Forum One
DECEMBER 16, 2008
The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. (This gets us at Forum One pretty jazzed - we've been evangelizing a long while about using online services to expand public access to information, enable new forms of collaboration, and build online communities.).
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 31, 2008
Tempworks distributed its most recent newsletter with Issuu , a document management service. I love the result. Brings pdf’s to life. Here’s a tech crunch article on the latest innovation and competition going on in the document management service space. If you’ve had any experience with these services especially the main competitor ScribD, I’d love to hear from you at greggd@tempworks.com.
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Forum One
DECEMBER 15, 2008
I was recently struck again by a decade-old lesson in Forum One's web strategy work: Organizations eagerly developing new web tools often skip the critical step of figuring out what their target audiences are actually interested in. This step is usually essential and often overlooked. This time I was reminded in a general discussion amongst over 50 NGO managers and policy makers at a learning forum convened by the Global Water Challenge.
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 27, 2008
This is a story about how Tempworks recruited a star programmer, James Tamplin, who moved on several years ago after a brilliant stint with us and is now an aspiring actor and a founder of SendMeHome.Com. This is James above in the “Hells Angels Ketchup Packet” video clip. I liked the climax: “Sometimes you have to spit in the eye of the devil just to know you’re alive.
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Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 27, 2008
Starting a staffing company is a dauntless task and involves much more than the generic entrepreneurial advice on how to incorporate, advertise, automate, get office space and so on. That’s all plenty hard if you’ve never done it before, but I’ll assume you have access to all the self-help books out there and are still left flat-footed on how to really get it going.
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Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 20, 2008
I sat on the curb many a summer day growing up in suburban New Jersey listening to Yankee games and maybe biking up to the five and dime hoping to buy a pack of baseball cards with Bobby Richardson or better yet the entire Yankee team inside. Although I couldn't have asked for a more peaceful and fun way to grow up, that Yankee emphasis on stardom got me a little twisted on what it took to create success.
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 17, 2008
Once staffing companies begin their online marketing campaigns they soon find like with any great activity focused endeavor that organizational skills become paramount. If you’re not organized, you’ll soon find yourself duplicating efforts and worse alienating the very sales and recruitment communities you’ve worked so hard to build up.
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 18, 2008
I like to follow the really great headhunters because they adapt quickly to new sales and marketing techniques and easily enlighten flat-footed tech guys like me. One such headhunter is the RecruitingAnimal, and I highly recommend both his radio program and web-site, not to mention his twittering. In this online seminar I'll be sharing some ruthlessly brilliant techniques I've learned from him.
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 12, 2008
I was caught off guard this last week during one of my lead generation seminars when an attendee asked if Facebook should play a part in a staffing company’s social networking. “Gee, I don’t know,&# I answered. “All I ever use Facebook for is to see what my daughters are saying to each other.&# Dumb, flat-footed, old-guy – I quickly got straightened out by some of the twenty-something’s here at Tempworks.
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Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 11, 2008
Who is doing well in the current economic climate? Internet marketers, that's who. Why? Because CFO types are busy looking at budgets and deciding to dump print media in favor of free-if-you-know-what-you're-doing social media marketing. Want more info? Who better to turn to than the guy who invented social media headhunting, Jim Durbin ? Jim will get interviewed by the Recruiting Animal on the Recruiting Animal Show next Wednesday at 12 noon EST.
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 11, 2008
I have reserved five free slots for StaffingTalk readers for our seminar tomorrow led by nationally acclaimed negotiation coach, Mark Baratto, EVP of Tempworks. 1) What is Negotiation? 2) How to take the lead. 3) Who is VITO? 4) When to say No 5) Dealing with the competition 6) Avoid the ‘committee’ 7) Why you should never ‘close’ Title: Negotiating for Profitability in the Staffing Business Date: Friday, December 12, 2008 Time: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CST After registering y
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 10, 2008
Brian Carroll has to rate as one of the top authorities on lead generation. His blog is packed with great advice, and I can only imagine that his marketing service, InTouch , delivers great results for clients. Today, I attended his online webinar that he packed with stellar insights on how to put the human touch into lead generation. You can view the recorded seminar by registering here: [link] Main takeaway: email marketing might be easy on one level but to get great results you need to plan a
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 9, 2008
Recessions stink when it comes to starting a new business. Customers don't come easily. Investors get reluctant. Your 401k is in the pits. Spouses worry about their own jobs. Cyclical industries like staffing get a double-drubbing. So why on earth would someone start a staffing company in a serious recession? It's an interesting question but oddly one whose answer is pretty boring.
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Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 9, 2008
DON’T WORRY TOO MUCH EVERYONE, OBAMA WILL GET YOU ALL JOBS, FREE HEALTHCARE, AND YOU REALLY DON’T HAVE TO DO A DA*^ THING. BE LAZY AND WAIT FOR THE GRAVY TRAIN BABY! Cheezehead as usual has all the details. Here's another response, this time from a person I'd like to hire: I concur with everyone above that said it was about the value you brought to the organization.
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 6, 2008
Join us for a Webinar on December 10 Even in the best of years, the Christmas holidays and the entire month of January make for a painful stretch in the staffing business. I remember back in the Fall of 1976 not long after my Dad's staffing business finally got some traction (it was his third year in business and sales were riding high at $4k/week) how much of a downer it was to get slammed back down to $2k for Christmas week with its un-billable bonuses and see things hardly change until Februa
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 5, 2008
"My sales people aren't producing," a staffing client complained to me recently. "Their activity level is high but the business is just not coming in like it did this time last year. How can I leverage their time better?" Leverage is the key word here. The economics of sales activity have changed, and leveraging your sales people's time has become the sine qua non of sales management.
Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 23, 2008
I’ll keep posting longer essays here but for the real action, I invite you to join me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/GreggDourgarian.
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Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 15, 2008
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Staffing Talk
DECEMBER 31, 2008
Stealing from the Obama playbook If there’s one thing that happened in 2008 that portends the marketing trends for 2009 it was Obama’s stealth use of social media in lifting him from unknown who couldn’t even get a floor pass to the 2000 Democratic convention all the way to the nation’s highest office. Look for marketers to mimic and improvise on his use of Twitter and email marketing to generate demand for everything from retail products to enterprise consulting services
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