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Coffee in the Office – The Pour ‘n’ Serve Coffee Brewer By : Fenton Wayne The virtues of the humble pour over coffee machine in the modern office. Why You Should Be a Great Boss By : Stan the Mann If you’re a business owner or executive who is responsible for managing five or more people, you have special needs. You have to delegate effectively, stamp out reverse delegation, develop your people so they can take over some of your responsibilities and be super-efficient with your time so that you can enjoy your family and your life. Are You on the Inside or the Outside of Jargon? By : Jeanie Marshall How do you relate to jargon? It makes a considerable difference whether you are in the inner circle that already understands that jargon, or if you are outside that circle. How to Use Competencies to Recruit By : Pam Kennett Making a mistake in recruitment is costly - typically costing an organisation 1.5 times the individual's salary. In addition, poor recruitment has a negative impact on morale and motivation. Getting the right person in the right job is not difficult - so long as you have the right criteria. Using competencies based on motives and traits helps to prioritise where you should focus your effort. Business Card Tips By : Sharon Housley Networking is an invaluable opportunity, and one that should not be wasted. In order to maximize networking, it is strongly suggested that all business professionals carry business cards. The business cards can be exchanged during introductions, both as a convenience and as a memory aid. In other words, business cards allow networkers to further the relationship through future contact. Desire By : Stan the Mann You worked hard creating your business. You suffered through all the expenses of getting your worksite and equipping it. You've assembled your support team -- sales, marketing and administration. You thought that by now your business would be demanding less of your time and energy. The Proven Way to Reach Your Peak Performance Level By : It has been proven again and again that all successful people have used this secret at some point in their lives, and that this secret is responsible for generating successful people and financial giants each and every day. Career Success - Embracing Difference is the Key to Team Success By : Linda M. Lopeke Are you making the mistake of driving conformity on your management and project teams? If so, you are creating conditions that automatically limit the team's chances of success. The SMARTSTART Coach explains why and what to do instead if creating team success is your goal. A New Hire, An Aquarium and Overcoming The Status Quo By : Andrew Cox What does an aquarium have to do with the status quo and a new hire? More than you think. Read on and see how an experience in ignoring the rules of good aquarium management resulted in a lesson that has much broader application. Keep Your Feet to the Fire . . . Even If You Have to Start the Fire Yourself By : Donald Mitchell Complacency steals most of our potential. This article looks at how you can create a more stimulating environment that will unlock that potential and give you the ability to continually make breakthrough improvements. Marketing to women – bigger buyers than all of Japan By : Troy White Learning how women think when it comes to purchasing items How To Invent New Products By : Steve Gillman How do you invent new products? Here is one way to get those ideas flowing. The “REAL” World of Network Marketing and Prospecting By : Robin Rushlo First, the prospect, if you are a responsible network marketer, your emails will have a place for the “prospect” to OPT OUT and/or unsubscribe. That is the right way to do this business. 10 Online Marketing Sales Techniques To Leverage More Income By : Timothy McGaffin Online marketing sales techniques can can be lucrative for any online and offline business as long as you are practicing them correctly. Pick a Topic, Pick a Date By : Alicia Forest Have you been thinking about offering a teleseminar, webinar, or live workshop, because you know that it will increase your list numbers, showcase you as an expert, bring you new clients and customers, and be just plain fun, but you haven't actually moved forward with the idea? Sounds on the money for marketers By : Julian Treasure Has the traditional company logo had its day? In a world of visual overmessaging, how can companies stand out from the crowd? Sound expert Julian Treasure thinks he has the answer... Getting Paid for Online Surveys - Are They a Scam? By : Tony Buel When it comes to paid online surveys for cash, it becomes quickly obvious that some claims may be a little exaggerated. You may see claims of over $150 per survey. How does one separate the truth from fiction? Pave an Unstoppable Path to Breakthrough Success By : Donald Mitchell Unless you prepare a sound roadbed, the road you lay will soon become unusable. Preparation for creating breakthroughs teaches the same lesson: Getting organized in the right way determines your success. In addition, preparation builds confidence that you will succeed . . . helping create the breakthrough. Getting Out There In a Bigger Way Means Overcoming Your Fear of Criticism By : Fabienne Fredrickson If you've been having challenges with Growing Bigger, then don't miss this article, as I share with you how to get past that. Mom Entrepreneurs: 7 Ways to Find More Time By : Kelly Sims As a mom and an entrepreneur you know the value of time because you simply have too little of it. Learning some simple strategies that can add minutes and maybe even hours to your day could be the means to attain that perfect balance that all moms strive to achieve. Professional Communication: A Blueprint for Your Success By : Laura Adams As you progress in your career, you must be able to master Professional Communication. Learn a simple blueprint for how to organize any speech or presentation for maximum success. Businesses Come To MySpace By : Zinn Jeremiah How businesses interact with the MySpace community. The Dark Side of the BlackBerry By : Dr Jane Adler & Dr Robert Karlsberg While BlackBerries and other messaging devices offer tremendous advantages, you have to watch out for their dark side. Giving your clients a little something extra: The concept of lagniappe By : Jean Murray, MBA, PhD Giving that extra something to keep customers coming back. Why You Should Post Ads On Craigslist By : Chris Rohrer Learn how you can post ads on using Craigslist to help skyrocket your profits for your business. Discover the the secret nobody is telling you about. Customers Tend To Buy The Who, Not The What By : Daniel Sitter Let's face it salespeople: Assuming that your customer knows what he needs, almost without exception, he can locate an alternate source for virtually any product that you sell, many times at a lesser price. The internet is loaded with sites ready to sell almost anything at unbelievably low prices. The question becomes "what are you going to do about it?" What to Do When You Feel Like Pitching YOUR BUSINESS OUT THE WINDOW! By : Robin Rushlo Sooner or later, I can guarantee there will come a day when getting out of bed and facing another day of Prospect calling, talking and checking downline, you decide the results aren't shaping up fast enough, or soon enough, and the only thing you can think of is QUIT NOW! Preparing Your Career For The New Year By : Kris Plantrich The start of new year is always a time for setting goals and resolutions and developing personal and business plans for the coming year. Find out how to set career goals that are realistic and effective. Sales Skills that Strike Gold at Trade Shows By : Deborah Walker Don’t spend thousands on trade shows to get little or no sales! Learn the secrets of making trade shows work for you, and generate solid sales leads that will impact your entire fiscal year. Newspaper Publishing: Your Dream Come True By : Mike Bundrant Newspaper publishing offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to live a prosperous and flexible lifestyle, provided that they understand certain keys to succeeding in the publishing industry. How to Choose a Business Name. By : Mark Silver As far as making first impressions go, it seems like your business name is right up there. So you've spent a lot of time soul-searching, brainstorming, sweating up the perfect business name. And then, when you do, what happens? A Perfect Partnership: The High Performance Coaching Relationship By : Gregg Thompson The key to effective coaching relationship is establishing a Perfect Partnership between the coach and the individual being coached. In this article, Gregg Thompson, author of Unleashed!, discusses the three key elements which exist in such a partnership: Appreciation, Confrontation and Accountability. Working At Home - Degrees Of Isolation By : Elaine Currie If you dream of being able to work at home, your assessment of types of home business should take into account the amoutn of time you would be happy to spend without company. Could You Really Create a Marketing Plan in Just 7 Minutes By : Most business owners create a product or service then they go out to the world effectively saying to everyone 'buy mine, buy mine' and hope to succeed. But, if you want to win in any field of endeavor, you need a better plan than your competitors. So, in business, you need the best marketing plan possible. This article explains how to make producing one simple and quick. Why less passion is better for business. By : Mark Silver I just googled 'Passion in Business' and came up with 82,900,000 hits. And, according to the first several pages of hits, everyone says that you must have passion to succeed in business. 'Fuel your passion' is the watchword. Why this quest for passion? Of course, passion can feel wonderful, but do you really need it to succeed in business? What happens when you don't have it? Limited Liability Company Formation in the UK By : Terry Cartwright Registration of a limited liability company in the UK is not a complex business. Four documents are required to create a limited liability company. Documents which are available quite cheaply including the main company registration forms which are free. Three Scary Facts about Protecting Your Business from Audits and Lawsuits By : Juli Walsh The mere thought of an audit or a lawsuit strikes abject terror in the hearts of most small business owners. No one wants to find their business the target of an IRS audit – in fact, most of us shudder at the mere mention of the phrase. Lawsuits are also frightening prospects. Yet small businesses and entrepreneurs frequently leave themselves open to failing audits and losing lawsuits by not taking steps to prepare or plan for them. Creating Breakthroughs By : Donald Mitchell Teams make most improvements. This article looks at how you can go from making ordinary improvements into accomplishing breakthrough, exponential progress by selecting the right team and leader. Why You Might Be The Next Greatest Business Coach By : Kit Sadgrove This article outlines how to become a business coach. It discusses what business coaches do and identifies the role of a business coach. It also covers how to get into business coaching. IRS to Renew Random Audit Program By : Matthew Donahue The US Internal Revenue Service is the largest and most aggressive colleciton agency in the world. As deficits expand and technology advances the agency has become much more agtressive and thorough in its collection practices some of those preactices have been challenged. The IRS now intends to re-introduce audits. This article explains rights taxpayers have if they get audtied or visited by the IRS. Motivating Yourself When You're Creatively Self Employed By : Mary McNeil When you're self employed you become both boss and employee. This dynamic sets up a whole set of inner relationships and rebellions that need to be handled with care. Particularly if your line of work is a creative one. The Digital Rise of Africa By : Osei Kofi In comparison to other regions of the world the African continent still remains under developed in regards to Information Technology. This is only to be expected due to poverty and lack of developed infrastructure in the region. Tips for Turning "20:20 Hindsight" into "20:20 Foresight" By : Adele Sommers By incrementally capturing 20:20 hindsight (lessons learned) and turning that hindsight into 20:20 foresight (best practices), you will achieve far greater long-term success than if you simply ignore or forget what occurred once a project ends. This approach can greatly reduce the negative effects of attrition on a company's intellectual assets when people leave because they quit, retire, are laid off, or were temporary workers to begin with. The one project missing from your strategic plan. By : Mark Silver It's a given for your business: you want next year to be different than this year. And so all kinds of projects and tasks end up on your to-do list. Marketing, office structures, product/offer creation, client care, technology. Very important, this doing of things. Without action, very little manifests, no matter how clear your intentions are. And yet, will next year look different? What gives? Is it too much action? Hiring Average Performers Can Be Devastating By : Michael Beek Employers make it a point to profess that they hire only the 'best', but in reality, that doesn't happen. This article show you in black-and-white just why it's really important, even critical, that employers need to make 'hiring the best' more than lip service. You will see just how much in real dollars it costs you when you hire less than the best. The article not only points out the problem, but offers you a way to overcome it. Are You considering the Possibilities or the Probabilities? By : Sherri Frost Whenever we let ourselves plan and consider a possibility and write it down as a goal or a plan there is a better than 90% chance of it actually happening. If we let probabilities dictate the direction of our dreams and lives, things like "might or could", then nothing gets done or moves forward. Working At Home - The Importance Of A Schedule For Work At Home Mothers By : Elaine Currie Working at home is great for mothers because of the flexibility it provides, but flexible arrangements will only work effectively if they are incorporated into a sensibly structured schedule. Network Your Way To Your New Job - Using Three Easy Techniques By : Kris Plantrich Networking accounts for as much as 80% of job placements. Are you using this top job search strategy? Learn how to use networking to help find the job you've been looking for. Keeping Talented Employees – Discover what Makes Them Tick By : Laura Adams What can make talented workers stay committed to an organization? Find out the reasons we commit and discover the components of superior employee Job Performance. Holding Effective Meetings: nine simple rules By : Helen Wilkie Business meetings are a fact of life, but too many of them are conducted inefficiently and simply waste everyone's time. This article provides nine simple rules for holding effective meetings.
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