Extended Enterprise In The Nesting And Cutting Business This Article is About: Strategic Management, Business Strategic, New BusinessIn Italy there are a lot of small and medium enterprises (SME) that often act as subcontractors to bigger firms. For example, most of the Italian shoes come from industrial districts, where the orga......
Web Conferencing: A Boon to Businesss This Article is About: Product Marketing, Corporate Pr, Marketing And PrIt is Sunday evening and you are preparing again to go on a business trip. Monday morning the alarm goes off at 4:00 am, you drag your body and your briefcase to your car, drive to the airport, wait ......
SWOT Analysis This Article is About: Finance Analysis, Finance Management, Business & FinanceIf you’ve ever listened to Warren Buffett talk about investing, you’ve heard him mention the idea of a company’s moat. The moat is a simple way of describing a company’s competitive advantage. A st......
7 Top Home Business Time Wasters This Article is About: Business Resource, Business Idea, Ideas For BusinessWhat I call "Time Wasters" is any action interfering with running your home based business. What Are The 7 Most Common Time Wasters? Check Out The Following! 1. Email. Email is without a doubt a ver......
How To Take The Pain Out Of Performance Reviews This Article is About: How To Start Business, Strategy Business, Start BusinessThe Painful Approach For many years, "performance management" was of an annual event dreaded by both the management and the workforce. For a week or two every year the manager would virtually isolat......
The Best PR Has to Offer Managers This Article is About: Business And Money, Strategy Business, Strategic PlanHow cool is this? You’re a business, non-profit or association manager. You decide to get serious about your public relations and shift the spotlight away from communications tactics. You implement a......
Not Getting the PR Results You Want? This Article is About: Pr Professionals, Strategy Business, Business StrategiesThe reason might be this simple: as a business, non-profit or association manager, you’re too focused on communi- cations tactics and not on a workable blueprint for dealing with those important outs......
Managers: Are You PR-Fit? This Article is About: Strategy Business, Business Change, Business IdeaCan you honestly say that your business, non-profit or association’s key outside audiences behave in ways that help lead to your success on-the-job? Or, have you pretty much ignored the reality that......
Take This Job and...Re-staff It This Article is About: Company Strategies, Management Strategies, Market StrategiesDeciding to leave a job isn’t easy. In fact, quitting a job requires courage, especially in today’s soft economy when the unemployment rate has reached 6.4%. However, in a tight job market, some peop......
Developing Multiple Streams of Income This Article is About: Banner Ads, Business And Money, Business OwnersMany home-based business owners have a single service or product they provide. They may sell e-books or crafts or speech-writing services. Specializing in one area is good for many reasons. For one, ......
10 Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurs This Article is About: Business And Money, How To Start Business, Start BusinessRunning a one-person business is a creative, flexible and challenging way to become your own boss and chart your own future. It is about creating a life, as it is about making a living. It takes cour......
10 Lessons for Every "Shoestring" Entrepreneur This Article is About: Marketing And Pr, Financial Pr, Strategic PlanStarting a business requires adequate capital. However, many entrepreneurs are finding that capital alone is not a guarantee for success. Some businesses start out with millions in the coffers, yet e......
Managers and PR Genius This Article is About: Strategy Business, Business Strategies, Business ChangeThe real public relations geniuses might be managers. You know, managers who pursue their objectives by reaching, persuading and moving those outside audiences whose behavior most affect their organi......
Are You An Expert At What You Do? This Article is About: Business Mentor, New Business, Business OwnersOne of the most common refrains I hear from people is, "I can’t create information products…I’m not an expert!" Yet what is expertise? Many organizations have tried to pin down the exact criteria t......
Information Products: A Business Owner's Best Friend This Article is About: Business And Money, Business Entrepreneurs, Business IdeaWe live in a post-industrial age where information is the coin of the realm. Knowledge is the most valuable asset that a business owns. For most businesses, that knowledge exists primarily in the hea......
Wanted: A Dictionary-Perfect Leader This Article is About: Business And Money, New Business, Business HelpAnswers are often before our very eyes or in front of our noses - particularly if we read the American Heritage Dictionary! Explore with me how some of the multitude of definitions for the word "lead......
Juggling The Day With A Deal This Article is About: Real Estate, How To Start Business, Start BusinessDoing deals with sellers is why you went into lease purchasing. Again, using organization and time management is very important here. We find the biggest problem beginners have is that they spend too......
Juggling It All This Article is About: Real Estate, How To Start Business, Start BusinessAs we have mentioned in other articles, having a trigger to start your day is very important. One of the major problems with people running businesses from their home is starting the work day. For ma......
Various Aspects Of The Lease Purchase Business This Article is About: Real Estate, Marketing Plan, Business And MoneyIn a previous article, we wrote why we believe that Lease Purchasing is the perfect home-based business, here we want to briefly touch on some of the actual aspects of operating such a business, the ......
Say It With Humor This Article is About: Business Change, New Business, Business HelpWhen you own a business, you may find yourself in situations that may be a little tricky to handle. Dealing with customers who steal is one of them. A few years back we were faced with the problem......
Customer Service Strategies This Article is About: Business And Money, Business Strategies, Company StrategiesEver notice how customer service varies from store to store? You walk into some stores, and before you can say "Buzz off!" a salesperson asks "May I help you?" "No thanks." "May I help you?" asks an......
Something "New" For Managers? This Article is About: Strategy Business, Business Strategies, Business CapitalA new public relations blueprint could be a good idea if you’re a business, non-profit or association manager who’s not getting the important external audience behaviors you need to achieve your depa......
Nuts and Bolts of Effective Cover Letters This Article is About: Sales Letter, Business Strategies, Company StrategiesAs a job seeker, you shouldn't overlook the importance of a cover letter. If written strategically, a cover letter increases your chances for consideration, and provides an opportunity to highlight y......
It's All About The Customers, Baby This Article is About: Business And Money, Business Resource, Business CoachIf you want to ensure a steady stream of customers in your business, you must always remember why you're in business in the first place. Sure you want to earn a decent income for yourself, but you ......
The Big Picture: 5 Questions that Can Boost your Business This Article is About: Marketing Guru, Marketing Research, Pr FirmsAs business managers, entrepreneurs, and Webmasters, we strive for unobtainable perfection. Why do I say unobtainable? Because when we focus on perfection in one area, we forego attention elsewhere. ......
