Aside from the typical "Happy New Year" post, I'm using this article to talk about a change in direction for OpTempo. In order to allow myself more time to concentrate on niche blogs I'm developing I've decided make OpTempo mostly about reviews. If you're working on a niche blog project there are 3 ways you can promote your work using O

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The business model and technological infrastructure of Monster.com is commonplace in the human resources industry. It’s the standard, with only a few notable exceptions. For years, job candidates have posted their resume to sites such as Monster.com

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The sex scandal at Oprah’s school has been making the news today. It’s obviously very sad and disturbing that such a well intentioned effort to help underprivileged kids could now have such a dark cloud hanging over it.

A clip from Oprah’s press

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Retention is once again raising its head as the bugaboo of HR managers. You think you've got things settled and then suddenly your best people want to move on. And lately, it's been harder and harder to find just plain good, experienced people, ne

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I’m a huge John Cusack fan…from Better off Dead and One Crazy Summer, to High Fidelity and especially Gross Pointe Blank. His role as Martin Blank in that film about an assassin trying to get out of the business is one of my all-time favorite movies.

Tonight he appears on Inside the Actors Studio with James Lipton and will talk about every

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If you ever have an offer for a new sales job in hand, go to your sales manager and tell them that you’re quitting for a new job, the sales manager sweetens your current deal, and you accept it, then you’re out of your mind

How’s that for a run o

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I’ve always noticed that when people use the phrase “the real world” they always say it with those imaginary quotation marks hanging in their voice. I’ve also noticed that people always equate the real world with a job of some sort. After all, that’s what you do after you graduate, right? A job is the very reason why we even go to school. Sur

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As a sales recruiter I’ve always noticed that most of the top sales reps were entrepreneurs during college - things like summer lawn mowing businesses, painting, blacktopping services, etc. They made a few grand a summer. Nothing like Carl Ocab though.

Check out Carl Ocab’s blog. This young man is reportedly making $10k+ each month!

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I Interview Nathania Johnson the famous blogger of Bold Intercative and her successful ideas on Social media and Conversation Marketing.
The other interview is with a very famous blogger , Lorrelle VanFossen, the famous author of a blog called Lorrelle On Wordpress.
Both are detailed interviews give a lot of bloggers their views on making

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Nielsen Online, comScore and Hitwise are kind enough to give us the official industry rankings each month. On occasion we interview their analysts. Alex Burmaster is the internet dating and social networking specialist for Nielsen Online. Here's the latest news and analysis from him on the market for dating and SNS. It is de

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Cricket360.com- A Web 2.0 Social Networking Cricket Portal. Cricket360.com, a Web 2.0 Social Networking Cricket Portal, for the Cricket fans all across the world to follow the Sports and be an active part of the Social Networking Culture at the same time. Join Cricket360, and be a part of the history. Cri

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Bloghology is going to cover everything blogging. The first print edition will be released at BlogWorld Expo. It will contain interviews of: Yaro Starak, Chris Garret, Sam Clark, Guy Kawasaki, John Cow, Mani Karthik, and Garry Conn. And that's just the interviews. There will also be articles on starting to blog, building traff

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