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How To Start Your Own Business

We all love the idea of being our own boss, setting our own working hours and answering to no-one but ourselves. However, many of us are afraid that we don't have what it takes to be a success. For most of us the fear of failure stops us from following our dreams but I can show you how to turn your dreams into a reality in just six easy steps.


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!


Leadership and Vision - What's Your Cathedral?

Leadership without vision isn't true leadership at all. It is management. While management is both valuable and necessary, it is simply not the stuff that takes people and organizations to new heights of achievement.


Are You Ready For A Home Based Business?

In today's world, making ends meet is a major goal for just about everyone. For some, a home based business may just be the answer. Do you have what it takes to start your own work from home business?


The Right People

Great leaders surround themselves with great and skillful people. As leaders, we should want for every person in our care to be excited about getting up in the morning and coming to work. If we can help them find this, we won't have to motivate them.


Dressing Casual Should Not Be the Norm

Look in a mirror before leaving the house


Brainstorming To Create New Ideas

Brainstorming is a well tested method for generating ideas. Originally intended for groups, brainstorming can also be practiced alone. Read about how you can use brainstorming to solve problems.


What Makes A Long Term Employee Employer Relationship?

Most successful employers have similar traits when it comes to being driven to succeed. They are perfectionist to the point of almost being obsessive compulsive; happen to be extremely motivated, and stubborn to a fault, and at times extremely difficult to deal with. Nothing gets in their way; they do not dwell on problems, but seek solutions. Their vision is to do whatever it takes to get from point A to Point B while avoiding as many bumps on the road as possible. To accomplish what they have set out to do has been carefully planned, and they try to leave very little to chance.


Buying Wholesale-A General Guide to Sourcing Products

Finding the right products to sell at the right prices can be the most difficult part of starting an online business. Whether you have an online e-commerce website, or are a seller on EBay, it can be difficult to even decide where to start sourcing your products. The problem is there are many companies out there who will sell you products at “wholesale prices” but you will come to find very quickly that 99% of these companies are not real wholesalers, and the fact is you could go on eBay or search the internet right now and buy the products you want for less from a retailer than these so called wholesalers. I have spent countless hours searching for wholesalers over the internet, and when I say countless I mean well over 100 hours, and that is no exaggeration.


Internet Marketing: A Reflection after One Year in the Business

Internet marketing is here to stay and is a great business opportunity.


Pssst ... Did You Hear We're Being Sued?

Learn one small step that that can prevent lost productivity due to office gossip surrounding lawsuits.


The Benefits of Scenario Based Training

The world that people live and work in is complex. The behaviours and skills required to solve a simple problem are always multi-dimensional. And yet much, or indeed most, training developed and executed in corporate training programmes are linear in nature. This mismatch between the real world and the training world makes it a certainty that organisations are wasting their training dollar.


The Accidental Artist

If you want have a home business but have no experience of running a business, no professional qualifications and no obvious skills, creating your niche can be difficult. You can find all sorts of advice on this topic but nobody can tell you what you would enjoy doing and enjoyment is crucial to building a successful business.


War Of the Names

Contentions over a domain name is currently a much pressing issue in the cyber world.


Coroplast and Corrugated Plastic, Inexpensive Signage

This article begins a series of short descriptions of sign material in order to help consumers choose between a large number of substrates for their signs. I have already discussed vinyl and magneti...


Invention Marketing and Licensing for the Inventor

Information on selling, licensing and marketing your invention to manufacturing companies.


What Does the Future Hold for the Chinese Air Freight Industry?

The shortage of available freighters is threatening to restrict the growth of China's air freight industry.


Mobile Oil Change Business and Profitability

Many of those who are mechanics may wish to go into the Mobile Oil Change Business because the entry costs are low and because that is their area of expertise and a much needed service. But if they do this, will they make money?


The Biggest Cost of Business (Part 1 of 7)

“Great is the man that complicate the simple, but greater is the man that simplifies the complicated. That’s why the foundation of an atom bomb is only “E=MC2” - WindyG In any business, you would find this universal cost. It's a cost even the big conglomerate cannot escape from. This cost is known as plainly as time. For any business to be profitable, the management of this cost is critical. Time is an “unlimited” resource that businesses have the privilege of “buying”, if it can afford its price.


The Expert Advantage: Why It Pays to Establish Yourself as an Expert

Strategies to establish yourself as an expert. Topics include: Be Confident in Your Expertise , Create a Powerful Brand, Put it in Writing, Get on Your Soapbox, Become a Media Magnet and Create Promotional Campaigns and Info Products


How To Survive & Thrive In Any Business

There are no secrets to surviving and thriving in any business. There are many books on this subject. The problem is most people either don't know the methods ans strategies (and thety are therefore secrets) or they know them, but fail to implement them. This article blows away the cobwebs and exposes the styrategies that will help you take real action.


Dangers of Credit Cards

This article talks about the dangers of credit cards today.


Differentiating Yourself from the Competition

It’s getting harder and harder to differentiate yourself from the competition these days. Especially when your competition is global, offer additional value through their stellar service, and look and sound similarly wonderful to your offering. Not to mention that the new buzz words - ‘adding value’ and ‘trusted advisor’ – are universal, making it even harder to distinguish what you bring to the party as being superior.



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