He had four suggestions: I might "spin off ideas" for a "smaller" greeting-card company or "one of the bigger companies that's trying to look small"; think of domain names for dot-com companies; write for Biography.com; or write for Slate, Salon or some other "high-end Web rag".
Its seasonal products include decorations, toys, batteries, small electronics, greeting cards, stationery, prepaid phones and accessories, gardening supplies, hardware, automotive and home office supplies.
We are a small New England Greeting Card company, founded 35 years ago in Vermont by a woman who loved to design cards and her husband.
She was the slim woman of middle years who was hopping energetically around the small dining room, greeting old patrons, overseeing waiters, schmoozing with diners here, there and everywhere.
Start with small gestures -- greeting a coworker, saying hello to a neighbor -- and accept that they may not be returned and that this is okay.
He wears a conservative suit, a banker's suit, even for ambling around Compton and Watts, which he does like a small-town mayor, greeting everyone who passes by.
"Mount Sinai" (1570-72) is an oil and tempera depiction of the peaks of Mount Sinai and a small group of pilgrims greeting a figure resembling John the Baptist.
"There are all kinds of ways that you can show your regular customers that you value them, from small things such as greeting them by name through larger benefits such as giving regulars extended credit or discounts".
"If you like the high unemployment rates, if you like her bailout, if you like her stimulus, if you like her government-controlled health care — she's been there 18 years, she'll give you 6 more years of the same, guaranteed," Mr. Rossi said in an interview after greeting a small group of campaign workers in this Seattle suburb.
