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Managing Client Relationships
Managing Client Relationships: Even the best run organizations occasionally run into difficult situations with clients, consultants, and vendors. Often times it is not just a business process that has gone a-rye, it is the relationship of the people managing the situation. So how is it that we manage difficult problems and how is it that we coach all the members of our organization to manage crisis to their (and their company's) advantage. Here are some helpful tips:Treat everyone (client

sed or paper-based

-- Doing your tax reports

-- Creating your marketing referral engine

-- Creating passive-income revenue streams (teleclasses, ebooks, e-classes, white papers, r

Disaster Planning For Small Business
No one knows just how many small businesses owners lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. No one knows how many will be able to come back from disaster. But the odds are that the ones who successfully rebuild there businesses will be the ones who had a disaster plan in place before the hurricane struck. A solid small business disaster plan has three components, protecting human resources, protecting physical resources and planning for business continuity.If you're a sole proprietor, your plans

Do you operate your business as a series of projects, using project management tools and skills to advance your projects from conception to completion? Or perhaps you're new to project management tools and skills and haven't considered applying them to your own business? Most of us fall somewhere in between.

Running a productive and efficient business, whether for one person or for 500, is a series of projects of various sizes and complexity.

For example, here are some projects a typical solopreneur may have:

-- Creating/upgrading your business identity (logo, stationery, biz cards, etc)

-- Creating/upgrading your web site

-- Setting up or upgrading your computer equipment

-- Setting up or reorganizing your filing system(s) whether computer-based or paper-based

-- Doing your tax reports

-- Creating your marketing referral engine

-- Creating passive-income revenue streams (teleclasses, ebooks, e-classes, white papers, re

Make Money Through Relationship Building: Grant Writing Basics
Grant “writing” is really a misnomer, because so much of getting a grant has nothing to do with writing, but with relationship building. Some foundations support your organization year after year, and yet have never actually met you! Why not take the first step in relationship building and invite them to come visit? In my first full-time grant writing job, I learned just how valuable this small step could be: to the tune of $60,000 of unexpected funding!Like every other grant writer before me

ools and skills and haven't considered applying them to your own business? Most of us fall somewhere in between.

Running a productive and efficient business, whether for one person or for 500, is a series of projects of various sizes and complexity.

For example, here are some projects a typical solopreneur may have:

-- Creating/upgrading your business identity (logo, stationery, biz cards, etc)

-- Creating/upgrading your web site

-- Setting up or upgrading your computer equipment

-- Setting up or reorganizing your filing system(s) whether computer-based or paper-based

-- Doing your tax reports

-- Creating your marketing referral engine

-- Creating passive-income revenue streams (teleclasses, ebooks, e-classes, white papers, r

100 Excellent Words and 70 Action Getting Phrases for Ad Writing
Any business needs effective advertising to be successful. Here are some words and phrases that will help you to write successful ads.100 Excellent Words Absolutely. Amazing. Approved. Attractive. Authentic. Bargain. Beautiful. Better. Big. Colorful. Colossal. Complete. Confidential. Crammed. Delivered. Direct. Discount. Easily. Endorsed. Enormous. Excellent. <

is a series of projects of various sizes and complexity.

For example, here are some projects a typical solopreneur may have:

-- Creating/upgrading your business identity (logo, stationery, biz cards, etc)

-- Creating/upgrading your web site

-- Setting up or upgrading your computer equipment

-- Setting up or reorganizing your filing system(s) whether computer-based or paper-based

-- Doing your tax reports

-- Creating your marketing referral engine

-- Creating passive-income revenue streams (teleclasses, ebooks, e-classes, white papers, r

Fallout from the Tobacco War
Introduction: Though written several years ago, this article is still highly relevant, as the 2006 elections demonstrated.Very little is being said in the press about the information health and consumer groups are posting on the Internet about the tobacco issue. This is unfortunate, because the tobacco war currently happening on the Internet will have profound long term effects on marketing, advertising, and media, not to mention politics.The tobacco war is the first major demon

ry, biz cards, etc)

-- Creating/upgrading your web site

-- Setting up or upgrading your computer equipment

-- Setting up or reorganizing your filing system(s) whether computer-based or paper-based

-- Doing your tax reports

-- Creating your marketing referral engine

-- Creating passive-income revenue streams (teleclasses, ebooks, e-classes, white papers, r

Get Yourself Spring-Loaded
An e-mail arrived with a fragmentary phrase that absolutely caught my attention. The writer referred to many upset customers being 'spring-loaded in the pissed-off position'.What a phrase! And what an observation.Ever noticed how quickly you get triggered when the service you receive goes bad? Ever noticed how short the fuse can be on the customers around you?I decided to try the opposite approach and see what happens. I've been traveling a lot lately, and whenever I've needed p

sed or paper-based

-- Doing your tax reports

-- Creating your marketing referral engine

-- Creating passive-income revenue streams (teleclasses, ebooks, e-classes, white papers, reports, etc)

If you aren't using project management tools and skills to run your business, your productivity is suffering.

Now, if you don't have a full client/work load, then perhaps you don't think this is an issue you need to be concerned with right now. May I offer to you the suggestion that the time to increase your efficiency and productivity with new tools and skills is precisely when you don't have all the clients or work you want or need?

Learning something new like this helps keep your enthusiasim charged, which spills over into your marketing activities, which helps engage your prospects in your business. It's all good.

So where do you start?

I recommend that my clients start by using TraxTime, a little PC computer program available inexpens

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I've recently decided to stop calling myself a Project Manager and start calling myself a Manager of Projects. There is a difference as I hope you will see in the next few paragraphs.

All too often people look at marketing ROI in terms of response rate: in other words, “I sent out 10,000 pieces of direct mail and only got 39 responses which is terrible.” This is wrong think. Obviously you need to keep track of response from each marketing campaign you do so that you can weed out unsuccessful campaigns and strengthen successful ones.

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