Backlash Against the Rat Race

Posted by admin on Apr 2, 2012 in Business | 0 comments

Just like I do every night, I was up all night reading about things that normal people would call a waste of time. And no. I wasn’t reading Stephenie Meyer’s books. I was reading stuff on the spiritual and well-being genres. In a very competitive and accumulative world, such topics hold no water especially if they don’t involve wealth creation. No matter how you look at things, most of our species

Backlash Against the Rat Race

Posted by admin on Apr 2, 2012 in Business | 0 comments

Just like I do every night, I was up all night reading about things that normal people would call a waste of time. And no. I wasn’t reading Stephenie Meyer’s books. I was reading stuff on the spiritual and well-being genres. In a very competitive and accumulative world, such topics hold no water especially if they don’t involve wealth creation. No matter how you look at things, most of our species

Move Up By Pumping Up

Posted by admin on Jan 3, 2012 in Business | 0 comments

For many of us, the only way we can deal with the padded portable walls of our cubicle prison is with the thought that we might actually be going somewhere. We want to believe that the time we dedicate to our “office” will someday lead to a real office. The one you dreamed about when you started your corporate climb. The one with a real door and walls. Not these portable puzzle pieces that are low enoug

Embracing Opportunism

Posted by admin on Dec 14, 2011 in Business | 0 comments

“When opportunity knocks, don’t knock on the opportunity.” For most people, the phrase means that they should take advantage of chances given to them to move ahead in life, rather than just ignoring them and letting life pass them by. However, some people take a different approach and focus on finding those openings and using them to get a quick boost in their careers, rather than be stuck running

3 Things That Will Fast-track your Promotion

Posted by admin on Dec 9, 2011 in Management | 0 comments

There’s been a lot of content written on the Internet to help you get that longed-for promotion. These range from tips on interfacing with the boss to increasing sales returns or customer satisfaction. By now, you must have read dozens of such articles in your quest to climb the company hierarchy and get a bigger paycheck. Here at Cubicle Gurus, we do things differently. Rather than teaching you how to suck u

Getting that Promotion You Always Wanted

Posted by admin on Nov 30, 2011 in Business | 0 comments

Every person in a hierarchical work environment dreams of getting a promotion, and its not only for the better pay and benefits. It is also an affirmation of their skills and abilities in their chosen profession. But there are people who work long and hard yet never rise in the ranks. This is why people say that getting a promotion is a matter of luck and being in the right place at the right time. In many cases, t

Preparing for a Job Interview

Posted by admin on Nov 30, 2011 in Business | 0 comments

If there’s any part of job seeking that many people dread, it would be the job interviews. This is understandable because it could really be scary for some to do face-to-face talk, especially because this conversation will affect the result of your application. Interviews, however, are an integral part of applying for a job. And since you can’t get away with them, you might as well face them. Like they

Stuck on Nine to Five: How to Get Through the Work Day

Posted by admin on Nov 15, 2011 in Business | 1 comment

Get up at seven, leave for the office early to avoid traffic, work in your cubicle ’till lunch, have a sandwich, then work another several hours until it’s time to head home. Just another routine eight-hour day of monotony and tedium at the job. Imagine doing it for years.There is certainly something to why people these days are wanting to work from home. At least there you are able to relax and take ti

Taking Your Break Where You Find It

Posted by admin on Nov 11, 2011 in Business | 0 comments

We all want the boss to believe that when we are staring at the monitor we are being productive. And you know that you should be. If you’re not busily tapping away at the keys on the latest project, hopefully you are doing something useful. Like checking in with your Forex brokers to see how the Euro is shaping up, or following the latest trends of your money market account. But most likely you are simply trying

Selling Secrets You should Know

Posted by admin on Sep 19, 2011 in Sales | 0 comments

Internet marketers will typically tell you that they have finally unearthed the means to gain financial freedom. Many of them will reveal how they’ve sacrificed a lot of things back then to manage their finances, simply because their day jobs didn’t pay them well. However, their lives changed dramatically when they joined the online business bandwagon. First things first. One of the fundamental steps to take is

The Secret to Keeping Customers

Posted by admin on Jan 4, 2011 in Sales | 0 comments

The economic outlook is not as great as is should be. Global sales and customer relationship management needs to get serious if sales and projected outlooks are to start getting sunnier. How should a mid level employee deal with these issues? One such way is to take greater control over the porfolios that sit right in front of you. One needs to enhance the relationship with the sales team and the customers. Custome