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What if there weren’t telephone numbers?

by Amybeth Hale September 2nd, 2010

Over on TechCrunch late last week, the co-founder and CEO of voice-application startup SayNow, Nikhyl Singhal, wrote a very interesting post titled Phone Numbers Are Dead, They Just Don’t Know It Yet. The idea behind the post is that with the development of resources like Skype and Google Voice, telephone numbers are dying a slow death. With the growing [...]

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Need help closing a sale? There’s an app for that!

by Amybeth Hale August 27th, 2010

Let’s say you’re in the middle of a batch of marketing calls. You’re smiling and dialing, wheeling and dealing, spinning and grinning. You get a new prospect on the line and they like your MPC. You talk through your candidate’s skills, walk them through the fee agreement, when suddenly… you’re hit with an objection. You’re [...]

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Is There Life After Twitter?

by Todd Raphael August 18th, 2010

Back on July 1, Amybeth Hale posted about a recruiter named Jerry Albright who’d decided he’d had enough of Twitter. I caught up with Albright on the phone to ask him whether his decision to give up on tweeting was a good one. We also discuss: The sky-high expectations of new Twitter users, and social media users [...]

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Why Do We Need These Clones?

by Dave Staats July 26th, 2010

A good old-fashioned quick rant. I like Yahoo Groups. It was the first version I saw for what I needed at the time. Now there’s Ning and Google and LinkedIn and many others doing what they do best but also trying to copy Yahoo Groups. And Yahoo is messing with me too now. I got an [...]

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Quitting Twitter

by Amybeth Hale July 1st, 2010

Our friend (and yours!) Jerry Albright made a brazen announcement yesterday that he is quitting Twitter, and that as of June 30th his account would be gone. On his blog, he states: “It was pretty easy to feel “OK” about being on Twitter during most of 2009. Everyone was there – and more were joining every [...]

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Game Changer? LinkedIn Messages As Evidence in Non-Compete Case

by Jeff Skrentny, CERS July 1st, 2010

Recent litigation by an recruiting firm owner concerning the non-compete of one of their former employees is bringing into question who owns your LinkedIn connections. Everyone should be watching this case.

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