Three Actionable Ideas for Welcoming New Volunteers
from Bailey Hill Media
 Do your supporters know how to most effectively support you and your campaign? Sure, maybe those key individuals who have been with your campaign for a while know how to do it. But what about new supporters? Have you made it easy for them?
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The Value of Volunteerism
from Deloitte CEO Barry Salzberg via CNNMoney Fortune
Deloitte recently conducted a survey on corporate volunteering. They found that 91 percent of respondents agreed that skills-based volunteering would add value to training and development, especially in fostering leadership and business skills. But only 16 percent of companies offer skills-based volunteering as an option for employees.
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Communicating Effectively with the Media
from The Corporation for National & Community Service
This excerpt from Sharing Your National Service Story: A Guide to Working with the Media provides suggestions for effective public communication to help a national service program recruit, reach potential funding sources, educate the public, and promote the activities of the program.
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How to Give a Lousy Presentation
from Business Week
Giving truly great presentations requires skill, work, and practice. Giving catastrophic presentations is far easier. So if you want to take the easy way out and look like a rank amateur, here are 15 surefire tips to guarantee that you leave a really, really bad impression.
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Report: Retail Stores Missing Opportunities Without Digital Signage
from Retail Customer Experience
Stores aren't using enough digital signage, or signage in general, to promote the back to school season according to an article from the Cincinnati Business Courier. The article says that even though digital signage is taking off in hospitals, universities and major retailers like Wal-Mart and Target, the department stores and smaller retailers have been slower to adoption. And by doing so, are missing out on opportunities.
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Retail Store Recovery
from Shari Waters via About.com
Zoning, recovery, straightening - call it what you will - is simply the act of getting a retail store ready for customers. It is the combination of several processes to make the store look great, ease store operations and it should be done on a daily basis. Make your store recovery go by quickly and efficiently with the tips in this article.
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Discounting While Preserving the Brand
from Retail Customer Experience
In recent articles in Business Week, Retail Customer Experience and elsewhere, the experts are weighing in on when, where and how to discount. How do we kick our own addiction to price promotion?
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Effective Retail Signage
from Melanie McIntosh via The Sideroad
Signage is one of the most important ways to convey your message to your customers. Your store name, promotions, pricing, and product information may all be conveyed through signage. Are you getting these messages across effectively?
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