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Impress Your Boss with Easy Tracking and Reporting
A lot of event planners struggle to get up-to-the-minute stats about who's coming, how many people are coming, and how many spots are left. This is because they're hand-counting forms, tallying up call-in registrations, and manually updating Excel spreadsheets to find the right numbers.
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Open Mouth, Insert Foot!
Even professionals can say something they wish they didn't. It's even more important that executives and managers recognize the importance of what they say, how it may be interpreted and what to do if a mistake is made.
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Communication for Small Businesses
In today's small business world, communication is paramount to success. Too much depends on how small business owners are perceived by their clients and customers, not to take it seriously. This article defines the three main communication styles in business, a modified active listening dialogue, and seven tips for communication success.
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Would You Give Away Your Business?
A Business Exit Plan can have a number of different connotations. You may hear it referred to as a Succession Plan.
At Superb Coaching we have taken a deliberate stance in focusing on the 'EXIT' because we are dealing with the business owner's plan to remove themselves from the business. Yes, there are issues around succession management that we address however we feel that the Exit Plan needs to address more than just succession.
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Here Some General Idea And Tips On Furniture Stores
If you are amongst those perceptive furniture shoppers, you are perhaps looking for a few great stores that can satisfy your need fully with wide array of furniture to suit any environment and life style.
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4 Great Tips To Ensure You Make The Most From Your Business Telecommunication Services
Business telecommunication services are essential to any business- start up or established for years. However, business telecommunication services are often ignored by owners and decision-makers because they don’t make up the core activities of their business. The purpose of this article is to help business owners and decision-makers make effective decisions to ensure that business telecommunication services are delivered cost-effectively and also proactively benefit business activities.
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The Fallacy of Performance Reviews
Year-end often means the annual performance review dance is about to begin. Our suggestion - don't do them at all if you're only doing once a year! Performance reviews need to be ongoing to be most effective for you and your employees.
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Business Valuation Planning
Business valuation is very important for a business owner as it gives a clear picture of the company's strength, weaknesses and progress. Determining the value of a business is considered necessary for various purposes such as estate planning, business succession planning, loan application, buy-sell funding, charitable giving and financing.
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Incorporating In California
Most individuals choose to incorporate their business in California as it can shield their personal assets. Personal liability protection and tax saving are the major reasons for incorporating in California. The risk of losing your personal assets is high when you have a single proprietorship or partnership. But incorporating in California involves creating a separate legal person for protecting personal assets. As a shareholder, director and/or officer it is possible for you to have control over your own California corporation.
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Procurement Procedures
Procurement is the purchase of goods or merchandise by a business, association, organization, or an individual. This simply means buying supplies from suppliers at the lowest possible price. The best way of doing this is to let the suppliers contend with each other so that the investment costs of the buyer are kept at a minimum.
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Chapter Ten
Lego, the Danish toy company, found instant success with their interlocking blocks in the German market, while sales foundered in the U.S. Why?
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How to Collect Your Past Due Accounts Receivable
If you are like many small businesses, even a few late payments on your accounts receivable can seriously crimp your cash flow. It is vitally important that you take immediate and systematic steps to limit the number of past due receivables that you have at any time. Here are some tips that will increase the effectiveness of your collection process.
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Be A Fool? How To Use April Fool's Day Wisely And Profitably
Saturday, April 1st is April Fool’s Day. April Fools' Day, sometimes called All Fools' Day, is one of the most light-hearted days of the year. Its origins are uncertain. Some see it as a celebration related to the turn of the seasons, while others believe it stems from the adoption of a new calendar.
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Infosnacking or Just Plain 'Screwing The Dog' On Company Time
Infosnacking was declared word of the year for 2005 by Webster’s New World College Dictionary. If you are reading this article while at work, and it is not research for your company or related to your job in some way, then you are officially infosnacking. Dang, we use to just call it ‘screwing the dog’, but guess that is no longer Politically Correct. Infosnacking is defined as using the internet, on company time, to check your email, read the news, peruse the sports scores or a myriad of other internet related time stealers.
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What Happened to the Mining Industry in the US?
The Flow of Natural Resources and Raw Materials is vital to our nations Industrial Capacity and Job base. What Happened to the Mining Industry in the US? When there are reasons, which prevent us from doing the collecting of those natural resources within our own country, then and only then should we look towards our trading partners to supply us such raw materials and resources.
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Independent Contractors
Many small companies are trying to empower their employees and alleviate some of the hardships of over regulations, taxation and paper work. Often these small businesses will attempt to make their employees Independent Contractors. Where this might sound like a good idea it is also a very gray area of law and can get you into a real bind if not done correctly.
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