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You're Fired! Tips for Avoiding the Termination Blues

Whether you love your job or hate every minute of it, being terminated can feel like the end of the world. There are ways to prepare for it, though, and these tips can help you through a difficult time.


Web 2.0

The bursting of the dotcom bubble in the year 2001 was a defining moment in the global web industry. People believed that the web had been given far too much significance than it merited, not withstanding that initial glitches are a common feature of all technological revolutions. The shakeouts in fact mark the beginning of new and innovative technology ready to replace the old and the redundant.


Small Business Bankruptcy

When you own a small business and have never owned a business before then it would be understandable if you needed some bankruptcy help. There is nothing to be ashamed of, you may not know which section of bankruptcy to file for and we can help you. One of the first questions to be answered is your business a partnership or a sole proprietorship? If you own a corporation there are limited liabilities for companies and partnerships that are legal entities that are separate from their partners. In cases like these then, you can file Chapter 7 or Chapter 11.


Restaurant Food Costing - Save Money and Increase Profits

Learn about restaurant food costing to save money and increase profits.


Growing Up - Not Growing Big - The Case for Keeping Your 5K Biz Small

If you can grow your business, should you? Personal freedom sometimes means keeping your business small and highly profitable with less financial risk.


When You Care the Least - You Do The Best

Why is it that when you care the least, you do the best? In sales, dating and life.


Business Mail Forwarding - Is It Worth The Cost

Business mail forwarding, have you heard of it before? If not and you are a small to medium sized business owner, you are urged to take the time to familiarize yourself with business mail forwarding. It might just be the extra push that your business needs to begin seeing profits.


Ten Steps To Manage Your Time And Get Things Done

This is a no-nonsense article on what anyone can do to increase their productivity and get more things done. It's especially relevant for people at work. Many people get to the end of their day and wonder where it went. There is a solution and this article gives 10 simple steps people can take to increase their chances of achieving what they want to achieve. It's not easy and requires a change of mindset but it can be done.


Networking Your Way Out Of Your Business Comfort Zone

Small business owners often find it hard to break free of self-imposed limits regarding their business. But not leaving their comfort zones behind can often prove fatal to the business.


Creative Ideas for Work-Life Balance

Finding a balance between work and personal life is one of the most dominant issues of our time, as most of you must have experienced. Time and again we find ourselves struggling and stressing to keep up with the demands of both areas. Often, the advice given in such cases is to draw borders and limits between the conflicting demands of work and personal life. However, these two aspects of our lives do not necessarily have to be on conflicting terms. Rather, they may even enhance and strengthen each other. The article offers some creative ideas to achieve exactly that goal.


Shrink Wrap Films

Shrink wrap films are the most popular and inexpensive materials used for packing. Nowadays, shrink wrap films are available in a variety of models and sizes. Commonly used types include polyethylene shrink film, PVC shrink film and polyolefin shrink wrap. They pack products such as boxes, tapes, CDs, food, DVDs, videocassettes, jewelry boxes, photographs and frames.


RV Manufacturers

RV, or recreational vehicles, include all vehicles which are used for the purpose of recreational activities such as holidaying, trekking and mountaineering. The most important factor that must be kept in mind while manufacturing these recreational vehicles is their quality standard. Every recreational vehicle manufacturing company is required to comply with the certain standards set down by the state within which it operates.


Medical Billing - Patient Complaints

If you're dealing with medical billing, you're going to get patient complaints. In this installment, we go over the most common ones and how to deal with them.


Online Scams: How To Avoid Getting Fooled

Learn how to avoid the three most popular scams you will run into online without damaging the thrill of surfing the internet.


Medical Billing - User Licenses

Medical billing companies have to decide how many users they want to pay license fees for. In this installment, we cover the basics of user licenses.


Shipping Basics

When one wants to transport goods, either for personal or for business reasons, one has to deal with the issue of shipping. There are some basic guidelines on how to efficiently go about it.


ISO 9000 History

ISO 9000 is an important marketing tool and is recognized world wide. Maintained by the ISO (international standards organization), it is a family of ISO standards for quality management systems. ISO 9000 grew out of British standards institution's BS 5750. The ISO 9000 series are managed by several accreditation and certification bodies. Though the standard was first applied to manufacturing industries, it is now employed across a variety of other types of businesses.


Business Best Practice (2) Succeed More Often by Anticipating Problems/Preparing Backup Plans

What is your crisis management ability like or better still, how good are you at anticipating and avoiding/preventing crisis in your business operations(e.g. outage of essential manufacturing components which leads to lost output/sales)? How good are you at assessing trends of events, and quickly determining sources of potential problems? This article explains why the good business practice of pro-actively developing alternative plans of action, to be implemented in the event of setbacks or crisis situations occurring, is an essential requirement for business longevity.


The Private Eye

article about private eye


Tittle's Top Ten: Ways To Get Fired

Reviews ways to lose your job.


10 Resourceful Things You Can Do With A Product That Doesn't Sell

1. Sell the reprint/reproduction rights to the product. You could make money selling other people the rights to reproduce and sell the product. People are always looking for new products to sell. 2. ...


Validate Critical Data

My favorite project management mantra is “Validate Critical Data”. I don’t remember what wise teacher I learned this from but it is one of those sayings that rings through my head when I’m jumping into a new project. After many years it continues to be an important part of my project management success (when it is done right) and an unfortunate contributor to my project failures when it is neglected. Below are some keys to correctly validating critical data.


Don't Take It Personal

Article is an excerpt from “Business Secrets Men Don’t Tell Women” revealing how women and men view self-employment differently! Book by Gina Novelle and will be available in 2005.



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