5 things for May 2: Trump, Arizona teachers, migrants, Armenia, air pollution
Not content with pretty much taking over every aspect of your life, Facebook now wants to help you get a date. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.
Twelve Ways to Build Better Client Relationships
Excerpted from The Success Code: A Guide for Achieving Your Personal Best in Business and Life (J & K Publishing, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-692-99241-8, $24.95).
Deeply connected, trust-based, and authentic client relationships are hard to come by and clients know it. Successful businessman Paul G. Krasnow, author of The Success Code: A Guide for Achieving Your Personal Best in Business and Life (J & K Publishing, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-692-99241-8, $24.95), says when you know how to create these relationships with your clients, you'll win their loyalty, earn referrals, and enjoy repeat business for life.
A Referral System That Gets Results: Eight Great Ways to Get Started Building Yours
Referrals from clients who like and trust you can exponentially grow your business. Successful businessman Paul G. Krasnow explains how to create a system that keeps them consistently rolling in.
Everyone loves referrals. They're inexpensive, fast, and easy. No need to chase down and convince a promising lead when a satisfied client is handing him or her to you on the proverbial silver platter. Quite often, they're lucrative: New clients are willing to pay you a little more if you've been vetted by a colleague they trust. For that same reason—the built-in trust—they're more open to your guidance once they've become your client. All of this adds up to a more fun and rewarding way to do business.
May is National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month: Thanks to a Transplant, a Wisconsin COTA Teen is Winning Her Battle
May is National Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Awareness Month. More than 30,000 adults and kids in the United States have CF. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, a 16-year-old girl is currently winning the battle against CF thanks to her life-saving double lung transplant.
2018 Fade To Black Play Festival Winners:
Shabach Enterprise's groundbreaking play festival, Fade To Black, returns for its 6th season of short plays. Fade To Black is Houston's first and only play festival to showcase the new works of African-American playwrights!
Safe Boating Campaign Holds Series of Events Encouraging Boaters to Wear Life Jackets and Boat Responsibly
To educate people worldwide on the importance of responsible boating and always wearing a life jacket while on the water, the National Safe Boating Council and boating safety advocates around the world are kicking off the annual Safe Boating Campaign the weekend before Memorial Day with boating safety events and activities.
Hispanics in Houston underrepresented at the ballot box and in local offices
New report examining civic health issues in Greater Houston also finds naturalized citizens are less likely to discuss politics and register to vote
Just more than half of Hispanic voting-age citizens in the Houston metropolitan area are registered to vote, according to a new report on civic health from the Center for Local Elections in American Politics at Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC). This number is far below the percentage of voting-age white and African-American citizens in the region who are registered; both of these groups have a voter registration rate of nearly 70 percent.
Where Luxury meets Performance
In an industry monopolized by the big corporate names, eyewear is overdue for a fresh vision. Italian brand Alexander Martin was born from the need for a contemporary sunglass label that fuses simplicity, modernity and pure innovation. It’s a new look at eyewear for the quality conscious, without forfeiting the classics.
A new Clinton wave is coming this spring
Longtime Clinton supporters received an invitation offering access to the family at a Clinton Foundation benefit on May 24 in New York, at prices ranging from $2,500 ("Friend") for cocktail party and dinner, up to $100,000 ("Chair") for a "Leadership Reception."
uBreakiFix Brings Professional Tech Repair to Nebraska Furniture Mart
Industry-Leading Tech Repair Brand Opens Doors within NFM’s Dallas-Fort Worth Location
Leading tech repair brand uBreakiFix has partnered with North America’s largest home furnishing and appliance retailer, Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM), to bring high quality electronics support to NFM’s Dallas-Fort Worth location. uBreakiFix allows NFM customers the convenience of professional, same-day device repair on site while they shop.
Baker Institute paper: Tax reform could reduce corporate tax revenue by as much as 40 percent
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 could lead to a total corporate tax revenue decline of about 40 percent, but nearly 20 percent of that decline will be recaptured through increased personal income tax revenue, according to an analysis by an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Brown Sugar to Celebrate Pam Grier's Birthday, Feature "Brown Sugar Mamas" for Mother's Day in May
Brown Sugar, the popular new subscription video-on-demand service from Bounce featuring the biggest collection of the baddest African-American movies of all-time, announced today its new titles for May 2018.
Carol Burnett: An Evening of Laughter and Reflection Where the Audience Asks Questions
Carol Burnett, award-winning actress and best-selling author, is widely recognized by the public and her peers for her work on stage and screen, most notably The Carol Burnett Show. Named in 2007 by TIME magazine as one of "100 Best Television Shows of All Time," The Carol Burnett Show ran for 11 years, averaged 30 million viewers per week, and received 25 Emmy Awards, making it one of the most honored shows in television history.
Eight International Players Added to Rosters for 2018 Season
Eight teams will carry an additional overseas player on their practice squads in 2018 as part of an expansion of the International Player Pathway program, the NFL announced today.
American Federation of Teachers on Arizona Budget Proposal for Teachers
The Arizona American Federation of Teachers and its parent union, the American Federation of Teachers, responded to Gov. Doug Ducey’s budget proposal that would take $100 million from a package originally earmarked for school funding and allow superintendents to decide whether to use it to pay for wage hikes for support workers or for school maintenance, classroom resources and other school needs. Ducey has already offered a proposal for a 20 percent pay raise for teachers by 2020.
Stein: No 'special golden goose' in documents withheld from Senate panel
2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said Tuesday that there's nothing nefarious about materials her campaign withheld from a Senate investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
So fetch! 'Mean Girls' musical scores 12 Tony nominations
The nominees for the 2018 Tony Awards were announced Tuesday. "Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical" tied for the most nominations with 12, with "Angels in America," "The Band's Visit" and "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel" followed with 11 each.
5 things for May 1: Russia probe, Uber, N. Korea, Iran-Israel, Cardinal George Pell
The Terrus Museum in southern France has a little bit of a problem. Half of the paintings in its collection are fakes. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement head announces plans to retire
Thomas Homan, the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced in a statement on Monday he plans to leave government.
SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor to undergo shoulder surgery following fall
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will undergo shoulder surgery Tuesday morning for an injury to her left shoulder that she sustained after a fall at her home on April 16, the Supreme Court announced on Monday.
