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Are Consultants Wasting Your Time with your Business Plans?
Most business owners don't have a Business Plan. And most of those that do never look at their plan once it's completed. It is easier for a consultant to sell a business owner a plan when they don't have to explain what they must do to make it work.
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Reverse Vending Machines - What Are They
A reverse vending machine works exactly opposite then a regular vending machine. With a reverse vending machine you recycle cans or bottles and the machine then returns the deposit to the customer.
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Preparing Your Cleaning Business for a Disaster
You spend years building up a successful cleaning business. And, unfortunately, in just a matter of minutes it can be wiped out by a disaster - fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and chemical spills are just a few of the things that can wipe out your business in a matter of minutes. How you prepare ahead of time can determine if your business succeeds or fails after a disaster happens.
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What Does Your Executive Committee Do
At some point in the development of most Non-Profit organizations, the question of whether they need an Executive Committee arises. Usually this is the result of one of the following situations:
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How to Avoid Wintertime Slips and Falls
In many parts of the country, winter brings with it wet and icy conditions. This is dangerous not only for driving, but also for walking! Thousands of injuries occur from people slipping and falling because of ice and snow. Reducing injuries is possible when your employees take a little extra time and taking a few precautions to avoid slips and falls.
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Moving Toward A Paperless Office
So you want to go paperless? Not sure where to start? The answer is literally right under your nose. If you have plans to eliminate or reduce your business’s paper consumption and records storage, the best place to start looking is on your desk. The typical desk is loaded with paper - mail, file folders, notebooks – you name it. Chances are the paper that is filling your file cabinet, the file room or the third floor – whatever the case may be – passed over your desk or the desks of your colleagues.
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How to Compete in a Commoditized Industry
What is a commodity? According to the Webster Dictionary the word commodity is defined as a a good or service whose wide availability typically leads to smaller profit margins and diminishes the importance of factors (as brand name) other than price.
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Getting Into Your Buyer's Shoes
Did you ever wonder why people don't buy from you even though you thought everything in your sales process went fine? It is quite difficult for most sellers to step into their buyer's shoes as they are often too driven by their desire to make the sale. Consequently, they don't make enough efforts to get a good understanding of what is going on on the buyer's side and how they could best assist him in his decision making process.
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Collection Agency
A collection agency will sometimes collect debts for businesses or lenders and in other situations, they purchase unpaid debts so that the debt can be collected and the money then goes to the collection agency.
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How Business Davids Can Overcome Goliaths
Small business owners viewing the Goliaths of their industry slugging it out using all the marketing weaponry in their well stocked armoury, can be daunted by the battles raging around them. And if they choose to fight them with the same weapons, they have much to fear. But like Goliath, their strengths are also their weaknesses.
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Inventive Moms
Both Liquid Paper and Snugli were invented by moms as new solutions to old problems. Leveraging their ideas into successful products took different paths. Be smart about that business you’re cooking up at home.
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The Advantages of Hook Loop Fasteners
Hook-loop fasteners are a two-faced fastening system whereby one face is covered in tiny nylon fibers with little hooks on the ends of them, and the other face is covered in tiny nylon loops. When the two faces are pressed together, some of the hooks burrow in and catch onto the loops. The tighter the two faces are pressed together, the more catches that are formed.
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Limited Companies: Liability In UK Limited with LLC
If you currently own a business, or plan to change the structure of your business, you need to research the many possibilities you may have. Should you stick with a sole proprietor status or form a New Limited Liability company? What Limited Liability options do you have? Hopefully, this article will give you a brief birds’ eye view of your available options.
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Soap Box And Rants From Lance From Days Gone By, Part I
Okay so I do a lot of research; have traveled afar and obviously I have something to say. Ah; “Rants from Lance” indeed. Yes in fact it is over do but it is time; It is Soap Box time; I Read an interesting article today about the fact that 80% of all penalties for employment withholding costs were fined to small businesses with under ten employees.
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Over Regulation Stifles Free Thinking and Innovation
In modern corporations mostly due to the DotCom era, when corporations were seeing investors move to faster moving companies; we saw a paradigm shift in Corporate Management. Tom Peters and others saw this and started writing about it. These corporate management gurus were trying to tell us all along what Deming and others had noticed.
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