Sales Pro: Global Business Development Manager

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This dynamic and progressive organisation now requires a highly motivated and experienced business development professional to own and drive the global business development activity and to help guide the organisation through the next stage of its growth its development.

The Opportunity

• To lead and shape the business development agenda in the UK and internationally, selling a portfolio of products and services
• To develop a more strategic and targeted approach to sales and business development, leveraging existing relationships while identifying and building new clients
• To provide strategic leadership and management to the UK and international key account teams

Your Credentials

• An established and successful business development professional , with a significant track record of consultative selling, business development and customer account management
• Well developed interpersonal and leadership skills with an ability to lead and develop a predominantly field-based sales team
• Commercially aware and quick to recognise business opportunities and act accordingly

To apply, please email full career details (including salary) and a short covering letter of no more than 3 pages outlining why this role is of interest and how you meet the requirements, quoting reference HN6934TEL. Closing date for applications is 20 July 2012.

For a confidential discussion, please telephone our recruitment adviser at Harvey Nash, Anne Esler

Harvey Nash is a global executive search consultancy.

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Sleep affects potency of vaccines

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

As moms have always known, a good night's sleep is crucial to good health -- and now a new study led by a UCSF researcher shows that poor sleep can reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.

The study is the first performed outside a sleep laboratory to show that sleep duration is directly tied to vaccine immune response, the authors said.

The study, conducted while the UCSF researcher was a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh, will appear in the August issue of the journal "SLEEP."

"With the emergence of our 24-hour lifestyle, longer working hours, and the rise in the use of technology, chronic sleep deprivation has become a way of life for many Americans," said lead author Aric Prather, PhD, a clinical health psychologist and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at UCSF and UC Berkeley.

"These findings should help raise awareness in the public health community about the clear connection between sleep and health," Prather said.

Research has shown that poor sleep can make one susceptible to illnesses such as upper respiratory infections. To explore whether sleep duration, sleep efficiency, and sleep quality ? assessed at home and not in a controlled sleep lab -- would impact immune processes important in the protection against infection, the researchers investigated the antibody response to hepatitis B vaccinations on adults in good health. Antibodies are manufactured by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects such as viruses.

The study involved 125 people (70 women, 55 men) between the ages of 40 and 60. All were nonsmokers in relatively good health, and all lived in Pennsylvania ? the study was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh. Each participant was administered the standard three-dose hepatitis B vaccine; the first and second dose were administered a month apart, followed by a booster dose at six months.

Antibody levels were measured prior to the second and third vaccine injection and six months after the final vaccination to determine whether participants had mounted a "clinically protective response."

All the participants completed sleep diaries detailing their bedtime, wake time and sleep quality, while 88 subjects also wore electronic sleep monitors known as actigraphs.

The researchers found that people who slept fewer than six hours on average per night were far less likely to mount antibody responses to the vaccine and thus were far more likely (11.5 times) to be unprotected by the vaccine than people who slept more than seven hours on average. Sleep quality did not affect response to vaccinations.

Of the 125 participants, 18 did not receive adequate protection from the vaccine. "Sleeping fewer than six hours conferred a significant risk of being unprotected as compared with sleeping more than seven hours per night," the scientists wrote.

The researchers stressed that sleep plays an important role in the regulation of the immune system. A lack of sleep, they said, may have detrimental effects on the immune system that are integral to vaccine response.

The National Sleep Foundation recommends seven to nine hours sleep a night. (For tips on a better night's sleep, see: http://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/tips_for_a_better_nights_sleep/index.html)

"Based on our findings and existing laboratory evidence, sleep may belong on the list of behavioral risk factors that influence vaccination efficacy," said Prather who in September will join the UCSF faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry. "While there is more work to be done in this area, in time physicians and other health care professionals who administer vaccines may want to consider asking their patients about their sleep patterns, since lack of sleep may significantly affect the potency of the vaccination."

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Home values rise for first time in 5 years ? Archibald Relocation ...

By Les Christie @CNNMoney July 24, 2012: 5:16 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) ? Home prices hit a bottom and are finally bouncing back, according to an industry report released Tuesday.

Nationwide, home values rose 0.2% year-over-year to a median $149,300 during the second quarter, the first annual increase since 2007, real estate listing site Zillow reported. Prices were up 2.1% from the first quarter.

Even though June marked the fourth consecutive month of home value increases, overall home prices are still down almost 24% since April 2007, when Zillow began to track home values.

?[I]t seems clear that the country has hit a bottom in home values,? said Zillow?s chief economist Stan Humphries. ?The housing recovery is holding together despite lower-than-expected job growth, indicating that it has some organic strength of its own.?

Last winter, Zillow projected that the housing market turnaround would not arrive until the end of the year.

Other home price indexes have also recorded gains lately, including the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index. In it latest release, it reported that home prices in 20 major markets rose 1.3% in April, the first monthly increase in seven months.

Zillow uses a different methodology in calculating home values than other home price indexes like Case-Shiller and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Sales of foreclosed, bank-owned properties, for example, are not factored into Zillow?s data. Zillow does include short sales, however, which are more difficult to distinguish from conventional sales.

?Our index is geared to consumers, conventional sellers deciding whether they want to put their homes on the market,? said Humphries.

The indexes that include foreclosures in their market data show larger price declines. The peak-to-trough drop for the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index, for example, is about 34% compared with Zillow?s 24%.

Fewer than one third of the 167 metro areas Zillow surveyed recorded annual increases in home values, but the size of the price gains in these areas more than offset the losses posted by the remaining two-thirds of the markets.

In Phoenix, the biggest gainer, home values soared 12.1% year-over-year to a median of $136,200. Meanwhile, the biggest loss sustained by any of the 30 largest metro areas was in Chicago where median home values fell 5.8% to $158,600.

Foreclosures remain one of the biggest risks to the housing market recovery, Humphries said. In the wake of the national foreclosure settlement which clarified how banks can legally pursue foreclosures, Humphries expects the pace of foreclosures to pick up.

?That will translate to more homes on the market,? he said. ?But we think demand will rise to absorb that.?

Zillow expects the housing market to continue to slowly recover, with median home values projected to climb 1.1% ? relatively flat ? over the next 12 months.

Beaten down markets like Phoenix, Las Vegas and many Florida cities, will likely record greater-than-average gains over the next 12 months, said Humphries.

The results in those places, however, will be bumpy. Home price increases will cause some homeowners who have been patiently waiting for values to rebound to put their homes on the market. And those additional listings could cool prices for a while, resulting in a staircase effect with ?price spikes followed by plateaus,? said Humphries. ?

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Plumber SEO How To Market Your Plumbing Business Online ...

by admin on July 31, 2012

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Josh Nelson is the Co-Founder of RooferSEO and specializes in helping Roofers, Contractors & Home Services Professionals Increase their sales & grow their business by more effectively marketing online.

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