11,381 articles related to "business and finance"

Boosters & Drainers

Like huge anchors on cruise ships, other people can hold you down. Not intentionally, but their negativity impacts you. It’s hard to be winning at working when you’re anchored in place. It’s hard to see the next great idea and enthusiastically...

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Business Writing Tip Question & Answer Format

Traditionally, business writing uses the "one thing after another" format, which usually means a plain recitation of the facts, circumstances, or whatever else needs to be said.But, we have a number of other options, and some of them may provide more...

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How Do You Profit From O.P.P.

In a previous article we introduced you to the concept of O.P.P., or Other People's Property, and the many ways in which you can profit.In that article we asked you what you would do if you found a business that:could generate multiple streams o...

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Credit Cards, Merchant Accounts, and Your Bottomline

Small Business Q&A with Tim KnoxQ: I'm opening a gift shop and want to be able to accept creditcards. I talked to the branch manager at my bank, but he didn'tseem to know much about how it all worked. He did say that Iwould need something c...

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The Student Who Knew Too Much

This article is for those of you who coach or mentor. Does this sound familiar?“Can’t I just try to mail or email, do I really have to call”“I was thinking I could wait to get business cards”“I wanted to be successful first, before I star...

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How To Write Articles For The Hungry Web Market.

How To Write Articles For The Hungry Web Marketby BB Lee (C)2003(630 words)Writing for the web audience is a whole brand new ball game.Throw out all the rules you learned in school or writingfor print media. Why? They simply are not appropriatefor th...

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Starting a new business Ignore this advice!

When I started my business, the guidance was so awful I call one advisor "the coach from hell." Here are ten myths frequently presented as core wisdom. I recommend using intuition as a filter to evaluate all advice. A longer version of these tips ca...

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Ten Things You Should Know About Medical Savings Accounts

Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) are promoted as the salvation of small businesses in desperate need of affordable health insurance plans. Forbes called MSAs "Super-IRAs" and Business Week wrote "almost too good to be true". Kiplinger’s Personal Fin...

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Writing a basic web design proposal

When competing for web design/implementation contracts; a professionally presented web design proposal more often than not decides whether you win or lose the project. A web design proposal also decreases the incidences of misunderstandings between y...

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Holiday Action Saves a Sour Shopping Season

Usually, U.S. retailers earn 20-80% of their entire yearly gross during the holiday season. But this year, things are different. The sluggish US economy has prompted Deloitte Research's Carl Steidtmann to fear "the worst Christmas ever" in the r...

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