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  • Time To Sign A Lease; Get Your First Born Ready  By : Tim Knox
    We’ve been discussing the steps required to open a brick and mortar store. We’ve talked about startup plans and finding a location. This week we look at what comes next in the process: the negotiation and signing of one of the most dreaded legal document any entrepreneur will ever face: the commercial lease (insert scary music here).
  • It’s Not All About Location, Location, Location  By : Tim Knox
    Last time we met I brought you the tale of how I scouted for and eventually found what I considered to be the best retail location for my new retail gunshop in my hometown of Madison.
  • Do Your Homework To Find The Best Location For Your Business  By : Tim Knox
    This week our discussion on starting a brick and mortar business continues. We’ve already talked about creating a Startup Plan to manage the process and conducting market research to gauge the viability of your idea. If you missed those entries visit TimKnox.com and click the "Columns" tab.
  • RECYCLED STEEL-KEY TO WASTE REDUCTION  By : Gunaseelan
    In this short passage, we will guide you through the steps in making a key out of steel to open the doors to waste reduction and we'd explain the importance of steel in making the key! Don't get confused. To know more about what we are about to say, just keep reading
  • Interpersonal Conflict - Resolving Conflict by Understanding Personal Values  By : Annette Estes
    Understanding different values is crucial to understanding how diversity impacts business. Here is a team building activity that will begin to improve your small group communication and conflict resolution skill.
  • How Mobile RFID Systems Improves Operations And ROI  By : System ID
    Many current supply chain RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) operations involve tracking pallets, containers and cases. Much of these activities are driven by compliance with customer initiative. It is difficult to manufacturers and their distribution wings to get a positive financial return on their RFID investments.
  • 3 things Vegas reminded me about business  By : Kirsty Dunphey
    Following a recent trip to Las Vegas I was reminded of a few things about business.
  • Hips Hips hooray?  By : Jim Barnaby
    It is now more than three months since the controversial home information packs (Hips) became mandatory for all homes being sold in Britain.
  • The crunch-proof country?  By : Jim Barnaby
    There may be some who believe that there is no country that can escape unscathed from the credit crunch. What began in the sub-prime collapse of the US housing market has taken its toll on many first-world financial systems, with stalling property markets, high interbank lending rates and, in the UK case, the Northern Rock affair.
  • The Obvious Advantages of using Professional Document Storage Facilities  By : Michiel Van Kets
    Has storing and retrieving your business documents become a problem? Are you finding that your existing system of filing and retrieving documents is becoming unmanageable as you generate more files and information to store?
  • What Do You Ship In Shipping Containers?  By : Sam Bullman
    Let us introduce shipping containers first. Shipping containers are standard sized boxes in which you ship merchandise. These are not small boxes for packing a pair of shoes. Standard shipping containers typically come in 8 feet by 8.5 (or 9.5) feet cross-sections, 20 or 40 or 45 feet long. So they compare best with log cabins than shoeboxes. (In fact, a popular use for empty shipping containers is to convert them into houses.)
  • Freight Containers Transformed Logistics  By : Sam Bullman
    Freight containers are standardized shipping containers. Shipping containers have standard dimensions, typically 20'x8'x8.5' or 40'x8'x8.5' or 45'x8'x9.5'. They have to be constructed to certain minimum standards of sturdiness to withstand the rigors of long ocean voyages and transfer from one mode of transport to another. Shipping containers meeting the standards can get CSC - Convention for Safe Containers - certification, a must for use in international shipping.
  • A Surprising Variety of Custom Containers  By : Sam Bullman
    Custom containers include not only containers of non-standard dimensions but also containers rebuilt into houses, shops, garbage bins, and so on. By containers, we mean those large 20'x8'x8' and larger boxes used to transport everything from heavy machinery to thousands cartons of trinkets (in each box).
  • Container Sales Involves More Than Container Sales  By : Sam Bullman
    What comes to your mind when you hear the term container sales? Probably you think of a shop stacked with all kinds of containers like pet bottles, paper cartons, tin cans, and all the other containers you store stuff in. In this article, however, we discuss another type of container, the shipping container carried by large trailers that you see on the road and at dockyards.
  • The Container Streamlines Freight Movement (and Can Become Offices, Shops and Houses)  By : Sam Bullman
    We mean the shipping container here, not beer kit container. The 20 feet shipping container, 20'x8'x8.5' in size, can accommodate a mobile dwelling unit, with beds and furniture that fold into the wall, for example. Shipping containers come mostly in the standard sizes of 20 feet, 40 feet and 45 feet high-cube (the last with a height of 9.5'). If desired, containers can be customized in various ways, by constructing containers of a different dimension, or converting them into, say, houses.
  • How Do You Go Buying Containers?  By : Sam Bullman
    Before you go buying containers, you have to decide what you want them for. Are you planning to ship goods in the containers? If so, you need CSC - Convention for Safe Containers - certification testifying that the container is still suitable for safe handling and transportation in a commercial inter-modal transport environment.
  • Priority Issues for the Emergence of the New Generation Customer Relations Management.  By : Michiel Van Kets
    Many industry analysts have speculated as to whether CRM is dead or just in a process of evolution. As a model it originally had it roots in the main “front office” functions of call centre systems help desk applications and sales force automation.
  • Why consulting employees before implementing management change is necessary  By : Sean McPheat
    We know how irritating it can be when a big change happens and were not told about it. In a work place adjusting the management without consulting the employees can have disastrous effects. Read on to find out how to make any change a smooth one.
  • Achieving a Quick House Sale  By : Vincent Daw
    Many people find that they need to sell their house
    quickly, but a hasty decision about how to sell the property can leave you badly out of pocket.
  • Gantt Bar Charts: Your Guide to Better Project Management  By : Daiv Russell
    The meaning of project management is working within defined constraints to organize and manage resources (people, for example) to complete the project within those constraints, whether those resources are scope, quality, time, cost, or all of the above. The kinds of tasks to be managed could include constructing a restaurant or implementing a new medical system.
  • Get Heard with Conference Call Etiquette  By : Daiv Russell
    Have you ever attended a teleconference call where there was background noise which made it difficult to enjoy the call? Have you been on a call where participants are talking over each other or someone is speaking and you have no idea what their name is? Maybe you could never contribute because every time the facilitator asked a question, there were one or two people who always jumped in and didn't stop talking, and the facilitator didn't have control of the situation.
  • History of Project Management: How Did We Get Here?  By : Daiv Russell
    Project Management, as we know it, began to gain ground around the beginning of the 1960s. At this time industrial and business organizations were starting to recognize there were benefits associated with arranging work into separate projects. In doing this, work could be done by multiple departments, working as a cohesive whole. It was this realization that led to project management gaining widespread acceptance.
  • Matrix Organizational Structure: Optimize Cross-Departmental Relationships  By : Daiv Russell
    Prior to 1970, big organizations were usually arranged in a "silo" formation. In this organizational scheme, line or functional managers were held accountable for different divisions of workers in the company. Since those times, businesses have tried to revamp their organizational structures into something that works better. The result is called a matrix organization.
  • Managing Human Resource: Improving Your People Skill, Part I  By : Annette Estes
    Building good interpersonal relationships can be difficult until we learn what motivates people. Here are some observations on human behavior from a man who had achieved personal mastery in communication and organizational skills.
  • Can Maslow's Theory Help With Hiring?  By : Daiv Russell
    The Maslow Hierarchy of Needs focuses on the business community more than any other facet of life. Conflicts are often prevalent in the business world because the people involved are typically in varying stages of life. The dichotomy between the lives of the entry-level employee (just starting out in life) and the middle manager (who may be more settled) can effect these conflicts.
  • Pipe ID Tape Helps Manage the Pipeline Jungle  By : Anthony Abram
    Pipe ID tapes are used to mark each pipeline to identify its contents. In a process industry with many process and service pipelines, this becomes an essential task.
  • Packaging Tape Facilitates Commerce  By : Anthony Abram
    Can you visualize a world without packaging tape? How will you send a package by post, or courier? You can use a twine or string to tie the package, or you can use glue to paste the ends of the package together. These alternatives require more time to apply compared to packaging tapes.
  • Avoid Customer Conflict  By : Rod Alan Richardson
    Customers keep you in business. It's important to keep them satisfied.
  • Defective Products Must Stop Production  By : Jacob Gan
    While engineers may be able to achieve technological wonders, but often they are not able to eliminate the problems that come with them. The limitations are often not technological limitations. Instead, very often, it is the obstacle placed by fellow human beings. In particular, it is the obstacle placed by their work superiors who have very different priorities.
  • Always Follow Strictly Ethical Recruitment Rules  By : Jacob Gan
    When we recruit new employees into our organization, it is essential that we observe sensible ethics rules. We have found that research studies in recruitment process have invariably concluded that when sound ethical rules are observed better candidates are recruited. Since human resource shapes the organization’s performance, it will be fair to conclude that ethical recruiting leads to better performance by the organization. I have found the following six rules play a central role in ensuring ethical recruitment process.
  • Develop Better Thinking to Turn Problems Caused by Irresistible Forces into Profitable Opportunities  By : Donald Mitchell
    Irresistible forces are only a problem because we have bad thinking habits about how to relate to the forces. This article describes what irresistible forces are and encourages readers to identify their bad thinking habits and eliminate those habits.
  • Metaphors for Achieving Irresistible Growth  By : Donald Mitchell
    Most organizations do well when the market environment is gentle. But let the harsh winds of change arrive, and the organization huddles to avoid their influence. The irresistible growth organization will make good use of all environments. This article provides two metaphors to explain how that result can be accomplished.
  • Business Fact not Business Fiction  By :
    In the old days, businesses often had to make guesses about what was going on and what their figures really looked like, any hard facts being difficult to get hold of and taking so long to be produced that they were almost useless by the time they were available. Not now though, with Business Intelligence, suddenly all becomes clear. Join Geoff on his journey of discovery
  • Business Strategy - Using a "Nordstrom" Business Strategy might be the key to your success  By : Jean Starling
    Business Strategy - Decide your business's competitive advantage. Successful business owners know they must take into account their market and their competition in determining the right business strategy to implement in their business.
  • Opt for Strategies Like Warren Buffett Does  By : Donald Mitchell
    Irresistible forces tend to make progress slow. But if we embrace the forces by anticipating their potential effects, we an employ strategies that always put us ahead by using the power of the forces.
  • Join Irresistible Forces: Don't Fight Them  By : Donald Mitchell
    Most businesses are constantly buffeted by forces outside of their control like weather, the economy, changing government regulations, currency shifts, and new technology. This article explains that this problem requires hitching one's wagon to take advantage of the forces rather than fighting against them.
  • How To Dispose Of A Tenant`s Belongings The Right Way  By : Michael C. Podlesny
    We all dislike clutter. It gives a sense of an area being a mess, disorganized and dirty. As a landlord for more than 10 years, nothing drives me crazier then after a tenant moves out, whether on their own or by eviction, then when they leave a mess behind.
  • How to avoid being ripped off by Management Consultants  By : Pam Kennett
    There are literally thousands of consultancies out there who promise to solve all your organisational woes. However, how do you decide between them and engage the consultancy which is right for your organisation and your issue. Taking time in the early stages, providing a detailed brief, asking the right questions during the pitch, will mean you stand a better chance of getting what you need.
  • Kathy learns how to get the best out of staff she's "inherited"!  By : Olivia Stefanino
    Kathy, an admin manager with a large manufacturing organisation, was at her wit's end. In the main she loved her job, but just recently she'd 'inherited' two staff from another department and they were making her life unnecessarily difficult...
  • Getting negative with negative people guarantees negative results!  By : Olivia Stefanino
    Mary was the office manager for a large construction company - and with her keen eye for detail, she ran a tight ship. She had the respect and loyalty of both her employer and her staff - but when her boss cajoled Mary into taking on his daughter Bianca for a university work placement, things rapidly began to slide downhill...
  • As A Landlord Is This Type Of Lease Best For You?  By : Michael C. Podlesny
    If you are a novice landlord or even have some seasoning under your belt, I am sure at some point you either have or will ponder the question as to whether or not to use a month to month lease.
  • Find Good Tenants For Your Rental Properties  By : Michael C. Podlesny
    As a landlord for over the last 10 years I can tell you I had my share of good tenants and share of some bad tenants, as do all landlords.
  • How To Choose Your Response - The 24 Hour Rule  By : Andrew Cox
    How often have you made a snap decision and lived to regret the outcome? Read on to acquire a behavior tool that can help you improve your decision making skill by choosing your response to any situation.
  • Is Integrity Lost???  By : Joe Grushkin
    Is integrity lost??? I think not...you just get what you think about the most and expect. If you deal with people with integrity, you will always get it in return.
  • Sponsorships: How to Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is  By : Kelly LeFevre and Molly Luffy
    Sponsorships are an effective way to market your business. Not only will you be doing something good for the business community, you will be building quality relationships with prospective clients and referral sources. We'll explain how to implement this unique marketing strategy and boost your marketing karma
  • Get Rich By Flowing With And Against Mass Mind  By : Enoch Tan
    One of the greatest secrets that set the super rich or the wealthy elite from the average masses is the understanding of when to flow with and against the mass mind. The rich think and do things very differently from most people and that is why they get very different results. It is what sets them far apart from the rest. Money is energy that moves according to the flow of collective consciousness in this world...
  • Business Planning Basics  By : Clinton Douglas IV
    Most people make the mistake of thinking they don't need a business plan for an online business or startup; they think they can just launch first, and then put the pieces together as they move ahead. However, this can be a costly strategy and puts you at risk for some big mistakes. Business planning will help you organize your goals and keep you on track towards success.
  • Santa's unwelcome gift  By : Leanne Faraday Brash
    The article highlights the challenge in contemporary workplaces in ensuring staff socialise and get on without overstepping boundaries. The article also highlights the flow-on impacts in workplaces of conflict emanating from unwanted attention that offends, intimidates or humiliates others.
  • Using Accounting Software To Make Your Business More Profitable  By : Terry Cartwright
    Big business uses the financial function and accounting software to analyse and improve financial performance through financial control and the exploitation of opportunities. Small business has a serious problem of viewing accounting software as an administrative headache for annual tax purposes missing the valuable opportunities the financial system can provide.
  • Employee Morale, Employee Retention and Common Civility  By : Helen Wilkie
    Employee retention is an ongoing challenge in today's workplace. Employee reward programs are an integral part of the solution, but the root cause of morale problems can easily be addressed with no financial outlay at all.

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