We don’t know how high member satisfaction number will go. Of course a rating of 10 is highest, but every notch up is increasingly more difficult because there is less room to go to top. Is Halifax at highest level it can reach? Whatever future, Halifax has already experienced a triumph in customer satisfaction improvement that is seen as a model for other employers.

Customer satisfaction is only one part of incentive plan designed for Halifax by HURECO, INC. The plan also targeted revenue growth, efficiency, and product sales. The overall return for Halifax for last 4 years has been an average of 344% per year. For every dollar organization spent on plan- including design, operation and employee pay-outs – it received $ 3.44 in additional revenue and cost savings. You can review full article and gain more information on designing incentive compensation plans at www.performanceresult.com.

Article by Al Weide of HURECO, INC. Helping You Select, Develop and Reward Talent. aweide@hureco.com

Everything I have read says try to get a .com domain name first before going to a .net or .org etc. As more and more domain names are taken this becomes harder to do and I think you are better off getting a keyword rich domain name like my-flowers.org than you are to buy a .com domain name like jeffssite.com.

Is buying a cheap domain name a bad idea? Absolutely not. I do it all of time. I get all of my domain names here: http://www.godaddy.com

Then I transfer them to my hosting company here: http://www.team-schuman.com/host4profit.

I can buy a domain name for less than $10 from Godaddy.com and transfer it for free to Host4Profit. This saves me $20 on buying it from hosting company itself. A domain name is a domain name and you might as well save a little money where you can.

Finding out what names are available is very easy to do. Let's use Godaddy.com as an example.

1. Go here: http://www.godaddy.com

2. Click on icon for Domain Names

3. Enter a domain name and see if it is available

4. They will come back with a list of available names

5. Decide what one you want and buy it

One last thing to consider. Protect your name by registering multiple extensions (.net, .org, etc.) This deters people from copying your name. For example, if you own my-flowers.com you can also register my-flowers.net and any other extension that's available. As you build up traffic to your site if someone types in an version other than .com version you can forward it to your .com site and not lose any traffic.

In closing it is important to spend a little time when choosing best domain name for your website. Try and get some keywords in your domain name. Don't stop at choosing just a .com version and save a little money by buying a cheap domain name whenever possible as long as it still contains some keywords.