I'm all for easing workplace stress and making life more enjoyable. But putting recreation facilities into the workplace to help manage the stress of long working hours is, at best, a band-aid measure and, at worst, harmful. Stress management is a whole-of-life issue and the real benefits of recreation for easing work stress and improving productivity come from creating your own custom-designed recreational experiences in your freely chosen location away from the work environment

You've come up with a name for your business, and you've laid out a business plan. Now, its time to put together your home office. Many people just starting out spend too much money on their office equipment. A good home office is not only cost effective, it's space saving.

Set aside one day out of the week to handle your invoices for your medical billing business. This way you do not risk the chance of sending out duplicates or not sending one out at all.

As many more people turn to the Internet search engines to research prior to making purchasing decisions, building our personal brand online is a key strategy to ensure our professional success. But what if you do not have your own website, career portfolio or business blog? Discover a little used strategy to build your personal brand online today.

The second part of our Internet marketing report deals with selection of a suitable product to market. Read on.

What kind of offices can you rent? There are companies that can provide your business with exactly the office space you need, when you need it.

At some point in the development of most Non-Profit organizations, the question of whether they need an Executive Committee arises. Usually this is the result of one of the following situations:

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.

One of the most important tables in your DME software is your DX tables. In this review, we cover the basics of what DX tables are and how they work with your software.

In our previous installment of medical billing we briefly covered multiple batches. In this installment we will be reviewing the batch trailer record in detail for electronic billing.

Motor vehicle crashes cost US employers over $60 billion annually in medical costs, legal expenditure, property damage, and lost productivity. While costs by state and Industry vary, on-the-job crash injuries (fatal and non-fatal) amount to about 6.5 percent of all crash injuries. As a result, the cost of workers' compensation, Social Security benefits, health and disability insurance continues to rise. An investment in a comprehensive motor vehicle accident prevention program can be a winning approach to reducing these expenses and an effective tool for helping limit your company's liability exposure.

Too often a business assumes that IP based solutions are the best choice to satisfy their communication requirements. Particularly with convergence issues. But...don't get caught making a hasty decision. There are viable options...and factors to consider before making a final choice.

How secure is your business? Do you protect your cashflows?

Do your clients take up to 90 days to pay invoices? Is that creating cash flow problems? Learn how to finance your company with factoring.

If corrugated plastic can replace a staple such as a wood crate, imagine what it can do for your packaging.

Do you remember when you moved the furniture in your room? Do you remember how you kinda bumped into everything a couple of times and then figured it out. The funny thing is that it took you two to t...

If you are waiting fot that next big deal before you sell your company, you may want to re think your approach. An intelligent structure may be the way to help you capture the most value.

In regards to the Enron Collapse various parties have and may still be found to have a portion of the blame and shareholders and employees who have suffered most are certainly keen to see final outcomes to this situation. However one of the major contributors may never be accounted for; this being the market itself. When we ask how much blame we are really looking at dollars lost. In December 1999 the share price was $US100 plus, in March/April 2000 period it was around $US55 to $US60. On 19th December 2000 the price was $US 0.19, that is 19 cents before Enron went into liquidation. Using the Reported Annual results for the year ended 31st December 1999 and assuming no changes into the future, I have calculated the underlying intrinsic share price as $US4.54. This calculating is based on normal traditional discounted cash flow methodology. Is it any surprise that the share price of Enron was destined to decline sharply? A rapid decline in share price can lead to a lack of confidence in the stock and further add to the decline in price.

There are few businesses that are more cash hungry than a trucking company. Learn in freight bill factoring can help you boost your transportation company's cash flow.

If you want to be cost effective with your trade show exhibitions or if you are preparing for your first trade show, you should choose cheap trade show displays for the best deal. Trade shows are effective sales devices for growing business, and most new enterprises are not financially strong enough to spend a large amount on an elaborate trade show display, so opting for a cheap display is a good idea. Don't try to produce a do-it-yourself display, instead, look for experts who can produce cost effective trade show displays that fit your budget.

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.

Statistics highlight room for improvement in employee productivity