11,298 articles on "finance"

If Your PR Can't Do This, Bag It!

If Your PR Can't Do This, Bag It! by: Robert A. Kelly As a business, non-profit or association manager, why continue a public relations effort that doesn’t deliver the key external audience behaviors you need to achieve your department, d...

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How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 1

How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 1 by: Sue and Chuck DeFiore We all know there are 52 weeks in a year and 40 working hours in a week. Therefore, we can bill 2080 hours per year, right. Wrong. Too often this is the trap that many new ser...

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Terrible Meetings - Ten Ways to Spot Them!

Meetings are valuable components of organisations. Yet they need process, discipline and leadership/facilitation to work best. Working at getting them right is one of the most value-creating activities any organisation can embark on. But it doesn&apo...

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Book Summary Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office 101

This article is based on the following book: Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office 101Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their CareersBy Lois P. Frankel, PhD Warner Books Inc., 2003ISBN 0446531324288 pages Dr. Frankel clearly identifie...

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Using Repackaging to 'Go Big' with your Online Biz

It's actually quite common for online business owners to find themselves stuck. So let's start with a bang and talk about one of the best ways I know to give your online business a real-world boost. Come to understand the concept of 'R...

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Importing Made Easy

You may have heard that you cannot Import small quantities of products, and that you have to wait many weeks, even months for the goods to arrive. Also, you may have heard of the Customs problems.Well, this is all wrong! We have been doing this for ...

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Is Your Website Credit Card Friendly

Small Business Q&A with Tim KnoxIn my last column I discussed the process of credit card enabling your brick-and-mortar business. I pointed out that research has shown that accepting credit cards can help increaserevenue and enhance cash flow. I also...

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Small Business Q & A Investing In Son's Business Could Cause A Real Family Feud

Q: My youngest son wants to borrow $5,000 to start his own business. My wife is afraid to tell him no. She thinks we should just give him the money and not expect anything in return. I disagree. He doesn't have a very good track record with mone...

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The Isolated Leader Extraverted and Introverted Styles

When an executive moves up the hierarchal ladder in theorganization, the promotion is often accompanied by anincreasing sense of isolation and loneliness. Goleman,Boyatzis and McKee coined the phrase “CEO disease” todescribe the isolation of top ...

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Time Managment Training - A Necessary Investment or A Waste of Money

Many organisations view time management training as something they'll spend their money on, only if they have to. Usually when pruning the company or department budget, training is often the first area that gets the chop. And yet can you really ...

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