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Asset Protection Strategies
If you have valuable assets under your name, you must definitely look for asset protection strategies. These strategies protect your assets from major threats. The business world is very strange and some puzzling happenings may result in jeopardizing of all your ... Views: 821
It may surprise you to know that not everyone is as enthusiastic about Balance Sheet Analysis as I am... And yet, a few minutes a month spent looking at your Balance Sheet could make a difference between success and failure for your business!
Those "secrets" alluded to in the article title ... Views: 4291
The percentage of traders who get to become financially successful by trading currencies is just a tiny fraction. Yet those who do make it pretty much modify into wealthy person making vast profits from forex trading alone. So what makes these traders successful? Why can't other traders attain ... Views: 676
You're looking for the best way to penetrate the marketplace with your goods/services. Capturing the market share and make boat loads of money in the process. You hear all the hype about the latest approach to getting your message out to the masses. But there is one place that you can focus your ... Views: 1995
Business is all about relationships and connecting the dots. It involves connecting the consumer to the producer and removing any inefficiency in the process. There are many agencies that help you find a business partner and connect the suppliers and buyers. They act as the intermediary and ... Views: 438
by: Geoff Ficke
My Company routinely reviews more than 600 new product ideas, concepts, prototypes and models during most years. During a soft economy, such as today’s, we see even more as people become more desperate to chase a dream. Pursuit of the “American Dream” almost always involves ... Views: 1449
by: Geoff Ficke
One of the greatest literary and science works of the ancient world, rarely studied today, was the Opus Majus. The amazingly futuristic content of the Opus Majus was virtually a modern tutorial, written in the 13th century, on an array of literary, scientific and philosophical ... Views: 1444
Have you ever been working on something, going down a path in your business or life, and it just doesn’t feel as good as you want it to?
You can reason it out – doing this makes sense, this is something that’s good for me or my business, I need to do this, I’ve got it pretty good here, ... Views: 987
How to Fool Yourself Into Health
If you were told by your doctor that he was giving you Sugar Pills for
your (IBS) Irritable Bowel Syndrome, would you expect any improvement
in your condition? Would you take them twice a day as he/she prescribed?
... Views: 1682
Google has a great social network tucked away in it's machinery called Google profiles. Just like Facebook, you can make friends with tons of people just like you with the same interests and like-mindedness. These are people you want to get to know better because they could become your next ... Views: 1185
Success Storming is the technique similar to brainstorming and gets you to produce a set of questions about an idea, problem or decision. It allows you to consider the options open to you and the diagram is a useful illustrative aide enabling you to view all your questions. From here you’ll be ... Views: 1343
Water damage starts slowly, mostly unnoticed by homeowners. Some things are just too troublesome and cause a great deal of distress and discomfort to us. One of them is water damage. Even a small amount of water can cause great damage if it is consistently present in an area that needs to be ... Views: 745
Once you've developed and installed software for a client, your work may not be done. In many cases, software developers provide ongoing software maintenance and support for their clients. Offering this service is an excellent way to build a longstanding relationship with your client while ... Views: 837
It is easy to find a complete line of supplies so welders have the tools they need to complete their projects promptly and safely. As experienced welders ourselves, we know the welding supplies that are necessary to be successful on the job.
In the world of welding, there are few things that ... Views: 409
In these uncertain economic times, my experience tells me that there are still people out there who need your services. But because they are more concerned with getting the best value for their increasingly scarce resources, they turn to the people they trust to introduce them to professionals ... Views: 1560
As a consumer do you prefer to buy (purchase, acquire, invest, etc.) or to be sold? Most people prefer to make the self-determined decision to make a purchase and usually equate the concept of “being sold” to the category of being tricked, coerced, bamboozled or “forced to buy against their ... Views: 2095
Change Agents or Gate Keepers?
The challenges facing employees in today’s economy and times of uncertainty presents new opportunities for Human Resources. As organizations are looking for new ways to grow the business, increase productivity, reduce costs and navigate the rapidly changing ... Views: 1817
Pamela Busch owns a restaurant in San Francisco. Like everyone else, she felt the pinch of the economic downturn as people stopped going out to eat. She decided to adapt by offering a three-course tasting menu at a set price.
Great. Her desired outcome is to stay in business. She’s accepted ... Views: 1724
The combination of an ailing economy and a struggling housing market during an election year has created the perfect storm to once again bring issues concerning the federal capital gains tax rate to the forefront of the public’s attention. As our nation’s government continues to ... Views: 1261
The World Has Changed-Have You?
People come to work committed to contributing and making a difference for their organizations, their teams and themselves. The systems, processes and structures of organizations have evolved over time and mostly in reaction to emerging circumstances. ... Views: 791
LESS IS MORE
The quote “Less is More,” written by the poet Robert Browning in 1855, inspired architect Mies Van der Rohe one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture and Buckminster Fuller inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist. They saw this quote as a ... Views: 2375
People often face different kind of problems with recruitment in the UK. The most common complaint of the common man with recruitment in UK is that they complain that their recruitment agency doesn’t work hard enough. This article is based on the approach you should have while dealing with ... Views: 758
One of the things that I noticed when I started off in my business was that I was doing everything. I was working 60, 70 hours a week. Then after six months, I sat down and looked at my cash flow and my income and I realized I was making a little over $300 per job. That was with a tremendous ... Views: 1315
Social media now dictates the strategy of online lead generation by changing the way we do sales across business process outsourcing firms. Make no mistake; if you want to see actual results, then you need to be where your market “hangs out”. Today’s leading social networking tools Facebook and ... Views: 1419
If you are like so many people who are new to internet marketing you probably are pulling your hair out wondering what the secret to internet selling is. Your site is up, you’re getting traffic from the PPC (Pay Per Click) campaign you started but you’re simply not making enough sales to ... Views: 1592
Work Out the Kinks of Firing Before You Pull the Trigger
By Alison E. Howard
Firing an employee is a common business scenario. An employee is implicated in a singular episode or series of incidents that violate company policy and you have to terminate employment without causing further ... Views: 1108
With all the VoIP providers out there it can be quite challenging for you to pick which one will suit your needs best. Is it just about the free calls? Do you need all those other features that might actually be the reason the service is more expensive than those from other providers? Is a ... Views: 589
You have heard the recent chatter about “Virtual Assistants” from your friends. You are thinking about jumping on the band wagon of retaining your own virtual assistant, but not exactly sure how you should go about it. Spend a week jotting down the various administrative tasks that are eating up ... Views: 1384
If you run a business you can probably put your people into one of 3 categories according to how they work and their team skills:
• Luke SkyWalkers
• Followers
• Dark Side
First, the ‘Luke Skywalkers’ of this world. These are the people who will never let you down and strive to achieve ... Views: 665
With the possibilities of technology and digital connections, entrepreneurs today no longer need to invest in a brick and mortar storefront in order to create a successful business. People all over the world are beginning to create businesses from the comfort of their homes with minimal ... Views: 536
Everyone knows that new business fail at a fairly high rate. Most people assume that the reason is there is not enough money. While that might be true in some cases, there are other things that can cause a new business to fail, even if they have plenty of money.
It would seem like common ... Views: 1137
Accounting is a flourishing field that provides innumerable career opportunities for the students just finished their education. Even the youngsters shine in this field and make huge profit out of freelancing and working in an accounting firm. Now, the people who crossed over 40 years are ... Views: 794
Smart small business owners on the road to profitability never set the expectation that it would be easy. But 60- hour work weeks without solid results are growing old and tiresome. It’s time for a change. Clearly, there has to be a better way. Let’s look at two of the common myths about ... Views: 1421
One of the biggest questions is when do you stay, walk or run away from the bargaining table. Some people aren’t willing to stay the course in what might result in a really good deal. Others are so tied to the process or deal making that they are willing to give up too much. Here are some ideas ... Views: 2055
When you feel good about yourself, you radiate confidence. The same is unfortunately true when you're feeling desperate or negative, you then radiate discomfort and nervousness. The latter is not the nonverbal message you want to convey to potential employers today, or ever. Instead, the ... Views: 1425
Business owners know many many things. Business owners do many many things. Do business owners do too many things? That’s a difficult question. At the startup phase a business owner wears a lot of hats trying to keep a lean and mean business. Now let’s hope that they’re only doing things where ... Views: 1032
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is no new concept for companies that strive to achieve and sustain competitive advantage with moral management. If experts are to be believed, CSR will always be a vital part of the corporate agenda, regardless of any serious market fluctuations. According ... Views: 853
LESS IS MORE
The quote “Less is More,” written by the poet Robert Browning in 1855, inspired architect Mies Van der Rohe one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture and Buckminster Fuller inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist. They saw this quote as a ... Views: 5625
Do This and Lose Sales
Focus on products lose sales, solutions make sales
The North Country is dumped on, 17 inches worth of the white cold stuff. Procrastination has hit, those slick road-hugging sports tires still on the car prove to be highly useless in the slick and hard packed ... Views: 2382
Your prospects want one thing and one thing only! They want the reassurance that what you say about what you offer is legitimate. Because credibility is crucial to the success of your business, convincing potential clients that you can deliver is key. And although conveying credibility is always ... Views: 1695
Everyone wants their business to grow and everyone wants to make as much money as possible in their business. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have started the business in the first place.
Starting a new business can be a long and trying process. It can also be expensive and it may take some ... Views: 1146
Act-As-IF
• 1. “To become a Master of SpeedReading, first, you must follow the William James law: Act as-if, Think as-if, FEEL as-if, & Believe as-if you are already a SpeedReading Brainiac.”
• For the next few hours “be-an-actor”. How? Be a kid again and ‘play’ “Let’s Pretend!”
• 2. ... Views: 1789
So you need a marketing plan, but not sure of the right marketing plan format?
First let’s understand what a marketing plan is...
A marketing plan is simply a document which explains how your business will approach its target market. It can be as broad as promoting your business to create ... Views: 959
Here are 10 steps that will assure your success in an MLM business:
1. BE A GOAL SETTER. What do you want to accomplish? Do you want to save for college education for your children? Do you want to buy a new car or a new home? You can have whatever you want, but you must want it enough to do ... Views: 690
Why do some meetings work…but many die a dismal death? Get the low-down right here on the 3 big myths that kill most meetings—and learn the truth that will set you free.
If you’re fed up with meetings where you don’t get anything done, it’s a valuable question to answer. Imagine what could ... Views: 1292
The most popular search engine removed more than 1.75 billion sites from its index and the number is growing. It is a huge purge, happening after a 53% increase in the copyright requests. Another major change is the AdWords Quality score improvement, which is deadly to keywords with insufficient ... Views: 1130
A concierge is just like any other employee at an apartment, hotel or office, but they assist their clients or guests in a much more extensive manner. While a hotel concierge might help the guests with travel or other bookings and recommending some hot spots, a personal concierge tends to cater ... Views: 707
There will always be a good mailing services Los Angeles company. The question is, how do you make the most of what it can offer you? We have Take note of the following 6 suggestions:
1. Find one that can do everything for you. If you’re going to spend on direct mail services, then you better ... Views: 499
by: Geoff Ficke
A Simple 20-Step Test That Will Confirm Whether or Not a Product Development Project Is Market-Ready
For almost four decades my Consulting firm has worked with entrepreneur’s to design, develop, package, Brand, Market and Sell a vast range of Consumer Products. Our job is ... Views: 1376
by: Geoff Ficke
A “Wanna Be” Entrepreneur in Reality Is a“Wantrepreneur” and Will Never Be Successful
Very few of the hundreds of Consumer Product projects that my Branding and Marketing Consulting firm review each year ever go much beyond the talking stage. Talk is cheap. Dreamers dream. ... Views: 1543