Those of us who are happily operating home based businesses hear this all the time: "I just don`t have the TIME to start a home based business! I`m just too busy!" While this may be true, it`s an interesting statement to make, because it implies that someone else is controlling your time. We all hav...

Is Your Image Working for You? Ten seconds is all it takes to make a first impression ? whether it?s your personal presentation or the first contact a potential client or customer has with your company. When you walk through their door ? or they walk through yours ? your image is imprinted in the fi...

When you have your own home based business, whether it is online or offline, financial management is one of the key "departments". You really do need to keep on top of your finances if you want your own little business to have long term success, and you can do that by being a manager rather than by ...

The genre of Shakespeare?s play usually helps to make the general point or convey the central meaning of the story. It is not by a chance that Hamlet is a tragedy and most of the heroes including Hamlet himself die. The sad end of the story is a logical conclusion of the play. According to the tas...

How many of you clicked onto this site because you have already heard of the Rich Jerk? You might have even been to his web site and read all of his arrogant ways to make you rich. Well, as the Rich Jerk would say, "if you have any brain at all" you should read this before making a decision that mig...

Recently many high-output online article authors have been condemned by top-notch copywriters and editor type authors. These copywriter type authors and writers believe that many high-output authors do not take the time to carefully edit their work before submitting them and thus detract from the In...

Ideas... The starting point of all achievement. Ideas can lead to new directions in your thinking, business, or life. Ideas can lead you to express your new ideas in written articles. Many times, these articles are the starting point for books. Even great books! Articles and books give you... the w...

Don?t let overwhelm hold you back? follow this expert advice and start writing your promotional article today. As a writing coach, I frequently work with independent professionals who have great ideas for promotional articles, but no idea how to start writing them. Here are the first three of six e...

This article is based on the following book: What Is The Emperor Wearing?
Truth-Telling In Business Relationships
Butterworth-Heinneman
ISBN 0-7506-9872-1
217 pages This book is inspired by the popular tale ?The Emperor?s New Clothes?. It provides stories of ordinary individuals in ...

Can you hear your compassion? It`s time to crank it up. One of the most difficult challenges we face in our quest to be compassionate is dealing with conflict. Those we love most tend to be the ones most likely to engage us in sparring that cuts the deepest. Why do we allow ourselves to use our hars...

How would you like to sell more copies of your book? Would you like to read excerpts from your book to a captivated audience? Book signings are the cornerstone of an author`s post-publication foundation. But how do you set them up? Organizing book signings, readings, and public appearances is one of...

The headline is undoubtly the most crucial factor of the sales copy. You could have the best sales copy ever written but a poorly written and not thought out headline will almost single handly ruin your business.The following points should insure your headline is quality and will force to read on. 1...

A colleague of mine has a problem. We belong to the same association and he`s been trying for quite some time, without success, to get support for one of his proposals. His lack of results came to mind when a reader asked for ideas about making internal proposals more effective. As she noted in her ...

What does a sharp saw have to do with lifelong learning? For all you Covey fans, you know Dr. Steven Covey coined the phrase "sharpen the saw" in his highly acclaimed book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. To me, I think about a saw sharpener as a complicated device that I would never be...

Are you a home or small business owner and you?re Webmaster, receptionist, and assistant all in one, but you?ve found that there isn?t enough time in the day to complete all of these administrative tasks? A ?Virtual Assistant? could be your answer. In today?s tough economical times it?s hard to thi...

There is a memorable and moving scene in the movie, ?Witness,? when Harrison Ford?s character assists the Amish to raise a barn, seemingly from scratch. Literally, before our eyes, we see the framing being capably carpentered, and for that day, all rivalries are put aside, so a neighbor?s farm can b...

What Is Proxemics? The study of the communicative aspects of personal space and territory is called proxemics. Everyone is surrounded by an invisible zone of psychological comfort that follows us everywhere we travel. This protective bubble acts as a buffer zone against unwanted touching and attac...

?The Johnson Family Doctrine? Use this doctrine as a template to shape your family business values and help eliminate some of the iherent pressures of management in a family owned business. The Johnson family lead by Ken Johnson (3rd generation) have built a reputation in the industry for fairness a...

If you belong to the right groups, you see requests for contest sponsors on a regular basis. So why should you just give away your products? What is in it for you? Exposure for your business at a low cost is one benefit. Whoever you are donating to, should give you credit for your donation, along wi...

My name is Steve Brummet and my business is to speak to businesses, teams, schools, churches, non profit organizations and just people about improving their communication skills. Most communication experts agree that good communication starts with understanding. If we develop skills that help us bet...

The stock market is still on a wild roller coaster ride. Trust in business is at an all time low. Do your customers still trust you? Here are seven ways to help you make sure. 1. Go the extra mile. Under promise and over deliver - a time worn concept that still works every time. Be there for your cu...

U.S.P., in marketing, is the acronym for unique selling proposition. This is asking, "What distinguishes you from similar products or services, even businesses as a whole?" After using the USP method to uncover the uniqueness of my products and services, I continued to find them difficult to name. ...

We are often confronted by situations that call for negotiations at different levels. Be it vegetable vendors or buying garments or purchasing a house/flat/apartment or tying up a business venture, each of these calls for different approach to negotiations. Whether domestic, personal or business c...

As a specialist in getting restaurants open, it is surprising how many people ask, ?How can I get out of my restaurant?? Reasons for this question vary greatly, from a death in the family to a merger with another firm, to the end of a lease. Selling your restaurant requires quality prior planning if...

What is a Virtual Assistant? A Virtual Assistant is a person or persons with whom businesses and individuals outsource administrative and technical tasks. Virtual Assistants work from their home office. Virtual Assistants are entrepreneurs. A Virtual Assistant is a qualified, skilled individua...

Phil Ashforth of Synergy Coaching argues the case for using a Business Coach. The first thing that many business owners will ask is, ?What is a Business Coach?? and the second, ?Why would I need one?? When you ask most people, they will rightly associate coaching with sports, athletics or football. ...

Let`s face it, many businesses cringe when they think of dealing with banks when they are looking to set up merchant credit card accounts. The truth is that in order to be in business in this day and age as a merchant, you must be prepared to accept and process credit cards. Most especially if you ...

Why write an introduction? Nobody reads it anyway. Up until now, this opinion has had clout. But now, with a shorter introduction of one to two pages, and through the five essentials below, your introduction will become the fourth sales tool for your book. When people read your clear, concise person...

Well Enron dealt with this a little for instance an intangible such as the available bandwidth in fiber optic lines. So what is a commodity in a service business? Well, a commodity could be considered are capacity to wash cars for a mobile car wash business like the company I own, the additionally c...

Going paperless in professional offices, such as those of CPAs, sometimes could become inconvenient for the professional to work. When a CPA is working on a client?s tax return and needs to refer to prior year return, it is easy for her to look at the paper printout while working on this year return...