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A series of articles exploring the seven critical areas that can indicate a partnership is in trouble.
The 5th C: Control Issues
When control is in the picture it is a lose/lose proposition.
First, it is an illusion that anyone can control a person or a situation. The need to control is ... Views: 785
A series of articles exploring the seven critical areas that can indicate a partnership is in trouble.
The 4th C: CUMULATIVE MONEY PROBLEMS
Conflicts over money are very high on the list of reasons that 70% of business partnerships fail. I'm not referring necessarily to lack of money. The ... Views: 716
A series of articles exploring the seven critical areas that can indicate a partnership is in trouble.
Conflict Becoming the Norm – Part 2
In a previous article, I wrote about how unresolved conflict can create havoc in your business and can often end in a failed partnership. Today, I share ... Views: 773
A series of articles exploring the seven critical areas that can indicate a partnership is in trouble.
Conflict Becoming the Norm – Part 1
Dr. Dean Ornish, noted cardiologist, says the greatest cause of disease is the stress that comes from conflict. Conflict is bad for your health, your ... Views: 756
THE “SEVEN Cs”: PARTNERSHIP DANGER SIGNS
A series of articles exploring the seven critical areas that can indicate a partnership is in trouble.
Competitive, Not Complementary Action
James Carville and Mary Matlin are public relations spokespeople for the Democratic and Republican parties, ... Views: 955
An ongoing series of articles exploring the seven critical areas that can indicate a partnership is in trouble.
COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
The "Seven Cs" are the danger signs that indicate your business partnership, or any partnership for that matter, is in trouble.
First, and most important, ... Views: 1321
I try to use as many free traffic programs as I can to increase traffic to my web sites. But does this traffic actually make sales for me? Probably not directly but indirectly they can.
So what are the benefits of free traffic programs? Well the number 1 benefit is that it will boost your ... Views: 804
The internet is considered a god-send by many people all over theglobe. Never before has such an opportunity been placed on thetable for your taking. Where else could you set up a businesstranscending borders for fifty dollars a month or less.
Opportunities abound everywhere you turn nowadays ... Views: 1200
"The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters."
- Jean-Paul Kauffmann - How to let economy work for you for a change. ... Views: 766
It Really Is Simple Rss
I have 'Googlebot' coming to my site every day since a monthago I put up my first news feed, since then I have put up yetanother.
I never used to see 'Googlebot' much before, so it goes to showthat if you want to be noticed by the search engines, you needto put up a ... Views: 962
Internet is an ever evolving business platform. Doing business on the Internet differs in a number of ways from every day brick and mortar business. Change here is more frequent, more dramatic and may have greater impact than in a conventional business. Success in this climate can only come from ... Views: 931
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How can one get a good ranking in the major search engines ? This is a question, I'm sure, agitates the minds of every newbie as well as professional webmaster. Even those that are doing well are fighting to keep their place. But isn't there a way to consistently ... Views: 1111
Possessing stuff has become a hobby for many people — a pastime that is very serious “business” by some. In fact, an on-going need for additional closet space, exterior buildings, and pay-per-month storage facilities has risen over the last couple of years. In response, storage businesses are ... Views: 902
Now this is a tip if you are using any kind of PPC (Adwords, Overture) to promote any product offered via ClickBank or any affiliate program that uses PayPal for payment processing.
If you don't know this already, ClickBank and Paypal does not accept payment from everybody.
They only accept ... Views: 1112
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
is trying to please everybody."--Bill Cosby
Have you ever had a client/customer that was more trouble than they were worth? Maybe they were always late to pay, or didn't do what they said they'd do. Maybe you just had a personality clash, ... Views: 1064
Getting your business processes online is not an easy job! According to Gartner Group, a renowned research firm, a full 75 percent of all e-business projects fail due to poor planning and unrealistic expectations of new technology. The productivity gains and cost savings promised by e-business ... Views: 1109
Whether you are a newbie to Internet or a proud owner of
a website, affiliate programs are great opportunities for
you to make money online. It is an interesting concept
that allows affiliates to develop a source of income and
the program owners to sell their products more effectively.
As ... Views: 727
In this holiday season online shopping is hotter than ever!
According to US Commerce Department online sales continue to
grow with a robust 25-27 percent this year over 1992. Online
holiday shopping at a rate of 10 percent is also considerably
outpacing the 5.7 percent growth of overall ... Views: 767
Increase Company Productivity
After years of hard work, finally your business started to pick
up. You are selling more products then ever! You have lined up a
good number of suppliers and buyers. Things have never been better
than now. Except one thing! With rising sales your overhead and ... Views: 788
I registered with a B2B site but what’s next?
This is a question many first time users of B2Bmarketplaces ask themselves. A few expect that the registration itself will bring them a number of new customers. In some cases this might by true! Especially, if you are a seller of some much coveted ... Views: 1039
Getting your business processes online is not an easy job! According to Gartner Group, a renowned research firm, a full 75 percent of all e-business projects fail due to poor planning and unrealistic expectations of new technology. The productivity gains and cost savings promised by e-business ... Views: 1107
You’re not alone. Most people are uncomfortable walking into a roomful of strangers. But networking at business events can help you grow your business, as well as allow you to do hands-on marketing research. Learning to mingle and to follow-up with business networking contacts is crucial to ... Views: 875
Suddenly your site's traffic multiplies.
You get "Money Waiting" emails from your
Payment Processor; more sales than you
can handle. Your downline increases radically
- potential entrepreneurs join your sales force.
Your leads-list inflates ... Views: 947
Only the weak ones quit. Is that true? There is a story of a CEO of a multi-national company who decided to withdraw a product from the market when it had consistently failed for nine months and eaten up millions of pounds in advertising, promotions etc. Was he weak? He could have maintained the ... Views: 1157
It's a cruel world out there. Hundreds of thousands
of hard-working Americans lose their job every year.
Tragically, ordinary people get disillusioned by
sleeping on the idea of a "dream job" when they
could cash-in tremendously from the exponential
growth of ... Views: 1088
When I first started looking for ways to make money online the first program I joined was One&Only internet personals. They were a personals dating affiliate program that dealt with matchmaking and singles personals ads online.
One&Only has since been taken over by Match.com one of the largest ... Views: 1034
Usually the emphasis on making an effective speech is what you do in preparation before the presentation begins. But if you speak very much, what you do after the speech can help you become a more effective speaker.
As soon as possible after the speech, write down impressions of how you felt ... Views: 1121
The Internet brought a great deal of benefits to our life. Access to a lot of free and useful information is, probably, one of the most important out of them. However, this abandon of free information has also become a problem to some extent. You started to spend a little too much time on the ... Views: 1031
Finding The Right Work From Home Internet Business Opportunity
By Tom Worsley
As the Internet grows and the amount of people using it so does the endless amount of online home business opportunities.
So how does one find the best work from home business opportunities on the Internet today? ... Views: 1211
Sponsorship is the fastest growing form of marketing in the U.S. It is still very much in its infancy, especially in the trade show arena. With this in mind, you can find unlimited opportunities to broaden your competitive advantage by increasing your credibility, image and prestige in ... Views: 926
So you’ve decided to start an online work at home business and are just beginning to build your website. You probably have a million different ideas for what you want the site to look like. You will want to take into consideration that your idea of a great website may differ drastically from ... Views: 1061
There is a rather famous true story called “Acres of Diamonds”.
It is about a successful farmer who risks everything searching the African continent for diamonds. Ultimately he dies sick and penniless, while the new owner of his farm uncovers on his property the largest single diamond ever ... Views: 2069
Do you remember when you were a kid and you have that littlepiggy bank. Every now and then, your mom or dad, or youruncles and aunties come by and drop in a few coins for you.
What if I can show how to have that again - even if you are70? That would be great right? No saving effort, yet youhave ... Views: 2040
Marketing a business is like any game. If you know the rules you are much more likely to win. All to often small businesses spend their limited time and money on advertising, networking, making calls, mailings, meeting with prospects, yet only achieve middling results. The problem isn’t that ... Views: 948
If you use emails actively in your communication, you must have received various messages claiming to be from Ebay, Paypal and a number of banks. A recent email as if from U.S. Bank Corporation that I received contains the subject "U.S. Bank Fraud Verification Process" and in the body of the ... Views: 1152
Every website needs traffic because without traffic it's
impossible to sell anything. Here are 11 simple ways how you can
get your website hit counter explode.
1) Start an affiliate program. It's the #1 way how to get high
quality traffic to your website. Almost every successful online
business ... Views: 1644
Spam. Those annoying, time-consuming emails that clog your Inbox and ruin your day. You wonder: How did it ever get so bad? While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam, there are quite a few things you CAN do about the problem to reduce your burden.
Spam is defined as an unsolicited ... Views: 1245
Business to business e-commerce is on the rise! Worldwide B2B e-commerce revenues are estimated to reach around US$ 2 trillion in 2004. This is a significant leap from last year’s US$ 1.4 trillion. However, according to a recent survey, although, more than 70% of companies have already used ... Views: 1038
Marketing is like rowing. You pull hard on the oars to go forward, then lift them out of the water and push them back to finish the stroke and get ready for the next pull. Once you’ve got the sequence of the stroke right, you and your boat slip forward through the water and build speed and ... Views: 972
As usual, I walked into the Starbucks for my morning coffee. Enjoying my morning coffee in Starbucks has been a routine since a year back. Now, everything in that particular Starbucks seems so familiar. Even the customers looked similar.
Just as I was walking to my favorite table with my warm ... Views: 1162
The purpose of analyzing your web site statistics is to look for trends and to research the success level of your marketing campaigns. The numbers themselves can be misleading, as statistical packages count “hits” in different ways. If someone visits a page on your site doesn’t mean that they ... Views: 1129
Ordinary people are making extraordinary income working from home
on the internet. There are many ways to make money on the internet
but the great majority of people struggle and fail trying to do it on their
own.
I want to make you aware of an opportunity to work with a group of
people who ... Views: 960
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of hosting companies out there. They come in all price ranges, and with all kinds of bells and whistles. Here are some things you may want to look for in a hosting company, especially if your website is part of your overall marketing plan to sell products ... Views: 1020
When a basketball team is down by 20 points with 30 seconds to go, giving up is not an option. Spectators start leaving and reserve players take the floor, but the game goes on.
When you're playing a business game, you blow your own whistle. Here are some ways to check the score.
1. How ... Views: 1207
Business processes are the building blocks of an enterprise. If one of these processes fails to live up to its expectation, business starts to flounder. How to minimize the risks, get a better monitoring of the processes and, at the same time, reduce costs involved? The answer is – business ... Views: 1278
When marketing your practice, as well as designing yourbrochure, web site, business card, flier, advertisement, orother marketing effort, we recommend investing the time andeffort needed to effectively address all these tips. Notone of them can be omitted.
Tip 1. MARKET FOR YOUR DESIRED ... Views: 1265