Remember Your Clients at Christmas

  You might have missed the post for guaranteed delivery before offices start to close for the festive season, but don't worry because you haven't missed out. With e-cards you can organise your season's greetings quickly and efficiently. If you have been the main person your clients make contact with, it is a good idea to send your own festive cards to thank them for their continued business. If you can personalise the messages, then all the better. While it is still good to have a general card from the company, it adds a special touch for the customer to think that they have been specifically remembered and not just bundled together with a data list as part of a marketing exercise. Sending e-cards is a popular way to exchange greetings in business, and not simply because it saves time. Many companies adopt a policy of using electronic messages as part of their environmental commitments by cutting down on the use of paper products and as part of their CSR programme. Often the money saved by not printing and posting cards is donated instead to a charity which the company supports. As well as being efficient, economical and environmentally friendly, e-cards offer a number of other benefits. They offer a unique opportunity to create a visual impact for your brand in a non-selling format. They are a handy way to inform clients and contacts of your festive-period office closures. And, best of all, they don't each need to be signed by hand. It would be no surprise to find that some clients view the sending and receiving of Christmas cards with cynicism, assuming that they are just part of a marketing ploy. However, there is a great way to get round this which can end up boosting your brand even more than the most deliberate of exercises might set out to achieve. Attempt to inject some humour into the card so that whether it is viewed with caution or not it can at least raise a smile and make the receiver forget any perceived marketing angle. The double bonus of this is that if it is funny enough it will get forwarded to friends and colleagues, and before you know it you have a viral marketing success on your hands. If you are looking for sales and marketing staff who can strike the right balance with their customer contacts then visit sales recruitment agencies in Shropshire to see how they can help. If you are not based near sales recruitment agencies in Shropshire, then check out their services online.

Do you have a job that the average person doesn't even know exists?

A job is a regular activity performed in exchange for payment. A person usually begins a job by becoming an employee, volunteering, or starting a business. The duration of a job may range from an hour (in the case of odd jobs) to a lifetime (in the case of some judges). If a person is trained for a certain type of job, they may have a profession. The series of jobs a person holds in their life is their career.Jobs for people

Generally people spend a good portion of their time doing a regular occupation. Some exceptions are being a student, disabled, retired or being/working in a creative field.

Types of job

There are a variety of jobs: full time, part time, temporary, odd jobs, seasonal, self-employment. People may have a chosen occupation for which they have received training or a degree. Those who do not hold down a steady job may do odd jobs or be unemployed. Moonlighting is the practice of holding an additional job or jobs, often at night, in addition to one's main job, usually to earn extra income. A person who moonlights may have little time left for sleep or leisure activities.

Day job

The expression day job is often used for a job one works in to make ends meet while performing low-paying (or non-paying) work in their preferred vocation. Archetypical examples of this are the woman who works as a waitress (her day job) while she tries to become an actress, and the professional athlete who works as a laborer in the off season because he is currently only able to make the roster of a semi-professional team. While many people do hold a full-time occupation, "day job" specifically refers to those who hold the position solely to pay living expenses so they can pursue, through low paying entry work, the job they really want (which may also be during the day). The phrase strongly implies that the day job would be quit, if only the real vocation paid a living wage.

Notable figures who had day jobs include the Wright brothers, who held full-time employment as bicycle repairmen while they experimented on powered flights.

The phrase "don't quit your day job" is a humorous response to a poor or mediocre performance not up to professional caliber. The phrase implies that the performer is not talented enough in that activity to be able to make a career out of it. Getting a job Further information: Job hunting and Employment

Getting a first job is an important rite of passage in many cultures. Youth may start by doing household work, odd jobs, or working for a family business. In many countries, school children get summer jobs during the longer summer vacation. Students enrolled in higher education can apply for internships. Résumés summarize a person's education and job experience for potential employers. Employers read job candidate résumés to decide who to interview for an open position.

Use of the word

Labourers often talk of "getting a job", or "having a job". This conceptual metaphor of a "job" as a possession has led to its use in slogans such as "money for jobs, not bombs". Similar conceptions are that of "land" as a possession (real estate) or intellectual rights as a possession (intellectual property).

The Online Etymology Dictionary explains that the origin of "job" is from the obsolete phrase "jobbe of work" in the sense of "piece of work", and most dictionaries list the Middle English "gobbe" meaning "lump" (gob) as the origin of "jobbe". Attempts to link the word to the biblical character Job seem to be folk etymology