Casual Articles
#1 in Business Subscribe Email Print


How to Avoid a Common Meeting Planner's Nightmare

Picture this: You sign up for a new online registration service. You learn the system and you begin taking registrations for your event.


Outlook and Strategy of Indian Stock Exchange Market 2006-2007

The outlook and strategy of stock exchange in India and factors concerning Investors.


Cotton Voyage - Fibre 2 Fashion

Cotton has sustained its position as the most versatile fiber in the world, even after nearly eighty centuries. None of the other fiber has such characteristics to obtain amicable results which cotton has. Cotton has several uses and a thousand faces, it is well known for its usefulness, look, presentation and above all the comfort it gives. It generates millions of employment as it moves from yarn to final products.


Non-Profit Fundraisers

A number of welfare and development programs can be organized with the help of non-profit fundraising events. Fundraising activities are normally undertaken by school fundraisers, college fundraisers, and church fundraisers, or by the youths for various activities.


How To Incorporate In Indiana

Incorporating in Indiana is an easy process that can be done by hiring an experienced lawyer or a firm that specializes in helping people incorporates. People are no longer daunted by the complexity of the incorporation process, as they have realized the numerous advantages of incorporating and how it helps build credibility for their business.


Medical Billing - YA0 Record

In our previous installment of medical billing we briefly covered multiple batches. In this installment we will be reviewing the batch trailer record in detail for electronic billing.


Change

Major forces of change - People, Technology and Information. Change can bring discomfort - but change is good!


Is It Bad To Be Rich?

Could your perception of being rich be holding you back from achieving great things in your life? Find out why most of us think that wealth is a bad word and how that prevents happiness, fulfilling relationships and living life as we we really like.


Secret of Success: Stubborn Determination

Customer service, determination and persistence can level the playing field against any business. Focus on your strengths rather than your competitor.


Business Valuation Services

Until 1920, the market price of a business was restricted to negotiations between the buyers and seller, wherein the purchaser depended on his instinct to buy any company. The decisions were based on the forecasted profits and cash flow that usually depended on the seller's standard of living and status in the community. With businesses attaining new heights, the processes of forecasting soon became obsolete. After 1920, the Internal Revenue Service issued a Committee on Appeal and Review Memorandum that suggested using formulas to determine the tangible and goodwill value of the business for selling and gift-tax purposes.


Current Estimate of Economic Impact of Options Backdating

Discussing with Erik Lie the experiences with Stock Options Backdating (SOBD) and the economic impact of his work. According to Erik, at least 15% of the stock options grants between 1996 to August, 2002,were backdated. Some were within 30 days of the grant date, others more egregious. The number of companies though he said that were going to come clean would be far less than 15%. Here is what we came up with.


Business in China #1 - Relaxing The Grip of Bureaucracy

Picture Beijing in the early 1990's - a strong visual presence of communism in the typical courtyard-style housing (12 families housed in a block built around a central yard), grey Mao suits everywhere, almost no neon advertising signs and only occasional cars and mini-vans on the streets.


In Business, Writing Well is a Necessity

Our writings are reviewed by those who may never meet us yet they have powerful influences in our careers. Our writing must demonstate our knowledge by being positive in our statements and recommendations. The clarity and logic of our presentation must lead and guide them to support our recommendations.


Fuel Costs Skyrocket Does This Hurt Companies Who Pass On the Costs Also?

When fuel costs go up so do shipping rates at UPS, FedEx, Railroads, Buses and even Airlines with ticket price increases and surcharges too. For us to adequately discuss this issue we must also understand the Flow of Fuel.


An Introduction to Supply Chain Management

An informative article explaining the basic principles of supply chain management.


Binders

Binders are perfect presentation solutions. They organize loose papers and help give a more professional impression for presentations. They have been around since the later half of 19th century. However, since 1954 the American thermoplastic industry pioneered manufacturing and custom printing of these loose-leaf products.


Envelope Printing

Practical mailing solutions for home and business are a must for just about all of us. Very few of us enjoy to hand write envelopes when it comes to bill paying time. Even fewer when we are business owners.


Why Ticket Design Matters

Ticket design is often overlooked. Event planners and organizers plan how many tickets they will need for a given event and how to distribute those tickets, but stop short of putting much thought into the ticket design itself. From a branding perspective this is a lost opportunity. Branding is, after all, managing all of the different touch points that an organization has with the public and your tickets are one touch point that all of your customers will come in contact with.


Business Valuation That Makes Sense

Business-valuation is nothing simple. Every person out there will think that a business is worth more or less than what the next person will say. In fact, the only number that really does matter is the simple fact that it is worth what someone will pay for it and that number only occurs once the deal is done. But, there are ways of understanding what business-valuation could be. For that end, we will talk here.


Why Do We Call These People Black Belts?

As with the martial arts Black Belt, a Six Sigma Black Belt is an individual who has achieved and proven their Six Sigma abilities. The rank of Black Belt is an acknowledgment of actual process improvement by verifiable means. You can not “buy” a black belt. You must earn it through training and demonstrated application.


The Federal Trade Commission Lacks Free Market Thinking

Has the Federal Trade Commission run amuck? Indeed it has, it has become a problematic bureaucracy. The Federal Trade Commission lacks free market thinking. I always assumed that half of the Federal Trade Commissions staff are attorneys and the other half are economists.


Workplace Violence - 8 Tips For Spotting Early Warning Signs

One of the greatest threats facing both employees and the companies they work for, is workplace violence. It has become the leading cause of death for women and the second leading for men, following closely behind motor vehicle accidents. In fact, the best estimates now being reported show that 1-in-4 employees will be the victim of workplace violence this year alone.


Networking is a Learned Skill

Ok, really. How tough can networking be? It involves TALKING to people and I talk to people every single day. Why do I constantly need to learn how to network? Why do I need to constantly develop networking skills? Why is it recommended that I participate in GROUPS that only have a focus on networking? It just can't be that tough.



Next page>>