10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

Happy Second Day of the New Year, 10,000 Birds friends! I am still in the old year as I write this. Snow is falling lightly and it is difficult to concentrate on the screen because my feeder birds are turning out en masse for the delights I set out this morning: Northern Cardinals and Mourning Doves at the safflower seed, Carolina Chickadees flying in for one seed per trip, Red-bellied Woodpecker and Carolina Wren at the double suet feeder (the Red-bellied rules and the Wren flies off as he swoo

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 5, 2018

Owning a parrot is very rewarding. However, as any parrot owner knows there is a lot more to ownership than meets the eye. ExoticDirect insurers of exotic pets have compiled a 12 point checklist offering some handy advice and guidance.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 1, 2018

Author: Kevin F. Davis In a SMMConnect webinar I delivered to over 100 sales managers recently, I talked about eight instincts they developed as salespeople that are now harming their effectiveness as team leaders. Interestingly, about 30 percent of the participants said that the sales instinct they struggle with the most is “avoiding conflict.”. What does that mean?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 1, 2018

Here are the posts from January 2008.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

I had an amazing birding year in 2017 with tons of travel , lots of amazing birds , and some truly memorable experiences. But 2018 is a whole new year and calls for all new goals. My year list hasn’t even been started but when it does it will be as unattractive as the fledgling Yellow Warbler up above. I have similar goals to last year’s but with some new twists.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The week between Christmas and New Year is always a good time to reflect on the year that just was. Amongst the highlights that featured in published posts, we find the drafts that never quite got finished, or didn’t have enough photographic support to appear on the world wide web. The left-overs. Black-crested Bulbul (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Happy New Year! Now that the odometer on year lists has rolled back to zero, you’re probably eagerly looking forward to beginning the bird hunt anew. But take a moment first to appreciate your final sightings of the year gone by. A confluence of injury, illness, and arctic air conspired to keep me indoors for most of the weekend, with little more than Black-capped Chickadees to observe.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2018

A new year is upon us, my friends! Maybe 2018 is starting off too cold or too hot or with too much bomb cyclone for your tastes. What does it matter? We still have birds. As long as we have them, we should be looking at them… I’ll be watching birds mostly through the rime-crusted windows of my office, though–after kicking off the new year with my life Golden Eagle –I’m eager for another chase.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2018

Once upon a time, in the hazy past of 2013, I was asked to write a zombie story. This happened to a lot of people at the time; in fact, by the point when my zombie story ended up between pages, the species had exceeded the carrying capacity of its habitat, resulting in a population crash and near-extinction. As a result my story was seen by few eyes.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2018

I didn’t intend to turn over a new leaf with my first review of the new year, but this week’s beer represents a few firsts for the “Birds and Booze” beat here at 10,000 Birds. This the first drink I’ve reviewed featuring a bird not yet on my life list – and it’s not one I’m counting on adding any time soon. It’s also the first drink featuring a non-North American species (I’ll admit there’s a bias in my selections that’s largely dictated by geography).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2018

Here are the most popular videos on The W. Edwards Deming Institute You Tube channel in the last year. Those with W. Edwards Deming in them are the most popular. The videos with the most views in the last year: W. Edwards Deming: The 14 Points : 46,000 views in 2017 (added 3 years ago – 106,000 total views all time). If Japan Can Why Can’t We : 17,000 views (2 years – 39,000).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2017

It’s 2018! What was your first bird of the year? Share it, and the story, in the comment section. Hopefully, it was a good one!

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 5, 2018

Opinion: Research shows that millennial cadets' digital skills don't help them on the virtual battlefield.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 5, 2018

Author: SAM MELNICK VP OF MARKETING, ALLOCADIA At Allocadia, we’re keen on asking the following question: Where will you focus your time in 2018?—?running marketing, or doing marketing? That’s a question all enterprise marketing leaders must ask themselves as they head into this new year, develop a new plan and set new goals. “Doing marketing” refers to the execution of marketing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 4, 2018

Author: Jay Mitchell, Owner and Principal, Mereo LLC In order to learn how to align marketing and sales teams, we must understand how devastating a gap between these departments can be for an organization overall. Sales and marketing are both vital to a B2B organization. Both departments play a role in connecting with, engaging and landing buyers. Despite the gap, these two departments share many of the same concerns and end goals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 1, 2018

Author: SMM Research from the Incentive Gift Card Council (IGCC) and the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) shows the majority of U.S. businesses?—?fully 61 percent?—?are increasingly using gift cards as a reward tool for multiple groups (channel, sales, employee and customer), and that investment in gift card rewards is both significant and growing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 3, 2018

Author: Tim Houlihan In the mid-1990s, three researchers created something they called the Service Profit Chain. It was featured in Harvard Business Review and later in a book, bearing the title of the concept. The foundational idea of the service profit chain was this: how you treat your employees impacts how they treat your customers. Their research has been validated with a longitudinal study of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 3, 2018

Author: Tim Houlihan Dispensing with sales manager myths. What’s your sales manager mythology? In a recent conversation with a sales vice president, he noted that leadership is not about being engaged, it’s about the willingness to take risks. He was talking about his sales managers. Most of us are not natural risk-takers, but we’re cool with calculated risks.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 5, 2018

Of all the images broadcast during this week’s coastal ice storm, none got more attention than a Facebook post featuring a bundled up South Carolina man in a lawn chair, drinking beer on top of his frozen swimming pool.

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South Carolina 48

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2018

And so it begins! What I am referring to my “Little Big Year”. Let me be quite clear here, my 2018 will not really a true “Big Year” in the sense that I spend an entire year, every day, going all over the world in an effort to establish a new record number of bird species. That type of effort is restricted to world class birders like Noah Strycker, or Arjan Dwarshuis.

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