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Raising Money The Yummy Way: Fundraising Cookies
Many not-for-profits provide valuable programs within the communities that they serve. Often these services are provided to individuals and families who may not be able to afford these needed services. Therefore, in order for the not-for-profit to raise the needed financial resources they have to engage in an aggressive fundraising program.
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Up to Here with Credit Card Processing Limits
When obtaining a merchant account, business owners need to assess their monthly transaction volume, average ticket and highest ticket. Funds can be held if a given transaction exceeds even one of the specified limits. Is there any wonder, therefore, why it is best to overestimate these figures ... within reason, of course.
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Restaurant Management In Focus
Restaurant management is an ever-changing nature of business. You keep some original restaurant managing techniques and at the same time adapt to the changing times. Always be open for new restaurant ideas.
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Careers In Modelling – How To Look Good
In modelling, your body is your most important asset. If you don’t look after your health and your looks, the telltale signs will be obvious to prospective agencies and employers and you’ll find it difficult breaking into the industry or progressing in your modelling career. Here are some tips on how to look after your health and your body and how to present yourself well to get ahead in modelling.
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Running a Small Business - The Seven Fatal Mistakes
While running a successful business is not easy, there are rules that you can follow that will almost certainly increase your chances of success. And there are also sins that will guarantee your failure. Here are the Seven Deadly Sins of Business.
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Selling Your Business Note For The Most Money You Can Get For It
Selling your business note for a lump sum is a viable option if you need fast money from your business. For most note holders, the game plan is simple: sell the company and then get paid monthly until it is paid off. It is a stable scheme, but some people cannot wait the entire term to receive their money. If you are one of them, why not cash in your business note instead? Here's how to go about it.
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Tips for Brightening Up a Bland Workspace
Whether you're in a spacious corner office or a cramped cubicle, sometimes a workspace can seem bland and uninspiring. From a neutral palette to cookie-cutter furniture, many offices -- particularly those not open to the public or to clients -- are designed for function over form. The good news is that there are easy ways to brighten any office space. With a few simple touches, you can create a better environment in which to spend your 9 to 5.
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Operating A Restaurant For Business
You think you have an idea how to run a restaurant? Think again. Make sure you have all your tools ready for for all matters concerning restaurant and how to manage it.
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Banking - Inventory Collateral
Essential reading for business owners. Retired financial executive explains how the banker views your business loan application, and collateral, so you know how to present it. One of a series of articles to help business owners succeed in understanding how to optimize their financing and keep their banker happy!
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Understanding US Business Culture - Tips for Australian Businesses
Practical advice for Australian businesses seeking to understand some of the cultural differences between American and Australian business practices. Information presented here is based on extracts from a free guide authored by the Australian Trade Commission for Australian businesses seeking to enter the US market and based on the observations and experiences of the Commission's Senior Trade Commissioner in Los Angeles, Kylie Hargreaves.
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Financing Success
'No' is not what you want to hear from a banker or investor when you need funding to grow your business.
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Five Reasons to Implement Kaizen in Non-Manufacturing
Kaizen is a proven performance improvement tool. Adopted from modern Japanese manufacturers, like Toyota, Kaizen generates breakthrough improvements quickly, without huge capital investments and/or extensive commitments of employ time. Kaizen is an efficient, effective technique for producing change in manufacturing operations.
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Profit Potential of the Product Life Cycle
Every product has a life cycle and the various stages of this can produce different profit margins and as such it is best to be aware of the product life cycle when looking at your selling margins going forward.
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How To Communicate Effectively With Users On A Non-Technical Level
Inevitably, being a technical support contact, you are going to have to speak to a client, whether it's being the first point of contact and they have called you to report a problem, to get more information about a particular problem, or to let them know an issue has been resolved. Unfortunately, in my experience, most technicians do this the absolute wrong way. This article will show you how to be more successful by teaching you the fundementals of communication with people of different skill levels.
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Capture Clients' Attention - Sharing Success - and the Death of Prospecting!
How do you capture the attention of prospective customers in an attention-deficit economy? You don’t have time to do all the networking you need to do. And clients don’t have the time to meet every interesting supplier. The answer: To develop a reputation that will attract clients to you and create a perennial practice.
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Writing Business Letters - Tutorial 3: Writing a Quality Letter
This is the third of three tutorials about letter writing. Not intended to be a complete work, it's a quick treatment that will have you writing good quality, well formatted letters pretty swiftly if you follow the principles.
Here's where we put the three tutorials together and discuss the opening sentence, body and action endings that make letters effective and efficient.
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Mining Industry and Water Protection
Modern mines collect veins of materials, which have been trapped over millions of years in the sediment. Once out in the open they can get into the ground water and move down hill with the normal erosion patterns and water flows. This is because the minerals have been buried for centuries underneath in layers from previous periods.
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Getting Involved in Global Development
Global development and aid work is often seen as a 'closed' industry, yet what it needs is new and fresh thinking. And against this is the balance between commercial and social responsibility. The two can work together - so why not get involved.
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