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Why You Need an Answering Service
The integral role played by the telephone as a business communication tool accounts for the growing importance of answering service businesses. All businesses, whether a physician's private practice, a small construction company, or a conglomerate, rely on the telephone as one of the fastest and most reliable communication tool in their businesses.Anyone with a busy schedule and a telephone needs an answering service! Answering service can be a real lifesaver to a small business. Many small businesses have neither the time nor the means to take incoming calls during business hours when they are out on jobs -- yet those calls represent the very lifeblood of their business! They cannot afford an o

tached to my bottom end I've been driving alot more carefully, especially in the box truck (you know how bumpy that ride is)

As to tagging me as unreliable, I think that it's pretty premature to say that since you havn't really heard my side of any of those complaints. Yes I've been late in the morning occasionally. I really do hate that I can't get up for my alarm some days. I do everything that I can from going to bed earlier to setting two alarm clocks. I belive that since I've been working here that those occurances have gone down. I'm trying to rectify this but it doesn't work over night. Frank

>>> From Tom 12/14/2005 5:07:42 PM >>> Frank, Your hemmoroid is not my problem. Get some Preparation H.

As for being labeled unreliable, I hear things you don't. I choose not to pass it on and try to go about other ways of approaching it. Also, there have

Growing Up - Not Growing Big - The Case for Keeping Your 5K Biz Small
One of the best things about the 5K business model (a business you start for $5,000 or less) is that it is tailored for people who want to be their own boss, live their lives on their own terms, enjoy their work thoroughly, and still make a tidy profit. Though the popular notion is that you want start a new business because you want to make pots of money, there are thousands of people who are motivated by the flexibility and freedom a small business offers more than financial growth.But if you have ever picked up a book on starting and running a small business, you know most of them are written for people who want to start small but grow big. Almost all of these books talk about taking loans, ren

The advent of email has created a new environment for human interaction which is simultaneously more and less personal, but much less private. Above all, it is unforgiving. Once you click the "send" button, it is as irretrievable as a nickle down a sewerpipe.

Consider these actual emails which floated around my office, but probably shouldn't have. The names are changed but the text, other than being shortened, is in its full original glory.

In the first vignette, Mark (me, the customer) asks Jim and Ron (the vendors) to add special markings to their shop drawings...

>>> From Jim 12/28/2005 2:49:43 PM >>> We cannot provide the glass mark details you requested. We cannot accept the liability of putting an incorrect glass mark on an elevation. Jim

>>> From Mark 12/28/2005 6:25:29 PM >>> There is no liability at all for you to put marks on your drawings per our instructions. Your other point is being perceived as uncooperative. Mark

>>> From Ron 12/28/2005 6:47:49 PM >>> Mark who is uncooperative??:???? We have jumped thru Hoops for you on ever project you handle, we are the only supplier who could have got you thru The Village project, and many more, Why has this become A ONE WAY STREET???? You question why we will not put YOUR marking on our drawings? Why can't you just responded to our adds? We are making every effort to make your Van Buren job a great job, and I mean EVERY EFFORT, but for some reason, you are being a fist class P----k, This cannot continue on this path, We in the past have always been FAIR to each others company, WHY THE BIG CHANGE?????? Ron

>>> From Mark 12/29/2005 8:38:01 AM >>> I think you are overreacting. I stated my perception on this particular point. Don't go nuts on me. Mark

Ron's boss (who was copied on all of this) called me quickly to apologize. I said, "Don't worry about it, I have done equally stupid things. If I hadn't gone ballistic on customers myself, I would have more of a right to be mad."

>>> From Ron 12/30/2005 1:28:29 PM >>> The Best to all of you and your families and a Happy New Year, and as usual thanks for your continued business and support, Ron

In the next interchange, Tom, the supervisor is upset with Frank, the driver.

>>> From Tom 12/14/05 4:30:03 PM >>> Yesterday I asked you to remove the glass off the sides of the box truck. You didn't do it. You took the lazy way out and just threw a skid in the back and walked away.

Also yesterday, you delivered the panels between 9:00 - 9:30 am as asked. You left before 10:00 am and it still took you 4 hours to pick up checks. Why? After 10:00 am traffic out of the city moves pretty good so I don't understand the large quantity of time lost. I don't understand it, Frank.

Maybe I'm too lenient about things regarding you, because I like you. I don't know what to think anymore but at this point you are starting to get a tag as being unreliable. Tom

>>> From Frank 12/14/2005 4:40:03 PM>>> God, this is so embarrasing, but since the office holiday party I've recently inherited a hemoroid the size of a grape. Squatting, standing, walking, sitting, and amongst all of those things the constant moving around practically destroys my will to live.

As for Yesterday when I was walking out the door Jackie waved me down to go to two extra locations. I usually drive fast, not too fast but fast enough to make sure that I'm utilizing the least ammount of time on the road as possible. But due to my recent child attached to my bottom end I've been driving alot more carefully, especially in the box truck (you know how bumpy that ride is)

>>> From Tom 12/14/2005 5:07:42 PM >>> Frank, Your hemmoroid is not my problem. Get some Preparation H.

As for being labeled unreliable, I hear things you don't. I choose not to pass it on and try to go about other ways of approaching it. Also, there have b

Over Done Cologne and Your Business Presentation
One of the easiest ways to destroy a business presentation is to over do the perfume or cologne, as it is distracting and even if the scent is one of high-price and quality, it also is a turn-off to a board of directors or decision making group? After all what are you trying to hide? Are you trying to mask the fact that your program or pitch stinks as much as your body odor? Over Done Cologne and Your Business Presentation do not mix.What scents make the most sense? It is not so much the scent as it is the lack of a domination over your victims. Over doing the cologne or perfume is not a smart tactic and yet we see so many folks doing this.Before my retirement as a Franchisor Founder, I ha

ings per our instructions. Your other point is being perceived as uncooperative. Mark

>>> From Mark 12/29/2005 8:38:01 AM >>> I think you are overreacting. I stated my perception on this particular point. Don't go nuts on me. Mark

>>> From Ron 12/30/2005 1:28:29 PM >>> The Best to all of you and your families and a Happy New Year, and as usual thanks for your continued business and support, Ron

In the next interchange, Tom, the supervisor is upset with Frank, the driver.

Maybe I'm too lenient about things regarding you, because I like you. I don't know what to think anymore but at this point you are starting to get a tag as being unreliable. Tom

>>> From Tom 12/14/2005 5:07:42 PM >>> Frank, Your hemmoroid is not my problem. Get some Preparation H.

As for being labeled unreliable, I hear things you don't. I choose not to pass it on and try to go about other ways of approaching it. Also, there have

Affiliate Marketing Case Study: A Good One Will Change Your Life
A good, detailed affiliate marketing case study is capable of revolutionizing your affiliate business. Yet the big problem is how to find one.All the leading lights who would make an excellent affiliate marketing case study are keeping their lips tightly sealed. But all is not lost, there is a way of obtaining a valuable affiliate marketing case study from the top six figure-check-earning-affiliate in whose foot steps you would like to follow. However it is not from what they say in articles or what they tell the world.The way to do it is by creating and piecing together your own case study on the single affiliate that you admire most. Here's a useful technique I have used quite successful

>>> From Ron 12/30/2005 1:28:29 PM >>> The Best to all of you and your families and a Happy New Year, and as usual thanks for your continued business and support, Ron

In the next interchange, Tom, the supervisor is upset with Frank, the driver.

Maybe I'm too lenient about things regarding you, because I like you. I don't know what to think anymore but at this point you are starting to get a tag as being unreliable. Tom

>>> From Tom 12/14/2005 5:07:42 PM >>> Frank, Your hemmoroid is not my problem. Get some Preparation H.

As for being labeled unreliable, I hear things you don't. I choose not to pass it on and try to go about other ways of approaching it. Also, there have

Using Direct Mail To Effectively Build Your Business
Direct mail is often neglected by many businesses, in favor of email. But direct mail is still a powerful marketing method – one that you can use with great results in your business.Contrary to what some businesses owners believe, direct mail still gets opened and read. According to the Direct Mail Information Service, 67% of direct mail is opened, and 45% is both opened and read. Email cannot begin to match those rates.The Direct Mail Information Service also offers some other important statistics. Their research shows that the ROI (return on investment) of direct mail is excellent – to generate $14 in sales, one must only spend $1 on direct mail.Other statistics show that direct m

traffic out of the city moves pretty good so I don't understand the large quantity of time lost. I don't understand it, Frank.

Maybe I'm too lenient about things regarding you, because I like you. I don't know what to think anymore but at this point you are starting to get a tag as being unreliable. Tom

>>> From Tom 12/14/2005 5:07:42 PM >>> Frank, Your hemmoroid is not my problem. Get some Preparation H.

As for being labeled unreliable, I hear things you don't. I choose not to pass it on and try to go about other ways of approaching it. Also, there have

Media Training - Who Needs it?
It's flattering that the media has noticed your work – and you’d love the notoriety. But following that initial pride, your reaction might be (not necessarily in this order):Fear. Trepidation. What if I blow it? What if they ask me a hard question I can’t answer? And, omigod, do I really need this headache when I have a business to run?If this all sounds far too familiar, you’ve probably realized the need to be media prepared. That’s a good thing. After all, most people forget that a media interview is actually an opportunity – to say what you want to say. You just have to know how to take control.You’ve probably noticed that some companies and spokes

tached to my bottom end I've been driving alot more carefully, especially in the box truck (you know how bumpy that ride is)

>>> From Tom 12/14/2005 5:07:42 PM >>> Frank, Your hemmoroid is not my problem. Get some Preparation H.

As for being labeled unreliable, I hear things you don't. I choose not to pass it on and try to go about other ways of approaching it. Also, there have been times when I have asked for things to get done and they get pushed aside. Such as busting down crates, moving materials in back, picking up the tools after you use them. 9 times out of 10 I'm picking up what you have left laying around and it's getting old.

In short, I have been way too nice about things. My New Years resolution is to be more of an a*$@hole to people to get my point across. At this point, that seems like the only way I can get my point across directly.

As for over sleeping, go to bed earlier. It's hard to hear your alarm clock at 5:00 am when you go to bed at 3:00 am. Your personal life is your issue not mine.

In short Frank, be more prompt, pick up after yourself and finish the things you start before going on to something else. Tom

>>> From Mark 12/16/2005 10:48:03 AM >>> Frank, Big Brother is watching. Make sure scheduled times are met, come hell, hemorrhoid or high water. Mark

>>> From Tom 12/16/2005 10:50:53 AM >>> Mark, Thanks for the clarification on the spelling on Hemorrhoid. My spell check just laughed at me when I asked if it was spelled correctly. Tom

>>> From Frank 12/16/2005 11:01:31 AM >>> Tom, Spell it however you want. But it won't stop calling me "daddy". Frank

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