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Square Peg in a Round Hole - Being a Creative Artist in the Corporate World

If you're a creative person working in a job where being free-spirited is frowned upon, take heart. You have much to offer the corporate world. It isn't necessary to become a business clone, so maintain your individuality and fit in despite the critics.


Court Reporting 101

Court reporting is an exciting field! From the court room to the deposition suite to broadcast television, court reporters, deposition reporters, and captioners make it happen! Court reporting is the way to launch a professional career that's crucial to the legal field, challenging, and well-paid. There are literally global job opportunities awaiting you.


Escape Planning - Using Fire Exits To Get Out Safely

A simple guide for building managers to ensure they can get people out of their building in an emergency.


Communication Skills - Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say

In using our communication skills and abilities how we say something is just as important as what we say. Body language plays an extremely important part of our communication. In fact studies have been done showing that when we interact in a communication process the receiver actually receives 7% of the message verbally. The other 93% is received based on the non-verbal aspects of the message.


How To Reveal Opportunities And Deal With Change

Dealing with change and identifying opportunities in the most obscure place


Rental Cars, Building a Business that Never Goes Out of Style

Why start a car rental business? Well a rental car company makes a lot of sense for many reasons, not the least of which is because rental cars are utilized by many companies for their employees, and for pick-up and drop-off services.


Industrial Units and Commercial Property

Commercial property, industrial units and offices are becoming more and more valuable to their owners. Whether bought to use by the owner or bought to let to other businesses, the value of these units and offices have huge potential for long term capital gain.


How Do You Market Two Businesses?

Owning two businesses seems like a good idea - potentially double the income, right? Doing it alone can be daunting! Read on to discover what does and does not work.


Tips That Will Help You Have The Best Resume

A resume is something that advertises you in front of your future boss; think it as a tool that will enhance your qualities and professional appearance. It is very important to know how to create and use that good tool, what mistakes to avoid when creating one and how to make a good impression.


You Can Laugh At Money Worries - If You Avoid This One Mistake

This article cuts through the fluff and gets to the point about what to do to create a home based business that actually works. Avoid the mistakes others make that lead to failure. Instead take the steps that are proven to work.


Is Working 18 Hour Days Part of Your Business Vision Statement?

This article emphasizes the importance of having a vision for your business, so you don't fall into the trap of working endless hours.


A Tale Of Two Companies

In a newspaper report by The Straits Times (attached below), it was reported that ComfortDelGro has submitted a position paper to the Ministry of Transport, giving their two-cent worth on how the public transport industry should be structured. Two specific suggestions are given: to merge with rival SMRT to create one big giant transport company, or to have two separate companies with different areas of expertise – one running buses while another operating trains. (Note: It should be quite obvious that SBS Transit will be the natural bus company and SMRT will be the train company).


Five Tips for Successful Online Job Hunting

The Internet has made job hunting online much, much easier for everyone involved. Here are five tips for successful job hunting.


Invoice Factoring Helps You Expand Your Company With Fast Business Funding

Invoice factoring with the right factoring company can get you the business funding you need - even for start-ups. Check into how receivables factoring can give you the business financing help you need today.


Here's a Quick Fix for 2006... or 2007 for That Matter

You can't teach someone persistence. People will become sufficiently persistent to succeed only when their desire for their goal exceeds the pain and discomfort they have to endure in order to reach it.


Satellite Radio Could be Just the Thing for You

Satellite radio is just the latest technology to utilize the power of the satellite. People have been using satellite TV for decades, and there are satellite phone


5 Mistakes to Avoid While Building Your Small Business

Don't make the same costly mistakes small business start ups often make. Read this article and save lots of time, money and struggle. This simple advice can put you on the fast track to launching your small or solo business.


Make Money On Wall Street And Main Street

The article talks about the different types of mutual funds.


Crazy Like a Fox, Persuasive Like a Weasel

How use certain special phrases to make someone's mind open to receiving hidden suggestions.


Paper Shredder Oil: Keep Your Shredder Running Smoothly

Just like a car, a paper shredder needs proper maintenance to run smoothly. Learn why, how and when you need to oil your paper shredder.


Store and Maintain your Business Tools and Equipment with Self Storage

Space a problem for storing business tools and equipment? Self storage may be the answer. Tips and ideas for finding the space that works.


Energy Trading and Reality Checks

When Enron bought up energy contracts and install them back to the state of California for five times their face value, it one of nearly bankrupt the state, it did bankrupt one major energy supplier. Yet, Enron is perfectly allowed to do this, based on the laws of deregulation of the energy industry passed in California.


Lessons From Cusano: Bringing Upward Mobility to Independent Cigar Makers

Both cigar retailers and producers are basking in the warm sun of rising cigar sales. As stalwarts like Altadis, USA continue to report solid growth in their earnings, independent cigar makers like Cusano and Alec Bradley are having to hire more employees to meet demand. These independent producers are discovering they are part of a changing world in which the newest cigar smokers -- a growing population of twenty-something aficionados -- are looking at them not as fringe independents, but creators of some of the highest rated smokes around. After hundreds of years of dominance by entrenched name brands, the independent cigar makers have finally found a way to garner upward mobility.



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