Long time clients and friends know that Christmas Day is my day of self-reflection and goal setting.  Things are quiet on Christmas since I’m a nice Jewish boy from Long Island. I’ve been lucky in my life. I’ve been married to this cute little blond haired girl for 35 years now with 4 children and

In a recent call with a prospect, the question of “outsourcing the sales function” came up. Rather than answer the question directly, I asked him what he meant by that. He proceeded to tell me that he had read how some companies are outsourcing everything, including their sales effort. However, he said, from his perspective

The latest government job report sounds ominous. Just 74,000 new jobs created in December – missing by a mile the projected 196,000. Ouch. Future job growth (other than registered nurses), will be for jobs at Walmart and the like. With the lousy jobs report, you’d think that it would be easy to hire sales talent.

I am the worst comedy movie critic you’ll ever meet — ask my wife, Leah. These days most comedies are about high school sex or marital infidelity. I usually get up from the couch or walk out of the theater in the first 20 minutes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not prudish; I just think

www.advancedhiring.com/blog Have you ever hired a total dud…even when you were sure they were going to be great? I’ve been a fan of Business author and speaker Robert J. Ringer since the 1970s. Author of eight books including best sellers… “Winning Through Intimidation”… And “Looking Out for Number One” He’s well known for his set