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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.
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ISO 9000 Implementation
Businesses face lots of challenges in the international market. Implementing an ISO 9000 initiative is an action-oriented program that refers to obtaining ISO 9000 registration and working with its standards. The ISO certification process starts with pre-assessment audits and passes through on-going maintenance. The process of implementing ISO 9000 includes identifying, collecting and organizing the information required for certification.
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Guanxi, Business and Their Madness
In China, the word guanxi is in the top ten vocabulary list of all successful businesses. Great Chinese businesses and business(wo)men just cannot survive and thrive without developing excellent guanxi with organizations of authority, such as the state-owned banks. But to a deeper extent, guanxi penetrates all manners of Chinese society.
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Corporate Business Gifts
Choosing an appropriate corporate business gift might be confusing, as the market these days offers a wide array of gifts ranging from inexpensive personalized items such as pens or mugs to customized laptops, original artwork and even automobiles. Whether you are giving promotional freebies, rewarding your employees or trying to impress management, it is advisable to choose gifts keeping in mind the occasion. Corporate business gifts can be a perfect medium for boosting your company's profile, morale and work effort.
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Should we Believe the Experts? (Part III)
Why do we use experts? To predict the future. Consider a patient who is asking a physician about the future effects of a certain drug, or the investor who is asking a stock analyst about the future prices of a certain stock, or the manager who is asking a human resource manager about the future performance of a certain candidate, or the brand manager who is asking a market researcher about the future sales of a certain new product. Should we believe these experts? History tells us that accurate predictions of the future are rare. Many examples exist where the brightest and most qualified individuals failed to see the future. This series of articles presents examples from the arts (see part I), business (see part II), and science (see part III).
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Fear Factor Packaging
I'm getting really nervous with the daily security threats that abound in the news. People forget that packaging has an important role to play in helping keep our products safe for consumption. Remember the Tylenol packaging incident? Many packaging applications, such as the tamper evident seal and the shrink wrap band, were invented as a result of that incident. Frighteningly, a major concern should be our food supply. One bio-terrorism incident in our food supply could be a thousand times more deadly than 9/11.
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Choosing A Plastic Bag Sealer
A how to on picking the right sealer for your business. We break down the different types and styles of sealers to help you get the right one.
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How to Create Trust & Confidence in Your Clients! 4 Tips To Success!
Whether you are selling a $60,000 BMW on your site or a $6.00 hosting package the person buying either product will have to first build confidence in you and learn to trust your company. This is because no matter the amount of money, throwing it away is never an option, so we want to make sure we are getting what we paid for.
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The Secret War in the Office - Part One
Why is it that so many companies are running into deep trouble despite the measures taken?
And why when in trouble these companies are repeating over and over again the same procedures, which in the end didn’t save them?
Why would someone expect a different result when repeating the same approach?
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Incorporating Tips - Capitalization
Capitalizing a new business entity is a critical step of the formation process. Failing to take the step can lead to serious legal problems if the entity is ever sued. So, what is capitalization and what steps must be taken?
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