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How
to Write a Business Plan for a Small Manufacturing Business
A business plan can provide the owner-manager or prospective owner-manager
of a small manufacturing firm with a pathway to profit. This publication
is designed to help an owner-manager draw up a business plan. In
building a pathway to profit you need to consider the following
questions: What business am I in? What goods do I sell? Where is
my market? Who will buy? Who is my competition? What is my sales
strategy? What merchandising methods will I use?…
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Free
Entrepreneur's Book
In this final decade of the 20th century, small business owners
continue to demonstrate their extraordinary capacity to mobilize
resources and generate new jobs. There are more than 20 million
small businesses in the United States, and each year nearly a quarter
of a million new ones are started…
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How
to write a business plan for a small construction business
A business plan can provide you, the owner-manager or prospective
owner-manager of a small construction firm, with a pathway to profit.
This publication is designed to help you develop a business plan.
In building a pathway to profit you need to consider the following
questions: What business am I in? What do I sell?…
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Transferring
Management in Family Business
The family business is a vital force in the American economy. About
90 percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled.
They range in size from the traditional small business to a third
of the Fortune 500 firms. It is estimated that family businesses
generate about half of the country's Gross National Product and
half of the total wages paid…
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Legal
Structure of Your Business - How to Select
In starting a small business, one of the first questions you should
ask is what form of legal entity you should use or "How should I
organize my business?" Also, as your business grows and changes,
you should from time to time ask yourself whether the entity you
have chosen remains the best form of organization for your business.The
entities most commonly used by small businesses in the United States
are the sole proprietorship, partnerships and stock corporations…
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How
to Increase Your Productivity
Small business owners frequently juggle a variety of roles within
their companies. Creating a balance and effectively managing available
time is extremely important to most small businesses. In order to
economize and make the most of the available time, you should implement
a time management plan…
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Managing
a Family Business
When you put up your own money and operate your own business, you
prize your independence. It's MY business, you can tell yourself,
in good times and in bad. In a family company, however, it's OUR
business…
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Writing
a Business Plan
There are two main purposes for writing a business plan. The first,
and most important, is to serve as a guide during the life of your
business. It is the blueprint of your business and will serve to
keep you on the right track. To be of value, your plan must be kept
current. If you spend the time to plan ahead, many pitfalls will
be avoided and needless frustrations will be eliminated…
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How
to Write a Business Plan For a Small Retail Business
A good business plan gives the small retail firm a pathway to profit.
This publication is designed to help an owner-manager develop a
sound business plan.
To profit in business, you need to consider the following questions:
What business am I in? What goods do I sell? Where is my market?
Who will buy my goods? Who is my competition? What is my sales strategy?
What merchandising methods will I use? How much money is needed
to operate my store? How will I get the work done? What management
controls are needed? How can they be carried out? When should I
revise my plan? Where can I go for help?…
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10
High Achievers in Business
They are men and women from various cultures and from different
backgrounds, some have an impressive academic record while others
barely made it through high school; however, the one thing that
is common is the sheer grit and determination of these people to
achieve their dreams. Here is a look at the accomplishments of ten
such extraordinary people…
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Mobile
and Cloud Computing for Small Business
Can you predict the future of computing and mobile from observing
the behavior of kids? One of the things I have always noted about
my own kids, my nieces and my nephews is the overwhelming attachment
to hand-held toys - no, I am not talking about cell phones and portable
game players…
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Alternative
Ways to Finance Your Company
A company frustrated by not being able to obtain conventional financing
has various alternatives. For some it might be factoring. For other
companies, it may be selling future credit card purchases…
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Was
Christopher Columbus an Entrepreneur Like You Are?
Christopher Columbus was an explorer and an adventurer, but today
he would simply be called an entrepreneur. Let's step back in time
and take a look at Columbus through the eyes of today's entrepreneurs
and start-ups. Is the start-up funding climate really any different
now? …
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What
is a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA)(UK)?
Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs) are one of the Insolvency
Act's business rescue procedures. A bit like Chapter 11 in the US,
they are intended to provide a flexible way of restructuring a troubled
business which will lead to a better outcome for creditors than
other insolvency procedures, while allowing management to retrain
control and shareholders to retain ownership…
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How
to sell an insolvent company in the UK
One option for a business in difficulty may be to look to sell but
how practical is this really in a distressed situation? This article
looks at how and why buyers look to find insolvent companies for
sale as well as how the Pre-pack Administrations and the SIP 16
insolvency process operates in a sale of an insolvent business…
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How
to levy a debtor's bank account in California
This is my opinion and a summary of what I have learned and observed.
If you need legal advice, contact a lawyer as I am not a lawyer.
Although this article uses the State of California as an example
of specific costs and procedures, the concepts will be similar in
most States…
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How
to Conduct a Presentation
Because managers at all levels are increasingly likely to be asked
to speak in public, management training often includes elements
of presentation skills training. One of the biggest fears, surveys
show, is speaking in public. However nervous you are when standing
up in front of a large group, it is possible to develop into competent
and engaging presenter given the right training support. The following
article contains some key tips and techniques that if followed will
make you a better presenter…
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Does
Certification Make One a Good Project Manager?
With the Project Management Institute and
the Association of Project Managers and colleges and universities
all certifying Project Managers, why are projects still failing?
Could it be that certification doesn't make you a project manager?…
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Several
Tips on How to Reduce the Number of E-mails You Receive
The reality is there are quite a number of
things that you can do, personally, to keep your e-mails to a minimum.
This article offers a few tips…
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Inventory Management
in Your Business
Successful inventory management involves balancing
the costs of inventory with the benefits of inventory. Many small
business owners fail to appreciate fully the true costs of carrying
inventory, which include not only direct costs of storage, insurance
and taxes, but also the cost of money tied up in inventory. This
fine line between keeping too much inventory and not enough is not
the manager's only concern…
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10
Business Startup Mistakes
Many startup ideas fail to ever be launched
and many, many fail within the first year or two. In most cases,
the failure has nothing to do with the business idea, but how the
business side is handled. The business of entrepreneurship is business
first, then operations (what your business actually does). The Top
Ten startup mistakes that lead to ultimate failure are…
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How
to Write a Business Plan For a Small Service Business
A business plan can provide the owner-manager or prospective owner-manager
of a small service firm with a pathway to profit. This publication
is designed to help an owner-manager develop a business plan…
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the full article…
Human
Resources Management
All
small businesses must staff their operations. This involves bringing
new people into the business and making sure they are productive
additions to the enterprise. Effective human resource management
matches and develops the abilities of job candidates and employees
with the needs of the firm…
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How
to Use Twitter for Marketing
Twitter is a micro-blogging site that asks you a basic question,
"What are you doing?" It allows anyone with an account
to write up to 140 characters in a text field as a means to update,
comment, promote or communicate to others who are "following"
you. When people follow you, they see what you've recently contributed
when they login. They see your "tweets", which are the
messages you leave…
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17
Presentation Tips
Many individuals are called upon to give presentations, but many
have no formal instruction on how to deliver the most effective
presentations. So for the benefit of those who might need a bit
of help, we've put together a "primer" for presenters…
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Managing
Your Business's Online Reputation
A company's reputation is often critical to that company's success.
The anonymity and vastness of the Internet makes managing a reputation
much more difficult than it once was. Businesses must be proactive
about protecting their brands and reputations…
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Tips
on Going Green in Your Business
A business that makes the decision to be environmentally-conscious
will often promote goodwill among potential customers, while making
the world a better place for future generations. Many businesses
hesitate to adopt green practices because they fear it will hurt
their bottom line and negatively impact profits…
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Tips
for Preparing PowerPoint Presentations
Presentations are an integral and important part of any business.
Whether designed for training purposes, introducing new products,
or discussing corporate hierarchy, PowerPoint presentations serve
a valuable purpose in both the business world and in the educational
fields. In order to maximize a presentation's impact, it needs to
be polished and well executed. The following tips can aid you in
taking your PowerPoint presentation to the next level…
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12
Strategies of Using E-mail Effectively
Most people do not send effective email messages. I know. I spend
a lot of time analyzing email messages for clients, and measuring
and tracking their effectiveness. Whether you send large email newsletters
or just use email to communicate with friends, colleagues and customers,
following these strategies will make your email more effective.
So, here's my list, compiled and crafted from years of experience
and analysis of millions of messages…
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How
to Manage Your Time Effectively - 10 Tips
Managing your time and using it wisely is a journey, and not something
that can be easily mastered overnight. Implementing a plan will
help, but it is not going to be a sure cure. Time management requires
a significant amount of self-discipline…
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Some
Tips for Public Speaking and Presenting
Presentations can be a great way to attract new business, simply
by making yourself more well-known. However, nerves can often get
in the way of entrepreneurs who want to use speaking opportunities
to develop their business. Follow these steps to overcome nerves
and make a powerful presentation during your public speaking engagement…
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How
to design a logo - main concepts
A logo concept is more than just an affinity for a specific character.
Logos represent a company's brand, and as a result, serious thought
and consideration should be put into your logo. Before hand be sure
to consider, how the logo will represent your organization and consider
the thoughts that will be associated with specific images that you
consider for your logo…
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Some
Issues of Business Management
Effective management is the key to the establishment
and growth of the business. The key to successful management is
to examine the marketplace environment and create employment and
profit opportunities that provide the potential growth and financial
viability of the business. Despite the importance of management,
this area is often misunderstood and poorly implemented, primarily
because people focus on the output rather than the process of management…
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Government
Contracting
Looking for new markets for your small businesses’
goods or services? Consider selling to the federal government. The
U.S. government is the world’s largest buyer of goods and services
— from spacecraft and advanced scientific research to paper clips
and landscaping services. Military and civilian purchases total
more than $425 billion a year…
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Free book for exporters
The Transaction
Finding a market for the goods (market research)
Selecting the marketing channels
Negotiations
Pricing
Distribution channels
Order
Contract
Commercial Invoice…
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How
To Negotiate Your Salary & Get Paid What You Are Worth
Understanding the process of salary negotiations
and following these five simple steps can pay you back many times
over with higher compensation in your next position…
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How
a Men's Dress Shirt Should Fit
Everywhere you look, there are men with long, dangling sleeves,
bulging necks squeezed by collars that are too tight or with enough
fabric billowing around their waists to sail the Nina, the Pinta
and the Santa Maria…
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Do
You Know Where The Real Profit Pools Are?
Ever had that feeling you've got a great business, but that its'
not delivering the results it really deserves? More likely than
not, you do have a great business - it is simply that its strengths
are not being directed towards the right opportunities, or that
those opportunities are not being well exploited…
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Listen
to Your Customers
Mastering the art of managing customer complaints can seem like
a thankless job, but keep in mind that for every customer that
shares their worries, concerns or complaints, there are likely
more that did not express their dissatisfaction, and instead simply
moved on to a competitor…
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10
Killer Job Interview questions and Answers
There is no way you can accurately predict the questions that
will be asked in an interview, but you can be ready and prepared
by thinking about the factors that might concern an interviewer
or employer before the interview…
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Fifteen
Advertising And Promotional Ideas
Every successful company uses some sort of promotion to influence
certain audiences, usually customers or prospects, by informing
or persuading them. Reasons for promoting a business include:
increasing visibility…
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Comparing
Three Ways To Go Public
Traditional Underwriting:
Time: 6 to 12 months
Cost: $175,000 to $500,000 (The company will be out of pocket
at least 50% of this amount prior to completion
Capital: Typically raises more capital than other types of transactions…
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Overcoming
The Objections That Keep You From Achieving Massive Success
Realize that most objections can be resolved before they even
arise. Cost is often the first objection that is put up, but usually
it’s not the true reason, deep down, for rejecting a product or
service…
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Intellectual
Property Protection In China
If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, then the
Chinese can be very sincere flatterers indeed. But if you prefer
prosperity over flattery it would be wise to take precautions
against losing your shirt in one of the world’s most dangerous
IP jungles…
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Establishing
A Representative Office In China
Among foreign investors, the most popular form of business establishment
in China is the Representative Office. Its main attraction is
that it is simpler and cheaper to establish than either a Joint
Venture of a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise…
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China
Company Start-up Checklist, Part III
The following activities should also be undertaken as soon as
possible after receiving the Business License: (1) Obtain any
Necessary Construction Permits…
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China
Company Start-up Checklist, Part II
The following activities must be taken within 30 days of the issuance
of the Business License: (1) Engrave the Enterprise’s Official
Seal This requires advance approval from the municipal Public
Security Bureau (the police). Documents include: the original
business license and a copy …
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China
Company Start-up Checklist, Part I
Although Company Establishment Checklist is primarily geared toward
the establishment of Joint Ventures, it can be easily adapted
to the establishment of Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises…
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Seven
Service Principles Guaranteed To Create Raving Fans
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody
in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his
money somewhere else"…
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Warning
To Direct Marketers: Asking These Questions Will Kill Your Conversions
For those marketers who labor tirelessly, though fruitlessly,
oblivious to marketing history, and unversed in copy that brings
home the bacon—please take note: this article is for you…
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27
Reasons To Invest In People: The Evidence Keeps Mounting
Enthusiastic workers often increase the quality of work by huge
percentages-up to a 75 percent reduction in defect rates. (Sirota,
Mischkind, and Meltzer, The Enthusiastic Employee, 2005)…
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The
Layers of Your Brand
Branding is a hot topic in marketing these days, but it's defined
in different ways and looked at from different angles. There are
many components that make up a brand, and we call each component
a Brand Layer…
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Advantages
Of Forming A UK Limited Company
When starting a business there will often be a point when you
think of forming your business into a limited company – perhaps
before you collect a penny. So why should UK businesses look at
limited company formation?…
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9
Things You Should Know About Dealing With Venture-Capital Brokers
You want to buy a new company, expand operations, acquire a business,
or raise capital. You’ve decided to go for venture capital funding
versus a bank loan for a multitude of reasons from the risks involved
to the amount you need to carry out your plan…
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The Laws of Sales
Success
Sales professionals must create magnetic appeal to increase closing
efficiency. Our present global environment creates numerous obstacles
that polarize sales efforts, form the proliferation of the Internet
to advanced media. Ironically, with the intrigue of technological
miracles the foundation of sales success exists upon 10 principles…
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How To Stand Out
At A Trade Show
Think of the last time you were on the midway at a state fair.
Every booth was brightly colored, full of interesting things to
see, do, and win. Hawkers yelled: "Step right up!", "Three tries
for a dollar!", "Win a stuffed bunny for the lovely lady!" Lights
flashed, kids ran around, and everyone seemed to be talking at
once…
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Overcoming The Objections That
Keep You From Achieving Massive Success
Realize that most objections can be resolved before they even
arise. Cost is often the first objection that is put up, but usually
it’s not the true reason, deep down, for rejecting a product or
service. Nothing de-energizes your persuasive efforts more than
lingering doubts and concerns that remain unresolved in your prospect’s
mind. No matter what you’re selling, all objections can fit into
one or more of the following categories…
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Creating More Sales Through
Active Participation
People have an innate desire to feel wanted and needed. When you
fulfill this need, you open the door to persuasion, a fact that
has been proved beyond a doubt by records kept on industrial workers.
Workers who have no voice whatsoever in management, who cannot
make suggestions, or who are not allowed to express their ideas
simply do not do as much work as workers who are encouraged to
contribute…
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How To Write A Startup Business
Plan
Why do you need to write a business plan? There are a number of
reasons. Writing a plan dramatically increases your chances of
success as an entrepreneur. Here are just a few reasons why you
would want to write a business plan…
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Motivation Equation And Orientation
When we break motivation down to its most fundamental level, it’s
either inspiration-oriented or desperation-oriented. Whatever
action we take, we are moving either toward something we favor
or away from something we disfavor…
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The Obstacles That Keep You
From Closing The Sale
The very first obstacle that many persuaders experience is prejudging
a prospect. They set up an appointment, hang up the phone and
then immediately say, “Oh, great. This lady’s looking for a product
we don’t even have. She’ll never buy.” It could be for any number
of reasons, but basically the salesperson decides, based on one
scrap of information, that the lead isn’t going to go anywhere
before s/he has even met or spoken with the prospect…
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The Layers of Your Brand and
How Your Brand Helps Your Business
Branding is a hot topic in marketing these days, but it's defined
in different ways and looked at from different angles. There are
many components that make up a brand, and we call each component
a Brand Layer. Here are our definitions of some of the most important
Brand Layers…
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What Kind Of Capital Is Appropriate
For Your Business?
There are two kinds of capital: debt and equity. Both kinds are
typically used by a company during its lifetime. Lenders have
different objectives than investors and therefore look at different
factors about a company when deciding whether or not to invest
or make a loan…
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Ten Simple Things That Helped
Make Me Millions
I’ve had my own business since I was 9 years old. I’ve started,
bought, sold and helped out in many different kinds of businesses
over the thirty some odd years since then. I’ve done everything
I’ve always wanted to do, and I’ve had a lot of fun. Some of the
highlights: I worked on Wall Street, I helped take a company public
and I threw one of the biggest VC names in the country out of
my office…
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20 Tips On Presenting Corporate
& Office Areas
If you operate an office that receives visiting clients you probably
have a reception area. Such an area can be used to great advantage.
While your client is waiting to see you why not give them the
opportunity to learn about you and the company? Large photographs
of the factory or the products / services you provide help to
make it clear what your company does or stands for. It also gives
an insight into areas your visitor may not be able to access under
normal circumstances…
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Are You Wasting Time and Money
Marketing to the Wrong People?
One of the biggest mistakes I see consultants, coaches and professionals
make is to be unclear about who their ideal client is, and to
carry out their marketing without any specific definition of their
target market. In fact, most are hedging their bets and trying
to appeal to everybody…
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Delving deeper into LLC
Limited Liability Company or LLC is what you will get when you
combine the attributes of both corporations and partnerships.
So this is like corporation's protection from personal liability
for business debts and the pass-through tax structure of partnerships
and sole proprietorships put together…
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Sales Proposals - How to Write
Proposals That Sell
Depending upon how much you enjoy writing, writing sales proposals
can be a joy, purgatory, or something in between. However, if
you sell a complex product or one that involves the delivery of
professional services, learning how to write effective selling
proposals can be critical to your success…
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Ten Meeting Management Issues
to Watch Out For
Meetings are valuable components of organisations. Yet they need
process, discipline and leadership/facilitation to work best.
Here are some indicators to watch out for to highlight where things
may be going wrong…
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Working Capital & Cash Flow
Solutions: Should I Borrow From A Bank?
Recently, my newspaper reported that a local bank “...earned a
four star excellence rating for the sixty-fourth consecutive quarter.”
That’s sixteen years of four star excellence! The article went
on to say that the “rating is based on a complex formula that
includes …capital safety levels, quality of loan portfolio, and
the ability to meet obligations…”…
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Use This Simple Time Tested
Process And Move Your Business Forward In 2006!
Another year is just about ready to finish and it is time to start
thinking about next year. If you own your own business or you
manage a business division, then you need to ask yourself if all
of the expectations that were set forth at the beginning of the
year were met. If not then maybe what stopped you was a lack of
goals and objectives, or just a lack of a good process to use
when planning them. The goal setting process is essential to the
success or failure of the business, and many careers have derailed
due to a lack of them. Goals and objectives apply to everyone
involved…
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Frustrated With Your Company's
Inability To Develop New Customers?
Try A Sales Blitz.
One of the most common complaints I hear from my clients is this:
"I can't seem to motivate the salespeople to call on prospects
and develop them into new customers."
There is a relatively simple, fun and inexpensive way to remedy
this situation. It's called a sales blitz. Unfortunately, few
companies are even aware of it, and fewer yet use it…
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How Business Davids can overcome
Goliaths
In the story of David and Goliath, young David challenged the
mighty Goliath. King Saul wanted David to wear his armour so that
he could fight Goliath in the traditional way. But David chose
to forgo the armour, used a weapon of his choosing, and relied
on his own speed, and was ultimately successful in slaying the
giant Goliath…
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Strategic Planning Steps For
Optimum Business Management
The Strategic Planning Steps philosophy/business system is an
organizational tool that is used by groups and corporations globally
to refine their goals and maximize their resources. Drawing from
the concepts of strategic military planning, the Strategic Planning
process is one way in which businesses strive to attain a competitive
edge…
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Myths of Sales Management:
The Entrepreneurial Salesperson
I just had a phone conversation with a client who had a familiar
story to tell. He had built his business on the model of an entrepreneurial
sales force. Give them a territory, pay them straight commission,
and tell them they are in business for themselves, free to develop
the customers they chose with the products they wanted…
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Strategic Selling - How to
Sell Strategically
If you want to maximize your sales performance, take a strategic
approach to selling. After all, wouldn't you agree that "the
80/20 rule" applies to customers, where approximately 20
percent of customers produce approximately 80 percent of sales?…
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Sales Prospecting - How to
Stand Out From Competitors in a Commodity Market
The key challenge when prospecting for "commodity" product
or service sales opportunities is capturing enough of your prospect's
attention to convince them to meet with you. This article provides
four strategies to help you win more of these elusive first meetings…
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How To Gain Monopoly-Like
Profits Through Ethnic Marketing
In today's U.S. marketplace, marketing to various ethnic audiences
is vital to consumer-oriented product and service companies. Latinos
and African Americans already have a critical mass of buying power
of over $1 trillion combined and this total is increasing rapidly.
The growth of the Hispanic and African American affluent and middle
class is occurring faster than the majority of Caucasian Americans…
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Taboo Words and Terrific Words
You have had it happen, I’m sure, possibly several times. You
had an idea that seemed perfectly suited for your organization,
because job functions would become more manageable, customers
would respond favorably, your brand recognition would increase,
or profits would rise immediately…
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Company Policy Does More Damage
to Customer Service Than Anything Else
As a customer service consultant I see things across many companies
that most companies don’t see while working inside the company.
One of the biggest problems is “company policy.” Many company
policies are structured to protect the company from the customer
instead of helping the customer get what he wants and has paid
for…
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The Process of Due Diligence
A business which wants to attract foreign investments must present
a business plan. But a business plan is the equivalent of a visit
card. The introduction is very important - but, once the foreign
investor has expressed interest, a second, more serious, more
onerous and more tedious process commences: Due Diligence…
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Business Competition Best
Practices: Win Loss Research
Frequently I am asked "how do you get information about the competition?"
Most people are surprised when I tell them that getting useful
competitive intelligence is actually the easiest part of managing
successful business competition. One of the best methods to gain
valuable competitive intelligence is so simple, straightforward,
and productive that I have put it on my list of Business Competition
Best Practices: Win Loss Research…
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Business Process Management:
Understanding and Implementing
If yours is a business with several departments, at one point
you start to realize that in order to stay competitive, increase
productivity and bring efficiency to your business, you need to
optimize and automate some of your business processes. To identify
which parts of your business activities required to be optimized,
first you need to have a clear understanding of the processes
involved in your particular business…
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So, Do You Need Financial
Planning?
Well do you need Financial Planning? In this article, I will show
you how you can answer this question.
Immediately after we complete our college education, we automatically
participate in a race call rat race…
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Managing the Income Portfolio
The reason people assume the risks of investing in the first place
is the prospect of achieving a higher rate of return than is attainable
in a risk free environment…i.e., an FDIC insured bank account.
Risk comes in various forms, but the average investor’s primary
concerns are “credit” and “market” risk… particularly when it
comes to investing for income…
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Understanding Option Trading,
Simply
Option trading is one method of trading that you can partake in.
But, in order to take advantage of it, you need to find out just
what it is and how it works. This will help you to make decisions
that will affect you throughout your trading experience. Here
is some basic information about option trading to help you…
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Fibonacci Numbers and the
Golden Ratio 3 Tips for Greater Trading Profits
In this report, we will look at the history and background of
Fibonacci numbers and The Golden Ratio. We will then outline three
specific money management tips that can help increase your profit
potential.
Support and resistance levels are an important consideration for
most traders to help identify entry and exit points when trading…
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The Insight Trader Reveals
Effective Ways To Deal With Losses
At some point in the insight trader`s career, he will be faced
with a string of losses that will bring his confidence to an all-time
low. Every active trader hits this point at least once, and some
will visit it several times. This active trader will reveal to
you ways to successfully deal with this problem…
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Commodity Trading Systems
Learn From a Trading Master and Boost Your Profit Potential!
Legendary trader W D Gann amassed a fortune of $50 million dollars
in the first half of the last century, although he died in 1955,
his commodity trading systems are still used today by traders
all over the world.
Successful commodity trading systems have the ability take the
emotion out of trading, liquidating losses quickly and spotting
and holding the big longer-term trends and that’s exactly what
Gann’s Commodity trading systems did…
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Unconventional Home Business
Financing Alternatives
While unconventional financing can cost you money in the long
run, it does allow you to avoid borrowing money as a loan that
needs to be paid back... whether or not your business makes a
profit. With the alternative financing options presented here
- if your business fails, your obligation to pay back the money
expires…
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Retirement Fund Management
Programs
A number of the large Mutual Fund Institutions are offering various
programs targeted at establishing retirement funds for individual
investors. These programs are all accompanied by disclaimers that
indicate that there are no guarantees with regard to performance
and indicate that they cannot assure profit or protect against
losses in declining markets…
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Business Loans - 7 Reasons
Not To Use A Bank
So you're a small business owner and you need a business loan
to further the objectives of your company. Where do you turn?
When it comes to a business loan or commercial real estate loan,
there are many good reasons NOT to turn to a traditional bank.
Here are some of the most important reasons…
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Dealing With Market Corrections:
Ten Do’s and Don'ts
A correction is a beautiful thing, simply the flip side of
a rally, big or small. Theoretically, even technically I'm told,
corrections adjust equity prices to their actual value or “support
levels”. In reality, it’s much easier than that. Prices go down
because of speculator reactions to expectations of news, speculator
reactions to actual news, and investor profit taking. The two
former "becauses" are more potent than ever before because there
is more "self directed" money out there than ever before…
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Market Failures And Business
Cycles (Part 2)
Something reverse can happen which would be even more damaging
than the just discussed case. Instead of Consumption growing at
a faster rate than Savings, it might so happen that Savings and
Investment grow at a much faster rate than Consumption. For example,
prior to Great Depression, the importance of aggregate demand
as explained by Keynes was not understood…
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Market Failures And Business
Cycles (Part 1)
The following is the most comprehensive ever explanation to
the most mysterious phenomenon of Capitalism – the Business
Cycles. In order to ensure that the article can be read by any
well educated reader, I have minimized the economics jargon and
have added a short and simple introduction to the structure of
the economy…
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