Winding through the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, the former Native American footpath known as Route 7 has long been an icon of beauty, vitality, entertainment, change, controversy, and even humor. The scenic towns and villages nestled along this historic highway have many common bonds. Stretching north from Canaan, Connecticut, to Williamstown, Massachusetts, Berkshire Route 7 provides a roadside rich in history. Artist Norman Rockwell's studio once stood proudly alongside this road; the first practical electrical transformer for alternating current was developed in a laboratory next to Route 7; legendary civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois was born just a block from the highway; President Theodore Roosevelt was injured in a trolley accident on a busy stretch of the road; humorist Josh Billings's large tombstone overlooks Route 7; the first woman to vote legally in the United States cast her ballot just a stone's throw from the road. As Route 7 redefined itself from dusty footpath to asphalt avenue, postcard makers and photograph takers captured the changes along the way. Old Route 7 contains more than 225 vintage images, many of which date back as far as the 1870s. Open this book and take a stroll along old Route 7. You will see many incredible sights: forgotten quarries, old drive-in movie theaters, trolley-car diners, full-service gas stations, and roadside tourist stops such as Red Bat Cave in New Ashford. Family farms, welcoming woodlands, majestic mountains, beautiful waterways, and even an occasional stately elm remain to remind us of how quickly these treasures could be lost.
Long before cell phones, Facebook, and e-mail, the penny postcard was an inexpensive, yet effective way to send brief thoughts and interesting images to friends and family. Today these vintage "snail-mail snapshots" are considered historic treasures, offering insight into our remarkable past. Startling changes have occurred in South Berkshire since the first picture postcards were mailed at the dawn of the 20th century. In Around Great Barrington, rarely seen views of Great Barrington, Housatonic, Van Deusenville, and nearby villages provide a fascinating portal into our past. Residents and visitors will find amazing sights and plenty of surprises inside this book.
Southern Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts is a magical place. Some call it paradise. The special synergy that exists here between people and place has inspired remarkable residents for centuries. From Mohican John Konkapot to African American W.E.B. Du Bois, from novelist Catharine Sedgwick to mental health pioneer Agnes Gould, the Housatonic Valley and surrounding hills have proved to be a haven for inventors and industrialists, artists and activists, entrepreneurs, and educators. Stockbridge summer resident and legendary sculptor Daniel Chester French once said to a New York reporter, "I spend six months of the year up there, it is heaven." William Cullen Bryant, Norman Rockwell, Cyrus Field, William Stanley, Elizabeth Freeman (Mumbet), Laura Ingersoll Secord, and numerous other luminaries have all passed on to a different heavenly plane. Still, the Southern Berkshires continue to produce local legends and unsung heroes--folks like community activist Rachel Fletcher, Pastor Charles Van Ausdall, educator Mae Brown, and police chief Rick Wilcox. Open the pages of Legendary Locals of the Southern Berkshires and see for yourself!
This journal turned book follows Christi in a dramatically painful journey of rediscovery after two consecutive losses—a stillbirth followed by the death of a child shortly after birth. From having fearless faith to completely losing her identity and all confidence in God, this book explores Christi’s struggle in finding value worth living for and in trusting God when the miracles she prayed for did not appear. Although it is her own personal testament, Angel After is written for those who have not always had the most gracious response to adversity. This is for those who may have lost perspective of who they are and who God is in the midst of misfortune, those who may have struggled to understand purpose and destiny, and those who may even have lost the conviction to live. I pray that Angel After encourages you to find life after trauma. We can allow God to touch our deepest wounds and remind us of his power to overcome. We can also find the conviction to live once again.
Pursuing Wisdom chronicles Dr. Denis Leveille’s rich and varied experiences, and offers valuable life lessons learned along the way. He describes entering into marriage at a young age, and moving to a foreign country, rife with political and social upheaval and criminal events, which left him and his wife feeling alienated. Being drafted during the Vietnam War was another game changer, and working for the U.S. government as a civilian was sometimes perplexing. And then there is retirement, which can be adaptable to some and devastating to others. Inspired by Clint Eastwood, Denis offers the truth as he sees it—the good, the bad, and the ugly—in this riveting memoir.
Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement is a critical, participant observation study of the Philadelphia branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement. John Leveille spent over nine months with Occupy Philadelphia as the members organized and carried out their protests. This book describes and analyzes the rise, the organization, and the demise of this group. The important events and activities of Occupy Philadelphia are discussed and dissected, with specific attention given to the confusions and chaos that permeated this group, and Occupy Wall Street more generally, which contributed to its rather rapid decline. A revisionist Marxism, informed loosely by the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, is used here to understand and explain the happenings of this protest group. The theory provides an epistemological and methodological framework for this study, and it is also used to account for the observed behaviors. Leveille argues that an essential conflict between humanism and the forces of rational capitalism lies at the heart of this protest movement. This conflict contributed both to the rise of Occupy and to its operations. It was manifested in two intersecting ways. One of these concerns the destabilization of the self in contemporary capitalism, which provided fuel for the movement. The second revolves around the limited abilities of existing institutional arrangements to manage or channel the essential conflicts related to values that are produced by rational capitalism. Ultimately, Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement makes a controversial claim that the movement was as much, if not more, about democracy, morality, and the organization and experience of the self and of social life as it was about economic matters. The argument is made that Occupy was as much an expressive movement as it was an instrumental one. It was expressing contradictions produced by capitalism through extra-institutional means because the existing institutional arrangements have been and continue to be unable to manage or contain them.
Recently there has been rapid progress towards understanding the separate theories of the strong, weak and electromagnetic inter actions within the framework of the standard SU(3) x SU(2) x U(l) model. The purpose of the Second Workshop on Grand Unification was to discuss the physics beyond the standard model and the major topic was grand unified theories which unify the strong, weak and electromagnetic sectors. Grand unified theories are presently being used to calculate experimentally accessible quantities such as the proton lifetime and nucleon decay branching ratios. Meanwhile, experiments are currently being performed, and new, dedicated experiments mounted, to measure these quantities. Reports on these experimental and theoretical activities occupied much of the workshop. Furthermore, since grand unified theories allow one to extrapolate the behavior of the universe back to the first instants after the big bang, their cosmological implications and the constraints on these theories from cosmology were of great interest at the workshop. The conference opened with a keynote address by S. L. Glashow in which he discussed among other topics baryon minus lepton number conservation, neutrino masses and a neutrino-free universe. To maximize the interplay between theorists and experimentalists, theoretical and experimental talks were interleaved. An experimental highlight of the workshop was the presentation by S. Miyake of three candidate events for proton decay.
Everyone uses email. Yet many salespeople do not understand its power to make an impression or to kill one. While email has the power to get your message to your prospect instantaneously, it also has the ability to get your message lost in the pile of information crowding prospects inboxes or to be viewed with hostility as spam. This course bundle will address the best ways to communicate with your prospects using email as well as how to compose the ideal introductory email communication. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; http://scoreselling.com/products/email-bundle
This book provides you the tools you need and help you to expand your awareness about how to become successful and achieve your goals by being committed, persistent and determined. You will learn to tap into your authentic You that have all the resources you will ever need to increase your potential. This book helps you to open your mind to new experiences and allow yourself to believe that amazing things can happen.
Using top down selling the professional salesperson will hone a message and approach for contacting the highest-ranking executive in the company. The discussion with that executive will center on business benefits of the solution and will focus on getting the executive quickly sharing mission critical information. This information will be used to secure sponsorship, set meetings with subordinate stakeholders and effectively position your solution later in the sales process. Dealing affectively with executive gatekeepers as well as the downstream business manager to whom you are referred will also be addressed. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; http://scoreselling.com/products/how-to-master-the-art-of-executive-level-prospecting-from-the-executive-gatekeeper-to-mr-big
You will deliver the proposal in this the fourth stage of the MAJOR(tm) Sales Process, making your value now Obvious. What is a Proposal? The proposal is a document which lists the type, nature and quantity of your solution with the price to be paid by the prospect to buy it. The proposal is the most important document you will submit to your prospect other than your contracts. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; http://scoreselling.com/products/obvious-bundle
For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; What is the MAJOR(tm) Justify Stage? The MAJOR(tm) Justify Stage is a meeting where you present a Business Case for your solution. It is a meeting where you present a reason for buying your solution based on information you gleaned from the prospect during the Audit. The Justify! course bundle will deal with preparing the business case and related strategies. It will also address the delivery of the business case in the form of the Justify meeting. http://scoreselling.com/products/justify-bundle
If there is no one actively supporting--campaigning for--your solution inside the prospect's company, you have no sale. So from planning and organizational analysis to roles versus titles, the Score Selling(tm) trainee will identify candidates for their Campaigner, then embark on the process of selling to that Campaigner. The key qualifiers of executive authority, personal credibility and personal wins will be reviewed and applied. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; http://scoreselling.com/products/your-campaigner-the-best-ways-to-find-and-sell-to-the-most-important-decision-maker-in-the-company
Let the Game begin! From an Introduction to Score Selling(tm) to application of the Goal Setting principles in the PROVEN(tm) goal setting system, the Score Selling trainee will be rapidly and effectively equipped to apply Score Selling(tm) strategic solutions to immediately begin the process of positively affecting their own sales potential. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training solution. http://scoreselling.com/collections/bundles/products/welcome-to-score-selling-if-you-want-to-sell-more-than-ever-before-you-just-joined-the-greatest-sales-training-program-on-earth
More than budgets, the CLIENT(tm) Economics category develops strategies such as sufficient budgets, path of approval, requisition process, terms, discounts, ROI (return on investment), any and all financial numbers used to qualify your solution. Consultative discovery of these areas through skillful application of the LANC(tm) Sphere of Concern will also be addressed in this session. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; http://scoreselling.com/products/client-economics-how-to-find-funding-justify-your-margin-and-never-lose-on-price-again
What is the MAJOR(tm) Audit Stage? Here is the step where you meet with the prospect to review his current ways of doing things. You ask lots of relevant CLIENT(tm) questions in order to form the business case. The MAJOR(tm) Audit Stage is a meeting designed to do one thing; supply you with an interested and cooperative prospect to answer all the questions you need to know to sell them. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; http://scoreselling.com/products/audit-bundle
The prospect can have a problem and still not have a need for your solution. The reason is evident--many prospects choose inferior solutions based upon their relationship with an incumbent provider--choosing the current relationship and making no change provides them with job security should problems arise from the choice. The issue in this instance is ensuring the prospect has all the information needed to show the decision for a non-incumbent solution is protected with both logic and documentation. The CLIENT(tm) Need category provides both and more. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; http://scoreselling.com/products/client-need-how-to-prove-your-value-and-beat-your-competitor-by-helping-your-prospect-make-the-best-decision-possible
A sales book for professional salespeople and sales managers. From the fundamentals of goal setting and time management to brand new approaches for dealing successfully with prospect's voicemail and email barriers on to the advanced concept of gamification and scoring pre revenue sales activities its all in here. A sales book to offer REAL solutions to the problems plaguing salespeople. The ScoreSelling(tm) SALES Playbook helps salespeople with approachs to get their calls taken, their voicemails and emails returned; strategies to get back in when the prospect won't return their call, creative ways to engage the prospect with consultative questions; a sales process that keeps the salesperson in control; and approaches for powerful presentations and compelling proposals to keep your sales performance where you want it. Used in conjunction with the ScoreSelling(tm) 3.0 Training solution and Process Embedded Toolsets, the ScoreSelling(tm) SALES Playbook will help you reach your sales performance goals.
Prospecting effectively means the ability to reach and convince people that you have something of value to spend a few minutes with you discussing. The truth is that although fewer people pick up their phones AS OFTEN, they still pick up their when approached consistently and correctly. Salespeople that are able to manage themselves to be productive in their calling efforts will experience dramatic success compared to other mediums such as mail, email or visits. These courses will deliver the means, tool and methods to significantly increase your productivity in phone prospecting. For use with the companion online training program from ScoreSelling.co; http://scoreselling.com/products/compression-prospecting-day-why-you-cant-set-enough-sales-appointments-to-meet-your-goals-and-how-to-fix-it
The message is information you use to convince your prospect of the value of your solution. The core of your sales system is your message. Most often salespeople find that their message is communicating something they wish it wasn't; they wait till they are in front of the prospect to say whatever falls out of their mouth. Yet while a message is so very important, most salespeople do not know what goes into a good message or how to rapidly develop an effective message. This bundled course offering will accomplish both. Effective messaging is within your grasp. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; http://scoreselling.com/collections/bundles/products/the-power-of-your-sales-message
CLIENT(tm) Impact is about answering the question: What is the cost of the problem which your solution removes? Having a problem is not enough; being able to establish that your solution will remove enough cost in hard dollars, soft dollars, in efficiency, productivity, safety, morale and however else the customer measures it is essential to being able to demonstrate the value of your solution. Salespeople will address the answer to these and other aspects of problem-cost identification and articulation within the context of the CLIENT(tm) Index and using application of the LANC(tm) solution. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; http://scoreselling.com/products/client-impact-how-to-find-the-right-problems-and-make-it-easy-for-your-prospect-to-spend-money-to-solve-them
The CLIENT(tm) TimeLine is the timing of Deadlines and Compelling Events related to the prospects business combined along with the timing of events on your sales cycle. To gain proficiency in creating, presenting and selling on the Timeline a sequential step by step layout of the events of your sales cycle leading up to the acquisition of your solution will be positioned, analyzed and practiced in individual exercises. LANC(tm) consultive questioning and listening will be used to identify and position the customer timeline. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; http://scoreselling.com/products/client-timeline-how-to-close-the-sale-on-time-and-why-your-prospect-wants-to-be-a-part-of-the-process
With a sales process you will be able to focus on improving specific areas of your effectiveness by allowing the process to educate you. Where are you having trouble converting from one stage to the next? Is it a sufficient bottleneck that you should drill down and find out why? Perhaps you find that what you are doing in that stage is ineffective; either the information you are presenting is off, the way you are presenting is off, or the people to whom you are presenting it is off. By correcting the issue you can move far more opportunities past that stage and on to closure. This will provide an introduction to the Score Selling(tm) MAJOR(tm) Sales Process. For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle; http://scoreselling.com/products/major-bundle
Mr. Big is a special type of decision maker. So from the best way to approach him on to successfully engaging his interest, sponsorship and endorsement, the Score Selling(tm) trainee will learn new and powerful strategies and techniques to increase the success rate with their executive level decision makers. Strategic discovery and consultative qualification of the Key Business Objective(s) of the executive level decision maker will be also be covered in depth.For use with the ScoreSelling.com online sales training course bundle;http://scoreselling.com/products/mr-big-why-the-last-decision-maker-you-deal-with-should-be-your-first-and-how-to-keep-him-involved-in-your-sales-process-early-and-often
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