11,381 articles related to "business and finance"

Lobster Trapping for Investment Ideas

Lobster Trapping for Investment Ideas by: Kemberly Wardlaw Recently, my family and I took a trip to Maine to visit relatives. During our stay, we toured the rocky shore lines and took in the beautiful architecture of the old towns. One sunny mor...

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Build Your Own Board Of Experts

Build Your Own Board Of Experts by: Pat WiklundThe most successful entrepreneurs rely on their advisory boards to help spot new opportunities and potential pitfalls.Now you can have your own advisory board: a shadow board of directors.A shadow b...

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How a Photoswitch Saved My Job

How a Photoswitch Saved My Job by: Larry BushIn 1996 I was employed as maintenance supervisor at an olive cannery in the heart of California’s fertile San Joaquin valley. We were restarting the cannery after an extended shutdown while the cann...

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The Advantages of Credit Cards

The Advantages of Credit Cards by: Christine BreenThere are many evils associated with credit cards, but there are benefits that are hard to ignore. One benefit is having the credit card company act in your behalf to recover funds from a dispute...

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Eight No Cost Ways to Market Your Business

Eight No Cost Ways to Market Your Business by: Denise O'Berry Are you trying to promote your business with a tiny marketing budget? Opportunities are plentiful for low or no cost marketing. Here are a few that won't cost you a cent. 1....

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How Real PR Works

How Real PR Works by: Robert A. Kelly For some, public relations works well when their news release or special event winds up in the newspaper or on the radio. For others, public relations works best when it does something positive about the be...

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Splitting the Roles of CEO and Chairman

Traditionally, in American businesses, the same person occupies the role of chairman of the board and chief executive officer, though this is gradually shifting to the European model. In most European, British, and Canadian businesses, the roles are ...

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SAVE MONEY BY USING A BUYING GROUP

Let me give you a brief history of Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO). They have been around for decades. Do you know what types of businesses get the best pricing on all of the goods and services they purchase? The answer is healthcare facilities....

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Responsibility Diffusion

Responsibility DiffusionAs a family business expert dealing with growth and profitability issues, I receive many requests for interviews from writers and editors preparing family business articles for newspapers and magazines. They generally expect m...

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How Can I Justify This

People buy for emotional reasons and justify their decisions with whatever logic they can find or create, no matter how ridiculous.-Joe VitaleSo you want to buy an airplane! What's stopping you? Perhaps I can list a few things: 1. My spouse does...

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