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1901. | Team Building Part 2 - Honesty is the Key! by John Roberts
1. Honesty – The Key !
It really is that simple! The basic foundation of building and running REALLY successful teams is TOTAL honesty! Sounds simple, but it can be one of the hardest things to implement due to existing workplace cultures and peoples long-term conditioning to them. If you ...
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1902. | Web Conferences Versus Video Conferences by John Simpson
Web conferences allow users to attend 'virtual' meetings
from all over the world. All that's usually required is an
Internet connection and the software if a particular client
is being used.
Video conferencing will allow two-way audio and ...
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1903. | How to Know if You are in the Right Career by Kathleen Gage
Ever wonder if you are in the right career? If you are like most people you have. Did you know that 80% of people are currently misemployed? They are either underemployed, not happy with their current position ...
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1904. | Pet Business Ideas by Chrissie Cole
“When all the receipts are tallied, Americans will have spent $13.64 billion on their pets in 2004. And that number is climbing each and every year.” If you want to start a business of your own and you are also a pet lover – there ...
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1905. | Expand Your Resourcefullness! by Damien Senn
The success and failure for the entrepreneur is largely dictated by the ability to gain access to resources, both personal as well as those of others.
So the big question is then 'how does one become more resourceful?' Like many of the skills of the ...
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1906. | The Curse of Success Geniuses by Jason Katzenback
Don't talk to me about how to succeed! I've read success advice and books and articles. They're all…"
"What Do You Think I am Going to Say?”
"They're all good? They're too good!
Why, when I've read just what to do to succeed, I am ready to ...
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1907. | Marketing is More Than a Token Process by Kathleen Gage
“Necessity is the mother of invention!” The first time I heard this was nearly twenty years ago when I was introduced to Tony Robbins’ material. I was listening to, and applying, information from his thirty day series. I have to admit, the first time I ...
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1908. | Sales Forecasting For New Business by Ben Botes
Sales forecasting is the process of organizing and analysing information in a way that makes it possible to estimate what your sales will be. This Micro Module outlines some simple methods of forecasting sales using easy to find data. Books containing ...
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1909. | Do You Love Food? - Then Maybe Opening a Restaurant is Not Such a Crazy Idea by Howard Schwartz
The restaurant industry in the United States employs an estimated 12.2 million people, making it the nation's largest employer outside of government agencies.
The restaurant industry in the United States employs an estimated 12.2 million ...
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1910. | Rules To Setting Business Goals And Objectives: Why And How To Be Smart by Otilia Otlacan
We all know that nothing runs without a plan, and a plan cannot run without having its objectives set.
That applies to any kind of plan, whether we're talking business or personal finances, university ...
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1911. | Residual Income Is The Best Kind Of Income by Dan Brown
The concept of this is for you to offer a subscription type product as an upsell or backend product. For example, if you're selling an ebook for $37 offer a subscription to a related e-zine for $9.95 a month. Instead of an e-zine, it could be ...
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1912. | Asphalt Paving: Striping Your Parking Lot by Brett S. Lane
As you may already know, asphalt paved parking lots do need maintenance from time to time. One known asphalt paving maintenance technique is to have your parking lot re-striped to add a nicer look to existing asphalt paving ...
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1913. | Job Interview Answers by Sanjib Ahmad
Last week I found an interesting book called Ultimate Guide To Job Interview Answers . Having myself hired many people I was intrigued what the book had to offer. Of course before being responsible for hiring people, I had been on the opposite ...
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1914. | Business Plans by Sanjib Ahmad
Way back in business school we had to churn out business plans every semester. As soon as the assignment would drop we would be scrambling for information. Start the number crunching game, do the analysis, do some mental ...
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1915. | One of The Best New Business Opportunities May Be Right there in Your Home - a New Daycare Business. by Howard Schwartz
The day care industry is expanding. There are now more than 100,000 licensed child-care centers and 250,000 licensed family day care homes across the United States.
The market for day care increases every year as the working mother in society increasingly return to work to contribute financially ...
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1916. | How To Establish Great Credit by Alex Fir
Building a good credit history is important. If you have no reported credit history, it may take time to establish your first credit account. This problem affects young people just beginning careers as well as older people who have never used credit. It also affects divorced or widowed women ...
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1917. | Ten Effective Ways To Reduce Your Business Costs by Dan Brown
Business cost can make or break a business when your just starting out. Here's 10 simple yet powerful ideas to make sure the cost of doing business...does not put you out of business.
1. Barter
If you ...
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1918. | Getting Grant Funding For Your Nonprofit Organization by Berwyn J. Kemp
Do you need grant funding for your nonprofit organization? If you do you are most certainly not alone in your needs. This combined with the fact that because of regular government budget cuts there’s not as many federal dollars available as there once was. And because of ...
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1919. | Anatomy of an Office Chair by Nick Telford
The office chair is ubiquitous in every part of the office
- in cubicles, the CEO's room, conference rooms, the
cafeteria, the reception area and more. Whatever the area,
the purpose is singular - to sit down in a comfortable and
healthy manner.
The office chair is no longer ...
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1920. | What Is The Perfect Office Chair? by Nick Telford
Office chairs come in all shapes, sizes and colors.
Ergonomics tells us about a healthy design for the office
chair. Chairs can come with adjustable parts. Yet, the
human body also comes in a variety of shapes and ...
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1921. | Ten Reasons To Form A Strategic Business Alliance by Dan Brown
A strategic alliance is when two or more businesses join together for a set period of time. The businesses, usually, are not in direct competition, but have similar products or services that are directed toward the same target audience. Below are ten reasons to create a strategic alliance.
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1922. | Power Tips For A Successful Home Business by Benny K
Today the Internet is full of oppurtunities; the foremost is working from home. Here I’ll give you some power tips for successful email marketing. Given the inherent problems with traditional marketing techniques, it’s important to master the email marketing into your overall campaign. Sending out an ...
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1923. | Create Your Vision of Success by Kathleen Gage
Most marketing strategies are about being in motion. Have a plan, be proactive, and take the necessary action steps. Although being proactive is a necessary aspect of marketing, an often overlooked and yet equally important ...
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1924. | Basic things you should know about a lease purchase contract by Amanda Shoemaker
What exactly is a contract?
By definition, a contract is an agreement between two or more parties to do, or to refrain from doing, a particular thing in exchange for something valuable. The parties can be ...
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1925. | Three Simple Ideas That Increase Profit… FAST! by Jo Ball
First, have you ever asked for something and got something different to what you thought you’d asked for? Or have you ever thought you had asked for something and got a blank expression or worse… just got ...
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1926. | Inventor Help: Go Hire a Great Patent Lawyer by Howard Schwartz
Inventors should review hiring a top tier patent attorney, versus filing on their own or even worse doing nothing to protect their most important asset.
A patent is the property right given by the U.S Patent and Trademark Office to an inventor. It gives the inventor ...
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1927. | How to Avoid Appraisal Problems in the Sale of Your Home by Jeanette Joy Fisher
Before you sign a contract to sell your home, check to see if the purchase offer depends on financing. Look for a clause witch states that the offer is contingent on your home's appraisal done by the buyer's mortgage lender. This clause causes many home sellers to lose ...
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1928. | How to Start a Dog Bakery Business by Chrissie Cole
A dog bakery business is a lucrative choice for a pet business to start if you want to enter the pet industry! Opening a dog bakery also allows you a few different choices as to how you ...
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1929. | 10 Attributes of Effective Meetings by Steve Kaye
Here are ten fundamental concepts that characterize an effective meeting.
Definition: A meeting is a business activity where select people gather to perform work that requires a team effort.
A meeting, like any business event, succeeds when it ...
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1930. | What You Don't Want to Know About Bad Meetings by Steve Kaye
Bad meetings are a cultural illness that senior executives pass on to new employees.
Long pointless meetings are useful in that they keep incompetent people from interfering with those who are working.
An employee who needs permission to buy a box of paperclips can spend tens ...
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1931. | Come Home Rich - How to Get the Most out of Your Next Conference by Steve Kaye
Success in your career depends upon how well you manage your professional development. A prime source of this development comes from being a member of a professional association that relates to your career. As a member, you can attend conferences where you advance your skills and ...
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1932. | How to Deal With Salespeople by Steve Kaye
If you're an executive, you may sometimes feel like a open jelly sandwich at a picnic. Every crazy critter in the world wants to bite into your budget. Here's how to protect your time and preserve your sanity.
Ask ...
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1933. | How to Save Money on Training by Steve Kaye
1) Use a live instructor. Adults learn best by doing, practicing, and experiencing. Effective instructors customize their programs to meet people’s needs, provide counsel on individual challenges, and respond to questions. Videos, CDs, and E-learning are seldom ...
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1934. | Start Thinking Strategically About Your Business by Erica Olsen
“You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing the small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” - Alvin Toffler
While we all know it is important to plan for the future, very few businesses actually do. Instead of ...
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1935. | Secrets of Successful Couplepreneurs by Jean Charles
Are you in business with your life partner and can't tell the difference between your bedroom and the boardroom? Welcome to the world of Couplepreneurs™!
What are "Couplepreneurs"? This term describes any two persons living together in a committed relationship and also running a business together. Couplepreneurship is a ...
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1936. | Team Building part 1 - Another Brick in the Wall! by John Roberts
The first in a series of articles giving a slightly different viewpoint on effective team building, condensed from an original seminar presented by the author, John Roberts. John is a Freelance Training Consultant and director of JayrConsulting Ltd. Part 1 deals with selecting and building the initial team. ...
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1937. | Security for your PC - FREE and painless by John Roberts
Painless (and FREE) P.C. Protection
Viruses, Bugs, Worms, Dataminers, Spybots, and Trojan horses. The Internet is a veritable minefield of things that can invade your PC and affect it's Security and Performance.
You can do something about it and you can do it FREE, using some ...
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1938. | It's All About Beliefs by Bob Lodie
Changing your mindset can have a significant impact on achieving your goals.
We’ve all heard about the power of positive thinking but does it work? How does your thinking influence your actions and get you the results you want?
Understanding Your ...
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1939. | Memo: Sustaining Growth in Your Business by Bob Lodie
What gets measured gets done.
How do you keep your business growing? How do you ensure the health of your business and your personal income against threats from competition, market cycles, commission payout changes, regulation of all ...
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1940. | Saying Goodbye to Stacks of Paper and Distractions by Bob Lodie
A daily journal will save you time, reduce stress and make you more productive.
Several months ago, I visited the office of a million dollar producer. I was shocked to find that although he was in charge of an extremely successful practice, his office looked like it had been ...
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1941. | Surviving Tough Times Online by Jim Edwards
- by Jim Edwards
(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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With economic problems dominating the headlines, all
businesses, online and off, need to make the most of every
single customer contact if they hope to stay in business!
Consumers want ...
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1942. | Starting a New Business Online? by Jim Edwards
- by Jim Edwards
(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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It seems everybody has a "can't miss" idea for starting a
new web-based business, despite innumerable news accounts
of most web businesses going belly-up in a short time.
Most folks still think, mistakenly ...
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1943. | Failing Forward Successfully by Debbie Allen
Can Mistakes Be Good For Your Business?
Hopefully you make a mistake now and again, because failure can actually be good for you and your business. If you haven’t made any mistakes for a while, you ...
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1944. | What In The World Is This Google Sandbox Theory Thing? And How Do I Beat It? by Brad Callen
Ok, so over the past month or so I've been collecting various search engine optimization questions from all of you. Today, I'm going to answer what was the most frequently asked question over the past month.
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1945. | Why Training Fails by Steve Kaye
Sometimes when I conduct my workshop on Effective Meetings, one of the participants will ask, "Where's my boss?"
And I say, "Your boss claimed to be an expert on holding effective meetings."
Then the person laughs. ...
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1946. | Why Would Anyone Hold a Bad Meeting? by Steve Kaye
Pssst, want a stock tip that will make you rich? Okay, here it is: phone a public corporation and ask to speak with the CEO.
If a secretary tells you that the CEO expects to be busy in meetings for the next six hundred years, call your broker and ...
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1947. | How Leaders Create Trust by Steve Kaye
People buy from you, offer help, and grant rewards based on trust. Here are ways to increase your success by creating trust. While we do most of these things, missing even one of them can ruin ...
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1948. | Blueprint for Leadership - How to Be a Better Leader by Steve Kaye
If you were to build a house, you would begin with a blueprint. This blueprint proves useful because it contains more than directions on how to build a house. It also describes the finished house.
So, what does this have ...
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1949. | Quick Tip - Effective Meetings Have a Complete Agenda by Steve Kaye
Most agendas for a meeting look like this.
* Budget
* Payroll
* Staff
* Sales
* Vutszxtn
Some people would tell me, "That's a perfectly good agenda. I know what all of those things mean, except, uh, 'vutszxtn'." The point ...
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1950. | Quick Tip - Effective Meetings Begin With a Goal by Steve Kaye
Goals are critically important for the success of a meeting. You must know what you want so you can ask for it. And the participants need to know what you want so they can help ...
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