Use “The Waiter Rule” to Spot Potential Trouble-Makers. November 20, 2008
Posted by weirdoux in : Tips , add a commentWhen interviewing new employees be on the lookout for potential trouble makers. If someone complains about their previous job, their employer, or the people they worked with that is a sign that you may soon be the target of their complaints if you hire them. When you’re hiring, avoid people who in general appear combative or disagreeable.
It’s a sure omen of negativity in the future. When you interview someone for a job always remember that they have prepared a head of time to say and do things that will impress you. But you can’t rely on the interview to determine who they really are. When looking to hire someone you can use what’s called “The Waiter Rule” to get them to reveal themselves.
Here’s how it works:
- You should always take potential employees to lunch. Then watch how they treat the waiter or waitress. The way someone treats a waiter or a waitress or any service people — bellmen, security guards, secretaries — reveals a lot about their character. How the interviewee treats a waiter demonstrates how they would most likely treat co-workers, clients, and suppliers. It shows the true makeup of their personality and disposition.
- Some people treat waiters and waitresses very poorly. They yell at them if they forget an order or spill a drink. They threaten to complain to the manager or have them fired. There are others that take everything in stride. They treat service people with the same respect they would give the CEO of a huge corporation.
- Bill Zanker, Founder and CEO of The Learning Annex said, “I hire people who are friendly and agreeable to everyone including waitresses, doormen and other service people. That tells me who they are. And those are the kind of people I want in my organization.
I believe everyone deserves to be treated courteously if they do a good job, no matter what their job title. I like to hire people who will motivate and inspire others, but not people who like to use their position to put other people down.”
Matched.co.uk has closed - no moolah!! November 20, 2008
Posted by weirdoux in : Earn Online , 4comments
Matched has been running as a beta experiment for some time and, after much careful consideration, it has been decided not to progress the project to the next stage.
As a result, Matched will not be accepting new sign-ups and will no longer be assigning adverts to its current publisher base.
All publishers who completed their latest payment run before November 19th 2008 will still be paid, but please note that no further payments will be made after this. Therefore, we recommend that all publishers remove any Matched ads from their websites.
Last time, it was Blogrush and today Matched.co.uk don’t have a choice except to shutdown their service. Now what the hell is happening actually?
I don’t know.
But I believe something happen between them and the advertiser. They don’t have a problem with a publisher. Another thing is they really have a problem with their profit progression. That’s for sure.
Now the only thing that we must do know is keep our mouth shut and take out all their banners in our blogs. No more money and no more moolah from them anymore. Pretend that you never know them (eventhough you have earned more than 100 bucks every month) Damn!
By the way, I’m feeling great right now. Do you know why?
Be a wise CEO. November 18, 2008
Posted by weirdoux in : Internet Marketing , add a comment
As a CEO of a big corporation of even a small local firm you are always thinking of futher development, the strategy you are to work out and pursue. So much is to save in your mind and find the better ways of new strategy application. But it is a proven fact or an axiom that if you want to sell more - you are to invest more in promotion and advertising.
Why to invest?
Well, actually this is risky but it pays. If we are talking about seo services in Canada - this is a long procedure and the results might now be flashy at the same time you will be guaranteed good and excellent positions without turning to everlasting adwords Google program.
And even with search engine optimization services you are not to forget about a simple, more widespread way of advertising, like magazine advertising, TV advertising and radio-ads.
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Modern shopping and saving. November 5, 2008
Posted by weirdoux in : Netbuzz , add a commentWe already know that there’s many ways for us to save our money including coupon code. Coupon codes can go by many names such as “voucher codes”, “promotional codes”, “value codes” and so on. The Christmas is coming and I think the time has come for me to share some info about few tips on how to gain more deals while you were shopping online specially for
electronics promotional offers.
While doing discount online shopping the best way to approach is to research and find the best online coupon code websites for your retailers before you go for online shopping. The best part of availing offers using voucher codes is that several of these are offered by big brands. Nobody can deny it.
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