By admin on September 10, 2010
If nothing else, 2008 was the year that social media began to grow without bounds. Between social networking, social bookmarking, and blogging as well as other tactics, social media saw an explosion in participation and interest in 2008. Facebook alone boasted a 116% increase in traffic over 2007.
But the question still remains-how does social media [...]
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By admin on September 6, 2010
There are difficult conversations in our lives; and then there are the really difficult ones! Conversations between a manager and employee about poor performance at least have the advantages that roles are clear, and that performance can be measured and recorded. Conversations become a lot more difficult, and require a lot more skill, when you [...]
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By admin on August 28, 2010
The latest information that has been coming in states that employer’s awareness of people tops the list of the things that keeps people at their jobs.
These issues involve an awareness of diversity issues and providing job security for good work. There is also a strong need for employers to recognize the need to balance [...]
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By admin on August 4, 2010
In short, yes you should care about business credit.
Business owners typically fall into one of three categories when it comes to biz credit.
1. They are very familiar with it and have established scores with the 3 national business credit agencies for their company. Their vendor accounts and credit cards report good payment history in their [...]
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By admin on July 16, 2010
In 2002 the Sarbanes Oxley Act was passed into federal law after the American nation was shocked by scandals that rocked large businesses from Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia to name a few. These scandals all related to businesses and firms using insider trading to get ahead resulting in the loss of share value to [...]
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By admin on June 23, 2010
It’s daunting for business leaders who aspire to improve their leadership to be told to follow the example of Gandhi or Martin Luther King. These people are certainly inspirational, but they’re a tough act to follow in the real world.
I’ve therefore been looking at what we can learn from leaders who get it wrong. In [...]
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By admin on June 20, 2010
Now I’m sure you’ve read Stephen Covey’s excellent book ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’. But if you haven’t, you should. It’s an inspiring summary of the seven simple but motivational things you need to do to be an inspirational leader. And it can help you to build an inspirational leadership style.
I mention Covey’s [...]
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By admin on June 19, 2010
The word free has to be one of the most overused words in the home business niche. Everyone has a free this and a free that to offer you. So consider this, can you really make money in a free business opportunity.
The short answer to that is, yes you can. Here is how you can [...]
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By admin on June 3, 2010
The finance market has grown significantly in recent years. And with the current economic struggles we are facing, people will need money more than ever to take care of their urgent personal financial issues.
Be it loans for business, vacation or education, the entire range of loans is available with many different lenders. Also, as financial [...]
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By admin on April 5, 2010
Every small business owner and manager needs to know this number. You need to place an annual or lifetime value on each customer who buys your product or service. Here is an example of what I am talking about:
Some years ago a burger restaurant placed a $100 coupon ad in a newspaper for [...]
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By admin on April 4, 2010
When you have a collection agency calling you, it’s because you owe a creditor money. Perhaps you owe a bank, an apartment complex or have, credit card debt. When you owe this back debt and they’re tried of trying to collect from you they will hire a collection agency to make collection or sell [...]
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By admin on March 14, 2010
I regularly receive email from sincere folks who ask questions like this: “Is it true? If I don’t have good records, will I really pay more tax than I could/would/should have?”
Or how about this one: “If I don’t have receipts, does it really matter? If I get audited, will the IRS nail me for not [...]
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