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1951. | Quick Tip - Effective Meetings Have SMART Goals by Steve Kaye
The first step in planning an agenda is to identify the goals for the meeting. Properly done, goals have five S M A R T characteristics. They are:
Specific. The goal must tell exactly what ...
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1952. | Quick Tip - Effective Meetings Earn a Profit by Steve Kaye
Most people treat meetings as a free resource that can be used to deal with any issue. As a result, huge amounts of time and money are wasted on trivia.
A meeting is a ...
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1953. | Making the financial transition! by Damien Senn
Making the financial transition from paid employment to earning a living on your own is probably the single biggest challenge facing many would be entrepreneurs. For most, the mere thought of financial insecurity holds them back from even trying. But if you have the vision, persistence and the ability ...
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1954. | Kiss ( Keep it simple stupid) by Rose DesRochers
Writing your privacy policy
Not every web surface is going to understand lawyer talk. Most online privacy policies are written by lawyers and as a web user we don't know half of what it means. Therefore I suggest that you write a privacy ...
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1955. | MyCustomTailor.com actively seeks business partners in the state by Shan Sharma
After growing relentlessly and expanding its business globally during the past few years MyCustomTailor.com a business portal that interfaces custom tailors spread all over the globe with the custom clothing production giant located in Thailand, has started actively seeking business partners in South Carolina. This ...
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1956. | Professional Asphalt Paving Contractor's In California by Brett Lane
Choosing an asphalt paving contractor can be a major event if you don't take cautionary measures to ensure proper work to be conducted. First, you must review your service provider's credentials and make sure that they have a well known history of success in the asphalt paving industry. ...
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1957. | Have you unintentionally set your business up for failure? by Maria Marsala
No one sets out to fail! Most business owners read all the
statistics (maybe more than once) before they open their
doors. Many know the reasons why businesses fail. But some
businesses operate under this paradigm: "failure can ...
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1958. | 23 things to say when someone wants to "pick your brain" by Maria Marsala
Many service business owners these days are
"giving away" their business services – and then
wonder why people aren't hiring them in droves. In
the name of "marketing," business owners are
providing way too much information for free. Some
shifts in thinking are necessary if these business
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1959. | Ten Reasons to Finally Create A Business Plan by Maria Marsala
This is a story, about a business owner who wasn't doing very
well in business at all. She had no business plan, no marketing
plan written down, but had heard, quite a bit, how creating one
would help.
So she moved 3000 ...
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1960. | Hermes Bancorp with George Haligua by Steven Harrid
Hermes Bancorp manages over $15 billion USD in assets and offers a comprehensive array of investment solutions from which institutional clients around the world can select, according to their objectives and needs. The founder, Mr. George Haligua, oversees the $15 billion hedge fund-of-funds portfolio ...
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1961. | Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 1, General Strategies for Unproductive Behavior by Steve Kaye
It happens easily. You're conducting a meeting and suddenly a small side meeting starts. Then someone introduces an unrelated issue. Someone else ridicules the new issue. Everyone laughs, except the person who mentioned the idea. Then someone insults the person who told the joke. Two people stand ...
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1962. | Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 2, Multiple Conversations by Steve Kaye
Side conversations ruin meetings by destroying focus and fragmenting participation.
Approach 1: Ask for cooperation
Start by asking everyone to cooperate. Look at the middle of the group (instead of at the talker) and say:
"Excuse me (pause to gain everyone's attention). I ...
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1963. | Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 3, Drifting From the Topic by Steve Kaye
Although new ideas lead to creative solutions, they can be a challenge when they interrupt or distract the work on an issue.
Approach 1: Question the relationship to topic
When new ideas seem inappropriate, ...
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1964. | Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 4, Quiet Participants by Steve Kaye
There are many reasons why someone would decline to participate during a meeting. While some of these may be valid, others may warrant intervention in order to hold an effective meeting.
An effective meeting depends upon ...
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1965. | Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 5, Dominant Participants by Steve Kaye
While dominant participants contribute significantly to the success of a meeting, they can also overwhelm, intimidate, and exclude others. Thus, you want to control their energy without losing their support.
Approach 1: Ask others ...
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1966. | Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 6, Deadlocked Discussions by Steve Kaye
Although a meeting is a vehicle for resolving differences, it can break down when the participants become mired in a disagreement.
Approach 1: Form a subcommittee
Ask for volunteers from the opposing viewpoints to form a subcommittee to resolve the issue. This is a useful approach, because: 1) ...
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1967. | Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 7, Personal Attacks by Steve Kaye
Personal attacks hurt people, mar communication, and end creativity. If they become part of a meeting's culture, they drive the participants into making safe and perhaps useless contributions.
Approach 1: Speak to the group
Set the stage for the group to enforce its culture by making ...
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1968. | Local Search on Cell Phones will Derail Yellow Page Directory Usage by Dr. Lynella Grant
Local Businesses have Been Slow to Capitalize on Search Engine Notice
Yellow Page directory usage has been falling for years. But most merchants who've always relied on their directory listing for new business have not taken the necessary steps to promote themselves online as well. ...
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1969. | Microsoft Great Plains Middle East - Arabic Language Support by Vincent Ong
Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is marketed for mid-size companies in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, as well as in Middle East.
One of the strengths of Great Plains is its ability to be localized. This makes Great Plains compatible with almost all countries in ...
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1970. | Wholesale Buyers Versus Retail Customers by Michael Michaelsen
Are wholesale buyers and retail customers really different? Frankly, there are two answers to this question: yes and no. Yes, because they are different from the buyers and those selling to buyers' point of view and no, because the principles that apply are the same for both types ...
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1971. | The Gold is in the Opt-in List by Kathleen Gage
When I consult with small and home based business owners, more times than not one of the greatest concerns they have is how to increase reach to a targeted market while keeping costs down. Hands down, effectively using the power of the Internet is the cornerstone to achieving this ...
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1972. | What to Ask When You're Invited to a Meeting by Steve Kaye
Here are five questions that you must ask before agreeing to attend a meeting.
1) Where is the agenda? A meeting without an agenda is like a journey without a map; it will ...
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1973. | What Do I Need to Start Scrapbooking? by Robert Smith
The best thing about scrapbooking is that although there are a plethora of scrapbooking supplies available on the market, you really don't need a lot to make your very first scrapbook. Basically, all you need ...
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1974. | The Benefits of using Freelance Consultants / Trainers for your projects by John Roberts
What are the benefits of using a Freelance Consultant / Trainer for your next project?
Companies are often wary of employing freelance trainers when setting up a new project or contemplating a 'roll out' operation or ‘change’ scenario. There are however distinct advantages to using freelance as against ...
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1975. | All Fortunes Begin With an Idea! by Damien Senn
A new idea is merely the combination of two or more old ideas. The creation of a new idea is the critical first step in establishing any business.
People who dream of setting up their own business but don’t succeed, generally fall into one ...
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1976. | Effective Meetings by Phone - Part 2, How to Hold a Teleconference by Steve Kaye
Even a well-planned teleconference can go poorly. Some people treat any meeting as a casual social activity instead of as a serious business project. And a teleconference brings special challenges because people attend them in the privacy of their office without ...
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1977. | Effective Meetings by Phone - Part 1, How to Plan a Teleconference by Steve Kaye
Teleconferences can be a boon or a bust. On the positive side, they allow people at different locations to attend meetings without having to travel. On the negative side, they can degenerate into frustrating struggles with uncontrolled babble. This occurs because people lack visual contact, which hinders effective ...
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1978. | Microsoft Great Plains Technical Support : Typical Questions and Answers by Vincent Ong
Microsoft has always been known for two things - outstanding products and even more outstanding product support. Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) continues the tradition by providing excellent customer support for partners and customers worldwide.
Technical support offered by MBS depends on the region. ...
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1979. | 10 Tips To Help You Choose The Right Business by Kelly Lowe
With so many opportunities available today, it is hard to decide which business is the right one for you. Choosing the wrong business can cost you both time and money, not to mention the loss of your hopes and dreams.
Use the ...
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1980. | Effective Meetings Begin With a Real Agenda by Steve Kaye
Everyone knows that an agenda is the key to an effective meeting. But an agenda that consists of a list of nouns, such as budget, software, and picnic, is useless. Here’s how to prepare a ...
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1981. | Moving companies & movers by emil
Moving Companies - new websites, http://www.mover4u.com. http://www.123movingcompany.com The new sites provides the ultimate guide for moving and relocation services. By using them, users can quickly find certified movers, auto transporters, real estate services, and more than 20 other categories in the directory already, users ...
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1982. | Why You Fail in the Internet Home Business ? by Yochention Saritoh
A lot of people have tried the Internet home businesses that are widely spread in the internet industries nowadays. In contrary, often we heard people that are making hundreds or even thousands of dollars each month from internet home business. Well, you might say that they ...
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1983. | Orbital Welding by Mahesh Ugale
Orbital welding is Automatic Tunguston inert gas welding. It eliminates chances of manual errors in welding. It produces identical welds for hundred of times hence accuracy in welding.
Orbital welding was first used in the ...
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1984. | The main principles about working at home through internet business by heshuo
When you go to Google, you can find thousands of millions of searching result about ‘work at home through internet’. It shows that so many people are dealing with internet business now. That’s good because internet is a gold main as long as ...
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1985. | Government Buying and Selling on the Internet by Christina DeMers
Global Insight, a leading economic and financial forecasting company, (formerly DRI-WEFA), states that all levels of government (federal, state, and local) should see steady increases in the purchases of goods and services through the year 2009.
Vendors willing to make the commitment ...
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1986. | Lokmangal Biofertilizers by Mahesh Deshmukh
After the introduction of chemical fertilizers in the last century, farmers were happy of getting increased yield in agriculture in the beginning. But slowly chemical fertilizers started displaying their ill-effects such as leaching out, and polluting water basins, destroying micro-organisms and friend insects, making the crop more ...
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1987. | Ten Tips for Effective Meetings by Steve Kaye
Here are ten things that you can do to hold more effective meetings.
1) Avoid meetings. Test the importance of a meeting by asking, "What happens without it?" If your answer is, "Nothing," then don't call the meeting.
2) ...
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1988. | Spruce Your Environment, Spruce Your Spirit by Patricia Twitchell
After a long winter, this is the time of year to spruce up your environment with a good Spring Cleaning. It’s amazing what doing this can do for one’s state of mind.
Not only does a good spring cleaning seem to lift our spirits, ...
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1989. | Creating Time the Virtual Way by © Danielle Keister, The Relief
Virtual Assistants are taking on those time-consuming administrative chores and special projects, and giving business owners more breathing room to grow, succeed and fall in love with their business again.
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Time. As a small business owner, it's the commodity you ...
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1990. | TCICommercial.com Gives Free Disk Space for Commercial Brokers. by TCICommercial.com
This past week, TCICommercial.com has announced they are giving away online webserver space for Licensed Commercial Real Estate Brokers.
For Licensed Commercial Real Estate Brokers, marketing their properties to their target market has been an ongoing struggle. This past week TCICommercial.com (the commercial side of TheCreativeInvestor.com) has announced they ...
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1991. | Overwhelmed and Overworked: The Myth of American Productivity by Virginia Bola, PsyD
Employment finally seemed back on track during the last few months of 2004. Politicians crowed that "Our tax cuts are working." Then, without warning, further job growth slowed to a crawl, resulting in a deficit of more than 2 million ...
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1992. | Beware the opposition! by Damien Senn
Any time you make changes in your life you are going to be met with opposition from people who would prefer you to stay exactly as you are. Sadly, these people are often the ones that love you the most; ...
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1993. | Create a Business You Love! by Damien Senn
So you have entrepreneurial aspirations, but you're stuck in a job working for someone else. You wake up, commute to work, work hard, pay your bills and then come home exhausted. You repeat the pattern for another four days, becoming increasingly tired as the week ...
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1994. | 7 Myths That Make Meetings Miserable by Steve Kaye
Myth 1: Executives belong in meetings.
Although the demands of business cause executives to attend more meetings than other professionals, executives need to avoid meetings. Top management is responsible for vision, strategy, plans, and communication. That means executives should spend most of ...
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1995. | Businesses Need to 'Rehumanise' by Jesse S. Somer
Big companies and corporations have lost the human touch. The question is, when will humanity catch on, or like robotic sheep will we do whatever the business shepherds tell us, no matter how bad we are treated? I am talking from firsthand interaction ...
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1996. | Believe yourself, you can start your own home-based business to earn extra money by heshuo
You can get millions of searching results through Google if you type “Home-based business”. Yes, more and more people choose small business to start at home. The chances are there. But for yourself, how to choose? Maybe precautions cost you a lot of time to start, ...
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1997. | 20 Ways To Convert Visitors Into Subscribers by patrick83
1. You could offer your visitors a discount on all
the products you sell if they subscribe to your free
e-zine.
2. You could offer your visitors a free ebook if
they subscribe to your free e-zine.
3. You ...
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1998. | Procrastination ? Attitude Determines Destiny. by Gary Mutton.
As a teenager in the 60's, I saw a movie, starring Sidney Poitier.
"To Sir With Love"
The theme of the movie was a New teacher at a Secondary School in London's notoriously Tough East End.
In those time's ...
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1999. | Make Lots of Money with No Work by Kathleen Gage
Recently I received an email message that went something like this, “I want to do exactly what you are doing in my business.” Come to find out what this person wanted to “do” was make lots of money using the Internet ...
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2000. | 19 Ways To Attract Higher Paying Clients by Catherine Franz
Some people have little difficulty attracting and
maintaining clients who have higher discretionary funds to
spend for solutions. Others can't get to first base. If you
are one of those and want clients that can pay ...
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