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Franchise Models For Less

I read an article from the Seattle Times this week about a Quiznos franchise that struggled for several weeks just to stay afloat after the owners disappeared. The manager and three employees stayed on with no pay in an attempt to salvage this sinkin...

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FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING

As Penn State professor William Rothwell ominously points out in the forward to Exit Right: A Guided Tour of Succession Planning for Families in Business Together, more than 40% of the people who run the closely held operations that comprise 80% of t...

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Looking to Start a New Business Consider the Personalized Products Industry

Looking to launch a new consumer products business that makes and markets gifts? Why not consider a niche that has grown dramatically over the past few decades and still shows signs of continued expansion? The market has your name written all over it...

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Tension Stress or Creative Tension New Breakthroughs in Personal Productivity

Tension Stress or Creative Tension?New Breakthroughs in Personal ProductivityMany executives and futurists are saying that the world is experiencing another paradigm shift. A paradigm is a mental model of how we see the world and view reality. A para...

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Succeed the natural way

Succeed the natural wayGetting ahead needn't be a complicated, contrived process of scheming and manipulating your way to the top. It ca be as simple and natural as "doing the right thing". Here are some tips to succeed in business the natural w...

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Close The Sale With Proposal Kit

I never read banner ads. That's why I was surprised to find myself clicking on a banner the other day. The ad intrigued me because it offered to fulfill a pressing need I had. Over the years, I had developed what I thought was a fairly slick pro...

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Understanding COBRA Health Coverage

As more people face job cuts in this slowing economy, the issue of COBRA medical insurance becomes more important. This is a very brief review of a few of the most important points if you are suddenly faced with the need to pay for your own medical c...

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SIMPLE Retirement Plans

A relatively new type of retirement plan is now available to businesses with less than 100 employees. The new plan is called “SIMPLE” and it is easy addition to the employee benefits for almost any small business. The Small Business Protection Ac...

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On St. Valentine's Day, Or Any Romantic Interlude, Woo Your Sweetheart With Chocolates, Roses ... AND A Leadership Talk

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Continuing change in the Offshore World

The offshore financial centres have been forced in recent years to review almost every aspect of the ways in which they operate in response to the international anti- money laundering laws and initiatives by major economies such as the E.U. and the U...

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