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CyberWire Daily
Ep 1558 | 4.15.22
Further developments in Russia's hybrid war. Conti claims responsibility for the Nordex hack. Lazarus Group heist. Indictments in influence ops case.
Dave Bittner: Further developments in the Incontroller/Pipedream industrial control system threat. Conti claims responsible for the Nordex hack. The half a billion stolen from Ronin went to the Lazarus Group. Betsy Carmelite from Booz Allen Hamilton shares insights on the cyber implications of the conflict in Ukraine. Our guest is Ian McShane from Arctic Wolf. And indictments in a case of influence operations.
Dave Bittner: From the CyberWire studios at DataTribe, I'm Dave Bittner with your CyberWire Summary for Friday, April 15, 2022.
Further developments in the Incontroller/Pipedream industrial control system threat.
Dave Bittner: E&E News reports that it seems clearer that the ICS-focused tools now generally attributed unofficially to Russia were designed with the energy sector and particularly liquefied natural gas facilities as their targets. We've received a number of comments from industry on the discovery of the attack kit, being called Incontroller by Mandiant or Pipedream by Dragos. The unusually large number of industrial control system advisories that CISA released yesterday seems a partial response to this recently discovered threat.
Conti claims responsibility for the Nordex hack.
Dave Bittner: BleepingComputer reports that the Conti gang has claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack on wind turbine manufacturer Nordex. Conti had long been the leading suspect in the incident. In related news, Istanbul-based security firm Infinitum IT says it's determined that the data extortion operation Karakurt is really just an arm of the Conti gang. They were able to track the activities of one gang member, and that led them to other evidence that suggests the distinction between Conti and Karakurt is really a distinction without a difference. Karakurt's activities have been confined to the second half of double extortion. They steal data. They don't encrypt it.
The half-a-billion stolen from Ronin went to the Lazarus Group.
Dave Bittner: Having attributed the $540 million theft from DeFi platform Ronin to North Korea's Lazarus Group, the US Treasury Department has updated its North Korean entries on OFAC's list of sanctioned persons and organizations. The Record reports that blockchain researchers at PeckShield have been laundering the rough Etherium equivalent of $9 million every two or three days for the past several weeks, moving funds from the wallet where they held their take. Only about 7 1/2 percent of their take seems to have been laundered by the end of last week. The Lazarus Group is thought to be using the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash to move its funds.
Indictments in an influence ops case.
Dave Bittner: And finally, the U.S. has indicted three Russian nationals on connection with a long-running influence operation. A Russian legislator and two of his staffers face U.S. federal charges connected to sanctions evasion and illegal influence operations. The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that alleges three violations of federal law - one count of conspiring to have a U.S. citizen act as a Russian agent in the United States without notifying the attorney general, one count of conspiring to violate and evade U.S. sanctions in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and one count of conspiring to commit visa fraud. The activities the trio are charged with have none of the high spy drama one would associate with the recruitment of agents of influence. There's nothing particularly lurid in the Justice Department's account of what they are alleged to have done. They sought meetings with members of Congress, for example, offered free trips, all expenses paid, to receive an award. They wrote letters. They sought to arrange meetings with the prime minister of Crimea, someone who, in the official U.S. view, doesn't really exist. The Congress members are said to have turned them down at all points. The influence operation is alleged to have run from 2012 through 2017. None of the three gentlemen charged are in custody, but the indictment will limit their travels to countries without effective extradition treaties with the U.S.
Dave Bittner: Arctic Wolf Networks recently published their 2022 State of Cybersecurity report, tracking where security professionals and IT leaders rank themselves, their risk appetite and their ability to mitigate cybersecurity risks. Ian McShane is Field CTO at Arctic Wolf Networks.
Ian Mcshane: So I think there's three things that are really interesting to me. I think, firstly, the kind of confirmation that information security, or cybersecurity, is really financially driven. And that might seem like an obvious statement. But what I mean by that is that, you know, while defenders or operators or practitioners, they might be in it for the security, you know, to do some good or to disrupt adversaries, really what it comes down to for businesses and organizations is how they can balance that fiscal spend against the risk. You know, they don't want their wallets to hurt. And so what they really need to understand is how is the trade-off going to work from investing here or not investing here?
Dave Bittner: What are the other things that drew your attention?
Ian Mcshane: Yeah. The second one is around cloud security, right? It's been no surprise for the last decade or so that cloud security adoptions on the up. But what was interesting in this survey is that around 20% have found - only around 20% have serious kind of security monitoring for the cloud. Twenty-eight percent of our respondents actually said it's their biggest concern. So that's a relatively small number of people that think it's concerning and a relatively small number of organizations that are able to do something about it. But when we look at the kind of incidents that we investigate at Arctic Wolf, almost half of them include some kind of cloud asset touchpoint. So that was an interesting statistic there as well.
Dave Bittner: What do you suppose is driving that disconnect? Is it a matter of not having resources to come at this, or what do you suspect is going on?
Ian Mcshane: I think there's a number of issues. The biggest one is probably not fully understanding the shared security responsibility model that a lot of cloud's infrastructure certainly has. So it's no surprise over the last few years that a lot of breaches that involve cloud assets linked to misconfiguration or, you know, people leaving the default settings, the default security configuration, in place and then allowing that to be exploited. So I think if organizations are trying to abstract their infrastructure, they also have this kind of implicit trust in the provider, which isn't necessarily the right thing to have.
Dave Bittner: Well, let's move on to the third thing then. You mentioned three. What was the third one that caught your eye?
Ian Mcshane: Well, the third one, and this has been a big topic for a couple of years now, is that, you know, staffing. When we see three-quarters of organizations saying they don't have enough people, that's no surprise. But it's something that's really impacting their ability to achieve their security objectives or to meet their security objectives. And so what's interesting is when you look through the responses that a lot of them are saying they don't - it's not only lacking the ability to bring people in, you know, it's lacking the ability to keep people in their organization already. You know, we're seeing this kind of musical chairs or Great Resignation, as it's been called, where some organizations are able to attract new people and not able to maintain the current level of staffing that they have.
Dave Bittner: Do you have any sense for what could be done to turn that around? I mean, is it - it strikes me that a lot of organizations expect folks to come in sort of fully baked and ready to go and that there's a lack of internal training and real pathways for learning.
Ian Mcshane: Yeah, you've got to, like - companies are really keen to hire people that they expect to hit the ground running - right? - have an instant impact rather than looking for people, maybe, with fewer years of experience who can learn on the job. I think the reality is that many of the most experienced people, you know, the ones that would take the, in air quotes, "unicorn" or "rock star" kind of check box that a lot of organizations look for - they've realized that their skills can not only command a premium, but, you know, they're able to pick and choose their roles more than ever. So while some might relish the challenge of picking up and helping to modernize a struggling security practice, others, other experienced professionals, might, you know, want to get back to cutting-edge security rather than spending months and years getting back to basics.
Dave Bittner: So what are your recommendations then? I mean, based on the information that you've gathered here, what advice do you have for organizations looking to protect themselves?
Ian Mcshane: Yeah. I think it comes around to spending. I talked about the fiscal side of things, and we've talked about the human side of things. But the - I guess the way I see it is that organizations, we know, are definitely spending more than ever on cybersecurity. But honestly, a lot of that spending is focused more on the tools than it is on the actual human operators. And when infrastructure scope expands - you know, things like cloud adoption and growth and remote working and globalization - so does the volume of the work that has to be done. And alert fatigue is talked about a lot - right? - but that's not the only issue that's affecting staff. It's the inability to be able to do enough tactically and strategically to keep their security ship afloat. And I think a lot of front-line staff - practitioners and operators - are asking why more isn't being spent where it's needed, which is in the people. And I don't think that means an increase in spending. I often recommend that most organizations can actually benefit from an audit of what they already spend on toolings and ask themselves some - I guess, some pretty tough questions, like, am I using this to the best of its ability, and what would happen if I stopped using this? Because when organizations can have, you know, 20, 30, 40 upwards security tools, there's usually significantly more value in having that honest audit and a project to calculate the benefit of having an additional human or two versus continuing to subscribe to or use semi-effective security tools.
Dave Bittner: That's Ian McShane from Arctic Wolf Networks. There's a lot more to this conversation. If you want to hear more, head on over to CyberWire Pro and sign up for Interview Selects, where you get access to this and many more extended interviews.
Dave Bittner: And joining me once again is Betsy Carmelite. She's a senior associate at Booz Allen Hamilton and federal attack surface reduction lead. Betsy, it's always great to have you back on the show. I want to touch base with you on the situation in Ukraine - the Russian invasion - and your take on what you and your colleagues are tracking when it comes to the situation as it affects cybersecurity.
Betsy Carmelite: Sure, Dave. And thanks. It's great to be back. We all know that last week, President Biden made the statement that Russia may be exploring options for potential cyberattacks against the U.S. surrounding the situation with the hostilities in Ukraine. Then we saw in response, the Kremlin spokesperson, Peskov, telling reporters that the Russian Federation doesn't engage in banditry, outright rejecting the warning. And then in addition, we saw CISA gather critical infrastructure partners in a public meeting asking them to respond to the Shields Up call for guarding themselves against potential cyberattacks. So with all that in mind, what we are doing is looking at what is happening around potential cyberattacks from Russia through a logical framework to the Russian military cyber operations. And as a firm, we've done quite a bit of research in this area and released a report recently about uncovering the logic behind Russian military cyber operations.
Dave Bittner: Well, can you take us through that? What does that framework look like?
Betsy Carmelite: Sure. So we're looking at the methods and philosophy behind Russian military cyber operations, which align historically to Russia's cyber operations timing, target selection, tactical characteristics with Russian military doctrine. Considering that framework, Russia may engage its cybercapabilities to respond really to its evolving strategic military initiatives. Russia's military is a leading user of offensive cyberweapons that deny, degrade, disrupt, destroy. And really, we see that Russia uses these operations quite logically to respond to specific, declared circumstances that impact their national security in ways consistent with that published doctrine.
Dave Bittner: You know, I think a lot of folks have been left scratching their heads that we haven't seen more from Russia when it comes to offensive cyber in this particular campaign. Do you have any insights on that?
Betsy Carmelite: Yeah, I think that is really the big question - when are we going to see cyber in all of this? When are we going to see that big NotPetya-like attack again? And in looking at this situation, what we've - what we really feel is that there's a lot of fog of war around this situation cyber-wise. There are lots of actors. There are lots of operations. We see volunteer cyberactors. Really, like, who is doing what? So it's really difficult right now to say comprehensively what is happening. So what I wanted to focus on was pointing back to our Russian military cyber operations report. We can specifically look at how there is a fundamental connection between GRU, which is the main intelligence directorate in the Russian military - GRU-attributed cyberactivity and the GRU's mission to monitor, neutralize and counter certain publicly enumerated circumstances. So if we're seeing something - if Russia's seeing something that endangers its military security, the GRU executes its mission using methods consistent with declared strategic concepts. We also recently saw The Washington Post come out with a report saying that the attack on Ukrainian satellites was probably attributed to the GRU. So we're seeing that action and reaction as a direct threat to Russian national security interests.
Dave Bittner: So is it fair to say that, you know, because - just because we haven't seen much activity on this front so far that we should not have our defenses down, that it may be yet to come?
Betsy Carmelite: That's right. That's right. One of the ways to protect yourself around this type of situation is really understanding the context in which this threat operates. And what are really some of the historical actions it's taken? And how would an attack against your organization advance your adversary's interests, advance, you know, possibly Russia's interests? - with security strategies tailored to that understanding. So we look at that through a threat-centric risk management process, first creating an organizational profile. Understanding your locations, partners, customers, information you possess and so forth. And then you consider your potential adversaries. Once you've established some of those parameters. I would say two of the best things you can do for your risk management strategies and activities are using threat intelligence and looking at implementing internal and external threat hunts focused on expected adversaries.
Dave Bittner: All right. Well, stay vigilant for sure. Betsy Carmelite, thanks for joining us.
Dave Bittner: And that's the CyberWire. For links to all of today's stories, check out our Daily Briefing at thecyberwire.com. Be sure to check out this weekend's "Research Saturday" and my conversation with Symantec's Allan Neville. We're going to be discussing Antlion, the Chinese state-backed hackers using custom backdoors to target financial institutions in Taiwan. That's "Research Saturday." Check it out.
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"A Transylvanian in the Midwest" Aurelian will talk about his musical family, growing up in Romania, and how he ended up here in Dayton.
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One of the minor delights of the ZX81 was the facility for writing subroutines directly in machine code, and calling them by name from BASIC.
But, unlike its predecessor it was pants as a door wedge.
Nor were they evident concerns in the day. The innovative aspect was the price, and thereby, the availability to the almost forefront of geeks and nerds that made all those modern concerns commonplace now. The real innovative design (for me) was the rubber separation of the outside from the inner works that kept dust, crumbs and other spills from living creatures away from fouling up the works, which was sadly not adopted outside Sinclair.
Nevertheless, I learned the basics of informatics on its son the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (48k), which kept me employed for 15 years before my idiosyncrasies became too much for employers, after enjoying the fruits of them for all those years.
I also used my Spectrum at home to display the effects of certain parameters in an econometrist equation, that my father had intended to use in a lecture, to his disappointment. Gods, I wish I hadn't accidentally burned out my friends Spectrum, causing me to donate mine to him. Emulators just don't do it justice, because of the lack of its keyboard.
On an unrelated note, after seeing the "keys" episode, the arrangement of the keys to separate the most frequently used together pairs falls apart when you consider the 'r' and 'd' being as close as they are to the 'e'.
When as young as Stephen when he started copying Wodehouse I was reverently trying to grok my fathers typewriter, and in due course learned enough about its workings to enjoy the mention of its mechanical aspects, to the point where I can explain of them to the ignorant youths of today, so that I realise I've crossed a generation gap.
More importantly, who has studied the best arrangement of keyboard keys in modern times and what were their conclusions?
Anyone ever recreated Sholes alleged study to draw their own, probably improved, conclusions? I've heard about the keyboard that reacts to key combinations to emulate or supplant stenography, I don't know which, but I could thoroughly enjoy watching a half-hour programme on modern keyboard design that deals with all my questions.


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The Best Policy
Trick or Treatment
Teen drug programs turn curious teens into crackheads.
By Maia Szalavitz
America loves its quick fixes. Think your child might be on drugs? Test him. Think your child's school is full of addicts? Test them all. Institute a policy of zero tolerance: One strike and it's off to a drug treatment program. Get those rotten apples out and clean them up before they can poison the whole batch. Last year's Supreme Court decision in Board of Education v. Earls allowed for a massive expansion of drug testing in schools. And increases in drug testing increase the numbers of offenders. As a result, schools and juvenile courts are increasingly turning to both "zero tolerance" and "treatment, not punishment" as a remedy.
The number of teenagers in drug treatment as a result of court coercion and school diversion increased by nearly 50 percent between 1993 and 1998 according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the number of teen admissions to treatment programs in general rose from 95,000 in 1993 to 135,000 in 1999. But what if drug "treatment" doesn't work for teens? What if, rather than decreasing drug use, teen treatment actually encourages it by labeling experimenting kids as lifelong addicts? What if it creates the worst sorts of peer groups by mixing kids with mild problems with serious drug users who are ready and willing to teach them to be junkies? What if suggestible kids respond poorly to the philosophies that have made Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous successful for many adults? Then we'd be using "treatment" to turn ordinary adolescents into problem drug abusers.
That's precisely what we're doing. A 1998 study of nearly 150 teenagers treated in dozens of centers across the country found that there was 202 percent more crack abuse following treatment and a 13 percent increase in alcohol abuse. In other words, recent research suggests that parents and schools may be sending binge-drinking/social marijuana smokers off to treatment and getting back crackheads in their stead.
Michael's case illustrates some of the dangers inherent in shipping youngsters off to treatment programs. An 18-year-old marijuana smoker and cocaine user I interviewed regarding drug treatment, Michael was recently sent by his parents for drug treatment at the respected Caron Foundation. But his $11,000 one-month treatment program degenerated into a fruitless debate when his counselor wanted him to admit that he was "powerless" over drugs. Michael, who didn't use daily, wouldn't accept that. What teenager would admit to being "powerless" over anything? Michael used again within four hours of leaving treatment.
Michael's reaction may be the rule for teenagers, not the exception. For an adult who has lost his wife, his job, his health, and his home, admitting to a loss of control might help him recognize that quitting drugs is the only way to solve his problems. But a teenager may not be "in denial" when he says he can control his intake. Most teenagers can. Conversely, forcing a teen to assert that they have no control may do more harm than good, if they have only been experimenting with drugs but are convinced, via treatment, that they are serious addicts. If a teenager has been persuaded that she's powerless and has a 90 percent chance of relapse, she's far less likely to exercise self-control when confronted with a drink or drugs. In fact, a 1996 study published by Bill Miller, professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, found that those adults who most accepted the idea of personal powerlessness had the most severe and dangerous relapses. Since teenage identities are fluid anyway, encouraging them to view themselves as powerless addicts may cement an anti-social identity that a teen was just trying on for size.
The core problem with teen treatment programs is that most teen drug or alcohol users are just not out-of-control addicts. More than one teen in six who's forced into treatment does not even fit the criteria for a "substance abuse disorder" (the less serious diagnosis for an abuser), and most also don't have substance dependence (the psychiatric term for addiction) at all, according to SAMHSA. More troubling, SAMHSA statistics also show that about three-quarters of the U.S. teens now being sent to treatment programs are diverted there by courts or schools, rather than being referred by professionals. In other words, many have problems no more serious than those of their friends who've escaped detection.
In addition to labeling kids as addicts, drug programs may also surround them with the worst possible influences. Studies show that teens are more subject to peer pressure than adults—and more influenced by the people around them. Teen treatment programs remove teens from a healthy peer group and surround them with other problem kids, virtually guaranteeing that their role models will be negative. Group therapy during such treatment invariably involves discussions of their drug experiences—which only makes the hard-drug users seem "cooler" because their stories are so much more exciting. Worse, aside from providing a way for relatively inexperienced kids to learn about different ways of getting high and obtaining drugs, these programs frequently offer kids new connections. One 17-year-old girl from Florida told me that she hadn't used cocaine until after treatment—her new best friend from rehab scored it for her.
There are treatments for teens that don't reinforce the labeling or peer problems inherent in most drug programs. Research presented at a spring conference held by the National Institute on Drug Abuse compared teens who'd been sent to traditional group sessions with peers to teens who received family therapy, with a third group who had both kinds of care combined. The kids in the peer-group sessions used 50 percent more marijuana after treatment, while the kids in the combined treatment used 11 percent more pot. The teenagers treated with their parents, however, decreased their marijuana use by 71 percent.
The greatest irony in the current well-intentioned treatment efforts is that they ignore the few things we do know to be effective in helping teens stop getting high, and chief among them is finishing their education. The better educated someone is, the less likely he is to become an addict or to have a lengthy course of addiction if he does. So removing kids from school and placing them with a more deviant peer group in an unproven therapy is madness—and not much smarter than simply expelling them and tossing them on the street. Not only is the education provided in treatment programs often inferior to that in ordinary school, but having a drug-related disciplinary record diminishes the chances of admission to a decent college.
Ultimately, it's clear that the vast majority of teenagers (even those with the very worst problems) simply "mature out" of drug use. This natural recovery process is seen in statistics from the annual federal household survey of drug use, which, for example, find that while 18.4 percent of the population ages 18-24 in 2001 qualified for a diagnosis of alcohol or other drug abuse or dependence, only 5.4 percent of those over 26 meet these criteria. Since less than 2 percent of the total population annually receives treatment (including self-help), most of these young people are clearly recovering on their own.
Why, then, do we insist on herding teenagers into inappropriate treatment programs when allowing them to finish school works better? Do parents really want their pot-smoking, experimenting binge-drinkers (who are actually typically more moderate than their own parents were at their age) tossed into "therapy" with heroin injectors and told that they are powerless to resist?
Studies show that family therapy and behavioral one-on-one counseling work better for teens than programs modeled on adult addicts. Even for kids with genuine drug addictions, these sorts of treatments may be more helpful, and it's long past time that such programs were implemented in communities rather than debated in the academy. For kids with minor drugs problems or—as is more often the case—for kids who are just being kids, the philosophy must be: First, do no harm. Although we may hate the idea, leaving kids alone and letting them grow out of their habits makes far more sense than testing, punishing, and "curing" them—by making them worse.


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Attract the Right Job or Clientele: NOTE: Jessica Pyykkonen, Promotions Coordinator, Ghergich & Co. Construction companies are a prime example of using the PoC method. provides today's guest Infographic.
To give your company more credibility you might align yourself with the Chamber of Commerce, partner or joint venture with a big firm, or donate part of the proceeds to a charitable organization in exchange for using their name with your promotion.
We have all witnessed situations where an outstanding sales rep is "rewarded" with a promotion to sales management, leading to two compounding problems. Many companies default to either monetary rewards or hierarchical promotion. By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .
Together with my promoter, Tanuja Vashisthi, founder of BRICCKS, we successfully launched Sales Mastery India to a little under 200 B2B sales leaders and sales people, on October 17-19th and are already gearing up for Sales Mastery India, 2013. Bernadette with the promoter Tanuja and her team.
Years ago, a gentleman by the name of Jay Galbraith along with his colleagues constructed the winning hand through these five cards: Strategy. Card players know a royal flush is the very best hand.
After reading through all the results, we chose three areas of discussion around women in sales: Double standards, hiring and promotion, and how to stand up, lead by Kasey, Lori, and John, respectively, with Trish as the host. Hiring, Promotion, and Career Advancement.
Of course before you have constructed these action plans you have invested the time to do your marketing research along with a competitive analysis of your business, haven't you? Promotional items including business cards, brochures, give-a-ways.
From that handout, we created a series of tweets and other social media marketing messages to start promoting the event as well as each other. Nick Georgiou – Business Planning and Recessions – Surviving in the Real Estate/Construction Industry.
If you're just spamming and self-promoting, they won't watch the next one. If you sell to construction workers who only check LinkedIn when they're looking for a job, LinkedIn video probably doesn't make much sense.
This template will help you suggest a PR plan for an entire company or for the promotion of a specific product, service, event, or brand. Construction Proposal Template.
I can then initiate a sales-flow, either constructed or in response to the way things are unfolding. Eventbrite helps me grow your network and email lists by promoting my live or web events, and even allows me to do a great initial follow up.
If people love doing business with you, they become Promoters. They cost less to serve, and they provide constructive feedback. The bottom line – it makes sense to figure out how one can go about creating customers that look like Bain's Promoters. Customer loyalty economics.
He was a top sales performer promoted to supervisor (sales manager). Poor communication reflects the lack of communication consistency as well as the inability to look within and be open to constructive criticism.
SAMPLE SCOOP : Vanita Desai has been promoted to the role of Vice President, Sales. Promotions and executive moves are major indicators of purchase initiatives, too. Construction.
Hold constructive sales meetings where they share valuable information and tools, not status updates that could have been communicated in email. Ensure that a majority (if not all) of the people on the team are recognized and promoted for their performance.
The newly promoted manager repeats behavior that made him successful as a rep. From this, gaps are identified and a training program is constructed. Not all "A" Player sales reps were meant to be managers. If you've been in sales long enough, you've seen this mistake unfold.
I began working as a construction worker. And we have developed the expertise to plan, produce and promote our podcast. Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Note: Anthony Gruppo, CEO of the Northeast Region for Marsh & McLennan Agency.
Constructing Commissions in a Sales Manager Compensation Plan. When promoting sales reps to manager roles, it's important to consider communication and leadership skills in addition to sales performance.
Certainly, these younger workers come in expecting to be promoted in a few months versus doing the job for a year or so as they develop the skills to progress when they are ready. Still, Millennials find constructive feedback hard to hear.
There's a growing trend of the $1 million dollar business in construction, healthcare, leasing, real estate rental, retail, social services. You can even incentivize your email campaigns with sales, promotions, and rewards. A million dollar, one-person business is otherwise known as a micro-business that has one to nine employees. The number of these businesses has grown by 50%. They're up from 3.5 million in 2000 to 5 million.
Hire a diverse group and promote communication. You want people who will challenge each other constructively as a way to learn and get better. In sales, you only go as far as your team will take you.
Given the depth of the experiences within the attendees, the questions and answer time is usually a waste because the participants want relevant content as outlined in the initial invitation or on the website promoting these business sales webinars.
Constructing the Commission Plan for Sales Managers: Pay Mix and Upside. When promoting sales reps to manager roles, it's important to consider communication and leadership skills in addition to sales performance.
Many webinars are about 15% promotions and 85% content and some I have attended are at 50% promotion and 50% content. Whether the webinar is free or pricey, no one wants to pay to hear someone engaged in self promotion especially when they have paid some greenbacks to attend.
I would prefer employees who are working just taking the time to provide a genuine smile (not a plastic one), a sincere statement or question than does not sound like some training mill constructed script. With all the hoopla around customer loyalty specific to the net promoter score , one key fact is never discussed and may be one of the underlying factors for this phenomenon of plastic customer service.
From closing a large complex sale to completing a successful product implementation, successful female salespeople promote their successes. They focus on the substance of the issue and how to constructively fix it. Successful Women in B2B Sales.
You have been promoted to sales manager. Steve Molen is the Senior Vice President of Sales at Viewpoint Construction Software. Congratulations! Going from a top performing sales person to a manager seems like it will be an easy transition, right? Wrong.
But it doesn't have to be — it can be inviting and constructive. To promote this kind of healthy role-play , ensure it's not spontaneous. The exercise should take no more than 15 minutes, and afterward, peers can share constructive feedback and improvement points.
There is one proven way to get the performance that you need from your sales force-- create a customized sales process that promotes 'A' player rep behaviors to be adopted by others. 6 months post implementation Sam has a sales process that was constructed, tested, and adopted by his team.
Promotional items including brochures, business cards, pens, logo wear, etc. Back in the Mad Men days, marketing was just paid advertising. Pay big bucks for some high price advertising firm to get you recognized and you will achieve success.
After you've determined the direction you'd like to take your real estate business, it's time to decide how you're going to promote the business and gain clients. Are you considering a career in real estate? If so, you've come to the right place.
I've found that sales reps secretly like having a highly structured daily routine and the daily sales huddle is a fantastic way to promote team cohesiveness and personal accountability.
Others, like construction and transportation, have rates that are lower. And you need to be clear on the 4 Ps: product, price, promotion, and place. They include product, price, place, promotion, people, process, physical evidence, and performance. Anyone can start a business.
Links are at the core of PageRank and static, self-promoting webpages will struggle to gain links and social media shares. Similar to links, freshness is hard to maintain with a static, self-promotional website.
The person who states on his website he is a "Sales Coach, Life and Career Coach, Business Coach" just left a self promotion message without even commenting on the blog. Constructing your marketing plan along with your marketing calendar for those goals. With less than two months to close the books on 2012, desperation is beginning to kick in for those small business owners, entrepreneurs and salespersons who have yet to fully increase sales.


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Otto Scott is not an ordinary historian. He is rough-hewn like a character from a Louis L'Amour western, though the cowboys of the L'Amour novels were not born in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City. I once naively asked Mr. Scott about his collegiate alma mater. He laughed and said he matriculated at the school of hard knocks.
Otto Scott is an autodidact, a self-taught independent scholar who has written ten substantive books and hundreds of articles. Mr. Scott is well known for following the evidence, writing with (sometimes disturbing) candor, and caring not a whit for the prevailing historical fashions.
James I: The Fool as King is a volume in what he chose to call "The Sacred Fool Quartet," an Otto Scott title if there ever was one. The other sacred fools of history whose lives attracted his critical attention were Robespierre (The Voice of Virtue) and John Brown (The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement). The irascible octogenarian was never able to complete the story of the tenor of the quartet — the final sacred fool, Woodrow Wilson. The man of progressive visions has unfortunately escaped the historical autopsy by Mr. Scott, but James Stuart did not.
People who know anything of James I, most often just associate the king with the commissioning of the Authorized Version of the Bible. Otto Scott, however, reveals James Stuart as a monarch of singular moral depravity, surrounded by men who vied for his sexual favors, schemed with him against the Reformed Protestant Church, and wrote pseudo-intellectual arguments against his detractors. This biography shows how a young prince, tutored by Reformation men who loved God, liberty, and Scotland, betrayed his teachers, pursued his lusts with unbridled greed, and sowed the seeds which eventually bore fruit in the Puritan diaspora and the English Civil War.
Otto Scott never hides his presuppositions and always defines his terms: "The figure of the Fool is widely misunderstood. He is neither a jester nor a clown nor an idiot. He is, instead, the dark side of genius. For if a genius has the ability to see and make connections beyond the normal range of vision, the fool is one who can see — and disconnect. James the First was such a fool. He was an extraordinary one not only because he was learned and intelligent, but also because he was a king."
As son of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and Lord Darnly, James would inherit the English crown if Elizabeth died without an heir. His family legacy would include his mother's alleged murder of his father, her flight to England, and her eventual execution for treason. The great reformer John Knox had placed young James under the tutelage of George Buchanan who taught the young monarch the strict Calvinism of the Scottish Kirk with the hope that he would lead the English-speaking peoples in a continuing and thorough reformation away from the Roman Catholic Church.
When he took the throne as James the First of England, he would not fulfill the hopes of the reformers. He "played the theologians against each other" and brought to a halt in England to any further changes by the Puritan party. "The Presbyterian Church of Scotland had lost its independence and was under the King; the Church of England was Arminian and not Calvinist, and its Bishops and High Commission were authorized to root out dissenters; his heir married a Catholic Princess of France and loyally kept to James's example."
This is the story of how a "shambling, drunken, homosexual King" fooled his contemporaries (and modern historians!), neutralized his opponents, and discarded most of the teaching his learned tutors inculcated in his youth. Two lessons from the life of James I stand out in this extraordinary history.
Although he received one of the best educations available on the planet, the clever and witty young prince responded favorably to worldly attractions, especially the admiration and flattery of sycophants and seducers. Although his depraved and distant parents offered little in the way of affection or even basic human contact, his learned tutor compelled him to learn biblical truth. But James lacked what the Puritans called "heart religion;" despite the commitment to God he professed, it was nothing but hollow cant. If a young person's heart is not truly changed, genius and wit will never steel him against the wiles of the devil and the allures of the world.
Also, God uses the folly of men to fulfill his purposes. Despite the evil behavior of a King such as James, history moved inexorably in the direction God intended. From the creation of the Authorized Version of Holy Scripture to the founding of the colonies in America, the foibles and pretensions of the "sacred fool�? brought about great good and unintended consequences. The training of his "doltish" and "stupid" heir to demand the divine right of kings eventually led to the history-shaping English Civil War and the important events which followed.
Otto Scott's conclusions are a cautionary tale to men who would follow in principle the delusions of unrestrained political power and that multi-generational unfaithfulness also has consequences:
No fool was ever so fertile in the invention
of fallacies or left behind so many enduring
errors to plague the human race. His theory
that peace can be purchased by cowardice
helped move Europe into the Thirty Years War
in his own day — and many more since.
Hailed as a scholar, he sought to kill the
thoughts of other men. Yet as he died in his
filthy bed, the words of Buchanan were
coursing through England's political
underground, and the theories of Knox were
creating a new church.
James inherited a realm proud in the world,
filled with riches, clear in purpose, and
strong in its sense of destiny. He left it
racked with dissension, economically gutted,
sown with the seeds of revolution, sinking
into incoherent wars.
None of his descendants escaped the results of
his follies. ( )
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All our city guides are highly trained in tourism. They are dedicated professionals, knowledgeable and passionate about their vocations. They are well-versed in the smooth and efficient running of tours and treks and, in addition, are appreciative of the magnificence of the Himalayan country. The Company also employs multi-lingual guides who can communicate fluently and effectively with its clients.
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I was wrong when I speculated about how the interstices between the stones are filled. I know that several of you knew I was wrong, too, and did not say a word. That is tact.
The interstices between the stones are actually painstakingly filled in with mortar, a mixture and finely sifted sand and a cement-like substance. Perhaps it is just. . .ah. . .cement.
**I did add a few pictures to The Grocery Shopping entry below, for what that's worth.


In the morning I'm off to Apple's World Wide Developer Conference for the second time. Last year saw the announcement of Tiger. This year the rumors did not start until two days before the keynote. The anticipation is growing as I pack and prepare. Monday will be fun and exciting.
I've just started my blog, following in the vein of many other programmers trying to start a micro ISV. After almost a year of part-time work on my software, I'm within sight (though months of work remain) of having a product to start talking about. This blog will chronicle my journey….


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All Around Us
Issue: 14, 4/15/1974 , Vol 50/1974 By: Hanko Herman, in All Around Us
World Home Bible League and "Reach Out"
There was a time when the World Home Bible League was instrumental in placing Bibles in many places and distributing translations of the Bible throughout the world. Through their efforts the Bible was placed in the hands of countless people. This work was supported by many of our people and collections were taken for this work in many Reformed Churches. But this organization is no longer worthy of our support. I quote from a recent article in Calvinist Contact.
Churches in the United States and Canada are joining hands with the World Home Bible League in an effort to place a copy of Reach Out, the New Testament portion of The Living Bible, in every motel room on this continent, according to the Rev. John De Vries, international director of WHBL.
The project is about two years old at this point and has been set up in 32 states and three provinces. Of the 1,200,000 motel rooms in the United States, 200,000 have had Reach Out placed in them.
Paradoxically, the aim of the project is to have transients take the New Testament with them, and to encourage Bible reading in this way. One month this summer 100,000 copies of the modern English New Testaments were taken by tourists. Printed on most hotel Bibles are the words "Please Leave in Hotel Room."
By the end of 1974, DeVries says the league plans to have contacted all the U.S. motels. An annual turnover of more than three million New Testaments is anticipated.
Inserts in each copy of Reach Out invite tourists to take the New Testament with them and to enroll in an interdenominational Bible correspondence course sent out from the local church which distributes the Bibles. Over 10,000 people enrolled in the Bible course in that month.
The World Home Bible League is an interdenominational Bible distribution agency with headquarters in South Holland, Ill. It was founded in 1928. Today its annual budget is more than three million dollars, and the league is working in 50 countries around the world.
The World Home Bible League, in cooperation with the New York Bible Society, is responsible for the publication of 95 per cent of the translations produced by Wycliffe Translators.
During the next five years the World Home Bible League is undertaking a campaign to bring a gospel portion to every literate person in India. The organization is a service agency which works through existing churches and mission points.
The trouble is that Reach Out is not the Scriptures. It is a bad paraphrase of the Word of God which distorts and corrupts the Scriptures and alters the meaning of the Scriptures at many key doctrinal points. It is nothing less than a work of Satan. And it is a very clever work at that. It leaves people with the impression that they have in Reach Out the very Word of God when, as a matter of fact, they have the words of men and a corruption of God's Word. It gives a sense of piety to those who use it when as a matter of fact they cannot learn from it what God has revealed. It destroys by a clever device of Satan.
The World Home Bible League ought not to distribute this book. But as long as they do, God's people cannot support their labors.
Trouble In The Armstrong Empire
The Armstrong Empire is in serious trouble. Herbert W. Armstrong and his son Garner Ted are the leaders of what has become known as the World Wide Church of God. They have built a large and wealthy empire which includes an international radio and television network over which their views are propagated, two colleges in California and England with a branch in Texas, the publication of slick magazines and pamphlets which have a world-wide subscription list, and countless enterprises of one sort or another.
They are a sect which denies many of the fundamental doctrines of the Scriptures and maintains a salvation by works, a Saturday Sabbath, a British-Israeli view of history, and a post-millennial view of the kingdom.
The trouble started when Garner Ted was temporarily suspended from the work last year for alleged adultery. Since then a large number of ministers and people have broken away from the sect. They charge the sect with many faults. They charge that Herbert Armstrong, the leader of the sect, is an autocrat in doctrine and will allow not even the slightest deviation from his personal position. They charge that huge amounts of money are squandered by the leaders who live sumptuous lives, fly all over the world in privately owned jets, use the money donated by tithing for their own personal fortunes.
It is not surprising that such troubles should beset the empire. The movement is, after all, a sect. And there is no other explanation for a sect than that some charismatic leader leads thousands down the trail of his own imaginary doctrines and bilks thousands of their money for purposes of personal gain. It is in the nature of a sect to be this way, for there can be no devotion to God and to His truth.
Troubles In Concordia Seminary
We have reported in these columns from time to time the troubles which have engulfed the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod. These troubles center about a battle between liberals who deny the infallibility of Scripture and introduce higher critical methods of Scriptural interpretation into the Church and the conservatives who desire to remain faithful to the creeds of the Lutheran Church.
The controversy reached a climax of sorts last summer in New Orleans where the annual convention produced a major victory for the conservatives. Dr. Preus, the president of the Synod, has now made it his business first of all to settle the problems in Concordia Seminary in St. Louis which is, in a sense, the center of liberal theology. The president of the Seminary, Dr. John Tietjen, has been dismissed as a first step in "cleaning house". It is this dismissal which has sparked the latest conflagration and has brought the church to the brink of a split. Nearly all the faculty, some 48 professors, and nearly all the student body, some 500 students, support Tietjen and have boycotted the Seminary. The school has since been reopened with a sharply reduced faculty and student body, but the protesting professors and students have opened a Seminary in exile on the campuses of two near-by institutions: The Jesuits' University of St. Louis and the United Church of Christ's Eden Theological Seminary. Both schools will grant theological degrees to the Lutheran students. The professors and students call their seminary "Seminex" (Seminary-in-exile), while the conservatives call it "Seminop" (Seminary-in-opposition).
The burning question is now whether these students who graduate from the Seminary in exile will be eligible for pastorates in the Missouri Synod churches.
Berkhof On Christology
In the November 6 issue of the "R.E.S. Newsletter" an article appeared in which the views of Dr. H. Berkhof concerning the person and natures of Christ were discussed. We quote the article.
(Grand Rapids) Dr. H. Berkof set the theme for the European Area Council of World Alliance of Reformed Churches by raising once again Christ's challenge: "Who do you say that I am?" He emphasized the need to express the uniqueness of Jesus and His resurrection in contemporary terms. We create unnecessary offence by continuing to formulate our confession in terms drawn from Greek/Hellenistic thought. Dr. Berkhof especially focused his criticism on the Chalcedon Creed (451 A.D.). The terms used there were drawn from a philosophical climate that was above all interested in the being of things. Nowadays we think in terms of 'function'. We do not ask what something IS, but what it DOES. What does Jesus as liberator do in our world?
To this end, Dr. Berkhof emphasized the modalities of service, powerless, and suffering as the way in which God is involved in this sinful world. Berkhof's personal answer to the question posed by Jesus was: "you are the true man, as God intended man to be from the beginning; the true obedient Son the Man of Love, the one who was willing, taking the full consequences, not to maintain his life, but to lose it for others, and who by that exceptional life of love and obedience started in our world the counter movement of resurrection.
Dr. Berkhof's address aroused extensive comment, especially (in the) Gereformeerd Weekblab, a church periodical in the Netherlands. Both Klaas Runia and J. Helderman took issue with the way Dr. Berkhof played off function over against being or essence. Nor did they think it fair to reduce the statements of Chalcedon regarding Christ's nature (true God and true man; tow natures in one Person) to the terms in which they were framed. Conceding that the terms of Chalcedon are by no means sacred, Runia persists in asking whether Berkhof's "function" answer preserves adequately the confession of Christ's deity. Runia detects an emphasis on the Jesus of the Gospel's at the cost of the apostolic witness concerning Him. This results in losing sight of what theologians have called the pre-existence of Jesus. How does the new of Jesus as the eternal Son of God who became man for our sake fit in to the new Christology.
Klass Runia discusses this whole problem in an article which appeared in Christianity Today. We shall have to wait till our next issue to discuss this matter further.


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Tesla domination coming to an end with Ford Mustang Mach-E?
Ford is spending $11 billion to roll out 40 electric and hybrid vehicles by 2022.
Ford is beginning its pivot toward electrification by closing a 46-year-old engine factory in suburban Detroit that produces big V8 engines for the Mustang Shelby GT350.
Ford Motor Co., which pioneered the racy pony-car body style 55 years ago, will use the Mustang name and insignia on an electric crossover utility vehicle coming next year.
The automaker said it's expanding the Mustang stable for the first time with a model that will lead its charge in the electric-vehicle market dominated by Tesla Inc. The battery-powered Mustang Mach-E will be unveiled Nov. 17 at an event preceding the Los Angeles Auto Show.
"The launch marks the first real milestone in Ford's increased emphasis in electrification, and more importantly marks an increased effort by the legacy U.S. automakers to be relevant in electrification," Dan Levy, a Credit Suisse analyst, wrote in a report Thursday. "For all the competition entering the market we are still awaiting the EV that will be a true competitive threat to Model 3 – especially in the U.S."
Ford is spending $11 billion to roll out 40 electric and hybrid vehicles by 2022. It's employing a strategy of electrifying its icons, first with the Mustang electric crossover and then with hybrid and battery-electric versions of its top-selling F-150 pickup truck. The automaker aims to show its EVs can be fast and tough and aren't just so-called compliance cars intended to meet more-stringent environmental regulations.
Ford is beginning its pivot toward electrification by closing a 46-year-old engine factory in suburban Detroit that produces big V8 engines for the Mustang Shelby GT350. The United Auto Workers, now voting on a new contract with the automaker, is concerned the switch from gasoline to battery power endangers employment of 35,000 union members.
Tesla has commanded a dominant share of the U.S. electric-vehicle market thanks to the Model 3 sedan, which starts at $39,490. Premium brands have priced models including the Audi e-tron, Jaguar I-Pace and Mercedes-Benz EQC too high to snare many buyers, Credit Suisse's Levy said. Lower-priced entries including the Hyundai Kona, Kia Niro, Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Bolt have struggled because they cost roughly $15,000 more than comparable models powered by internal combustion engines.
Ford's battery-electric vehicle "should provide a more compelling alternative at the Model 3 price range than the other comps, especially given the performance focus," said Levy, who rates Ford a buy and Tesla a sell. "However, the ultimate proof point of its success will be if it can truly take BEV share from the Model 3 – far from guaranteed."
Ford shares rose as much as 0.6% to $8.86 shortly after the open of regular trading Thursday. The stock is up 16% this year.
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