes, if you build a better mousetrap someone is bound to breed a smarter mouse. It often feels like it's Google versus the spammers and I'm not always sure who comes out on top. With Panda, Penguin, the page layout update, the EMD update and many others, Google is definitely trying to put the kibosh on "easy" link building tactics that many site owners have taken advantage of. But even with all the algorithm updates and refreshes it still sometimes looks the spammers are dominating the SERPs and keeping the deserving sites out of the top spots. So what's a site owner to do?

I know that it's very easy to get tempted to invest in some of those "easy" link building tactics because, after all, if it worked for that guy and he's getting away with it why can't I, right? But in my experience those sites that "get away with it" tend to be the exceptions, not the rule. In my opinion it's not a question of will those guys get caught; it's really only a matter of when.

In a recent interview I did with Internet marketing expert Jordan Kasteler we were discussing the idea that Google might come out with some sort of guest blogging penalty, seeing as that's becoming the "easy" link building tactic of the moment for some site owners (even though if you do it right it's far from it!). He mentioned that;

"Some SEOs out there fail to realize that no individual algorithm metric or tactic works alone. There are many signals that all interact together with varying levels of importance based on your mix of signals. There's no one size fits and gone are the days of trying to fool search engines with an array of tactics. I mean, it still works, you can still spam but it's just not sustainable. So unless you're a spammer trying to make a buck, focus on building quality content and a quality brand."

Speaking as a site owner and not an SEO professional, I know how frustrating it is to try and "play by the rules" and do everything outlined in the Google Webmaster Guidelines and feel like you just aren't getting anywhere. SEO is a long term process that builds on itself and sometimes it can feel like you're just spinning your wheels, especially when the competition is doing things with their SEO program that you've always been told not to do AND they're being rewarded for it! It's enough to make any site owner wonder if maybe the competition knows something you don't; that they found a way to slip past the algorithm and exploit the loopholes for their own profit. Maybe if you revere engineered their SEO program you'd find the loopholes too...

But here's my take on it--if you really, really want to invest in the "easy" link building tactics (the ones that get used, abused and spammed to death) test it out on a site that doesn't matter and not one that is your livelihood. If you're a small business owner you can't afford to take the chance that you might get caught. If your website is penalized and you lose 1/2 your traffic overnight how will you pay your mortgage? Your car payments? Your college tuition bills? In my mind, putting my family at risk isn't worth any short term gain that might be had from a spammy SEO program. Is three months at the top of the SERPs worth 6-9 months or more of trying to dig myself out of the hole after Google catches me in the act? I don't think so.

Yes, link building is time consuming and sometimes frustrating and definitely never-ending. It's better to accept that fact now and move on than spend the next 6 months trying to stay one step ahead of the next algorithm update and keep your website flying under Google's radar, only to spend the next 12 months after that desperately trying to recover from an algorithmic penalty. As Jordan pointed out, spam is just not sustainable. Personally, if I'm going to be investing any time in my link building and SEO program I want to make sure it's going to be worth it in the long run and keep pushing my online business along for years to come and not just the next few months.

Source: http://www.searchengineguide.com/nick-stamoulis/how-much-longer-will-your-easy-link-buil.php

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Video: Sequester showdown: but why no action?

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Small business sales executives have three decision makers to win ...

February 25, 2013 in Sales and Marketing

Small business sales requires getting on the good side of not just one but three decision makers, according to expert Geoffrey James, and account managers should be wary of the several pet peeves of people in those positions.

A good start is essential
Whether a sales executive is talking to the person in charge of a company?s finances, the manager of?a? department?or the business? gatekeeper, he should know that they all have similar buttons pushed by salespeople?every day, Sales Gravy reports. The networking community says one key to making a sale is being original and avoiding the pitfalls many others fall into by trying to force themselves through to decision makers. Creating an opening pitch that differs greatly from clich??lines is vital to the success of a salesperson, the source claims.

Another tip Sales Gravy offers is to act personable and treat the people required to get through to decision makers well. James mentions in his Inc Magazine editorial that the first person a sale executive meets or speaks with on the phone, the gatekeeper, is the first obstacle between an account manager and a sale.

Working with the three decision makers
Still, many people tend to forget how important this employee is to them in small business marketing or sales, and Sales Gravy says downplaying the role of administrative assistants by belittling their intelligence or their hand in approving a purchase is one of the biggest mistakes salespeople make.

The two other workers needed to reach a sale is the person in charge of the department the product or service targets and the employee who manages the organization?s money, James claims. The source says while the branch manager?is essential to approval, he or she rarely have a minute to spare ? therefore, the office manager is even more important to completing a deal, as they will typically be the one to teach a salesperson about the company and relay all information about the product or service being sold to higher-ups.

Lastly, James says the financial manager is in a similar position with time as the department head, so a salesperson should pitch as much value of their product as possible and be clear about the costs with the gatekeeper. Doing some investigating before visiting an office, Sales Gravy says, can prevent an account manager from pitching to a business that may not have the need or the financial backing to support what they have to offer.

Source: http://buildmybiz.com/small-business-sales-executives-have-three-decision-makers-to-win-over/

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Was that Peter Brady hosting the Oscars?

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, TODAY

One's a "Family Guy," the other wanted to "somehow form a family." Oscar-watchers were of differing opinions on host Seth MacFarlane's performance at Sunday's big awards show, but many found one thing to agree on: He looked an awful lot like Peter Brady.

TODAY

Here's the story: Some Oscar-watchers felt host Seth MacFarlane looked more than a little like Peter Brady.

Twitter users spotted the comparison early, and began sharing photo comparisons and of course, "Brady" references. (Some saw a mixed resemblance, saying MacFarlane also looked like Donny Osmond.)

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You remember Peter, the Brady family's middle son, played by actor Christopher Knight. Peter loved movies too -- he famously once tried to say "pork chops and applesauce" in the style of Humphrey Bogart. And he was more than a little into drama, once getting big brother Greg to attempt a "Cyrano" act with him in hopes of charming a girl, and pretending to his parents that he was still employed after a bike shop fired him for working too slow.

MacFarlane acknowledges the resemblance, telling Parade magazine on Sunday, "I get a lot of 'Hey, aren't you Peter Brady?'" And maybe the resemblance is more than skin-deep.

If you'll remember, poor Peter, like middle sister Jan, had it a little rough. He never pulled off the suave charm of Greg or the little-kid cuteness of little Bobby.?Maybe, as the mixed reviews of MacFarlane's hosting gig continue to trickle in, the comic can relate.

Source: http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/02/25/17087872-peter-brady-is-that-you-heres-the-story-of-oscar-host-resemblance?lite

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