• 7 Strategies For Effective Distributed Teams

    By: Don Cooke
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    Currently companies are investing significant amounts of investment in distributed, mobile and remote workers the aim of reducing operating costs. This article details 7 proven ways to realise significant returns on these investment.1. Introduce benchmarks to assess/measure performance It is key before undertaking any business organisational change is to understand exactly what the objective of the exercise is and to set targets so that progress towards the objectives can be understood and measured.Read more…

  • Professionalism Under Heat: 10 Tips So They Will Never See You Sweat

    By: Kimberly Turner
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    With all of the arguments over appropriate office attire, you’ve decided to trade in your typical work attire of t-shirts and flip flops for the more traditional blue suit. But as the weather heats up, you are starting to rethink this because you have forgotten how to keep your professional appearance “cool” under the heat. You fear that you will appear nervous in a business meeting as sweat drenches into the armpits of your suit.Read more…

  • Ten Ways a Busy Attorney Can Take a Quick Break

    By: Alvah Parker
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    According to the RealAge website “Researchers have found a strong link between chronic work stress and a nasty cluster of factors known as syndrome X (or metabolic syndrome). They increase your blood pressure, your belt size, and your odds of developing diabetes.” Programming a little relaxation time into your week is one way to guard against daily stress affecting your health.Read more…

  • 7 Small Business Start Up Money Seeking Mistakes

    By: Brent Finlay
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    Small business start up money is a highly sought after commodity as more and more people are trying their luck at self employment.Statistically, the odds of small business start up success is less than 20% within a 5 year period.A large part of the reason for getting your loan request turned down, and the basic reason start ups end up failing in large numbers in the first place, is the mistakes made when seeking financing.Read more…

  • 7 Small Business Marketing Tips

    By: Eve Jackson
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    I’m not usually one to assume anything, but I’m going to assume you’re a small business owner who already knows the value of marketing to your success. So, I’m not going to waste one single word trying to convince you.And I’m going to make another assumption (two in one day is hard on the ol’ noggin, but here we go).Read more…

  • Plastic Corrugated or Corrugated Plastic - Any Way You Say It These 10 Tips Will Help

    By: David Marinac
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    Plastic corrugated or corrugated plastic as it is commonly referred, is one of the main products used in the reusable packaging industry. Sure, there are other items in this packaging sector such as molded totes or heavy gauge thermoformed plastic trays, but nothing says returnable packaging quite like plastic corrugated. Virtually anything that is made of paper corrugated can be duplicated using corrugated plastic.Read more…

  • 7 Strategies I Learned from Self-Made Millionaires About Achieving Personal & Professional Success

    By: Colleen Kettenhofen
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    “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”Albert EinsteinAfter attending a seminar in Las Vegas this past weekend on achieving personal and professional success, I walked away with a plethora of time-tested tools that can be applied immediately.Read more…

  • The Top Ten Things You Need to Know to Market Your Professional Services

    By: Leni Chauvin
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    1. Know your craft. You can advertise and market your business until the cows come home, but your marketing efforts and marketing dollars will rarely pay off unless you know your craft There is absolutely no substitute for being able to deliver what you say you can deliver.To do this, you've got to avail yourself of the best training you can get in your profession and not just hang out a shingle calling yourself a Professional _______ (fill in the blank).Read more…

  • Tips for Designing a Market Research Questionnaire

    By: Juliet Mumford
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    10 Steps Towards Designing an Effective Questionnaire1. What are you trying to find out?A good questionnaire is designed so that your results will tell you what you want to find out. Start by writing down what you are trying to do in a few clear sentences, and design your questionnaire around this.Read more…

  • Top 7 Ways to Prevent Unnecessary Stress at Work

    By: Jill Frank
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    Stress plays a critical role in life. It can help you accomplish work timely and accurately, promote healthy competition, and force you to evaluate problems and formulate creative solutions. It can also hamper your ability to effectively perform your job, thereby reducing your chances of promotion; interfere with your capacity to sustain relationships; and lead to physical illness.Read more…

  • Top 10 Ways to Make Money in Your Neighborhood

    By: Aaron Wittersheim
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    Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz would have made a fantastic on-line marketer simply because she knew one plain truth: there’s no place like home. Print media, once the staple of local advertising, now has lost its appeal to many neighborhood merchandisers. In fact, an incredible 70 percent of U.Read more…

  • Top 7 Reasons to File Your Income Tax Returns on Time

    By: J. Stephen Pope
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    Here are seven reasons for not being late filing your income tax returns.1. Avoid Late Filing PenaltiesLate filing can result in substantial and continuing penalties. This is in addition to any interest that is due.Read more…

  • Top 7 New Ways to Promote Your Business

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Is your marketing less than you wish it to be? Is your marketing simply not pulling in the clientele you wish it would? Is your marketing not living up to your business or marketing plan?Read more…

  • 7 Tips For Moving To Self-Employment

    By: Tony Jacowski
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    What you must understand is that moving away from “traditional” employment entails changing your mentality. You need to make the transition from paycheck thinking and embrace profit thinking. This is perhaps may the hardest thing to do for those used to and brought up in a ‘safety’ mindset.Read more…

  • Top 7 Mistakes Your Competitors Make and How to Capitalize On Them

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Most of your business competitors out there will make serious mistakes from time to time and if you were watching closely you can capitalize on these mistakes and propel your company in the marketplace further and have your brand in the customer’s mind ahead of the competition.For over 27 years our companies were always at the top of the game and seldom did we lose a battle to competitors in any market large or small, no matter how long the competitors had been in business been in business, we were victorious in the marketing place. We often noticed that the largest companies made the biggest mistakes or perhaps that was just because they were bigger and more noticeable.Read more…

  • Top 7 Business Reasons to Quit College and Start Your Own Business

    By: Lance Winslow
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    When recently asked to a speech by a rather well-known business college professor and asked to give my reasons why an entrepreneur should stay in college and go on to get an MBA. It seemed like a nice request but then the flashes kept coming into my mind of all the entrepreneurs who left college or even top Universities.You know names like Bill Gates, Michael Dell and many who never went to college like Ray Kroc who started the world’s largest hamburger chain; yes McDonalds, so I guess you know the story and have probably heard of Tom Monahan too then, the founder of Dominoes Pizza.Read more…

  • Top 7 Reasons to Shoot First and Ask Questions Later

    By: Lance Winslow
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    When marketing to new customers and trying to decide if you should cold call all the people on your list or limit that list, take my advice and shoot first and ask questions later and you will be glad you did. Once I was in Tennessee setting up a franchise in Memphis for the son of a well-known doctor.Our franchise company sets up fleet washing franchised businesses to help large corporations keep their vehicles clean.Read more…

  • Top 7 Ways to Smoke the Competition

    By: Lance Winslow
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    There are many ways to smoke the competition and become the number one leader of your industry. For 27 years I ran a company and never in a market did we ever run second-place and if by chance we did, well it was not for long. Second place is for losers and that is no place for meat or my company.Read more…

  • Top 7 Things They Do Not Teach You in MBA School

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Often when I give speeches at MBA schools I am flabbergasted by some of the questions that I get from the students. It is often as if the students have no concept of reality and that is very scary for a potential employer. It is even more scary to think that they are being taught by a professor who has never actually been in business but only studied the theory and written textbooks on how to do something that he has never succeeded at.Read more…

  • Power in Complaints - 10 Tips to Convert Them

    By: Laurie A. Sheppard
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    Make no mistake about it a life of complaints isn’t for the weak, it’s for the strong. It takes stamina to subject yourself to constant review of what’s failing in your life and continually imagine the scenarios you could have had if you’d only done something else. Tired enough to convert it?Read more…

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