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Beef Cattle and Drought Conditions

Droughts should be considered normal in the cattle industry. Plan ahead and be ready when drought strikes, it's just a matter of time.


Can A Person With Bipolar Disorder Be Successfully Self-Employed?

If you have bipolar disorder, starting your own business can be one of the best things you can do for yourself and your health – as long as you approach it in the right way.


Finding the Right Office Space for Your Business

Every successful office manager knows that the office, furniture or equipment is not necessarily the key to prosperity in the workplace, but the people working with them are more important.


Be Sure You Are Understood Before Acting and You Can Make Progress at 20 Times the Usual Rate

Before a high-value opportunity can be turned into a success, someone has to explain what needs to be done. Most of us assume that perfect understanding follows our every utterance and e-mail. That’s a bad assumption that lies at the heart of the communications stall. This essay explains how you can be sure you are being understood.


The T-Mobile Sidekick - A Great Texting Phone

The T-Mobile Sidekick is a unique cell phone that has a large color screen and full keyboard for text messaging, instant messaging, and web browsing.


They Laughed When I Said I Was Going To Start My Own Business

Of course my wife said I didn't know what I was doing and my friends also were skeptical and thought that I was completely wasting my time.


Pay Per Sale Affiliate Program Basics

There are different ways of making money and a lot are cashing in on the Internet. Instead of putting up a website, a faster way of doing it is known as pay per sale affiliate program.


LLCs: Do They Make Sense for Your Business?

With many of the perks of incorporation, without many of the headaches, it's no wonder the flexibility of the Limited Liability Company ( LLC ) is gaining popularity with business owners nationwide, and around the globe. But before you take that leap; is it right for your business?


How to Squeeze More Profit and Cash Flow Out of Your Cleaning Business

When an entrepreneur takes the plunge and starts his or her own cleaning company, the first concern is how to get clients. Once up and running, the day-to-day tasks take over and the goal of owning a business - making a profit - is sometimes lost. But your cleaning business cannot survive and grow unless there is more money coming in than going out.


Let Me Tell You Why It Is Easy To Create Residual Income

Easy ways to create residual income


Women Play to Win in Business and Life

Are you playing to win - or playing not to lose? These five principles will ensure you're on the winning side in life and in business.


Data Mining Models - Tom's Ten Data Tips

What is a model? A model is a purposeful simplification of reality. Models can take on many forms. A built to scale look alike, a mathematical equation, a spreadsheet, or a person, a scene, and many other forms. In all cases, the model uses only part of reality, that’s why it’s a simplification. And in all cases, the way one reduces the complexity of real life, is chosen with a purpose. The purpose is to focus on particular characteristics, at the expense of losing extraneous detail.


Business Card Printing FAQs

What information should I put on my business card? It will all depend on you. The common information that can be found on a business card includes your name, position or occupation, company or business, address of the company or where you do business from, your work phone number, home phone number, mobile phone number, and email address. However, you need not put each of these items of information on your card.


Classic Scam

Describes a classical scam letter. Analyzes possible scenarios for the interactions between the scammer and the victim and possible dangers involved.


The Offer's On The Table

In twentieth century America while young boys learned construction with Lincoln Logs, little girls instinctively cuddled a Raggedy Ann. Even today Raggedy Ann’s red yarn hair, patched pinafore and bu...


Business Customs and Protocol in Brazil

Brazilians seek long term relationships. Though profits are very important, it is almost always a secondary issue after personal relationships. A foreign company which enters the Brazilian market with such intentions, and which always stresses that they are there to establish long-lasting relations, has tremendous competitive advantage.


Employee Expense Reports

Every organization needs to have a standard and easy-to-use employee expense report form available to the employees for the sake of reimbursement of expenses during their official or pleasure visits. The employee expense report should include the details about the amount spent, date, purpose and place of expenditure. It should be accompanied by vouchers and bills of the expenditures.


Women Owned Businesses

Women owned businesses. Women want to own their own business and move from their jobs and be self-employed. The main reasons for this is control and flexibility, opportunity, and independence.


Trade Show Displays

In today's competitive business world, a trade show offers a simple and convenient way to target prospective buyers. To attract them, a full size, full-color custom trade show display is the best way to get your company noticed in any trade show exhibition. It will create a polished and professional image for your company. The displays should be eye-catching and full of graphics attract customers.


Ball Valve History & Mystery

Here is a light hearted history and trivia on the ball valve. Read it and you will never take your natural gas or electricity for granted again, ok so maybe you will..


Beige Book Discrepancies

First I would like to say that I am pro-Federal Reserve, yet I also study a lot and follow many industries and have found fault with some of their beige book reports from what I have observed in the market place. Here is a 2003 observation on the discrepancies I noticed. I wish to comment on some of the data collection, which went into the South East Fed Beige book


Federal Trade Commission; over regulation, who does it help?

Why is the Federal Trade Commission harassing the Franchising Industry? Their new rulemaking ploy to gain notoriety and status is obviously another agency attempt to spotlight themselves in the media to look like they are doing something. This helps the FTC with keeping their large budget going and the tactics of PR and puffery are well known to those industries that are regulated by the FTC.


Get Focused, Get Results

We all know how important focus is, focus of all kinds. Realizing how important isn’t enough – we have to master the art of focusing. This article will target three specific areas with specifics suggestions for practicing improved focus: planning, questioning and removing.



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