Once you obtain business, do you give much thought to protecting yourself (and your income)? Often, we're so exhausted by our business-building efforts, and so exhilarated when we get it, that we simply shift to concentrating on closing the deal - and ignore potential adverse situations.

Putting a local face on RFID. A report on RFID deployment in the Rochester, NY area.

Modern mines collect veins of materials, which have been trapped over millions of years in the sediment. Once out in the open they can get into the ground water and move down hill with the normal erosion patterns and water flows. This is because the minerals have been buried for centuries underneath in layers from previous periods.

Running a successful business used to be dependent on what you knew. Then, who you knew became important. In today's economy, it is far more critical to what extent you know someone. So it's not what you know or who you know, but how well you know them that really determines the amount of business that can be generated by a contact.