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Michael Francis - Free Conferencing – A New Age in Conferencing By : Michael Francis Getting the team together at the office on a regular basis for those conferencing brain storms or meetings for free could change things for your business or company. Eliminating an entire yearly budget from the books is definitely a new age in today’s business world. Usually you have to pay for each service you receive separately. Businesses and companies are charged for having multiple phone lines, each line, an 800 number, a fax number, voicemails, conferencing, and long distance as you can see paying for each one of these services adds up. Peter Clarke - 5 Keys For Maximising Your ROI Through Optimal ERP Performance: Key 5 - Maximise Your Benefit By : Peter Clarke It goes without saying that, despite the best planning and implementation processes, the proof of an ERP project is in the business benefits and the return on investment achieved. A well-executed project is less than successful if there are no benefits or returns. This should be obvious to all, and this should be the primary focus of every project, in any field. Laurus Nobilis - Value Adding and Waste Activities in Supply Chain By : Laurus Nobilis Usually, more than one company is competing for the same customer base. Eventually, the customer base is split based on chosen supplier. What is the reason for customer to choose one supplier out of many? All suppliers are competing to satisfy customer's needs by offering them a certain value. This value is represented as ratio between benefits and price. More benefits for less price gives greater value to the customer. So, the product/service needs either to have bigger benefit for the same price, or lower price for the same benefit, for some company to be chosen as a preferred supplier. Matthew Bredel - Is it Worthwhile to Set Up a Merchant Account? By : Matthew Bredel - You’ll have the ability to accept major credit cards such as Visa, MasterCard, Amex and Discover payments on a secure connection right from your website. Your customers need to feel secure in buying from you! StewartRobertson - EFT For Business Growth By : StewartRobertson Among the things we consider most important towards achieving personal satisfaction and fulfillment is professional development or success in business. And this part of our life has not escaped the notice of EFT enthusiasts around the world. They believe that the Emotional Freedom Techniques originally devised by Gary Craig can spell the big difference between being a business washout or an economic genius. A Nutt - Customer Focus is a Strategic Choice By : A Nutt Why is it that these seemingly self-evident actions do not reach full execution? Why is it that despite a clear awareness of what needs to be done, companies aren't making it happen? Why is it that despite their constant rhetoric about the need to become customer focused, companies do not actually execute? Mary Waltrip - How to Select Answering Services For Your Business By : Mary Waltrip As a cost efficient alternative, if a company or private organization prefers to outsource answering services, then it is very important to consider the receiving organizations capability. When we mention "capability", we are referring to the quality and guarantee an organization can offer. Any organization can claim to be the best in class, but many are using this sensitive phrase for advertisements and not for results they deliver. Peter Lawless - 7 Golden Rules For Recession Survival By : Peter Lawless Many business owners are now painfully aware that getting new clients and selling more to existing clients is far more challenging in today’s environment. Unfortunately anyone who tells you that they have a quick fix for your marketing worries is either a magician or a con-man! Art Espey - Recession Sparks Innovation and New Product Development By : Art Espey Drastic changes create great opportunities for those with vision and grit. Whether its developing a totally new industry, solving a problem that’s plagued mankind for centuries or decades, or developing a business model that blows your competitors right into the annals of history – this is the time of change that welcomes innovators and inventors. Robert Elliott - Eleven Reasons An Employer MUST Have A Medical Policy By : Robert Elliott 1. Pre-Employment Medical Exam. As a condition of employment, applicants may be required to pass a mental and physical examination. This exam may include drug and/or alcohol screening. It is administered by a physician designated by the company. Daniel Gebura - Explode Your Business by Promoting Yourself By : Daniel Gebura When it comes to network marketing there is one common trend noticeable – too many marketers focus on promoting and pitching their products, their services or their business opportunities forgetting about one very important factor which is promoting themselves first in order to build their business. Peter Clarke - 5 Keys For Maximising Your ROI Through Optimal ERP Performance: Key 4 - Six Critical Failure Factors By : Peter Clarke The complexity and wide encompassing nature of ERP means that there are inherent challenges in any ERP implementation. The issue is to ensure that these challenges enhance the project and final outcome rather than become problems or disasters that undermine the project’s viability. Peter Clarke - 5 Keys For Maximising Your ROI Through Optimal ERP Performance: Key 3 - Selecting Your ERP Solution By : Peter Clarke Once you’ve made your decision as to why you are considering an ERP implementation (covered in article #1 in this series) and investigated the total cost of ownership (article #2), there are several aspects you should consider in detail when selecting a specific system for your situation. Janet R. - Business Gifts - Job Related Keepsakes You Want to Give By : Janet R. The First thing you should determine is your budget, then you have to set the price that you can afford to spend. By doing this, it will be easy for you to narrow down your search and prevent you from getting out of control as well. If you want to give a present to your boss, don't settle for something that is too cheap but also not too expensive. Buying extravagant present for your boss may allow your colleagues to think that you are trying to be nice to your to get the next promotion. It should be just right. Jan Grouse - Invest in Self Storage Units By : Jan Grouse It has been estimated by analysts that a continual increase in the American population may reach a speculated figure of 400 million by the halfway point of the 21st century. They are also a very ‘movable’ group of people with a great inclination to store things. Therefore, we are probably looking forward to about 150 million budding investors as we are writing out this article!! Robert Elliott - 7 Costly Workers' Comp Mistakes To AVOID! By : Robert Elliott Like all policies and program, the terms may need to be varied to comply with different state and federal laws. Make sure your corporate legal counsel reviews any policy or program before implementing it. Brian Garvin - A Review Of The BeBiz Interactive Internet Marketing Software By : Brian Garvin You need to make sure that the people that you are trying to service have the complete picture and that nothing on your end is standing in the way of them making that all important purchase. You'll find that once you take a look at the BeBiz Interactive Internet Marketing Software that you never have to worry about it again! Janet R. - Retirement Gifts: Happy Goodbyes to Busy Working Days By : Janet R. Retirement calls for a celebration. Often, family, friends and colleagues throw a retirement party for the retiree, many gifts are to be given as well. Since after retirements, the retiree has all his or her time to rejoice and relax so it is best if gifts to give are something that could introduce a fanfare in the lives of the people. If you have decided to give a retirement gift to a retiree, you have to be mindful that a good gift should reflect retiree's interest, age, sex and likes. Tim Robinson - How Multivariate Testing Can Be Used To Optimize Profit By : Tim Robinson Split testing has been around for a very long time and all successful internet marketers use it. This method allows you to test one page element at a time to determine what is more successful. The major drawback to split testing is the amount of time involved. Testing one element then another, and another can be very time consuming. Multivariate testing will allow you to test as many elements as you wish at the same time thus saving valuable time. Nirjara Rustom - Do You Know What it Takes to Be a Successful Entrepreneur? It’s Not What You Think! By : Nirjara Rustom First and foremost, you need to understand what entrepreneurship is. It is about taking your idea to the next level by structuring a system about it that continues to grow, expand and develop without you. This also naturally means that you need to be a great leader. Your leadership and greatness will set the tone for your entire company. And to be a great leader, you need to have utmost clarity on your goal. You need to know very precisely what your short term, medium term and long term goals are. Roger Pettit - Encouraging Your Hairdressing Team and Improving Salon Business By : Roger Pettit As hairdressing is such an interpersonal profession your company image, ethics and ultimately its success are often completely in the hands of the salons employees. Therefore it’s crucial that a sound hairdressing team is established first, regardless of its size. It goes without saying that the whole team should be well mannered, enthusiastic and reliable as well as being passionate about hairdressing. Staff will encounter customers from all walks of life and the ability to engage with them all is of the utmost importance whether you’re a salon manager or a weekend assistant. Craig Rowe - Business Networking - Who Wins? By : Craig Rowe For example, a print advertising agency has a client that wants a video production. This ad agency can network with a reputable media production house to provide the video production. At the same time, the video house can benefit by having the print agency do any related printing or DVD covers, etc., that might be needed. The video producer can focus on what they do best, the video production, and leave the print items to the network partner who specializes in that area. Neither has to take on the burden of new talent, or purchasing equipment to provide what the client wants. Qing Gu - Tips on Corporate Christmas Party Games By : Qing Gu At game's end, guests will be grouped into these categories so aim to have 3-5 guests per group (for small office parties) or as many as 20 each (for larger corporate gatherings). Within each category you'll need several items that fit the description. Matt Crick - Get the Picture – Protecting Your Digital Brand By : Matt Crick It was once the picture was taken that our holiday retreat was suddenly taken over by copyright. Not the kind of guest you would expect on a romantic holiday in the South of France, yet it was defiantly with us nonetheless. I happened to mention – as would any journalist with a mischievous sense of humour– that up until fairly recently I would have actually owned the right to that picture, even though they owned the camera. Fortunately for the masses (well, tourists more notably) this has changed, with the commissioner of the image now owning full copyright. Stefani Padilla - Time Management Tips For Work at Home Moms By : Stefani Padilla Now, of course what the guru meant was if it's e-mail, close your e-mail program, turn off your IM's, and shut down Twitter. But it also goes to show how different men and women, (and even women and moms) work from home. For the work at home mom, you can't simply "eliminate" your top distractions, actually, what you have to do is distract your distractions! Steve Bernal - What Do They Mean When They Say “Conscious Business”? By : Steve Bernal “Conscious Business is primarily about people who are aware of the impact each of their habits and actions has on their environment. It is about people who live their lives based on the knowingness that everything is interconnected. It is about people, who know who they are — who know about their strengths and weaknesses and who desire to live and work with joy, creativity, ease and love instead of fear, power and Janine Sergay - What is Corporate Culture? By : Janine Sergay A basic definition of organizational culture is the collective way we do things around here. It involves a learned set of behaviors that is common knowledge to all the participants. These behaviors are based on a shared system of meanings which guide our perceptions, understanding of events, and what we pay attention to. As Sun Tzu, a Chinese military general from 3000 BC, indicated in his explanation of strategy, culture forms an integral part of any organizational strategy. It consists of Tao – the created and shared beliefs, values, and glue that holds an organization together, and it also involves the very nature of the organization. Kimberly Quang - Five Things to Remember About Parking Lot Lighting By : Kimberly Quang The quality controls mandated by multiple layers of government, and the warranties that major US manufacturers back their products up with, are unsurpassed in most of the world. Using American made parking lot lights also offers your client the best engineering, maintenance, and replacement options available on a domestic and local level. It helps ensure that parts can be maintained and expeditiously replaced if something does go wrong, because we are dealing with domestic entities who can deliver parts in a timely manner without the complications of overseas shipping. Kimberly Quang - American-made, Outdoor Parking Lot Lights Are by Far the Best Luminaires to Offer Your Clients By : Kimberly Quang Before purchasing equipment, a careful study of parking lot lighting standards in your client’s region should be conducted to avoid purchasing the wrong equipment for the project. Dark sky laws are being passed throughout the nation that affect parking lot lighting systems from Coast to Coast. Many contractors work in multiple cities and sometimes multiple states. They may not always have the time to research the details of local lighting regulations. Working with a lighting design specialist can eliminate the need to do so, and it can ensure that the luminaires, mounts, and poles that you propose to your client are already in full compliance with all local codes. Jackie Johnson - Furniture Storage By : Jackie Johnson Most UK storage centers do not offer climate controlled rooms – we do not have the US extremes of temperature. Therefore these bullets are not appropriate. We do have a local museum storing some of their exhibits with us and they monitored humidity and temperature levels for 2 months before moving in. They reported stable conditions ideally suited to storing their artifacts. Jackie Johnson - Storage Unit By : Jackie Johnson When considering a self storage option, security is what is usually on everyone’s mind. Your storage unit should be protected against the elements and also against human incursion. All of your stored items will be safe at Kangaroo Self Storage and securely protected in a private storage unit under lock and key. Our facilities are also protected by secure entry and exit systems and video surveillance. Jackie Johnson - Storage By : Jackie Johnson Make certain to give yourself plenty of time to organize and pack your belongings prior to going into storage. Somehow, it always seems to take more time to pack up than we usually anticipate. Making sure you have the time allocated to do a good job will make the process that much smoother in the end. Jackie Johnson - Self Storage By : Jackie Johnson When considering a storage option, security is what comes to mind most often. Your storage facility should be not only protected against the elements but also secure to guard against theft and vandalism. All of your stored items will be safe when securely stored in their own storage room under lock and key and behind secure gates. A Nutt - Adjusting the Picture on Customer Focus By : A Nutt The study finds that customer focus is a top strategic concern for many businesses today and is ranked as one of the most important needs concerning issues ranging from leadership challenges to ethical behavior and innovation. Yet it also reveals that there is a wide disparity between what activities companies practice when it comes to customer focus and what they should be practicing. Amy Nutt - Avoiding Mistakes in Permanent Recruitment:The Right Tools For Mid-Sized Firms By : Amy Nutt One of the most common reasons companies make mistakes in permanent recruitment is because they tend to rush a rather ineffective process. When an important position is vacant managers may insist that HR "get me a body" rather than initiating a process that will get them a top performing superstar. Titus Hoskins - Online Fax Services - Choosing the Right Fax Service By : Titus Hoskins Internet Fax is the modern way to fax. Can any company or business be truly efficient without an online fax service? Can you compete with your business rivals if you don't have this new way of faxing? The answer to these vital questions would largely depend on how important faxing is to your business? If faxing plays a very minor role, then obviously faxing is not really a concern of yours. Amy Nutt - Using Search to Mitigate/Reduce Business Risks By : Amy Nutt That said, many people and businesses do not necessarily understand all the inherent benefits of search. Consider for example, the ability of search to mitigate or reduce certain types of business risks. Accordingly, the remainder of this post will assess the numerous ways that search can help mitigate or reduce business risks. In particular: Paul Lavesque - Monster Customer Service Blunders and How to Avoid Them By : Paul Lavesque Monster Blunder #1: Trying to solve the problem with superficial employee training. Workers call it smile trainingprograms intended to convince staff to look and sound more cheerful, while giving them no particular reason to feel any more cheerful. When you boil it down, this kind of training does nothing more than itemize the specific service behaviors workers are expected to exhibit. It then becomes managements job to somehow enforce these designated behaviors into the daily operation of the business. Linda Dawson - Stop Taxing Yourself By : Linda Dawson Imagine how much time you could save if you were paperless. Imagine if you could take care of everything by e-mail, without fussing with a bookkeeping program. Imagine if there was a virtual accounting office that would take the aggravation out of your bookkeeping and make preparing your tax return as easy as writing a check. What could be better than an accounting office that you never have to visit? Gene Adelson - Franchisor Consultants Give 5 Tips For Improving Relationships With Franchisees By : Gene Adelson The value of strong franchisor-franchisee relationships cannot be overemphasized. This is because the franchisees collectively hold in their hands a great portion of the responsibility for the success of the organization. In short, it is important to the health of the organization that they are well-supported! Peter Clarke - 5 Steps To Optimise Your Inventory: Step 5 - How To Optimise Your Product Replenishment By : Peter Clarke Replenishment is an important aspect of supplier relationship management (SRM). The goal of SRM is to streamline and make the processes between an organisation and its suppliers more effective. It enables effective communication between the different parties, who may use quite different business practices and terminology. As a result, SRM is designed to increase the efficiency of processes associated with acquiring goods and services, managing inventory and processing materials. Peter Clarke - 5 Steps To Optimise Your Inventory: Step 4 - How To Calculate Your Product Forecast By : Peter Clarke Forecasting is the basis of setting warehouse stock levels. Forecasts have to be as accurate as possible, which is why software is required that immediately reacts when there are changes to trends or seasonality. Peter Clarke - 5 Steps to Optimise Your Inventory: Step 3 - How to Classify Your Products & Define Your Strategy By : Peter Clarke Step 2 in the Inventory Optimisation series - analysing your inventory performance - is difficult enough considering the many variables that have to be considered. But analysing your inventory performance, let alone good inventory management overall, is made more complicated by the range of stock-keeping units (SKUs) that are involved. It would be simpler - in every respect - if you only had one item to keep track of. But some industry inventories encompass hundreds, thousands or even hundreds of thousands of different objects, and each needs to be taken into account. Sarah Martin - A Vigorous Growth of a Company By : Sarah Martin The vast tenancy of busy cities of the United States and Canada had been opened to industrial insurance. Many of the pioneer superintendents who served this new territory were to become leading figures in the company, not only as great producers but as trainers of men. Over the years, some had the satisfaction of "graduating" a great many trained superintendents. Hani Masgidi - Tips on How to Achieve Success in Customer Service By : Hani Masgidi If you want achieve success in customer service, you have to follow some main principles. You have to have a clear idea about how you would deal with the customers. If you are looking for some tips that will help you to attain success in customer service, here are the tips and some suggestions. Follow them and know how to be successful in customer service. Hani Masgidi - Start Improving Your Call Center Effectiveness Now By : Hani Masgidi To improve the effectiveness of your call center business, start interacting with your callers and customers. They are the lifeline of your company and call center business. To help you get started on the right foot, here are some tips you should consider. Laurus Nobilis - Balancing The Pricing Strategy By : Laurus Nobilis The purchasing is determined by our need and, of course, the amount of money that we posses. So what are the factors that determine what to spend money on? We have many needs, but our funds are limited. They are always limited. When we are buying we try to satisfy several needs. Firstly, we are satisfying the functional needs. "I am thirsty, I need a drink". But when we go to the grocery, there are a plenty of drinks, which one we will choose? From this point, people that came with basic functional need, called the thirst, are dividing into different segments, depend upon their preference. Laurus Nobilis - Risk Assessment And Management By : Laurus Nobilis But during this step-by-step business process, there are many situations where the whole process can be jeopardized by incidents that may have more or less influence. The whole process is planned in the best manner. But regardless how perfect the execution plan is, there is a certain possibility that some occurrences will deviate plan from it's path until a certain extent. The possibility of incident occurrences that will deviate execution of the plan is defined as a Risk. Hani Masgidi - Understanding Your Call Center Business By : Hani Masgidi Call center is known as the centralized office, which may be used for the target of receiving and transmitting a huge quantity of requests via telephones. Any firm can operate its call center to manage the incoming product support or some requests of information for clients. In addition, via the topic of understanding your Call Center, you can see that the outgoing calls for debt collection, clientele, and telemarketing can be operated. Brenda Bence - Improving Your Company's Bottom Line: The Power Of Personal Branding By : Brenda Bence The truth is that whether or not we focus on personal branding, every single one of us already has a personal brand – whether we like it or not. That’s right – you and every member of your team has a personal brand, even if you’ve never thought about it before. That’s because your personal brands exist in the minds of your customers or clients. Everyone you meet forms an impression of who you are and what your company can do. They will know very quickly if they trust you and want to do business with you. Adam Broetje - Martial Arts Tuition Billing Advice By : Adam Broetje First, cost is an obvious one. Some martial arts billing companies will charge upwards of 10% for their services. Naturally, when you see pricing in the 3% range you begin to think that you’re missing out on some core services by going with the cheaper option. But the reality is that you’re not missing out on hardly anything at all. We go into more detail in our article “Being the “bad guy” of billing”, but the gist of it is that by going with a billing company, you’re missing out on about 5% of your revenue because you didn’t want to have 1-2 conversations a month with students about billing. Adam Broetje - Martial Arts Tuition Billing Advice - Part 2 By : Adam Broetje Auto-recurring billing is possibly the greatest thing to happen to this industry in a long time. Not only does it save you a ton of hassle, but it dramatically increases the chances of your students paying in full and on-time. We all hate dealing with collecting tuition, yet it’s an essential part of running a martial arts school as a business. If your billing solution (or integrated management software) offers this feature, you should insist that all students are billed this way. First, you get priority over any paper checks that were written in the same day, helping ensure you get paid. Sandra Martini - Are You on Track? 5 Tools For a Late Summer Retreat By : Sandra Martini As a business owner (or as one who dreams of owning a business), it is critical to take time out to plan, be it for a year, or even a long-term goal. Otherwise, how can you get where you want to be if you don’t know where that is? Colm Doherty - Pornography and Illegal Images a Growing Problem By : Colm Doherty 18 April 2007: Audits on over 125 corporate and public sector networks by an Irish company over the last nine months found that 25.8% of the 10,000 PCs scanned contained digital pornography or other inappropriate images. Colm Doherty - An Irish Company Looks to Grow Channel to Address Growing Problem of Pornography and Illegal Images in the Workplace. By : Colm Doherty 17 April 2007: An Irish company is on a mission to appoint new channel partners in the UK and Ireland to address the increasing concern about the level of pornographic and illegal images in the workplace. Andrew Doyle - Introduction to Professional Indemnity Insurance By : Andrew Doyle Depending on your line of work you may be inclined to take out professional indemnity insurance, often small businesses that give specialist advice or are selling their skills to a client need to be covered against negligent claims. Professional Indemnity covers the cost of any third party claim for compensation over professional acts and will cover the legal expense attached to the claim. The majority of professional businesses take out PI insurance but sometimes depending on the role that you undertake, it may be required and often companies will only hire your services if you have PI insurance in place. Kimberly Quang - Decorative Exterior, Interior & Landscape Commercial Lighting Fixture Systems & Supplies Made in the USA By : Kimberly Quang All RLLD Commercial Sports Lighting fixtures and mounts are manufactured from top commercial grade materials and feature a wide range of glare/light pollution shielding designs to keep your client’s facility fully compliant with dark sky laws and light level regulatory codes. Kimberly Quang - Lighting Fixtures For Commercial Warehouses By : Kimberly Quang Most lighting in commercial warehouses requires equal attention to vertical as well as horizontal foot candle densities because both workers and equipment may be moving supplies either vertically up ramps or horizontally across floor space. It also helps to be able to control the level of lighting in a commercial warehouse in order to maximize energy efficiency. The type of lights you chose for your warehouse is also very important. Some types of light render color more effectively than others, and operations such as assembly line work often require a color rendering index (CRI) of close to 100 (CRI of daylight). Kimberly Quang - Parking Garage Lights By : Kimberly Quang Calculating these measurements often represents a very time consuming aspect of parking garage lighting. Sometimes, it even requires special software that smaller companies may not have access to, or be able to afford. This is where RLLD Commercial Lighting specialists can offer an added value. With basic data such as parking garage dimensions, total square footage, and general usage statistics, we can help the contractor save a step by calculating the levels of light that a parking garage needs for optimal safety and functionality. Janine Sergay - How to Develop a Training Strategy By : Janine Sergay Training and development in an organization requires implementation to achieve success. Therefore, the strategy will require vision, focus, direction and an action planning document. A training strategy is a mechanism that establishes what competencies an organization requires in the future and a means to achieve it. Elizabeth Rice, SPHR - Classifying Your Employees: Distinguishing Between 1099 and W2 Workers By : Elizabeth Rice, SPHR While bringing in contract employees can provide businesses with some much-needed relief during projects or busy seasons, it can also raise confusion when it comes to classifying them for tax purposes. IRS fines and penalties for incorrectly classifying employees are steep, but can be avoided by knowing the differences between employee classifications. Carmen Fontana - Shop Floor Management Systems Helping To Fuel Growth By : Carmen Fontana What has led to such measurable results for this 33-year-old company? “An important tool to spur that growth is another of the CEO’s changes at the company. Along with diversifying the company’s tool offerings, the company can now also act as a tool-inventory manager for its clients. ‘We have a proprietary software package,’ the CEO says. ‘It’s a shop-floor-management inventory system.’ The program helps clients keep track of their cutting tools, what ones are used the most, and when new ones are ordered.” Ryan J Bell - Measuring And Boosting Your Digital Signage ROI By : Ryan J Bell Most signage models don't lend themselves to concrete numbers (at least, not completely). For example, the ROI of a network that is used primarily to inform (for example, give directions, greet customers, etc.) is nearly impossible to measure. In this article, we'll explore measuring digital signage ROI in more detail. We'll also take a closer look at the factors which are easy to quantify and a few that are not. Kimberly Quang - Decorative Commercial Lighting By : Kimberly Quang Even the most rudimentary forms of commercial architecture can benefit from a touch of decorative lighting. By placing a few simple building lights a building’s perimeter, you can outline its form along the skyline. If there is nothing really that attractive about the building itself, you can add a touch of color with energy efficient LED accent lights or gooseneck sign lights and change an otherwise drab façade into an attractive form of branding and advertising. Hani Masgidi - Your Call Center Trainings Are Your Real Needs By : Hani Masgidi Call centre training is the most crucial part to make the experience of your caller rewarding and to get repeat on sales, otherwise, you won't get a second chance to create your first impression. The key areas which need strenuous training are product knowledge, technology and speaking soft with skill. Thomas Gieroski - Why Cash Leveraging Is About To Change The World Forever By : Thomas Gieroski Fact: On your own, working by yourself, you will never attain real wealth! However, with a team of people working for you, the amount of money you can make is limitless! And that's how cash leveraging works. It uses a huge network of people, all working to help send YOU money in vast amounts! Scott Lindsay - Audio Streaming and the Top 5 Don’ts For Business By : Scott Lindsay Of course you can always hire a professional to voice the project for you. Sites like voices and voice123 as well as RadioDaddy have been used to successfully gain this type of audio from a professional voice talent. Amy Nutt - The Structure of Temp Agencies By : Amy Nutt There are many advantages to using a temp agency for a business. For example, if you have a short range project but don't want to hire on permanent staff to complete it, hiring a temp worker is a viable solution. Peter Clarke - 5 Steps To Optimise Your Inventory: Step 2 - How To Analyse Your Inventory Performance By : Peter Clarke The aim of inventory optimisation is to decrease stock while increasing customer service levels. This can be difficult, particularly as it sounds like a contradiction in terms. However, it can be achieved either by: Peter Clarke - 5 Steps To Optimise Your Inventory: Step 1 - How To Balance Your Inventory Levels And Lower Costs By : Peter Clarke Inventory optimisation is about managing what is in the warehouse and how those contents flow into and out of the warehouse. It is the area where most ERP software implementations normally get the highest and fastest return on investment. It is therefore surprising that many companies that have implemented ERP have not yet added a dedicated inventory optimisation module, as it offers a huge potential for companies to maximise the value of their IT investment for a relatively small incremental cost. Sheena Vc - Software Associates - For Business Requirements By : Sheena Vc Believe me I know how things are; coming from a part of the world where technology has started invading us only for a few years and it has not yet reached its full extent. In this article I am going to tell you about the geeks out here who are just not the ordinary software specialist but some of the brainiest among them in the world over who have done wonders to the information system of some of the world s most crowded hospitals as well as Hotel, parcel, resort management etc. Iain Mackintosh - Common Mistakes When Buying a Business By : Iain Mackintosh The first point sounds obvious, but don’t just buy a business because it’s a good deal. To turn a business into a real success story, you have to be passionate about what they do, or the way they do it. If you’re passionate about the job, and it can use your skills, the battle is already half won, so be certain it’s something you can be excited by before you sign any legal documents. Iain Mackintosh - The 5 Biggest Mistakes Employers Make When Firing Staff By : Iain Mackintosh Many employers are scared of the legal dangers they may face from a wrongful dismissal lawsuit, and as a consequence are overly hesitant about getting rid of troublesome employees. As long as you are careful, have good quality business documents and follow a clear procedure, you’ve got nothing to worry about, but many employers continue to make critical (and costly) mistakes when it comes to dismissals and firing. Five of the biggest errors that managers make are: Katie Gutierrez - Five Tasks to Delegate to a Virtual Assistant For Immediate Impact By : Katie Gutierrez Early communication systems like the Pony Express seem ridiculous compared to today’s most sophisticated PDA. So why is it still really, really hard to schedule an appointment? Turn that time-sapping task over to your virtual assistant and we promise you won’t miss the hours spent playing phone tag, sending e-mails, leaving messages and staring at your calendar. Bringing busy people together in person or on the phone is a virtual assistant specialty! Katie Gutierrez - Six Reasons to Work With a Virtual Assistant By : Katie Gutierrez 1.Geography is no longer an issue. You can work with person best suited to your needs, regardless of location. Working with a virtual assistant who possesses the exact skill set, industry knowledge, and work style you need is much more effective that hiring a partially qualified person who happens to live nearby. The time it takes your new assistant to become acclimated to your business is reduced, allowing the individual to meet your desired goals quickly and accurately. This benefit allows you to increase your income and grow your business in much less time. Casey Yang - 5 Simple & Effective Ways to Cut Business Cost By : Casey Yang Why pay for something you don't have to? There are a lot of free stuffs on the internet. Web sites, e-mail addresses, fax numbers and conference call services are all among the options business owners can use for little or no charge at all. Elizabeth Rice, SPHR - Surprising Salary Trends For 2009 By : Elizabeth Rice, SPHR Employees nervously awaiting news of budget cuts and cancelled raises can breathe a (temporary) sigh of relief. Several recent surveys by leading research firms all point to the same conclusion: despite the economic slowdown, U.S. employers on the whole plan to keep wage increases steady for 2009. A survey by Watson Wyatt Worldwide revealed that employers plan to give workers pay raises averaging 3.5 percent during 2009. Likewise, WorldatWork’s annual Salary Budget Survey predicted an average 3.9 percent planned increase in salary budgets, and Business and Legal Reports 2009 Annual Pay Budget Survey indicated an overall 3.71 percent planned merit increase for the coming year. Elizabeth Rice, SPHR - 7 Steps to Successful Workplace Investigations By : Elizabeth Rice, SPHR "There has been an increase in complaints due to a misperception of what employment law really is," says Patricia C. Perez, SPHR, Attorney at Law. "I think there has been an increase in claims because there has been a shift in our population's perception of fairness at work." Elizabeth Rice, SPHR - The New Landscape of Paid Sick Time By : Elizabeth Rice, SPHR The growing movement to make paid sick leave a basic labor standard in the United States stems from the fact that nearly half of all American workers are currently ineligible to receive pay for time missed due to illness (source: Bureau of Labor Statistics). Workers argue that when they become ill, they are forced to choose between going to work sick or missing wages - or, in some cases, risking a reprimand or dismissal. Leslie Allan - How to Use PowerPoint to Win Over Your Audience By : Leslie Allan I’m pleased to report that with all of this first hand experience under my belt, I am ready to distill for you the 10 leading practices used to make a presentation unforgettable. Here is how you can make your next presentation just that little bit more memorable. Ray Subs - The Secret to Being a Great CEO By : Ray Subs What does it take to be a great CEO? It’s a question that not many CEOs take the time to ask, which could be precisely the reason that so many businesses these days are failing. Men and women who have no idea what’s going to be required of them are being thrust into positions where the decisions they make affect hundreds of people every day of the week, and the events that follow can be devastating. Ray Subs - What is Personal Branding? By : Ray Subs The problem with personal branding is that while the technique is invariably successful, it doesn’t work very well if you aren’t familiar with the concept of personal branding and how it applies to business-both topics that articles on the subject tend to be suspiciously grey on! How a person can read a three page article on personal branding and still not have a clue what it is is a complete anomaly, but it happens. One can only assume that the people out there writing about personal branding don’t understand it any better than you do. Ray Subs - The Downside to Personal Branding By : Ray Subs Granted, personal branding is a great way to help your company grow. It allows you to firmly establish yourself as an expert in your field, something that always makes you feel good because you’ve probably worked very hard to get there, and it opens doors to advancement and expansion that you wouldn’t have otherwise had available to you. Hamilton Wallace - What Happens to Your Customers Happens to You, Eventually By : Hamilton Wallace So, gulp, how are your customers reacting to the global economic meltdown? The more important question, really: If their attitudes are changing, and they probably are, what are you doing to stay a step ahead--to stay relevant? Before you spend any more of your budget, make sure what you're telling your prospects and how you're telling them (your marketing message and methods) have changed along with their current state of mind. John Ramallo - Online Appointment Scheduling: How Much Time Will it Save You? By : John Ramallo Owning and managing a spa, health club, or a massage therapy business will require a great deal of your time. You will be needed to attend to a lot of business-related activities, from planning to execution, as well as managing your appointment schedules. Time management is truly necessary. John Ramallo - Your Online Spa and How to Use Search Engine Optimization By : John Ramallo If not, take a step in that direction by optimizing your website for the search engines. Search engine optimization is the process of organizing the content on your website and its layout to make it most friendly to the search engines for finding your site online. When they find you, they will add you to their index which means people searching for your business or the service you provide, will find your site and hopefully choose you to do business with. Mark Schwartz - File Tracking For Your Business - 4 Added Benefits From a Paperless World By : Mark Schwartz The move to digital invoices and marketing material saves time, money on paper, and overall it's better for our planet (which is important in our green-aware society). Along with those benefits though there are other things that can be gained from a paperless world. Those benefits can be realized with a simple file tracking system. Amy Nutt - Strategic Staffing and the Temp Agency By : Amy Nutt Temp agencies have become so common that we forget that, they were a relatively recent invention. Back in the 1950s Bill Pollock and Jim Shore were both competitors selling business equipment to improve productivity. They both noticed that although demand went up and down, staff levels remained constant. It dawned on them that there was a need for temporary workers so that the level of staff could fluctuate with demand. They formed Drake Personnel (now Drake International) and brought a new industry to life. Sam Kanakanui - Adding Services to Your Salon or Spa - Add Services, Extend Your Hours and Diversify By : Sam Kanakanui Like any plan to expand, start-up or remain competitive, it should be put to paper. Adding services and otherwise adding diversity to your salon or spa requires a proper business plan, not just a discussion and some notes on a napkin. John Ramallo - Let Your Salon or Spa Generate More Revenue Even When Your Business is Closed – Your Online Store By : John Ramallo Your online store should offer many more products than are available for sale in your salon. Why? Because you do not have to purchase stock or inventory until it is ordered. The use of drop shipping can be set up in advance sending the product directly to your client as soon as it is ordered and paid for. John Ramallo - Scheduling Client Massage Appointments Online - Show Your Client You Care By : John Ramallo It never fails. A client comes in for his ten o'clock Swedish massage only to find out that another client was booked for the same slot. Unhappily he decides to cancel his appointment and states that he can just go down the street to your competitor's shop. How did it happen? Very easily if you have more than one person answering the phone and handling the appointment scheduling duties. This is bound to happen in today's businesses. There is another way that can save you the lost business and save you money in the long run as well. John Ramallo - Mobile Spa Business: Bringing the Business Right to Clients By : John Ramallo Mobile spas are starting to proliferate and operate actively in most markets. Conceptualized and developed on the principle that clients are more at home and comfortable having spa services provided right at the coziness and privacy of home, mobile spas are truly patronized well. In fact, mobile spas are most in-demand in busy markets across the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Wes Hudson - How to Evaluate a Network Marketing Compensation Plan By : Wes Hudson And since so many will be entering Networking for the first time due to our souring economy, and the need to earn extra income, many go blindly into a Company without understanding the compensation plan. Only after entering the program and working it for months do they realize what they need to do to earn a substantial income, or possibly how difficult earning that income may be. Compensation plans are written to entice distributors to enroll but to protect the profitability of the Company. Having a clear understanding of the Compensation plan will help you devise a strategy and pick the one that is right for you. Ryan J Bell - Ideas For Employee Survey Questions By : Ryan J Bell The breadth and scope of your surveys will depend upon your goals for the data and any related budget limitations. In this article, I'll provide you with a number of ideas for questions to include on your employee surveys. Keep in mind that the questions you use should be specific to the purpose of the survey (i.e. exit interview, measuring satisfaction, training issues, etc.). Rich Reese - The Uncertainty Syndrome Report by Rich Schefren Reveals Essentails to Online Business Success By : Rich Reese By far the easiest way to get into your own web based business that you can run from home is by getting involved in an affiliate marketing program. These programs are an agreement between yourself (the affiliate) and a merchant who needs to promote their product or service. This is done by means of directing visitors to the merchant's website – you will be paid a commission for each visitor you direct to the merchant's site who makes a sale. Antonio Conto - REACH is With Us: The New Rules Concerning the Chemical Policy By : Antonio Conto Companies involved would be all those that import or produce chemicals (phase-in and new substance) over 1 ton per year in the European Union. Important principles will therefore be the importation the manufacturing and/or the placing on the EU market of chemicals, For more dangerous substances (those under authorisation) a plan of substitution should be developed by the companies in order to switch to safer alternatives; this is a key point under the new regulation. The following main points represents the pillars of the new regulation Duty of care: Manufactures, importers and downstream users are responsible of a safe introduction into the market of chemical substances in order to take care of human health and environment. Joy Pendergrass - Answering Services: A New Formula For Successful Ventures By : Joy Pendergrass Here, the key issue is the focus. Either you can focus upon your core service or you can focus upon subsidiary services like answering. Hence, numerous answering services providers are rapidly emerging in the market. They significantly promise efficient, cost saving and enhance features in their services but rare companies adhere with their words till the last hour. What should we expect from a hardcore answering service provider? This is a major question for all service providers and service seekers as well. Peter Geisheker - Sales Training: Why You Must Establish Yourself As an Expert By : Peter Geisheker Trust is the major reason why you must be viewed as the expert in the products that you are selling to your customer. They must be able to see you as someone who will guide them along the right path toward the product that they should buy. Most people realize that sales people are interested in selling, but they still ask the questions and they still seek advice from sales persons. Bruce Orr - Narrowcasting The News Is Good For Business By : Bruce Orr People’s news gathering habits have changed drastically over the past few years. Businesses that use digital signage can benefit from adding a news feed to their signs. Not only will narrowcasting the news get more people’s attention, it fits right in with the way many coveted demographics (affluent, educated and under 40) get their news – on the fly and in small chunks. Dr. Beth Erickson - Why Happily Married Employees Are Good For Business By : Dr. Beth Erickson You can get the full details by reading these studies. My purpose in this brief article is merely to whet your appetite and open your eyes to what the company you work for or run could gain by getting involved in the marriage strengthening business.
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