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Band-aids Don't Cure Stress
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
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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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You Too Can Cash in on Self Storage
Without question, the self-storage industry is still the most profitable real-estate investment around. Start-up and overhead costs are low allowing you to recoup initial expenses start making money sooner. Factor in the special tax breaks available, appreciation of your self-storage facility, and the expandability of quality steel buildings and you have a winning enterprise nearly every time.
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Real Estate Exchange Tips
Exchange is a program that allows the owner of a certain property that is used for investment to be exchanged with another property and defer paying the taxes.
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Buying a Business in Australia - Market has Hot and Cold Spots
The market for private businesses has shown some distinctly hot and cold spots over recent months. At the larger end, businesses with a turnover in excess of $20 million, interest from private equity firms is pushing prices higher. However in the middle market, businesses with a turnover of $5 million to $15 million, prices have eased as buyer sentiment has softened.
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The Secret of Self-Investment
As a solo-entrepreneur you’re either starting a new business or intending to grow your existing business. Aside from getting the most obvious systems in place – technology, business and marketing plans, defining your product or services, and finances, what else is needed to be successful? Self-Investment!
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Accounting and Planning for a Tax Audit
How to plan for a tax audit and accounting practices for employee benefits, mandatory deductions and contributions to the proper taxing agencies, workers' classifications and income you reported.
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Why the Minimum Wage Media Spin Doesn't Matter to Your Business
Things are looking up! With gas prices dropping, more Americans investing in the stock market and luxury spending reaching an all-time high, top Internet marketer and network marketing trainer, Chris Zavadowski, tackles the REAL state of the business economy (and it's certainly not what you see on the news).
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Leadership: Being Open to Feedback
In order to be effective, leaders need open, honest feedback from the people around them. Yet, oftentimes, while the leader says she wants feedback, her actions and reactions to it say the opposite. In this article, Bill Pullen, President of Pullen Associates, sheds light on this dynamic and offers insights for growth.
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What Your Cleaning Company Needs to Know About MSDS
There is no way a cleaning company can effectively do its job without using chemicals. Your company may use just a few basic products or a multitude of cleaners for various situations. No matter how many or how few chemicals you use, it's important that you have the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for each different product that your company uses.
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Sales and Marketing Topics
Helping you find the best resources for advertising, marketing, sales and customer relationship management
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Logistics Management
Logistics management is a science of planning, organizing, and executing activities for delivering the required goods or services in the right location at the right time. Modern technologies, communication links, and control systems are essential to manage materials, services, and financial goals. In today's complex commercialized world and for military operations, logistics management is used for effective and reliable performance.
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Trade Globalization
For the last few decades business has moved far from its native places actually spreading throughout the world. Companies are constantly globalizing their trade areas and it is important to know the driving forces of such phenomena.
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How to Start a Nursing Agency Business
Starting a business is not as complicated as it seems. In fact, all you really need to get started is a positive attitude, and the desire to be self employed! The supply of something that's in demand, and money. For now let's focus on the second component of having a business, what's in demand?
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Secrets Of Making A Strong M&A Deal
There was never such demand for making a strong M&A deal. However, recently, we have witnessed a sharp rise in the number of mergers and acquisitions, both domestic as well as international.
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New Vending Machines
New vending machines come with the latest features and functions. They are, as a rule, more efficient and cost-effective than older machines.
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New Generation of Carpet Care - Encapsulation
Carpet is no doubt a common floor covering in most of the buildings that your company cleans. However, if not properly taken care of carpet can be almost impossible to keep clean and can give a negative impression of the cleaning staff. This article explains encapsulation carpet cleaning and why it's so important.
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Business Simulations: An Excellent Employee Training Tool
If you have ever run your own business you know how much of a hassle it can be to try to keep employees updated on new technology. Training can be very time consuming and expensive for both the company and the employee. This is where business simulations come into play. Using this technology you can find fun, unique, and cost effective ways to train your work force.
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De-Mystifying the Medical Billing Maze
Medical billing can follow a very complex and strange process. For those who don’t or haven’t actually worked as doctors, or for insurance companies, the procedures can be quite opaque, but fundamentally it is quite simple.
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Procurement Budgeting
Procurement describes the acquisition of goods or services at the best possible cost, in the right quantity, time and place, for the direct benefit of the firm. The question now arises: how do you prioritize when you only have a limited amount of money to spend? That’s where the role of budgeting comes in.
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