Posts by Wendy Weber

If it isn’t hard enough securing employment in this difficult economy, many job seekers are experiencing a bias against the very fact that they are unemployed: click here. Many unemployed workers are finding that employers only want to hire people who already have jobs, and that there’s a view that there must be something wrong…

U.S. law enforcement officials have shut down dozens of websites selling counterfeit and pirated goods since Cyber Monday. The law enforcement effort, known as “Operation In Our Sites II” targeted online retailers of a diverse array of counterfeit goods, including sports equipment, shoes, handbags, athletic apparel, sunglasses, and illegal copies of DVDs, music and software,…

Cyber Monday – the first Monday after Thanksgiving, and typically described as the launch of the online shopping season – saw spending climb 16% from 2009, when sales rose 4%. According to comScore, a marketing research company that provides marketing data and services to many of the Internet’s largest businesses, this year Cyber Monday was…

I have just learned of a shocking practice. An ecommerce entrepreneur named Vitaly Borker with a website called DecorMyEyes.com actually had a sales strategy of negative advertising. Apparently even furious online chatter raises site rankings in Google search results, and he made a conscious decision to raise web traffic through complaints! As he put it,…

You worked for a company for a number of years. You had a good rapport with your boss. You were laid off, not because of your performance, but due to the economy. Your boss provided a sterling letter of recommendation, and said that he would be happy to serve as a reference. But now that…

Interesting that this issue has been raised by both employers and job seekers during the past week… Two different clients asked if it was better to postpone initiating a search until after the New Year. I told them both the same thing: I can’t imagine why. If a company has an immediate need, there is…

I was asked to contribute my thoughts for an article in the November 2010 issue of Internet Retailer titled Banking on the Web. The article featured the salaries of the top e-tail executives from publicly traded companies, including Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and Nutrisystem. Obviously, most e-tailers are making significantly less than the million dollar packages reported…

When Direct Marketing News runs an article titled Abandoning the Mail, we know direct mail has seen finer days. Although multichannel marketers will continue to use mail as part of their mix for the foreseeable future, it is evident from this article that direct mail is on borrowed time. The USPS saw a precipitous decline…

A recent NY Post article entitled Hair Today talked about conventional wisdom regarding facial hair on men. It said that sporting facial hair was traditionally a good way to get rejected at interviews, snubbed for promotions and even fired, city workplaces are becoming tolerant of chin shag that once would’ve been laughed out of a…

Interesting issues raised in the Money and Careers section of the weekend’s Newsday: A reader applied for a position, and received no reaction to her application. Four months later, she noticed the same position being advertised. She is over 50, and she assumed that age was the problem. She asked the Money & Careers advisor,…