Archive for May, 2012

MintStyle with Rachel Weingarten: Summer Style on a Budget

TweetWarm weather seems to do something curious to people’s fashion sense (or should it be common sense?). Some men who normally wouldn’t expose their toes, insist on wearing flip flops and shorts to the office, while some women forget that strappy or too short items are best saved for the shore and not the boardroom. [...]

Prestigious Colleges With the Lowest Tuition

TweetApplying to colleges is perhaps the starkest economic lesson most high school seniors learn. All of a sudden, unlimited desires (you want the best education possible) crash head-on into the reality of finite resources (you can only afford to spend so much on tuition). Some students and their parents don’t even concern themselves with the [...]

5 Cancellation Notices You Should Ignore

TweetIf you’ve received an email that your Facebook or PayPal account has been cancelled, you might want to give it a close look before trying to restore your service. It could be a scam. Cancellation scams, which send you to websites that collect your personal information like usernames, passwords and bank account numbers, are not [...]

Why Your Employees Leave And How to Stop Them

TweetDid you know that almost one-fourth of all new hires leave their companies within one year of coming on board? A new study of 500 HR professionals by Allied Van Lines, reported in Business News Daily, found that the blame for this high turnover can’t be blamed solely on the economy or demographics. Instead, Allied [...]

12 Tips: Stay Out of Spam Filters, Run a Successful Email Marketing Campaign

TweetIn today’s digital age, an email marketing campaign is necessary to every business model, equivalent to — if not more important than — a social media strategy and your company website’s mobile compatibility. It’s an evolved version of direct mailing and cold calling, but despite the many email marketing management options available, the concept still [...]

4 Ways to Conduct Market Research with Google

TweetLet’s face it – we’re all on a quest to learn more about our customers’ needs. Consumer surveys, mailers, in-face talks, online customer stalking (what?) – you’ve done it all. And with good reason. The more you know about your customers, the more you’re able to create better user personas, more targeted marketing copy, and [...]

EU Cookie Laws: Why You Will Be Seeing More Cookie Consent Messages

TweetPrivacy advocates  in the European Union insist they serve the public interest, but critics say Internet cookie laws that became enforceable over the weekend will make things tougher for website operators and users alike. The laws require websites owned by European companies and accessible to European audiences  to provide information about the use of tracking [...]

Create a Minimal and Super Trendy Login Interface in Photoshop

TweetIf this message appears to another site than 1stwebdesigner ,it has been stolen, please visit original source! In this tutorial we are going to create a minimal login interface using Adobe Photoshop. With some simple techniques we will create a beautiful login interface. We will be using some variations of the color gray to help [...]

Step right up, smart people in banking

TweetOne day back in 2009 or 2010, I was having lunch with a man who at the time was among the higher-ranking Tucson-based executives for one of the “too big to fail” banks. We had become more than just bu

Economic impact study tells more about airport travelers

TweetSome more details are coming out about research for the economic impact study done this spring on Tucson International Airport: