Dah in Montenegro
The Balkans are a place that all-too-often falls into the realm of a liminal space, those places in between places. Because of its location and unique geography in Europe, it has historically been very difficult to pass through, and left to the mental rooms marked unknown. When there is any unknown, there is an equal [...]
Shipwreck Near St. Malo
Saint Malo is one of the most original places in the world, with old world and new world tales that blend into each other to make for some fascinating traveling. World travelers seem to fancy the city that rests against the sea, with walls to fortify it against invaders from a long lost past. During [...]
Seoul is the New Hot Spot for Asia
Seoul, Korea is one of Asia’s most misunderstood, underrated and unfounded maligned cities. Like any booming metropolis, Seoul is a place to be embraced rather than rejected, for instance Seoul’s lively contemporary art scene, which is beyond eclectic and ranges from traditional landscapes to dream quality modern renditions all the way to hard-to-label public art [...]
Tips for Selling Door to Door
Selling door to door can be hard. Every person who has ever done it can tell you the ups and downs, and each one of them will give you different advice. If you asked them what you need to do in order to make sales however, the basics would boil down to these pieces of [...]
The Six Things You Will Remember
People recruited to summer sales programs at organizations like The Southwestern Company usually get more than the expected sales training program. Many people expect an easy ride, but the truth is that their summer of selling might be the longest, hardest summer they will experience. There are a lot of lessons to be learned though [...]
SEO & Reputation Management for Individuals
The Internet has truly become the information super-highway. Breaking news and information is passed around and shared within minuets of its release. Social media sites and blogging have opened up the Internet to a much broader base of users. Now anyone can easily go online and share their thoughts and opinions on just about anything. [...]
Southwest Law and Birds from the Ashes
Both Arizona and Nevada share some striking similarities, as well as some vast differences. The similarities are perhaps greater, however, as they also characterize the states, and make them part of a unique configuration that’s known as the southwest. Native peoples have occupied the lands for thousands of years, making up a large part of [...]
Odd Things to do and see in New York
New york is a very strange city. It revels in its uniqueness and has a reputation for flaunting what others might find obscene. Tourists to this city are encouraged to indulge their senses from eating world cuisine to rubbing statues for luck. There are even a variety of New York restaurants and night clubs that [...]
Positive Thinking Builds Better Salespeople
The Southwestern Company has generally not kept transcripts of sales school, but various members of the company and family members of people who have participated in the program have kept letters and these show that there are a lot of traditions that have been passed on for a long time. One of these lessons has [...]
What to do with Negative Publicity
Everyone has a bad review once in a while. The larger the company the more of them you will have. Some customers are more tech savvy than others and what had the potential to just be a bad review may become overblown and become a full on PR disaster . While this is every company’s [...]