Archive for February 21, 2008

Dow off 143 as weak economic news slams stocks

Stocks fall apart as a disappointing manufacturing report from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank overwhelms good news at Cisco Systems and Research In Motion. Gold hits a new high. J.C. Penney reports better-than-expected earnings.

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Is Your Employee Newsletter Doing Its Job?

If you think a newsletter is written to inform, you may be getting only a small part of the picture.

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Getting Customers to Buy More

Want to increase profits? Try this smart upselling technique and watch sales soar.

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Wal-Mart tries to stave off sales decline

The retailer woos shoppers with low prices for food and drugs, hoping they'll stock up on higher-margin items like clothing. But that's not happening.

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