Distributor News

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For most small business owners, a good social network strategy is about having a presence on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. But they aren't the only networking tools in town.

If today's uninspiring data on the mounting jobs crisis isn't enough to convince you of how difficult it will be to turn the employment situation around, we've gathered some graphical evidence of just how bad it is out there.

Last month I told you about the potential tax benefits of hiring unemployed workers through the recently passed HIRE Act. This month I'm going to tell you about other tax benefits you may be eligible for by hiring employees covered by the Work Opportunity Tax Credit.

In all the world, there's probably only one telemarketer who wouldn't have to work hard to get incoming calls. Her number is 867-5309. So, unless marketers have the mythical Jenny from the hit 1982 song by Tommy Tutone working in the call center, they have to figure out what digits consumers will want to dial.

WASHINGTON - The Postal Service was $3.5 billion in the red for the April through June period.

That's over $1 billion more than the post office lost in the same period a year ago.

The clock keeps ticking, and amazingly enough, we are in the dog days of the summer of 2010. This means the third quarter is winding down and the ever-important fourth quarter is about to begin, your last and best shot at hitting your numbers for the year. So maybe this is the time to bone up on your most important sales skill: daring to be yourself.

The Chicago-based Quality Certification Alliance (QCA) has formed a distributor advocacy group that formalizes the relationship the organization has with distributors who understand the value compliance programs have in building stronger relationships with suppliers, creating competitive advantage in the marketplace and building loyalty with their end-buyer clients.

Saying the Affordable Mail Alliance made “manifestly misleading comparisons” and advanced a “strained and fatally flawed interpretation” of existing law, the U.S. Postal Service today asked the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to deny an alliance request to dismiss the Postal Service’s current pricing request.

Manufacturing in China shrank in July for the first time since March 2009 while it perked up in the euro zone, according to surveys that underscored the unevenness of the global economic recovery.

The manufacturing sector grew in July for the 12th straight month and at a rate that was slightly better than expected, according to an industry report released on Monday.