11,381 articles related to "business and finance"

The Professions of the Future

Professions of the Future by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Predicting the future is a tricky business. There have been countless ridiculous failures at identifying the trends and products which will determine the future shape of our life and our environmen...

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Automating Your Home Based Business - Saving You Time

First of all, what is automating a business? Simply put, it’s having today’s technology do the tedious and time consuming tasks that you currently have to do manually. This in turns frees up time that you can work on other business building aspec...

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Tales from the Corporate Frontlines The Responsibility for Job Security

This article relates to the Job Security competency, commonly evaluated in employee satisfaction surveys. This competency evaluates how your employees view their job security within your organization. In today's often volatile or contingent lab...

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MANY OLDER WORKERS ARE OPTING TO STAY IN THE JOB MARKET

MANY OLDER WORKERS ARE OPTING TO STAY IN THE JOB MARKETFour Tips for Older Candidates to Remain Competitive in Today’s EconomyIt’s been said that some things simply get better with age, whether it is a vintage car or a fine wine; sometimes qualit...

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Back that Thang UP …… Insure the Data on Your Computer

Computers are such an integral part of our business activities. We should pay special attention to how our data is treated.It does not matter what industry you work in. Chances are you use your computer in some part of your business. As with everythi...

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Preparing To Make A Zero Down Offer!

I'm going to focus on the Seller of a hypothetical property you have found and the offer that you are going to make. You want to write it so it has a reasonable chance of being accepted. Never offer more than you can afford to pay. Don't g...

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Noncompete Agreements Help Protect Your Business

Small Business Q&A with Tim KnoxQ: One of my former employees has started a competing businessand is calling my clients and trying to steal their businessfrom me. Do I have any legal recourse against him? Brad J.A: I hate to break this to you, Brad, ...

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Changes to International Health Insurance

Those who travel overseas for business or vacation may want to know that two of the world's largest international health insurance plans - “Atlas Travel” and the “International Citizen Medical Plan” insured by Lloyds of London have chang...

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Cutting Health Insurance Costs

Surveys of self-employed individuals consistently show that one of their major concerns is the ability to buy affordable health insurance. One in 4 self-employed persons has no health insurance today even tough more than 70% of these people could aff...

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FORECASTING AND SURVIVING A LAYOFF OR DOWNSIZING

Dirty words for jobseekers include downsizing, acquisitions, mergers, closures, cutbacks, and layoffs. No one wants to lose their job, especially with rising gas, utility, and cost-of-living prices. Just the mention of proposed company changes has em...

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