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Two new ways to stay informed:
- The Cheers Archive is a great way to research new ideas and read past issues.
- The AFCP Blog lists current information about the association and the industry.
Both are directly accessible from the main menu under "Networking"
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Billy Bob Tour Roars Through Smoky Mtns
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Five riders met in Nashville, Tennessee at the County Music Festival
downtown and then rode to Bob and Debbie Keenan's estate for a
wonderful meal and overnight. The rest of the crew arrived the next
morning for a tour of the Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg.
Then, the mighty Black Sheep roared into Knoxville leaving the town, well, pretty much the same as when we arrived!
It
was three days riding in one of the country's most picturesque areas.
Riding the Blue Ridge Parkway and the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains
during the Billy Bob Tour from Nashville to Asheville made this a great
southern riding experience.
View all the photos.
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New Data Shows Over Half of Executives Under 40 Use Twitter
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Last week Forbes Insights,
in association with Google, released a study showing that more than
half of business executives under the age of 40 interact on
micro-blogging platforms like Twitter.
The report, "The Rise of the Digital C-Suite: How Executives Locate and Filter Business Information,"
showed that 32% of business executives under 40 read or generate
microfeeds daily and 24% do so several
times a week.
Read more...
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Gannett credit crunch
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As reported in the Grimes Midwest Newspaper Industry Report:
Gannett has enough problems battling recession and flagging newspaper fortunes. But on top of that, the chain must cope with credit default swaps and empty creditors. The result could be Chapter 11.
- Failure to push out credit maturities to 10 years instead of three would have made current debt situation irrelevant.
- Company must raise $400 million between now and 2011 in a market where many bondholders would prefer default.
- Moody's has lowered Gannett bond rating to junk...
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How to Run Productive Sales Meetings
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Why are sales meetings seen as a colossal waste of time by
salespeople?
Because for the most part they lack a strategic agenda.
They contain no valuable information that can help salespeople solve
problems and do their jobs better. But these five tips can help you
transform boring, ineffective sales
meetings into productive ones.
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