When Job Reviews Get Raves
September 1, 2010 by STEWART AIN
Business coach Andrea Feinberg recently sat in on the performance review of a saleswoman for an industrial equipment company. The employer had asked Feinberg to assess his employees and see how performance could be improved through the discovery of their strengths. In this particular evaluation, the employer knew his employee wanted to develop her own relationships with potential clients, Feinberg remembered. That set the tone of the appraisal, with the result being the employer said she could make her own appointments to nurture new prospects.
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Making David Look Like Goliath
July 4, 2008 by CLAUDE SOLNIK
Visitors to Groovecar's website, a portal for people shopping for cars, find just about everything they might want to know about an automobile in one place. And that's the idea behind Groovecar.com. The national websites have information about "the cost of a car, gas mileage, crash test ratings, the top 10 best selling cars in the country," said David Jacobson, president of the Hauppauge-based company. "Our Website offers the same if not more information. We can provide visitors to our website equal or better content and research tools. We tap into a lot of data."
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Gaining an Advantage on Payroll Services
September 28, 2007 by AMBROSE CLANCY
"Make consistency the highest priority, work overtime on referrals, give something of value to your clients and when it comes to technology, be on the cutting edge, not the bleeding edge." So says Rob Basso, outlining the growth strategy for his Hicksville-based Advantage Payroll Services. "In 1997, it was me and a desk and one employee," Basso said, "with about 100 clients and gross sales around $50,000." Today it's 35 employees working on behalf of 2,500 clients; APS raked in $3.5million in 2006.
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Blind Eye Turned Toward Job-Hunting Employees
February 10, 2006 by LIBN STAFF
As the job market heats up, employees will intensify their job searches, forcing owners to compete for workers and revamp retention strategies, experts said. "The job market is cooking," said Joel Hamroff, president of Magill Associates, a staffing company in Levittown. "In the last 90 days there's been a lot of demand."
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New York Biz Climate Falls Short
October 21, 2005 by LIBN Staff
New York is one of the worst states for business ownership, ranking 44th in the nation, according to the Small Business Survival Index 2005. Released last week by the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, the index compared small business policy climates from state to state. "New York is challenged," said Raymond J. Keating, the council's chief economist, and the author of the report. "New York imposes some things that other states don't.
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