For savvy salespeople, personal prospecting means implementing a personal marketing plan. It’s not cold calling. With that in mind, I wanted to share an idea that really isn’t brand-new but may be something worth thinking about when looking for buyers in today’s ever-toughening economic situat...

Posted by guest blogger Andrew Rogers Marty Neumeier, author of Zag and The Brand Gap, has just released The Designful Company: How to Build a Culture of Nonstop Innovation. The idea is that design-aware thinking will help companies confront complex problems and do more innovative, inspired work ("W...

Just thought I would remind everyone that we have a web-site at www.afutureandahope.net Be sure to check out the hand made jewelry. Kate and some of the girls work hard on creating the beads out of recycled paper, and coming up with the designs for the jewelry. Also one of our team members blogs at ...

OK, let's go over this. Huge, powerful hospital in quaint, quiet, historic neighborhood sez they need to be really, really big in order to survive. Only a huge tower—right over THERE!, among those tiny buildings—will save them. Over there, though, is the O'Toole Building. And the O'Toole is land...

Why can I not get a decent espresso in Carroll Gardens or Cobble Hill? I mean, they're trendy neighborhoods full of Yuppies who are obsessed with gustatory goodness. These are the ideal traits needed to engender a New York espresso haven, are they not? Plus, it's a neighborhood with a rich Italian h...

LIVE SCIENCE -- Mar 9 -- Almost everyone these days can name a couple they know that met on the Internet. Personal ads have a history going back 300 years, according to a new book "Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column." Internet dating is just the modern version of the first "matr...

I have been away for a few days, purposefully staying away from computers for a change. And so, I only discovered today that Robert Guskind, the creator and author of the widely read and highly influential Brooklyn blog Gowanus Lounge, died last week. I never met Guskind, but, nevertheless, he loome...

PR NEWSWIRE -- Mar 9 -- Plentyoffish.com is now the official #1 online dating site in both the USA and the UK according to Hitwise. Greg Guerin, a diamond consultant discovered an interesting trend. "I sell rings to people getting engaged and I like to ask people how they met." He says, "more and ...

Remember the long public fight over the fate of 231 Duffield Street, thought by many to be connected to the history of the Underground Railroad movement? How people fought and protested, and the debate dragged on and on? Well, it's over. Over because the building is gone, torn down in one short week...

Warner Brothers creates a fan frenzy by changing the name of upcoming Bruce Willis movie from "A Couple of Dicks" to "A Couple of Cops."...