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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.


A Difficult Life for Single Mothers With a Career

We hear how difficult it can be to be a single mother and hold a career. A few fathers may have this problem so it applies equally to all those single fathers out there as well. Few of us know really how many hurdles these woman (single parents) have to go through in order to advance in their careers. Hurdles often include skills, wages and competing interests.


The Principle(s) of Negative Value - A Procurement Article

The old way just isn't working. Why do industrial suppliers consistently lose hard earned customers to their rivals? The answer? You cannot sell yourself until you know yourself. Let me show you what you can't see but what I can.


Why You Should Agree With Royalty Fees

The article describes the process of paying royalty fees and why it is not a detriment to the franchisee. The royalty fee is an amount paid back to the franchiser for allowing their name, products, and/or services to be used. The royalty fee is a small amount to pay for a business that is already successful.


Micro Business and Banking

This article is full of statistics and information on the relationship between the self employed and the banking industry.


Online High Risk Merchant Accounts

Running an online casino is hard, you need a watchful eye on everyone inside your casino for there will always be people who would do anything to win games. If you let your guard down even for just a second you could loose thousands or even millions of dollars. Managing what goes on inside a real casino may be hard but running one online is a totally different story.


Work From Home Business, What Does It Take To Make It A Success?

Tired of working for somebody else? Have the thought of your own work from home business crossed your mind? Well, then you have to do some serious thinking.


Medical Billing - The Programmer's Nightmare

We take our medical billing software for granted. What we don't realize is the nightmares that programmers go through to get this software to us. What follows is a true account of one of those nightmares.


Output Management To Centrally Manage Electronic Distribution Of Paychecks To Different Location

Distribution of Paychecks to different sites can be a costly exercise. Retail and Service businesses often have this need and if handled in-house, can be cumbersome with the risk of unreliable delivery resulting in unhappy employees as well as having security and privacy flaws adding further to financial and legal risks.


Is Your Corporate Wellness Program Floundering?

Article examines the 3 critical mistakes that cause corporate wellness programs to fail. This can have a disastrous, financial impact on health insurance, workers compensation and employee productivity. Article cuts to the heart of the failures and how to avoid them.


Some of the Many Uses of Bulletproof and Bullet Resistant Glass

Many of us are familiar with at least the concept of bulletproof and bullet resistant glass, but for most of us these concepts play little role in our day to day lives. Even so, this powerful and potentially life saving technology is important in a number of locations, including some you may not have been aware of.


Date Stamps

Affixing dates on documents is a crucial procedure in inward and outward departments of government agencies and other offices because, at times, there are legal implications associated with such dates. Writing dates manually on a large bunch of documents is labor intensive. Such a task is also monotonous, and therefore prone to human errors. Date stamp is a mechanical device used to address these problems.


The Top 10 Reasons You Need A Computer Point of Sale System For Your Business

10. If you have employees, you need a point of sale system. If you have employees you are open to theft, sweet-hearting and careless mistakes. You need a point of sale system to manage your employees...


A Closer Look At The Printing Press History

Are you a reader enthusiast? Well if you do for sure you have a better gratitude for the printing press services. The benefits it gives us made us luckier that we can now preserve and duplicate our b...


Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Fear causes some to play ostrich and hide their heads to avoid what's in front of them. Fear acts as a catalyst to others, and propels them into action. Fear causes a third set to be totally immobilized and unable to do anything at all. It is possible to Kick your fears to the curb an start living your life your way on your own terms.


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.


Midwest Tornado Aftermath Shows Cultural Cohesiveness

Reaction to torandoes in the midwest shows the results of cultural cohesiveness.


The Language of Success - Listening to Your Parents May Be Bad for Business

We were told a lot of things when we were kids. Some of what we were told may have been helpful, some less so. The way our parents told us to communicate in public may actually be harmful to the health of our business. This Success Tips article by author and speaker, Ike Krieger, will help you recognize the self sabotaging communications habits that may be keeping you from achieving your ultimate business success.


Office Furniture Imported From China is Growing in Volume

The number of office furniture manufacturing facilities is increasing in China to meet with the demand and need in the US. Offering an amazing price discount for basically the same products as their US competitors, they are gaining new business from office furniture dealers, both online and in retail establishments. When it comes to buying office chairs in bulk for an office environment, price can make all the difference in the decision making process.


Positioning in Small Business Marketing

Learn how to position your small business for maximum profit.


18 Steps to Buying a Business

1. Decide to investigate. You make the decision to look for a business to buy. You then check out businesses in the newspaper or by working through a business broker...


6 Powerful Practices for Coping with Information Overload

Today’s high-tech world is deluged with more information than ever imaginable. In spite of all the promises of the paperless office, statistics show that exactly the opposite is happening. It is projected that by 2005 there will be 50% more paper than there was in 1995!


Poverty to Riches: Myth or Reality?

You CAN start with empty pockets and piles of bills and build a steady income, even wealth, via the internet. It's a long, hard road though, so it's best to prepare and take along a good map.



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