19th Century Advice for 21st Century Communicators
What do instant communcations and the Pony Express have in common?
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Better Communication For Better Business – But How?
We all know that effective communication is essential for business and social success. However, what exactly dioes this mean. Dr Bill gives nine straightforward suggestions for making sure your and your organisation's communication gets results.
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Bring Your Visitors Back Clamoring for More! Maintain and Improve Your Web Site Weekly - Part 2
80% of your Web site is Maintenance! Before you invite potential buyers to see your masterpiece you need to check and correct all parts of your site. Use these seven tests to guarantee you loyal customers and clients.
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Corporation HQ in Ohio
Ohio has 28 of the fortune 500 HQs there. Many corporations have picked Ohio for its regulatory policies in the past and Corporations have been willing to hang their hat there; some come and some go, but in this decade is the first time they have a net loss of Corporate HQs in Ohio. Some was due to the Tech Bubble where many companies dropped off. Yet the fortune 1000 listings Ohio is about equal or better.
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Do You Know and Plan For The 3-R's for Your Business?
Technology, the global marketplace are important factors in today's business environment, but when you boil it down, business today is not that much different than business 20, 50 or 100 years ago. Learn this simple, tried and true business model that can help deliver immediate results.
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Expect to Get! A Fail Safe Formula
People ask me about unleashing their potential – how to do it, what steps to take and more. Because of this recurring and important question I have worked to distill part of the answer into a formula. This formula will help us because if we can identify the inputs and use the formula correctly, we can improve our performance, and provide greater service to others, as we reach towards our potential.
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Franchise Rule, Thoughts For The Future
The Federal Trade Commission recently put forth a report to the franchse industry for comments to use in an upcoming rule-making event, which is sure to modify the current franchise rule. Many have been critical of additional rules in the industry, but none more critical than myself.
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Franchise Rule Staff Report RF511003-1 at the FTC completely flawed
Having been in the franchising industry for some time now, I always find it fascinating when a regulator arbitrarily decides that we need more laws. As if we do not have enough laws impeding commerce there is always some regulator somewhere who says we need more rules.
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Franchise Seller Definition in the Franchise Rule
Recently the Federal Trade Commission has attempted to report on the franchising industry in a 432 page report. On page 44 of the report they discuss the definition of “Franchise Seller,” which no one ever uses in the real world. The term we use in modern day franchising is; Franchisor.
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High Cost of 'Not Doing!'
Managers have their eye on cost in product development and HR issue. But these can only reduce at one point. They hardly see at waste of not doing anything of their workforce and machines. Read how these factors affect the bottomline of any business.
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How A Tree Can Help You Grow Your Business
A tree is a natural example of a perfect business. It energises us with fresh oxygen while recycling our waste air. It absorbs energy directly from the sun while we still have to digest food. It alig...
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How To Provide Outstanding Delivery
Sales and Delivery: Two concepts and departments that must work hand in hand to provide your customers with an optimum buying experience. Whether you are in retail, wholesale, manufacturing, or service, the sales and delivery of your products and services will make or break your company. Why is it then that so many companies fail to provide outstanding delivery of their services?
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How to Recruit Dealers/Distributors to Sell For You
Everyone dreams of owning a super money-making business where other people do all the work, and their only duties involve the approval of sales and bank deposit slips. It's the only way to go as a business owner.
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Make Your Fortune in a Paper Business
The problem with some business ideas is their cost.
To manufacture and market a product you have invented
could cost you millions of dollars. The investment in
machinery, buildings, inventory and other expenditures
could bankrupt you before your first sale ever occurred.
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Resume Writing Business Opportunity
Learn how one man is doing very well with his resume writing business online.
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Some Economic Background on South Western CO
We were impressed with South Western Colorado as a good place to hang your hat and a pretty good place to run a business. Great labor supply, good transportation and excellent tourist flows. The town is growing in Cortez and up the hill in Durango as well.
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The Another World: Outsourcing From Inside
Nowadays outsourcing gets more and more popular. Is it bad or good?
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The Fourth World Or, Help, I Need An Economist
In the short term Oil prices rise and fall but we accept the generally upward trend as being part of life and a minor consequence of the comfortable existence we lead in the West.
Is this continuing picture an inevitable future or is the Global picture beginning to swing the another way.
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The New Ways To Do The business: MBA or CIO?
The old and standard business administration concepts included in any current MBA program are very important, but today the companies are very different.
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Turning Chaos Into Calm: Creating Your Productive Environment
It's your first moment back at your desk after the annual
meeting. The telephone is already ringing, 314 email messages
lurk in your inbox, the staff meeting starts in 20 minutes, and
your coffee just spattered on something marked “Urgent.” You look up at that ticking clock, feeling smothered by all the demands on your time and attention.
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Walmart, As It Was
As it was, Walmart was a wonderful part of my life. For a short while I sincerely believed what I was told and even if I had my doubts I pushed them aside because the company that I grew to love seemed to be something I had never come across in almost twenty five years of retail.
Now with a book about it written and the possibility that it may be too controversial for anyone to print, I may have to do it myself. I do not know if she has even ever met or talked to him. I do know that he is nothing like his father from what I have been told about Sam.
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We Are All Consultants
Once you understand you are a consultant (inside or outside the organization) you can be more successful by understanding how the consulting process works, and what role you can play within it. Learn to have greater influence, be more persuasive and hone your consulting role!
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Why Marketing Fails: Situational Marketing 101
When you find a match between the work you are passionate about doing and a problem your clients are aware that they have, you have struck gold.
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Workflow Management Software: Businesses are Getting into the Flow
Ah, the ebb and flow of work. Sometimes it seems like there is much more ebbing than flowing with all of the workflow, the deadlines, the projects and presentations, but overall the tide seems to constantly be flowing in and out, in and out, in and . . . sorry.
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Your Federal Government Grants Agency Telling You No? Never Take No For An Answer!
Your federal government grants agency telling you no on your federal grant proposal? I know how discouraging that can be.
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