How Not to Sell the Financial Rescue

How Not to Sell the Financial Rescue Marketing & Sales | October 02, 2008 View on Mobile | Trouble viewing this mail? Read it online | Manage my newsletters What's New on BNET How Not to Sell the Financial Rescue The PR blunders that have made the bailout harder for voters to swallow. Sponsored The rise of Web commuting Read Citrix Online's Web Commuter research brief to learn more about the growing trend of Web commuting and what it means for business. (Citrix Online) Marketing to the Most Valuable Demographic Women control 80 percent of household spending -- but marketers still fumble when they try to reach this key audience. Ad Dollars Move to Financial Sites Marketers figure out where to hawk their goods when the country is in financial crisis: stock trading websites. Blowing Up 'Business as Usual' The Everyday-Is-a-Saturday Workplace Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson did something radical at Best Buy -- they instituted unlimited vacation time, let employees set their own schedules, and declared all meetings optional. Surprise: Productivity is through the roof. Why Work Sucks (and How to Fix It) Ten things you can do right now to kick the habit of old-fashioned, time-based management and get your team focusing on results instead. Four Radically Different Corporate Cultures That Work BNET takes a close look at Best Buy, Google, GE, and the Brazilian conglomerate Semco, to find out what makes each tick. The End of Work as We Know It Author Tammy Erickson gives us her honest assessment of the Result-Only Work Environment model and what the future of the workplace will look like. Sales 2.0: Tap Into Social Media to Drive Enterprise Sales Results Combine insights from social relationships with information from enterprise resources. Then put that resulting intelligence where it's used most - within a CRM application. Now imagine all that being done everyday, automatically - so you can sell more quickly and effectively. That's our socialprise application SalesView and it's part of the growing Sales 2.0 trend. To learn more about Socialprise or SalesView, download our FREE paper. Click here for more information. How Managers Become Leaders Paying the Price for 'Experienced' Employees Antidote for Toxic Bosses How to Present Like Steve Debunking the Myths of Social Networking Pharma Pharma Roundup: Roche Still Buying Genentech, Merck Cancels Obesity Drug, and More Roche still plans Genentech purchase; Merck axes obesity drug; Sanofi cuts French sales force; pharma execs worry about pace of innovation Financial Services Loan Losses Piling Up At Washington Federal Washington Federal Savings, with thrift operations in eight western states, disclosed last week that it would report the first quarterly loss in its history of approximately $39 million for the quarter ending September 30, as a result of its holdings in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Preferred Stock. A look... Retail Retail Roundup: Foot Locker CEO quits, Sears lays off 112 Foot Locker's CEO resigns -- Richard Mina resigned from his post as CEO of Foot Locker's U.S. division after five years at the helm of the athletic retail behemoth, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The company requested that Mina resign immediately, stating that his position would be terminated in the... More Daily Insights... Premier Sponsor Dell: Built to fit your business needs. Thought Leadership Sponsors The all-new Infiniti FX. Stereotype resistant. Send us your feedback here. Sign up for more free newsletters from BNET! To manage your account settings, please visit our Subscription Center. The e-mail address for your subscription is khalifasoft.blog@blogger.com Unsubscribe from this newsletter | FAQ | Advertise | Privacy Policy © 2008 CNET Networks, Inc., a CBS Company. All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use BNET is a registered service mark of CNET Networks, Inc. CNET Networks, Inc. 235 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 U.S.A.