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The Alligator Farm - Home to Beautiful Winged Creatures
By Carolyn Wright - 4/3/2009

Your first thought when you read "Alligator Farm" might be "tourist trap," but that could not be more inaccurate. And while the alligators are wonderful and plentiful at the place fondly referred to as the "Gator Farm," it is the birds that attract the world`s best photographers. The birds come each...

Do I Have to Provide a Salary History?
By Angela Betts - 4/3/2009

Often you see job postings with a request such as ?Send resume with salary history to?? I don?t know about you but the first thing that pops into my mind is what do they expect to pay? The next question I ponder is whether or not it?s legal to request this information. Who will see my salary history...

Don?t Give Presentations Or Speeches - Give Leadership Talks Instead
By Brent Filson - 4/3/2009

The CEO of a worldwide business asked me to help him develop a talk he planned to give to several hundred of his top executives. He said, `I feel as if I?m Daniel going into the lion`s den.` Indeed, it was the business equivalent of a lion`s den that he was entering. Hired from a competing firm, he ...

Are You in the Relationship Business?
By Marcia Zidle - 4/3/2009

Are you in the relationship business? Of course you are. Everyone who has to work with, deal with, sell to, convince, is! Unless you?re on a deserted island, you must connect with, interact, and influence people every single day. Building relationships today mean better business tomorrow. Success...

Pressure Washing Business: Fixing Heat Issues and Coil Removal
By Lance Winslow - 4/3/2009

In the pressure washing business it is very important to know how to repair equipment and to try to do as much of it yourself as possible. Let?s face it the most powerful forces of nature are the erosion of water, heat and pressure. Well that is exactly what goes through your equipment every time yo...

Finding Quality Link Partners
By Tom Worsley - 4/3/2009

Every webmaster knows the importance of incoming links to a site to boost traffic and search engine rankings. But how do you find good quality sites that will link to you? I recently came across an article that explains how to search for quality link partners on Google. According to the article this...

How Can You Be Sure That Your Marketing Efforts Will Generate Profits?
By John Taylor - 4/3/2009

There are several ways to ensure that your adverts are responsive let me outline my top ten response boosting techniques: 1. An attention grabbing headline is crucial. Yes, headlines are one of the most important elements within your web pages. The majority of professional copywriters have been know...

On The Road Again...Techniques For Increasing Productivity When You`re Traveling
By Barbara Hemphill - 4/3/2009

In spite of all the talk about the romance of travel, if you?re frequently on the road for business, you know the story is often quite different! If you?re wandering around Europe with a significant other, missing a connection may only mean one less wonderful sightseeing opportunity in the city bef...

How to Survive in Business Long Enough to Win
By Kim Beardsmore - 4/3/2009

As a former human resources professional it has always intrigued me as to why people were more `successful` than others. By `successful` we are referring to an innate ability of some people to set and achieve worthwhile challenges for themselves. Here we are using the word "challenge" and not goals...

A Business In One Sentence
By Catherine Franz - 4/3/2009

Marketing expert and author, Geoffrey Moore, has a useful fill-in-the-blank method for creating a theme and positioning statement for your business. I prefer to use his same system for creating clarity for myself in what I`m selling, creating an elevator or introduction speech, and also material fo...

A Compass - You Cannot Do Without One If You Want To Manage Your Business!
By Hans Bool - 4/3/2009

Time is money. Everybody knows this. Also in business. When you initiate a new project you are not yet certain about the money involved or about the scope of the functionality. One element however is set from the start: The end date. ?This project will be delivered on the first of April.? ?The new p...

Five Mistakes Absolutely Guaranteed to Drive Away Your Best Clients
By Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D. - 4/3/2009

We all work hard to attract even one paying client. In fact, we work hard to attract serious inquiries. Yet amazingly, many business owners seem determined to drive away business! Every example cited here is based on true, thoroughly documented experiences, with both newbie business owners and fi...

Empowering Customer Service Vital
By Anne Brady - 4/3/2009

It never fails to amaze me how many companies have employees who are empowered to offer former customers wonderful incentives to lure them back, yet their customer service representatives have the ability to offer virtually nothing to convince an unhappy customer to stay. Powerless, these CSRs o...

What is My Calling?
By Teresa Proudlove - 4/3/2009

?What is my calling?? Do any of us really have complete clarity about our life calling? Even those of us with the knowingness we must teach, write or sing may often ask, ?What direction am I to go, now?? How do we answer these soulful questions? Richard Bolles, author of ?What Color is My Parachute?...

What is a Bodyguard?........ A Secret Service Agent lookalike?........A Goon?........
By Joseph LaSorsa - 4/3/2009

What does one envision when thinking of a "bodyguard"? When one considers the historical image of a ?bodyguard?, most people envision a large, tall, mean looking individual, capable of lifting you in one hand and tossing you across the room, seemingly without effort. In today?s world, security profe...

Applying The Daffodil Theory into Business Practice
By Jennifer Schilling - 4/3/2009

At times all of us need a bit of inspiration to add to our day. When I first read this article, I had started my own home based business and was in a bit of a slump. This inspirational story was exactly what helped spring me into action and keep on going. I loved it so much that I thought why n...

How Do I Write a Good Curriculum Vitae?
By Corinne Dauncey - 4/3/2009

A well-presented CV is vital in your search for a new job. It will not get you the job, but a good CV makes the difference between getting an interview and your application being thrown in the bin. With your CV being one of many, recruiters will only read it for a short space of time, so it is extre...

Employee Turnover: Is It Eating Up Your Profits?
By Marcia Zidle - 4/3/2009

Keeping the cost of doing business down, yet providing a quality product or service, is one of the most critical components of success for today?s leader. What many fail to realize is that employee turnover can represent a very substantial price tag to a company`s productivity and its bottom line. T...

8 Lessons in Strategic Marketing A La `Daddy Daycare`
By Bobette Kyle - 4/3/2009

I bet you thought the movie "Daddy Daycare" was a kiddie comedy, right? Wrong...It`s a marketing strategy film! When Charlie and his friend Phil are fired as Product Development/Brand Managers for a cereal company, they decide to fill a need in their community. Along the way to success they demonstr...

Tips for Maximizing Your Google AdSense Revenues
By Diane Nassy - 4/3/2009

Despite what you may hear, the Google AdSense program is not for everyone. There are some types of web sites that do poorly no matter how hard the owners try, and there are others that should be doing well but the webmaster simply isn?t putting in the effort to make things happen. Here are some tips...

Building the Trust in Your Employees - 12 Easy Tips
By Martin Haworth - 4/3/2009

In Stephen Covey`s great book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", he talks about the `emotional bank account`, where you have to build a credit in your relationship with the individuals who you work with (and everyone else as well!). If what you do isn`t `trustworthy`, then all yo...

Types of Keywords
By Rakesh Ojha - 4/3/2009

Keyword can be classified into three categories : -Single word Keyword -Multiple word Keyword -Keywords based on Theme Keyword(s) are basic raw material used in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Keyword selection or Keyword Research as it is called technically, where in we use special tools to find ...

Trade Show Events ? Do?s and Don?ts
By Patty Stripes - 4/3/2009

You can love it or you can hate it but there is no escaping trade shows in a business environment. If you happen to be in the Sales and Marketing division in an industry where trade shows are a part of the marketing plan, it is more than likely than not that you will be involved in them sooner or la...

A Quick Guide To Finding Reciprocal Links
By Keith Thirgood - 4/3/2009

Trading reciprocal links is one of the best ways to build traffic at your website. A reciprocal link is where two websites agree to host a link to each other on their websites. These usually are placed on a special, `links page`, but sometimes in articles or other areas. Often, people have a hard ti...

Office Organization: How to Use the Tool Professional Organizers Love
By Karen Fritscher-Porter - 4/3/2009

Many professional organizers don`t leave either home or office without one tool. What is it? Drum roll please? ?The answer is a labelmaker. "Most organizers favorite tool is the electronic labelmaker," confirms Diane Hatcher, president of Timesavers Professional Organizing Services, Cooper City, Flo...

Kick-In-The-Pants Job Search
By Teena Rose - 4/3/2009

Believe it: three obstacles will hold you back from your ideal job -- your résumé, you, and your job-search methods. There?s no hidden formula; there?s no bribery needed; there?s no one standing in front of employment ? other than YOU! You?ve probably heard all the excuses, or used them yourself. ...

People Literacy
By Susan Cullen - 4/3/2009

Every Manager has experienced the frustration of not understanding why one management approach that works beautifully with one employee is ineffective with another. That?s because what we think would be motivating isn?t always motivating to someone else. The same principle applies to client and co-...

Business Name - How to Choose One
By Alan Fairweather - 4/3/2009

It`s very important to get your business name right. You may already have a business name but it`s not too late to change it. Let`s face it; big organisations change their business and product names all the time. I named my business Fairweather Associates when I started in 1993. However, when I atte...

How To Write A Press Release
By Martin Bailey - 4/3/2009

A well structured press release in an excellent way of receiving free publicity for very little effort and cost. It is simply the process of writing a newsworthy story about your company, products or services in a reasonably standard format, and then distributing it in the correct way to relevant me...

AIDA From A Different View - I Call It the 5 W`s
By Van Lam - 4/3/2009

My childhood was my foundation for how I write and how I think. I caught on at an early age that writing is an art and it has a very distinct way of reaching out to people depending on how you apply it. I used my own method of writing and applied it to the criteria my teachers needed. You see, the c...

Organizational Culture and Creative Blocks ? the Similarities
By Kal Bishop - 4/3/2009

Few Decision makers see the link between between creativity and innovation management, as performed by MBA?s in firms, and creative endeavours such as screenwriting. In fact, there are very strong linkages. The problems that prevent individuals coming up with ideas, writing and then commercialising ...

Using Someone Else`s Patent to Bring A Product to Market
By Lance Winslow - 4/3/2009

Often inventors and innovators will come up with a way to make a better mousetrap. Often they will find others hold patents to a critical component to make this better mousetrap innovation or invention. Therefore they need to make a deal with the company or individual holding the patent so that they...

Bad Seduction - Advertising Techniques That Don`t Work
By Chuck McKay - 4/3/2009

I just read some advertising suggestions on an Internet marketing site that are beyond annoying. They are flat-out bad advice. They illustrate a complete lack of understanding of the whole persuasion process. First, small business owners are told that advertising often has a cumulative effect, so ad...

Selling "-abilities" : Part 2
By Victor Gonzalez - 4/3/2009

In the last article I talked about different strategies for selling the ?reliability? aspect of your software or hardware.   I mentioned how most high tech salespeople love to talk a...


Car and Trucks Don`t Always Mix
By Lance Winslow - 4/3/2009

Truckers often complain about the four-wheelers. That is you and I in our personal automobiles. Trucking accidents were down in 2004 by the number of miles driven per accident. However they were slightly up as 11% more trucks are on the road because the economy picked up and more products had to be ...

Two Mistakes That Will Cost You Money
By Kelley Robertson - 4/3/2009

You?ve met a new prospect, accurately assessed their needs and determined that you can provide the product and service she is looking for. You?ve presented your information in an engaging manner and the prospective customer appears interested. Many salespeople now make one or two very fatal mistakes...

Protect Your ClickBank Products from Online Theft
By Tim Coulter - 4/3/2009

One of the biggest problems faced by ClickBank merchants is the risk of content theft - people downloading their digital products without paying for them. To gain illicit access to downloadable product files, determined content thieves exploit a range of security weaknesses, each of which can be eli...

Lying on a Nail
By Nan S. Russell - 4/3/2009

Once there was a young woman who didn`t like her job. Everyday when she came home from work, she told her husband how terrible her day had been, how tiring the work and how unreasonable her boss. ?Leave that job," her husband told her. "Oh I will" she said. ?But not yet. I have too many friends ther...

Technology and Coping with Disaster
By John Savageau - 4/3/2009

Natural disasters come in many shapes. From the incomprehensible carnage of last weekend?s tsunami in the Indian Ocean, to hurricanes and typhoons, to tornadoes and drought, our world deals with the horror of disaster as a normal part of our lives. Throw in a bit of human influence through wars, t...

Packaging and Marketing Yourself "Brand You"
By Cecile Peterkin - 4/3/2009

Branding is a process started by large corporations like Nike as part of a marketing strategy in the 1980?s. It is a concept which had them selling their customers an image and an idea. Soon, along with the pair of running shoes you were buying, you were also buying into the concept, and "just doi...

The Old Monied Dupont Nemours and Roosevelt Families Buy a Tax Haven
By Thomas Azzara - 4/3/2009

This 4,000 acre sale (now a marina and resort town - with an airport for jumbo jets (the $50,000,000 airport was donated by the UK government) went down in the 1970`s - not the 1870`s!?!? Source: A Turks & Caicos Government 3 full page advertisement in Investor`s Daily (1985). Was this the most prof...

Succes And Business Intelligence Hand In Hand
By Derek Gardner - 5/12/2008

A business without succes in some degree is not good. Succes comes from either growth in the number of customers or in the numbers of sales you do per customer. Business Intelligence can assist a company to gain new customers and keep hold of old ones. And by keeping old customers longer time you ea...

Creating Time the Virtual Way
By Danielle Keister - 5/9/2008

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. ---------- Time. As a small business owner, it`s the commodity you covet most but never ...

Spousal Support
By Lynn Colwell - 5/8/2008

Couples who run home based businesses together can enjoy big benefits, but all marriages pack a potential for problems. Add a homebased business partnership to the mix, and sparks can fly. Scott Gregory and Shirley Siluk Gregory, co-authors of The Home Team: How Couples Can Make a Life and Living by...

Commercial Collections Agency Mindset
By Steve Austin - 4/29/2008

A Commercial Collections Agency is a third-party service that performs debt collection for business to business transactions. This is especially beneficial for proprietors whose business involves a lot of cost when it comes to collecting receivables. Despite the need of cash flow (which is why com...

Dealing with Difficult People
By Michael Beck - 4/18/2008

You know, this would be a great business if it weren?t for having to deal with people all the time? OK, so maybe I?ve exaggerated things a bit, but we?ve all certainly heard that saying before. Why does that sentiment ring true for so many folks? Obviously it?s because of all the people challeng...

Getting Software Developed for Your Business
By David Berube - 5/9/2007

At some point, your business is going to need to have some software development. Maybe your business is small, but existing software doesn`t fit your needs. Maybe your company is larger, with significant technology resources already, but you need an outside perspective. Whatever the reason, it can b...

How To Escape The Corporate Trap And Go It Alone
By Julia McDaid - 5/4/2007

Introduction Do you work in a corporate environment with all of the so-called benefits that brings, yet don?t feel listened to, your work is unappreciated and undervalued, perhaps you may have been overlooked for promotion for no good reason? Which probably means that you are bored stiff, yearni...

How To Make Good Use of Spreadsheets
By Abdallah Khamis Abdallah - 5/1/2007

Most computer users use spreadsheets software such as Microsoft Excel in their daily home and office. However very few are aware of the potential of spreadsheets in helping them in financial accounting and statistical analysis. There are many uses of spreadsheets beyond the simple arithmetical and...

Trade Show Tactics Revealed
By Colin Ong TS - 5/8/2006

Being part of a trade show gives small business a chance to experience economies of scale and to mix around with the big guys. This may also be the most stressful period for the PR Dept. head as he will hope that R & D people will be able to bring out the latest prototype of the company?s new and ?h...


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