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A Night at the Oscars
This past Friday night, the RB US Marketing Team was wined and dined at our very own Household Marketing Awards (HMA’s) ceremony at the Morristown Musuem in Morristown, NJ to celebrate a year of achievement across all of our brand teams.
Now I, and I am sure a number of you out there, tuned in to the 2010 Academy Awards on Sunday night; however, I can honestly tell you that after Friday night, watching similar events on television will never be the same again.
Selling Mortein in India
The other day my team and I were celebrating February’s success at a non descript open air hotel just outside of town when dusk set in. This typically means the onset of the malaria carrying troops, and soon we were performing the ‘mosquito dance’ shifting from one leg to another. Five minutes, a request was [...]
4 Steps to become a RB’ler
After finishing university every graduate asks himself: how do I get the job I really want? Within this blog entry I will try to give you some insights how my way to RB looked like. Maybe this can become your way, too.
1st step: the application.
Find your own style but be aware of the local formalities.
Formalities: [...]
Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz
At the beginning of every year, we have a budget to scale every month; every quarter and for the full year. I am now ‘two months old as an ASM’ and can claim to understand the finesse of the sales business.
I am responsible for a territory that is heavily dependant on wholesale (indirect distribution). This [...]
Why RB employees are passionate about their work
It has been almost a year with RB and I was wondering why I am so passionate about my work and satisfied with my job. After a careful analysis of my Job Characteristics I found the reason.
Let me explain this in more detail to you with the help of a model known as
Job Characteristics Model.
Skill Variety
The degree [...]






