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When is Commercial Real Estate Right for You?

Commercial real estate from 50,000 feet- how does it look to you?


How I Survived an IRS Audit (and How You Can Too!)

Here's an overview of what an IRS audit is like along with steps you can take to prepare!


Special Effects are Helping Label Manufacturers Stay in the Game

It's been a difficult year for the label manufacturer. Price pressure has increased and margins have been under steady pressure.


How Multi-Millionaire Business Owners Make Their Business Work - So They Don't Have To

Business coach. As a business coach I show business owners how grow their business. In this article I show you how Multi-millionaire business owners make their business work – so they don't have to.


Who Are the Various Taxing Authorities and Why Am I Never Able to Find the Right Person?

Several entities determine the outcome of your annual property tax bill. While the names of these entities vary from state to state and from time to time, the names used in Florida generally exemplify the roles of the various entities in determining your property tax bill.


Understanding Business Development Ideas For Event Management Industry

What is Event Management? Event management refers to methods of outsourcing business occasions, social occasions, or a combination of both. There is no limit to the business development ideas for an event management business.


Medical Billing - Trailer Records

If you're involved in medical billing and sending claims electronically, just making sure each claim is okay is not enough. There are trailer records, which have to add up to the penny. We discuss these trailer records in this installment.


Medical Billing - GX1 Record

If you thought you were done with the oxygen billing part of medical billing, you'll need to take a second look. After the GX0 record, comes its little brother and royal pain in the neck, the GX1 record. More claims get denied because of this seven field record than any other record its size. Keep reading to find out why and other important details.


Medical Billing - GU0 Record Fields 63 Through 65

In our last installment of medical billing, we covered one of the most complex fields of the GU0 record. In this installment things get a little easier and we actually cover three fields, 63 through 65.


ISO 9000 History

ISO 9000 is an important marketing tool and is recognized world wide. Maintained by the ISO (international standards organization), it is a family of ISO standards for quality management systems. ISO 9000 grew out of British standards institution's BS 5750. The ISO 9000 series are managed by several accreditation and certification bodies. Though the standard was first applied to manufacturing industries, it is now employed across a variety of other types of businesses.


Security Metal Detectors

Security metal detectors are basically used for the screening of any metallic object in security zones. Very Low Frequency or VLF technology is used in most common security metal detectors. Advanced security metal detectors use low radiation x-rays for screening. Security metal detectors are used in airport security checkpoints, prison security, courthouse security and government buildings. Security metal detectors also protect public places, schools, special events and conferences.


Mobile Access from the Field

Service companies find the scheduling of work orders a volatile and dynamic environment. Throughout a technicians day work orders are added or rescheduled causing the schedules to change. This creates an issue because the technicians in the field need these changes to be communicated efficiently.


Medical Billing - Enteral Nutrition Billing

Years ago, when doing medical billing, the term enteral nutrition didn't even exist. Today it is big business. This article gives a brief overview of how enteral billing got to be so big and why.


Prevalent Data Warehouse Development Approaches

There are two prevalent approaches to the development of Datawarehouse Architectures: A. Data Warehouse (DWH) bus architecture (introduced by Ralph Kimball) B. Corporate Information Factory – CIF (introduced by Bill Inmon) In this article we analyse and compare these two approaches.


Mini 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. Mini date stamps are specialized form of date stamps. They are designed to mark impressions on smaller objects that require smaller sized stamps.


Supply Chain Inventory Management

A supply chain consists of three parts – procurement of raw materials and semi-finished products, converting them into finished products, and distributing them for sale. In this context, supply chain inventory management implies that the inventory should be managed in such a way that the supply chain can function without any shortages or excess burdens of large supplies.


Environmental Noise -- How it Hurts Us, and How We Can Silence It

Although its presence lingered unaddressed for many years, environmental noise is now recognized as a significant health issue. Environmental or ambient noise is unwanted or harmful outdoor sound created by human activities, including noise emitted by means of transport - road traffic, rail traffic, air traffic - and from sites of industrial activity. From delivery trucks to air conditioners, we are constantly bombarded by sounds that go unnoticed for the most part. However, out-of-earshot should not mean out-of-mind. It is precisely these innocuous environmental noises that should be sounding an alarm.


Business Process Management and 6 Sigma

A brief discussion of some of the most important of the Six Sigma statistical tools: control charts, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), histograms, pareto charts.


The Monetary Value of Education

The value of education is hard to define. We have heard from parents, teachers and employers that education is a pathway to a better life. Yet we must wonder how far we must go to achieve the lifestyle that we want. Whether we finish high school and start to work or go to our doctoral degree before entering upon an occupation is a personal choice about your own feelings of self-worth. It is important to look at the statistics.


Fulfillment Companies

Although companies have much in common with one another, they also differ in many ways. Some companies are large, some are small and some operate in only one product area, others operate in many diversified areas. Some operate in a small geographic area whereas others do business in many countries of the world. To cope with these varied objectives, strategies and situations, companies adopt different structures.


The 5 Things You Must Know About Accepting A Check By Phone

Accepting a check by phone, fax or web is a great way to increase revenues, decrease collection headaches and offer new payment options BUT there are several essential “things” that you MUST know.


Elliot Spitzer Has Committed Fraud, Where is the Extortion Money

Elliot Spitzer has filed bogus lawsuits and extorted billions from highly reputable companies. To date he has extorted over 3 Billion in fines from mutual fund companies alone. Where is the money? The case against Bank of America; Bogus says jury.


Why Women Talk and Men Don't

I had an interesting experience last week…if you have spoken to me in the past few weeks, you’ll know that I’ve sounded like I’ve had a permanent case of laryngitis. What I actually had was a cyst on my throat. It’s like a big blister and the only way to get rid of it was to cut it out. So if I wanted to speak clearly again, I had no choice than to go ahead and have microsurgery. Notice I said micro, sounds much better than surgery or operation.



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