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1Dialing for Dollars and Other Idiotic Sales Actions 1 Citation Carol Osborne, one of my USF Marketing colleagues, showed me some interesting books on selling from Jeffrey Gitomer the other day. Jeffrey Gitomer has quite a little collection of books on selling and whatnot, some of which have been best sellers. (Those of you familiar with Cialdini's Social Proof know that just because "everyone's" buying the book, doesn't mean the book is good - just that more people keep buying it because they think it must be good, because other people bought it....)Anyway,, technorati.com
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1 Citation I found out a few weeks ago that Harold, my mother's former "man on the side", passed away at age 89 recently. A brilliant scholar and professor at some of the USA's best universities, he lived an extremely full life which had been only recently diminished by illness.It was of course sad news for me to hear, as he was important to me in a way that was sometimes grandfather-like, sometimes uncle-like, shifting all the time. The importance of his presence and his generosity was a big factor in m, technorati.com
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outsourcing the late-night dialing 1 Citation I just received an email from Tom, my ex-husband. Apparently my mother contacted him recently. He very contacted me in a good-natured way, just to let me know. Asking "why?" didn't even seem to be too high on his list of priorities (having had plenty of contact with my mother from 1986 - 2001, he'd seen a lot of her behaviour and deterioration, although until now, he hadn't seen or heard about any of the recent developments). He didn't answer the phone when she called; she left a message. Jus, technorati.com
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Reader's Digest - Outrageous: Dialing for Dollars | Michael Crowley 1 Citation It's infuriating to watch even the best-intentioned people get sucked so quickly into Washington's money-obsessed political culture. In our capital, the fund-raising never stops. Even with America facing financial disaster and two wars abroad, many of our elected officials spend more time worrying about filling their campaign coffers than they do about governing.
Just ask the lawmakers who come streaming down Capitol Hill every day to dial for dollars. They're headed for fluorescent-lit telephone cubicles at their party headquarters, since federal law prevents members of Congress from making fund-raising calls from their government offices. It's a demeaning comedown from enacting the people's business in the marble halls of Congress but a necessary one for those who like their jobs. "You could be Abraham Lincoln," then freshman congressman Joe Courtney (D-CT) lamented to the Washington Post, but you need "the heart of a telemarketer" to survive in Washington., delicious.com
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Newsweek - Dialing for Dollars 1 Citation Anna Quindlen column on our Just $6 campaign, delicious.com
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Philadelphia Inquirer - Money Turned This Pol Into a Telemarketer 1 Citation Peter H. Kostmayer
For 14 years, I was a United States congressman from Pennsylvania.
My fund-raising staff of six - no press secretary, no field organizer, no volunteer coordinator, no research assistant-gave me the names of people who could do two things: Give money-hopefully, the legal limit of $1,000-and raise money. I spent my days talking to people about money, money, money.
That was my new world in 1999-very small, very narrow, and very rich. I needed to raise $50,000, not for an entire campaign, but virtually every week.
There are only two groups of people who benefit from this system-the people who make the calls and the people who get them.
But everyone else pays the price when good people, voters and politicians alike, simply quit participating., delicious.com
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Let Them Do Their Jobs | You Street 1 Citation
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Obama's Lobbying Rule Won't Change Washington Culture - washingtonpost.com 1 Citation Raising and spending large quantities of money for campaigns not only distinguishes the modern era from all previous periods of American history, it also gets in the way of governing. "It's now basically all money," said Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) told me. He had just come from the weekly luncheon meeting of the Senate Democratic caucus. "Almost the entire luncheon was devoted to money" and how to raise it, he told me. "When I first came , these lunches were a place for great debates and discussions. . . . They were wonderful moments. I don't want to sound melodramatic, but the republic's at risk -- truly at risk because of this.", delicious.com
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1 Citation So the extended dialing jag continues. A wonderful old friend of mine, Nancy, (a theatre pal from Martha's Vineyard during the late 70s, who has also been like a great aunt to me), now in her 80s, emailed me today, saying "call me". I actually guessed correctly what it might be (in other words, duhhhhh...even I am seeing a pattern beginning to emerge here). My mother has called Nancy more than once in the last month, bending her ear about anything and everything. A recovering alcoholic with a, technorati.com
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better living through technology 1 Citation As I no longer have a land line (except for an internet-only "dry" DSL line), my cell phone is the only phone I've got.I've set the ringtone associated with her number to "silent".Yes, I still sometimes have to listen to her messages, but at least I don't hear the jangling sound of the phone when she calls. I've had so many decades of her calling me in one angry state or another that I now have a total complex about the phone in general. I love talking with my friends on the phone once I get s, technorati.com
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