Monday, 1 October 2012

The 15-minute rule for buying cars

Fifteen minutes. That’s how long most new vehicle buyers (60 per cent) want to spend on price negotiations, once the test drive is complete, reports a recent J. D Power and Associates online survey.
“This is likely due to the overwhelming majority of shoppers who build and price their vehicle online before arriving at a dealership,” reports J.D Power in a research note. “In fact, 63 per cent of shoppers say they knew the exact vehicle they wanted (including colour and options) before they set foot in a showroom.”

End work-life balance anxiety: How to make a change

In April, as University of Victoria English professor Janelle Jenstad prepared to make the best use of her coming summer break from teaching, she came across Globe Careers’ online Balance scorecard and questionnaire, and decided to give it whirl.
As she edged through the step-by-step questions about her work-life balance, it crystallized her thinking, prodding her to focus on the most important factors and pick between them on what to emphasize in each of the next thee months. Now, her summer over and in retrospect quite successful, she plans to share the questionnaire with her new graduate students in the time management class she always gives to those recruits as they flow from the relatively structured life of undergraduates to the more unstructured, and thus potentially thorny, life of a graduate student.

Geschäftsmodelle für 3D-Drucker gesucht

Was passiert, wenn 3D-Drucker alltäglich werden? Was werden die Menschen drucken wollen? Und wie kann man damit Geld verdienen? Erste Firmen bringen sich in Stellung.