| The Saltire flies high, despite Brown's flag-waving plans
SCOTLAND will be exempt from Gordon Brown's plans to fly the Union flag from every public building, it was confirmed yesterday. As part of a drive to increase the sense of Britishness and unity, the Prime Minister announced earlier this month that he wanted the Union flag flown all year round on government buildings and eventually on police stations and hospitals across the UK. .
Impart Media Advertising Hires Capitelli as Media Director
Impart Media Advertising, Inc. announced today the appointment of Lori-Ann Capitelli to the position of SVP, Media Director. Impart Media Advertising, formerly E&M Advertising, is the wholly owned subsidiary of Impart Media Group, Inc. (OTC BB:IMMG.OB - News), a global provider of end-to-end information networks, transactional kiosks, digital signage services, and direct-to-consumer advertising. .
Innovation as Organization Culture - community blog from Yuvaraj Anandan
As I gear up to participant an Innovation forum- I spent very brief time to collect my thought about the topic which we are going to discuss: Creating a organization culture to encourage Innovation especially in Financial Service Industry.Any successful Organization or Leader will understand and acknowledge that the Innovation is a key drive for business growth. Only by continuously innovation-- new markets, products, services, higher business can be achieved. So It’s important to seed culture to innovate at all levels of organization— Innovations on Strategy/Vision, Procedures/Processes, etc… and senior management should lead this effort by supporting Investments, Empowering employees driving innovations and by setting up cross-functional teams mapping innovation, etc…Organization has to attract people to share vision, values and enabling them to thrive on performance.
Watch List (July 15-21): More Aggressive Loans, More Defaults
In this week's issue we report: that commercial loan defaults should start increasing soon; that the outlook for subprime backed bonds has also turned decidedly negative; and update you on the mounting cost of the alleged fraudulent Penland project in North Carolina and the forced bankruptcy of an office campus owner in Philadelphia. Plus we give you news you'll find only here and the latest facility closures, mass layoffs and properties on The Watch List. Office Loan Defaults Likely To Rise Loan defaults for U.S. CMBS are likely to begin ticking up as deals issued over the last few years contain larger concentrations of interest-only (IO) loans and loans with a higher amount of debt, according to the latest CMBS loan default study by Fitch Ratings. Though CMBS loan defaults fell 15% by balance last year to $1.57 billion, cumulative CMBS loan defaults increased to $13 billion (3.29% of Fitch's default study universe).
Stop junk mail before it's garbage
Each year, more than 100 million trees are chopped up and 28 billion gallons of water are used to create the paper that goes into junk mail, according to the company GreenDimes. And Alameda County garbage officials estimate that 5 percent of the waste sent to landfills is junk mail. You can go a long way toward reducing the amount of garbage you create by getting off the mailing lists used to send such unsolicited mail. You can find a company to do the legwork for you. Companies like GreenDimes, www.greendimes.com, can notify all the mailing list companies in exchange for a fee -- about $36 a year for GreenDimes. You can also do it yourself. You can get help by ordering a kit at www.stopjunkmail.org or call (877) 786-7927. You should also write to request that your name is removed from mailing lists.
'Turn to West Memphis,' City Urges Logistics World
Ward Wimbish has a message for companies thinking about moving part or all of their logistics and distribution operations to the area: West Memphis is open for business. Bolstered by a slick new Web site (www.westmemphis.com), robust infrastructure and competitive incentives, the city has launched a full-scale campaign to lure the type of commerce that helped its much larger neighbor across the river earn the tagline "America's Distribution Center." Leading the charge is Wimbish, who has served as director of West Memphis' Office of Economic Development since October. His position had been vacant for a year and half, which Wimbish said he believes hindered the city's chances of becoming a key distribution link in the global supply chain. "We've been out of the market for a while," he said.
AlphaGraphics seeks investors to open stores in EP
Salt Lake City-based franchising company AlphaGraphics is in the midst of a major expansion effort and has its sights set on El Paso. The company, which provides marketing and visual communications solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses, plans to open its first El Paso location in the next six months to a year, said Art Coley, senior director of franchise development. The company hopes to have three to four El Paso stores, all of which will be franchises, within three years, he added. "The shortest and simplest way (to describe us) is we are a solution provider," Coley said. "We provide marketing and visual communications for small- and medium-sized businesses. What does that mean? Everything from Web sites, e-mail campaigns, direct mailing, printing services for business cards and letterheads.
Customer Surveys: A Powerful Link Building Tool
One of the most effective link building tools I use is a customer survey. Surveys are usually written from a customer service standpoint: companies want to know the opinions of the people who buy from them and crave feedback on how they're doing. Honorable intentions for sure but in today's link marketing, it's less about where customers stand and more about where they're going. In the past, I provided a general questionnaire to the company that contracted my linking services, then pulled demographic information from the site's web logs. Using web logs is still a viable tactic but I've come to understand that today's Internet is different and I need to adapt what I do along with it. The explosion of Web 2.0 and social media type sites is changing the way we work and the way I market for links.
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