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admin wrote a new blog post: Learning How to Deal with Failure 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Everybody who has ever attempted anything has failed at least a couple of times before they actually succeeded. In the words of author, inventor, and consultant Dr. Edward de Bono, “It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.” [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: How to Tell When a Client Might Not Be Good for Your Business 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Everybody has had that moment of pause when contacted by a potential new client. There’s something about this person that doesn’t seem quite right, something just a little off, and you can’t help but feel that they might not be best for your company. However, times are tough, new clients are scarce, and it’s usually [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Giving Your Employees a Stake with Increased Responsibility 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Part four in my multi-part series on employee relations.
When it comes to running a company or even managing one, it’s easy to see yourself as the head of a complicated body of workers, all of whom look to you for guidance because clearly you’re the only one who has the vision for how to make [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Motivating Your Employees 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Another part in my multi-part series on employee relations.
One of the toughest things that a manager has to do is motivate his or her employees. It’s difficult, especially in lean economic times, to encourage employees to work their hardest when there is very little that you have to inspire them with. The traditional concept of [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Federal Training and Your Company 10 months, 3 weeks ago
And now for part two in our ongoing series on employment and employee relations:
Running a company in the United States means that there are a lot of bureaucratic hoops to jump through. Most of them involve filing paperwork, sending information into the government, and allowing people to keep track of your records so that everybody [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: The Hiring Process: How to Hire New Employees 10 months, 4 weeks ago
I’m beginning a multi-part series on employees and how to handle them today. Hopefully my readers will find these articles interesting and helpful in dealing with your own employees.
When you’re working for somebody else, the hiring process seems very simple. Turn in an application, go for an interview, fill out some tax forms, and you’re [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: The Nexus of Greed and Success 11 months ago
Far too often, I’ve been seeing a disturbing trend of the idea of greed being confused with success. Business owners should be allowed to make money and when they work hard, they should be rewarded for that hard work. It’s a basic imperative to want to do better for oneself, and the accepted method for [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: The Opiate of Success 11 months ago
So, you’ve worked hard for several years now. You’ve built up your business from nothing, creating a company that rests firmly on the standards of low cost, quality…whatever. You saw an opportunity and you took advantage of it, and now you’ve got a great business at your command that’s…starting to lose revenue. What happened?
So often [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: The Recession in the UK 11 months ago
I often focus my blog entries on American business topics. This is easy to do for several reasons, the first being that I am American and live in America where the majority of information I get deals directly with United States companies. My experience has also been primarily in dealing with American companies. However, it’s [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: The Nature of Exploitation 11 months, 1 week ago
I recently read a blog post written by Chris MacDonald at The Business Ethics Blog. I don’t always agree with everything Mr. MacDonald says, and this is no exception, but I feel that his arguments are based on a primarily false assumption in his post Exploitation at the Top that the executives that are being [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Produce for Your Future 11 months, 1 week ago
There’s an old belief that the safest investment in the world is and always will be land. Everybody needs land for one thing or another, be it to build new homes, commerce centers, or to grow food. However, I think that too many people forget that in tough economic times, human necessities remain. Which is [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Execs Have Brighter Outlook 11 months, 1 week ago
Recently KPMG LLP, a tax, audit, and advisory firm did a survey of executives in a series of different industries. It’s fascinating to read some of the results as they seem to have a general upward trend. Now, I know there is still a pervading feeling of dread in regards to the economy, but there [...]
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admin commented on the blog post Hello world! 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Benny,
Since I just saw this, I thought I’d suggest you take a look at our sister site, http://www.bcondemand.com . It’s a site designed to put together business needs with business resources and you’re more likely to find somebody there.
Good luck and I hope to see your sign up with BC!
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admin wrote a new blog post: Regular Valuation Ensures Your Company’s Future 11 months, 2 weeks ago
One of the major problems that has suddenly come to the attention of the general public is that of valuation. I’m not saying that valuation is a bad thing in any respect, but rather that the values of properties and business have been thrust into the public spotlight and now more people are having to [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: The Death of the Press Release 11 months, 2 weeks ago
It disturbs me on a fundamental level that the concept of the press release has really died. There used to be a time that a well written PR could make it in papers around the country, informing the public about your product or service, letting them know the salient points, invigorating interest, and generally announcing [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Who Else Can Benefit from Your Idea? 11 months, 2 weeks ago
In what seems to be a continuing series on how to innovate from within your company, I’d like to talk a little bit about what you can do with the things you’ve found. Sure, that unmarketable gizmo looks a little different now than it did when you originally put it on a shelf, but you [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Finding Innovation in Your Own Company 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Companies should always be looking for new ways to innovate. New products, new ideas, new concepts and approaches mean that business moves forward and the market benefits from increased cash flow and better service. It’s an elegant system that rests solely on a company’s willingness to continue to try new things. What’s interesting, however, is [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Management After Recession 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Major economic recession has become a part of our lives. It’s been building for years now (or descending, as the case may be) and the October crisis has made it very clear that for the time being things will be tight. However, that won’t always be the case, and it’s time for companies to realize [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Making New Models 11 months, 3 weeks ago
I’m a progressive by nature. I like to see things move forward, technology advance, people adopt new ideas that can be used to benefit all people. Which is why I’m completely astounded and flabbergasted every time I see people trying to take a new technology and cram it, wholesale, into an old business model.
Now, I [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Money in Ebooks 11 months, 4 weeks ago
They’ve been around for several years. Back in 2004 there was a minor craze for ebooks, before that in 2001, and even as far back as 1996 the concept has been floated as a new and exciting enterprise for the digital age. Each time the hype died back down shortly after as obstacles like an [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Fast Trading Potential for Disaster 12 months ago
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I respect the advance of technology in business. I respect efficiency and I respect cleverness. However, I value responsibility above all of these, and I feel that business has been moving further and further from that.
The newest perpetrator in irresponsible behavior is the New York Stock Exchange and [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Minimize Your Management 12 months ago
The objective of any business is to make a profit while providing a needed service or product in the most efficient way possible. Many businesses have failed due to a lack of that last, key component: efficiency. Henry Ford realized the advantages of an efficient operation when he developed the assembly line. Companies spend millions [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: No Angels: Avoiding Predatory Angel Investors 1 year ago
During economic crises, it’s tempting to grasp at any line one is thrown. This is especially true of business owners and prospective business owners who might not find banks and traditional finance options very tractable in regards to their specific business. Please see my blog entry on banks, Big Banks Ignore Bailout Promises for more [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Why You Should Consider an LLC 1 year ago
LLCs (Limited Liability Companies) are a relatively new form of business structure created by state statutes, but one that is gaining quick popularity. There are a lot of real advantages to registering your business as an LLC, mostly evident in flexibility. There are drawbacks, too, but for many eligible companies, this is a sound way [...]
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admin commented on the blog post Keep Your Eye on Affiliate Programs 1 year ago
That’s right Tom. One of the things that’s never mentioned is all the FREE BRANDING benefits that are realized from all the ads that are put up, all the FREE PR from posting, etc.
Affiliate programs greatly benefit the company running the program and most affiliates make little to no money.
The major flaw is the inability [...]
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admin wrote a new blog post: Keep Your Eye on Affiliate Programs 1 year ago
Affiliate programs are not a new idea. They’ve gained a form of rebirth lately due to the ease with which the internet lends itself to their use, but in the end the idea of rewarding somebody for bringing business to you is as old as business itself. I can easily imagine merchants in ancient Egypt [...]
