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Good sharing but my question is this that owner cant trace his thinkpad when it is power off?

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Good call, Sam!

I strongly agree with your closing statement: ?The first loss is the least.? So if you are a CIT factoring customer get out, take whatever loss you must, but move to a more stable financing company as soon as possible.

On July 17, 2009, I posted a blog about CIT's demise and the effects it would have on small business. http://www.universalfunding.com/blog/?p=182

Let's hope this turns out okay.

EMail Management ...

Lori, I agree completely. One of my biggest irritations is people who don't reply to emails. It takes about 5 seconds to type, "Checking... (on your request) Will respond by Friday."

Don't forget to use the Flags feature in your email client. But you must remember to review those flags on a daily basis. I do it each morning.

Also, I practice "Inbox zero." My philosophy is that my inbox is a runway, not a parking lot. By the end of the day, emails are filed in folders or deleted.

Finally, I've set up rules so that newsletters go straight into folders, not my inbox. They're less of a distraction then. This rule frees me up to focus on more important tasks--like reply to emails.

Regards,

Glenn ...

Also reviewed the book and interviewed the author ...

I had the pleasure of reading a pre-release copy of this book and interviewing Sharon Drew Morgen. You can listen to this interview at http://jefflogden.libsyn.com/

This provocative and insightful book belongs on the shelf of every sales and marketing leader in America. It is simply that important. If businesses are to succeed in the years to come, they need to learn the approaches in this book.

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Excellent article ...

Excellent article. One of the key things that I want to add, is that those people that do come from a validated source, I don't think this article applies to. It is only for the scammers, like mentioned that come from those that have written testimonials with only their initials attached, where there is no validation nor reputation to follow. Note there is a key distinction between the two.

Furthermore, leaders of the industry that give you advice i.e. in sales, could very well give you tools to live by, but remember, what works for one person, may not work for someone else, thus the best thing to do is find common threads between numerous credible sources. Odds are if you do this, your chances are very strong that those pronciples work for you.- MJ Gottlieb www.thelemonaideguide.com.