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701. | The Passion for Home Business by By Greg Carson
Whatever your job, whatever walk of life you come from, and whatever aspirations you may have, yet without passion, you will not be able to prosper as you wish. Passion - surely every great luminary ...
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702. | Business Phone Blues by Kingston Amadan
I work for a specialty after market auto parts retailer. We have no showroom, so around twenty percent of our business comes from the Internet while eighty percent comes from the telephone. We send out catalogs to those who request them or anyone who has placed an ...
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703. | Handling the Purchase of a Business Phone System by Kingston Amadan
Purchasing a business phone system is not an easy endeavor, but with the right mind set and a little knowledge about business telephones, you can find a viable, budget friendly solution to your business' communication needs.
One of the first decisions you will need to make is ...
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704. | When Following Up Hurts You And Your Customer by Mark Silver
Your customer just enjoyed the heck out of your product or service. Now, it's a week later and you want to follow up- is it still working? Are they still getting value?
A Heart of Money participant asked this question recently: "How do I follow up ...
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705. | Consider This by by Greg Carson
Many varied reasons exist why people tend to start their own home-based business. Whatever their choices are, certainly they have reasons that in their perspective are valid. It is a wise choice to assume that the reasons driving your fellow home-businessers are as good as your own.
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706. | Letterhead Design for Beginners by Jake Gourd
This article describes various points to consider when designing letterheads and stationery as part of a complete business identity package.
It is important when you design your letterhead that you make sure that the design does not interfere with the letterhead's purpose. For instance, if ...
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707. | Planning for the Future, Planning for the Now, Planning for Success by Linda Finkle
As business executives and business owners, planning is a natural part of our business lives. We plan for product rollouts, employee growth, revenues, and more, but we don't necessarily look at planning as a process.
The value ...
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708. | Expanding your business by Expanding your business
Successfully launching your home-based business doesn't start exactly as you may hope it will. Starting the business is of course a crucial step; however, following the preliminary actions you need to find ways to share and spread your business by ...
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709. | Internet business 2006 by Erich Strasser
Internet business
Today millions over millions websites are online. Many of them wants to make money trough the internet. The starting signal for the big run on the advertising platform "internet" was Google Adsense. ...
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710. | Four Ways to Get Your Invention Unstuck by Matthew Yubas
Is your invention stuck? Here's four ways to Getting Resolution, Gearing Up, and Moving Forward.
Melissa (not her real name) has been working on her invention for over three and a half years. It's not a complicated invention, ...
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711. | Strategy And Tactics in Marketing by John Satterfield CHT
Understanding strategy can drive revenues and simplify your marketing
Most companies only operate on a tactical level. This amounts to the boss going to the staff and saying "Go get more business." It's been said that more ...
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712. | How do stress balls work? by John Hanksworth
Stress is an inescapable fact our lives and can manifest itself regardless of one's age, gender, or lifestyle. It affects our rational thinking capabilities and prevents us from enjoying our natural disposition, which is to be happy.
There are many stress relieving techniques that have evolved over ...
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713. | Cross Promoting Techniques that Work by John Carr
Cross promotions are not a new idea. They have been
used by businesses for a very long time. For example,
a real-estate company may promote a certain lawyer to
close a sale, as the ...
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714. | Budgeting basics by Mark Lambie
Is your credit getting you down? Ever feel like there is not enough money
in the month to pay your bills? You are not alone. Many people struggle to
make ends meet, probably more than you realize. But good news is here.
There ...
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715. | What is Private Mortgage Insurance? by Adam Smith
Private mortgage insurance is much more prevalent today than it was just a few decades ago. Unfortunately there is some confusion as to what purpose this type of mortgage insurance serves. Without going into detail, private mortgage insurance helps more people qualify to buy a house. Thus it ...
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716. | Real Estate Attorney Start Your Broker Business by Adam Smith
Have you ever thought of going to work as a broker? The broker business offers a variety of different career paths depending on your interests. As you might have guessed, brokers bring interested parties ...
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717. | Property Buying Guide for the First Time Buyer by Clare Stevens
Buying a home? It can be an exciting—and overwhelming!—process, especially for first time buyers deluged by unfamiliar processes, big decisions, and what may often seem as too many choices. Here are 4 ways to make it easier.
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718. | Wholesale Tea: A Market of Possibilities by David Giusti
As the business world grows, the physical globe shrinks as products from all nations become business opportunities for companies of all sizes. A wide variety of items are available and relatively simple to acquire as the internet provides a ...
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719. | Designing A Website That Sells by John Carr
Would you buy meat from a grocery store that left the
bad meat in with the good meat or wasn't clean? Would
you buy a car from a sales lot that had totaled
automobiles on the front lot? I wouldn't and neither
would you. Your website ...
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720. | Free phone Numbers: help to keep your business going by Jennie Parker
Free phone numbers are a highly valuable business service. Everyone loves to save money or avoid paying money on communicating via a phone. If you provide your potential customers with the convenience of a 0800 ...
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721. | 12 tips for effective leadership by John Graham
Having and maintaining effective leadership over people in the workplace, whether they are your employees or just individuals you supervise, is the key to keeping employees producing at their best. Below are 12 quick tips to help you produce and maintain effective leadership at work:
1. Ask yourself, ...
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722. | How To Build and Maximize the Power of Your Database by RJ Baxter
If you have read any of my previous articles, you know that I am a big advocate of database management. The purpose of this article is to dig deeper into the nuts and bolts of how to build, develop, and maximize ...
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723. | Life After Bankruptcy | Let's get it going! by Alan Thomas
Let's begin your life after bankruptcy¡now!
Ok, so you just received your discharge papers from
the bankruptcy court. Now what? Are you going to go
into the corner and hide? Or are you going to see this ...
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724. | Understanding Credit Card Transaction Fees: by Scott Burke
Q: I'm starting a new business and want to accept credit cards. It seems that all the credit card processors charge a lot of fees for each transaction. What are these fees?
A: Each credit card processing company operates somewhat differently, but there are a number ...
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725. | Catalogs for Shopping Freaks by viojieley gurrobat
Norin fusses with samples of foundation makeup in a department store. She smears some onto one cheek. Too dark. She wrinkles her nose. The second sample doesn't look right, either. The saleswoman at the cosmetics counter cleans Norin's face with a tissue and applies another tone. She turns to her ...
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726. | "C" is for "Creative Catalogs" by viojieley gurrobat
A lot have changed in the market over the years – a tough economy, rising prices of goods and customer's need for high quality products have imposed new demands on businesses. Evidently, the need for helpful, reliable information ...
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727. | Golden Rules For the Use of Autoresponders by John Carr
Autoresponders are a perfect way to increase traffic
to your site. They can save many valuable hours by
automatically answering emails concerning frequently
asked questions about a service or product or by ...
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728. | Customer Feedback Techniques by Eric Garner
When you have accurate, balanced and worthwhile information from your customers, you put yourself ahead of your competition in the marketing stakes. Here are 6 ways to get this information.
1. Ask Them. The simplest way to find out what people want from your ...
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729. | Things you need to know before buying a Tube filling machine. by Manan Ghosh
A tube-filling machine , more often than not, does not get the importance given to upstream process line machineries. The user considers it a mere packaging machine instead of an integrated process line ...
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730. | CFOs Need To Know the Fallacies Behind "Business as Usual" for Accounts Receivable by Kevin Calhoun
Introduction
The title, "CFOs Need To Know the Fallacies Behind 'Business as Usual'" is an installment of a series of white papers focusing on Business Process Improvement. This installment highlights:
The vital role Accounts Receivable plays ...
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731. | Finding the Right Equipment Supplier Paramount to Success in the Restaurant Industry by Kingston Amadan
Most companies with any degree of overhead know that finding the right supplier of products necessary to run their business is of the utmost importance. For most businesses, it can mean a substantial savings and reduce the headaches often associated ...
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732. | Make Your Business Effortlessly by Alex Smith
"Free Your Time"
Of course, information rules the world. Modern man deals with e-information. But many inconveniences are waiting for him. If one wants to work with business papers at home, it's necessary to copy ...
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733. | Little Giant Ladder Systems- Make Your Choice Wisely. by B. Becnel & K. Kravchenko
Here at Little Giant Ladder Depot we get numerous emails and phone calls from customers bewildered and upset by unprofessional Web based distributors. Usually it is a web site selling Little Giant Ladders along with a variety of other hot TV products. Many of these internet sellers have no idea ...
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734. | An Examination of Online Banking in the United Kingdom by Ysiad
In the UK, many banks and building societies are attempting to capture a sizeable percentage of the online banking market share. And it seems that the UK consumers are benefiting from this competition most. Online banking in ...
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735. | The best business card I ever saw by Jeff Goulding
I knew from the first moment I saw his card that I had to talk to the person who left it for me. Why did I feel so strongly about it?
Well, for a start, it made me laugh. Nothing is as important as being alive, ...
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736. | The Downlow on Buying and Selling Concert Tickets Online: Online Concert Tickets Sales by Jared Lock
Buying concert tickets online isn't scary. In fact, it's as easy as visiting Google and typing in the event you are looking for and follow with the word "tickets". However, a couple of questions may come to mind when browsing for sports or concert tickets .
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737. | Effective or Irritating: The Use of Pop Windows in Internet Marketing by John Carr
Effective or Irritating: The Use of Pop Windows in
Internet Marketing
By John Carr
A few years ago, pop-up windows were all the rage in
Internet marketing. It seemed that every time one
opened a web page they would be bombarded with offers
for ...
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738. | Ten Daily Habits to Explode Your Practice by Dr. Shawn Powers
Do you want to grow and expand your practice? Here are ten powerful habits you need to develop and start doing every day to ensure and nurture success as a practitioner.
Free the chains ...
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739. | Starting Your Own Courier Service by Robert W. Benjamin
Sooner or later everyone has dreamed of quitting their job and starting their own business. Unfortunately the main thing that stops or prevents someone from making the dream a reality is usualy what I call the 'two F's', ...
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740. | Thoughtfulness by Henry Ramsey
Of paramount importance and relevancy to true and lasting human accomplishment is the way we deliberate between short term gain and long term accomplishment. The overriding consideration must be our degree of thoughtfulness. Thoughtfulness means an honest examination of the desired objectives over time. It means adherence to the primary ...
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741. | Sales Compensation: Creating Performance Clarity by John F. Tallitsch
A prospective client called several days ago and asked: "What should I pay a great performer and what should I pay a salesperson who doesn't meet expectations?"
Assessing sales compensation effectiveness from the perspective of expected market pay levels ...
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742. | Social Networking - The Next Great Marketing Medium? by Rob Sullivan
There has been a virtual explosion of social networking sites in the past couple of years. Even the big players like Google, Yahoo and MSN are getting into it.
With so much interest in how social networks work, one ...
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743. | Business Success Without The Blindfold by Kalinda Rose Stevenson
"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion." --- Jack Welch
Vision is the first critical element in business success. Vision gives a clear picture of what you intend your business to accomplish. Without vision, ...
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744. | CELL PHONE ETIQUETTE: Are You a Cell Phone Sinner? Mobile Mistakes Could Wreck Your Career by Kate Zabriskie
In spite of their convenience and necessity, cell phones are now another means whereby we can irritate our fellow man. Theaters, restaurants, trains–even public restrooms–are no longer safe from the possibility of an untimely call. Two weeks ago I even heard someone ...
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745. | How Many People Can Squeeze into a Writing Project? by Stephen Woessner
Sit down at a content development meeting for a publication or large Web site, and you might wonder how writing could be so complicated. Look at all the people: editor, writer, researcher, copyeditor, proofreader—and who or ...
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746. | Three Steps to Improved Search Engine Rankings by Stephen Woessner
One of today's hottest marketing buzz phrases is "Search Engine Optimization", or SEO. SEO is the process of configuring an organization's Web site in such a way that when a person goes to Google (or other search engine) and searches for keywords related to the organization, ...
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747. | Learn Successful E-Mail Marketing Tips! by Stephen Woessner
E-mail marketing campaigns can be integral parts of any organization's marketing strategy. That's because e-mail marketing can be a powerful tool for differentiating a brand, driving targeted traffic to a Web site, and increasing sales. In addition, one of the greatest benefits of ...
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748. | Web Application Development by Stephen Woessner
Prototyping is one of the most important aspects of our development process. We consider the act of prototyping to be a risk mitigation strategy. If approached correctly, we believe that prototyping can reduce the risks in development. In addition, ...
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749. | Proofreading and Copy Editing by Stephen Woessner
Technology has changed the standards for proofreading and copy editing, and even caused the roles to overlap in some situations. "Traditionally, proofreaders are responsible for finding errors during the typesetting or formatting of a final ...
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750. | The Truth in E-Learning by Stephen Woessner
What is e-learning? According to Cari Mathwig, interactive team leader and Instructional Designer at The AVS Group, "Maybe the question should be, 'What is not e-learning?'"
According to the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), "e-learning is a wide set of ...
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