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Here’s the tricky part: since bad credit and credit errors are a fairly common problem, there are tons of companies out there that claim to be able to help you. While there are quite a few that are legitimate and can get you out of the mess, the majority of them are scam artists that only want ... Views: 939
Did you know that your blog's analytics can tell you the best time and best topics to increase traffic to your site? It's true, for those statistic can help you write posts that people want to read and when they'll want to read them!
The statistics you want to pay particular attention to ... Views: 1101
If the idea of strategic planning scares you or makes you want to crawl into a hole, use my 5 easy steps to begin the process and you will be on your way.
Here it is December again, and over here in Oregon, it is creeping towards winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. This time of the ... Views: 1703
Conducting a good strategic planning session is critical to the success of a solid strategic plan; one that includes specific and measurable goals and objectives, providing a clear direction for the organization. To ensure that the actual planning retreat is as productive as it can be, ground ... Views: 8554
Every nonprofit organization should conduct strategic planning on a regular basis, as strategic plans outline what action steps the organization will take in the future to sustain and grow their operation, while adhering to their mission. Many organizations focus attention on conducting the ... Views: 3465
The Pre-Campaign Planning Study
By Norman Olshansky: President
NFP Consulting Resources, Inc.
All too often, nonprofit organizations jump into fundraising campaigns without proper preparation and without a well thought out campaign plan. Initial volunteer passion and enthusiasm ... Views: 2530
Is your business blooming and growing?
Are you seeing regular increases in income or customer base?
Do customers and clients come looking for you?
If you answered "no" to these questions -- if you are working overtime looking for new clients and customers -- you may have a stale or ... Views: 1214
Many reasons support the need for companies to automate their process control. And the key factor influencing the automation requirements is to increase productivity and shorten the time to market. Manufacturing plants covering a large physical area heavily rely on the process of automation for ... Views: 710
Branding: What Is It & Why You Need It As A Holistic Health Practitioner!
Now that you’ve found your passion as a holistic practitioner, you must now figure out how to turn that passion into profit - the first step is BRANDING! Before any business can be successful, you must first identify ... Views: 1050
The first step to improving your fitness business is to ensure that your business is well organized. Some fitness businesses are not able to explore their full earning potential, as they are not organized properly. Fitness businesses can be improved by paying attention to the basics of a ... Views: 1399
Increasing your productivity hinges on your ability to not keep making the same mistakes over and over again. The people who learn from their past mistakes are the people who will move forward much quicker than those who do not. There is a saying, “If you do not learn from History, you will be ... Views: 1139
There are many questions that often come up for new small business owners around offering guarantees - what kind, how long, am I risking too much by doing so, and even if they should offer them at all.
In my business, I offer a guarantee on everything I sell (except for my personal coaching ... Views: 857
Unemployment numbers are high, and will likely climb for months if not years to come. If this happens to be news to you, consider your ignorant bliss shattered. For the rest of us who encounter this grim reality head on, the question we face as a nation is how America can continue to have record ... Views: 934
Right now, the most powerful man in the world regarding the US economy is not the President. It is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke. It is his board, which he leads and is rarely overridden, that sets monetary policy. What this means is that the Federal Reserve (the Fed) ... Views: 1075
Daniel Kertcher is the CEO and Founder of Platinum Pursuits. He is well known as an expert within Australian wealth and stock trading education. Born in 1972 Toronto, Canada, he moved to Australia when he was 16. He completed his degree, Bachelor of Science at University of Queensland with a ... Views: 3975
Sustainable development may be an over-used term but it can prove extremely beneficial in solving global issues such as degradation of the environment, poverty, inequality and hunger. According to experts, the entire world is facing social, environmental and economic challenges in the 21st ... Views: 2080
As a business owner, business consultant, and business professor, I have been asked numerous times for the secrets of recession proof businesses. Recession proof businesses that I work with all seem to have one thing in common: recession proof business owners. Here are the top 10 vital qualities ... Views: 897
What causes management problems at work?
Anything but a system
Many management systems are anything but a system. These organizations are a collection of people, habits, different behaviors and expectations. Management is driven largely by external behavior (The bigger boss) and ... Views: 1922
Ethical consumerism is all about buying products that have been made in a sustainable manner and don’t cause any harm to the environment. Consumers can extend their support to environmental sustainability, better working conditions for the workers, reduced greenhouse gas emission and upliftment ... Views: 3022
For various reasons ranging from all time low real estate prices to high volumes of capital opportunity, here is a list of the top ten cities to start a business today. Check it out:
Las Vegas, Nevada: With real estate, cost of living, and employee wages as low as they’ve ever been, immense ... Views: 6343
For various reasons ranging from all time low real estate prices to high volumes of capital opportunity, here is a list of the top ten cities to start a business today. Check it out:
Las Vegas, Nevada: With real estate, cost of living, and employee wages as low as they’ve ever been, immense ... Views: 6343
There's a plethora of great seminars out there. How do you decide if you should sign-up? Here's 5 ways to help you make the best decision.
Maybe you're like me and you get tons of offers for amazing seminars, workshops and other cool learning opportunities. Wouldn’t it be nice to spend the ... Views: 1350
by: Geoff Ficke
Since the beginning of time, until the middle of the 19th century the production of goods was conducted on an artisan, piece by piece basis. Over these many centuries the center of the individual’s universe was the local environ where commerce and enterprise were conducted on ... Views: 2077
To write a truly effective marketing plan for your business, you must have the basics in place first. One of the most basic, yet often overlooked elements of a marketing plan is the situation analysis.
This situation analysis will provide the context for the proposed plan of action and must ... Views: 3097
Congratulations – you’re ready to apply for your merchant cash advance! Now your dreams of starting up your own Mom and Pop restaurant or adding that much-needed outdoor deck to your café can finally be realized, all thanks to this alternative source of restaurant funding.
However, there ... Views: 1100
Once you've figured out your niche (or you've at least narrowed it down significantly), it's time to figure out what problems they are struggling with, and what they want by way of solutions. Remember, if you will only ask your market, it wants to help you create the products it wants to ... Views: 996
The business plan is a foreign tool to most REALTORS®. After studying, observing, interviewing, and coaching hundreds of Agents, I have concluded that very few have taken the time to create a quality business plan. Fewer still review their business plan on a regular basis. The few who have ... Views: 844
Selling a business has many moving parts and as a result is very complex. Here are 5 suggestions that may make the task easier.
1. Get a professional third party valuation
This may sound obvious but naturally the seller wants as much money for the business as possible and the buyer wants to ... Views: 1536
You may have already my two articles exploring the best strategies for effortless business success. In the second article we explored what success actually means - and in the first, I suggested four specific steps anyone in business - from the "one man band" to the multi-national - can take to ... Views: 1358
You may have already my article "Strategies for Effortless Business Success" - with the emphasis on the word effortless. In this follow up article, I want to explore what I mean by success - because most "normal" people really haven't got the first clue what the word actually means in the ... Views: 1428
What a strange title for an article given all the gloom and doom that's doing the rounds at present! Most interestingly, how did the word "Effortlessly" get into the title? Surely, hard work is a virtue, God loves a try-er and you have to work hard to be a success. All these statements are ... Views: 1304
While there are articles upon articles about search engine optimization, key word placement, search engine marketing, Meta tags, etc., the real issue on the web is not so much about how many hits a web site receives but in how many visitors become clients or customers. Of course, if you are ... Views: 1163
by:Geoff Ficke
Virtually every modern household has a basic wheelbarrow stored away. The use of the wheelbarrow is ubiquitous in construction and basic home chores. The design, form and function of the wheelbarrow has not appreciable changed for 700 years. And yet, this simple tool is one of ... Views: 3256
by: Geoff Ficke
As we slog along under the full weight of the current financial calamity, there is much weeping and gnashing of teeth about the future of the United States. Many of our countries fiercest enemies and critics are gloating over their perception that our wave has crested and we ... Views: 1246
by: Geoff Ficke
Cement is the most widely used building material in the world and has been for thousands of years. The historical record confirms that the ancient Persians, Assyrians and Babylonians used cement in the binding and affixing of mud bricks. The Egyptians also used cement in ... Views: 1961
The world is currently fixated on the international credit crisis and the role banking has played in this debacle. We take it for granted that commerce flows quickly and accurately across borders and frontiers. A resident of Maine can purchase a tank of gas at home, or in Italy with the same ... Views: 2512
by: Geoff Ficke
I am always amazed when I see well educated, seemingly worldly people make themselves look and sound silly by promoting ever more aggressive expansion of government. We are currently in our national election cycle, admittedly the silly season for politicians. This year, ... Views: 1193
by: Geoff Ficke
In early 20th century America the vast majority of people living in rural areas eked out a living in agriculture. Farms were small, often sharecropped. The planting and harvesting was labor intensive and horses provided the only source of energy for mechanized tilling. The ... Views: 1796
One of the great entertainment values available to almost anyone with a cable television service is the History Channel. The volume and quality of wonderfully instructive and entertaining programming on offer is amazing. I have never watched a reality show, or a celebrity dancing display, but I ... Views: 1079
by: Geoff Ficke
I recently visited the exciting, ancient city of Rome, Italy with my family. Of course, we all know that this city by the Tiber River is basically an open-air museum, with stunning historic relics every where one looks. The Forum, the Coliseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Borghese ... Views: 1029
A fitting metaphor for the young 21st century, and the ever-increasing intrusiveness of government at all levels, is this weeks news stories detailing the total lack of progress in rebuilding the World Trade Center. This is the cherry on top of the proverbial bitter bureaucratic sundae. Is this ... Views: 990
by Janet Attard
As the recession grinds on, more and more businesses and consumers are feeling the pinch. Hit by a double whammy of lower-than-expected sales and difficulty in getting credit, some businesses and consumers are trying to solve their cash problems by paying their bills more ... Views: 1012
The terms small business coach or business mentor are often used interchangeably within the business world, but what do people really mean when they talk about small business coaching or business mentoring? And how are they different from executive coaching or life coaching?
Countless ... Views: 890
One of the many things I discovered when on my recent private retreat with my mentor coach Kendall Summerhawk was that I sometimes still have a tendency to bend in situations where I shouldn’t. Not actually bend-over backwards, but enough that I end up not feeling good about the situation. I’ve ... Views: 959
Their Successors Often Lose Focus And Greatly Damage These Franchises
If you are of a certain age you will vividly remember the following names: Helena Rubenstein, Faberge, Germain Monteil, Trigere, Revlon, Elizabeth Arden, Max Factor, Schwinn, W. T. Grant, Montgomery Ward and Chuck Taylor. ... Views: 1898
Winston Churchill’s Famous War Cry
Is Fully Applicable for Today’s Entrepreneurs
Arguably, the courage and moral leadership provided to the western world by Winston Churchill was the key instrument essential to keeping World War 2 from ending early, and ever so badly for the cause of ... Views: 2104
How to Turn an Ancient Scottish Peat Bog into Marketing Gold
Many years ago, as a young entrepreneur seeking to launch my very first consumer product, I discovered the importance of having a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) to establish my brand’s niche. My partner and I had developed a very ... Views: 2543
The hit television drama “Mad Men” recently began its third season to rave critical reviews and spectacular viewer ratings. The program, which is focused on the professional and personal lives of the associates of a New York City advertising agency in the early 1960’s is a magnetic period piece, ... Views: 1384
Wow! How many times have you been told that you need to learn to “manage your time better” or “time management is the key to success?” At some point we have all had those dreaded words thrown at us, from past teachers, mentors, parents, etc. I’m here to tell you that I believe they are all ... Views: 2314
What's a Niffler, you ask?
Well, if you've read Happy Potter and the Goblet of Fire, you might remember that a Niffler is a critter that hunts treasure. Once it finds one treasure, it moves on quickly in search of the next prize.
Do you do the same thing in your business? Meaning, are you ... Views: 1273
Most of the entrepreneurs we interview in our consulting business have a very unrealistic conception of what excites and disappoints investors. The dream of many inexperienced inventors seeking to fund their opportunity is to build a substantial infrastructure. Their business plan identifies the ... Views: 1122