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Working Smarter Not Harder
Learn how you can be working smarter and not harder for your money all while making your life more enjoyable.
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Interim Management - Increasingly Part Of The Plan
Interim management has traditionally been seen as a reactive response to organisational failure. Increasingly, a new breed of interims are emerging - people who regard interim management as a career and have transferable leadership skills to work across sectors. Building in organisational capacity to accommodate career interims 'as part of the solution' is discussed.
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Earning Extra Income
People today find it hard to survive on one income and should that income dry up then it is time to start looking for something new to fall back on.
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Saying Thank You With Corporate Gifts
Everyone loves to be appreciated, and when that thanks is expressed with a gift, you'll make extra points with the gift recipient. Corporate gifts are often thought of as expensive, one-of-a-kind executive style gifts that your company sends out at holidays, but there's another level of corporate gift-giving that can mark you and your firm as a thoughtful, appreciative company with whom to do business.
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Small Business Start Up Financing
As a small business start-up coach, I get asked a lot of questions. The most frequent one: Where do I get start-up cash? If you are wondering the same thing, this article is for you. In it, you will learn about the differences between angel funding and venture capitalists, the value of taking out a loan, and considerations of taking on a silent or working partner.
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What To Do If Somebody Doesn't Want To Look At Your Business Opportunity
MLMer's are constantly being disappointed when they offer to show their opportunity to somebody who does not care. They carry their disappointment with them all day and rationalizes that the person that rejected them is stupid for not wanting more money. Here is a way to get more qualified prospects who want to look at your opportunity.
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Grow Your Cleaning Business By Creating a Referral Machine
One of the fastest ways to grow your cleaning business is to get referrals from your current customers. There may be times when a customer will pass your company's name along without any prompting from you. However, to really get your clients to work for you, it's important to encourage referrals.
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Time Management Strategies for Modern Life Syndrome
Pay attention…focus…concentrate…prioritize…Easy to say but hard to do when so much is vying for your attention. What makes it so hard to master these basic concepts? Have you ever stopped to consider how much is fighting for your attention?
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A Guide to Successful Conference Planning
The term conference can be used to describe any meeting of people to 'confer' on a certain topic. Far removed from the stereotypical 'year-end company conference' which is just an excuse for the whole company to pull into a posh hotel and have a weekend long party, the planning and execution of a successful and effective conference takes a lot of time, discipline and commitment.
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Purchasing Solutions
In a traditional organization, the role of purchasing is to simply purchase and the means was to negotiate and to have a confrontational attitude with the vendors. This led to the concept of ‘buying power’ of organizations into the management literature. For instance, large organizations squeezed every cent from their suppliers by using their buying clout.
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The Six Ultimate Business Truths
When it comes to business success, knowing the Six Ultimate Business Truths will help you: Capture new clients, service the ones already doing business with you, sell products/services, sell MORE product/services, generate referrals and keep the clients coming back.
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Envelope Printing
Practical mailing solutions for home and business are a must for just about all of us. Very few of us enjoy to hand write envelopes when it comes to bill paying time. Even fewer when we are business owners.
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Conflicts of Interest at the FTC
The Federal Trade Commission has set forth an agenda to revamp the Franchise Rule. Actually not revamp and get rid of the unnecessary over regulation and over disclosure, but to re-define it and pile on more minutia.
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Look Back, Look Forward and Learn
Our calendars are full, and our to-do lists are long. Today we argue our time is limited and too valuable to stop and just think. Even so, there are a variety of times in our professional and personal lives when we will especially benefit from looking at the past to help us prepare to be more successful in the future.
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Desperately Seeking the Truth
People today are bombarded by so much information that they have become numb to what feels like advertising or, during political cycles like we are in today, out and out fabrication. Small business o...
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