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In one of three studies, Pia Rosander carried out personality tests on 200 pupils in southern Sweden when they entered upper secondary school at 16. Three years later, when they received their final grades, she was able to observe a strong link between personality and grades. In personality psychology one talks of "the big five" – the five most common personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. These qualities influence how a person...
NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pia Zadora, Golden Globe winner, Grammy nominee, and ShoWest winner is returning to the New York stage after an extended run in the demanding role of motherhood. The renowned singer and actor now gets back to her first love: on stage, singing with all her heart and entertaining her audiences. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130124/NY47581 ) Zadora, a Broadway child star who received critical acclaim for her performances as she...
Carriers support independent agency marketing initiative through new program WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA National) today announced the launch of its Pinnacle Partner Program. This new initiative is part of PIA National's award-winning PIA Branding Program, through which PIA National makes advertising and marketing materials available to PIA members across America. Pinnacle Partners are the PIA...
"Touch Points - The Voice of the Customer" Now Available to PIA Members WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the past 18 months, The PIA Partnership has been conducting research with insurance customers of all types from across the country, to find out more about what they are looking for and what they expect from personal lines insurance providers. The results are in, and they are great news for PIA members - customers want what agents have to offer. The...
Association publication spotlighting internet marketing now available to all WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA National) has made its 2011 PIA National Agency Marketing Guide available to insurance professionals across America through its website at www.PIAAgencyMarketingGuide.com. The PIA National Agency Marketing Guide contains hands-on marketing advice from some of the insurance industry's premier...
WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has unveiled a series of 25 Spanish radio advertisements as the latest phase of its award-winning branding program, Local Agents Serving Main Street America(SM). PIA's new Spanish radio ads complement the 28 English radio ads and 251 English print ads already available to PIA members as part of PIA's Main Street branding campaign. PIA members across the country have run the...
Summit of Professional Insurance Agents Brings Main Street to Capitol Hill WASHINGTON, March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Members of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents will bring Main Street to Capitol Hill when they convene March 17-18 in Washington, D.C. for their 2010 PIA Federal Legislative Summit. "This year's summit occurs as many issues with the potential to affect agents' bottom lines are in focus on Capitol Hill," said PIA National President Jon D. Spalding....
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA National) today announced its partnership with MobileSecure, Inc. and the rollout of MobileSecure's Laptop Protective Services(TM) program for insurance agents from coast-to-coast. Today's announcement builds on the continuing efforts of PIA to provide its members with relevant technological solutions to address the growing data security needs and demands faced by their members...
By Aamir Ashraf KARACHI (Reuters) - Investigators have recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of a Pakistan International Airlines' (PIA) plane that crashed killing all 45 people on board, a senior official said on Tuesday. The Fokker F-27 turboprop, built in 1964, crashed on Monday on the outskirts of the central city of Multan two minutes after take off. Shahnawaz Dara, head of PIA's flight safety wing, said the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder with...
By Aamir Ashraf KARACHI (Reuters) - Investigators have recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of a Pakistan International Airlines' (PIA) plane that crashed killing all 45 people on board, a senior official said on Tuesday. The Fokker F-27 turboprop, built in 1964, crashed on Monday the outskirts of the central city of Multan two minutes after take off. Shahnawaz Dara, head of PIA's flight safety wing, said the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder with...
