True Success In Wood And Water
This Article is About: Marketing And Finance, How To Start Business, Start Business
Let's get right to the point, folks. We're all looking to succeed, in our own individual ways, and we're all looking for nuggets of wisdom to lead our course. We wake up every morning in search of me......

Prepare Your Communications For Growth
This Article is About: Marketing Material, Business Strategies, Growing Business
As the American economy emerges from recession, many businesses are now reexamining their marketing materials and realizing that their communications are outdated, ill-prepared for the return of a ro......

Fight The Fluff!
This Article is About: Marketing And Finance, Small Business Loan Grants, Marketing Strategies
The first and final rule of quality writing is this: what doesn't strengthen your writing, weakens it. There are no neutral words when you're trying to be persuasive - every word must be doing real w......

Work At Home Moms - Start Your Business With Found Money
This Article is About: Business And Money, How To Start Business, Start Business
Think you can't afford to start your own Home Business? Think again! I have been able to budget the start up expenses of my own Home Business. I have to admit in the beginning I thought I would not b......

How To Compete With Amazon.com
This Article is About: Marketing And Advertising, Sales Letter, Business And Money
If you are selling online,here is the down side of our business....you will never be able to compete with Amazon. (Or Kmart, or Target, or any other big outlet) Here is why, They buy directly from th......

Corporate Team Building
This Article is About: Vacation Package, How To Start Business, Start Business
There is a WHOLE lot of talk these days about Corporate Team Building. There are many, many options: vacation packages, rope courses, on-going office games, ice-breakers, etc. Management can also p......

What's Your Selling Sentence?
This Article is About: Business Change, Business Consulting Group, Business Resource
What's your Selling Sentence? If you have a business, you need a selling sentence. Sometimes called the Defining Sentence or the Secondary Statement, the Selling Sentence is the group of words that ......

How Much You Need to Earn
This Article is About: How To Start Business, Start Business, Start Up Business
Have you ever asked yourself what your highest income producing activity is? If you’re like most people you probably go about your day-to-day business never really thinking about the moment to moment......

What To Ask Before You Hire Security Services For Your Buisness
This Article is About: Business And Money, Business And Insurance, New Business
Most business owners never think about what they security need for, they just want to know how much it will cost them! This has a variety of adverse affects on your business right away! First the old......

Resolving Workplace Conflict: 4 Ways to a Win-Win Solution
This Article is About: Business Skills, Business Change, Business Coach
The effects of conflict in the workplace are widespread and costly. Its prevalence, as indicated by three serious studies, shows that 24-60% of management time and energy is spent dealing with ange......

Top 7 Ways to Succeed in the Business of Speaking
This Article is About: Business Tips, Business Skills, Business Coach
How attractive are you as a speaker? No, your looks, but your consistent ability to provide a quality presentation, attract clients, and be irresistibly attractive to meeting planners and speaker......

Communicating with Case Studies
This Article is About: Business Tips, Business Change, Strategic Plans
Not long ago, I made a partnership pitch, on behalf of an organization I represent, to another organization with similar interests. If the idea had come to fruition, it would have radically changed o......

Lead People...Manage Things
This Article is About: Finance Management, How To Start Business, Strategy Business
Master The Five Key Facets of High Performance Leadership Many people in leadership positions struggle with understanding what makes a great leader. While billions of dollars are spent annually on le......

Managers: A Key to Your Survival
This Article is About: How To Start Business, Strategy Business, Start Business
Most business, non-profit and association managers live to tell about it only IF they achieve their operating objectives. Very little wriggle room there. But among such managers are those who fail ......

Meditation: Why Just Sitting There Isn't Just Sitting There
This Article is About: Medical Center, Business Consulting Group, Increase Sales
Meditation: Why Just Sitting There Isn’t Just Sitting There At first you might not think this is a tool for creativity. Meditation does typically involve sitting quietly by yourself for a period of ......

While You're Waiting
This Article is About: Business Tips, Business Change, Strategic Plans
Not long ago, I made a partnership pitch, on behalf of an organization I represent, to another organization with similar interests. If the idea had come to fruition, it would have radically changed o......

10 Mistakes That Reduce Profitability
This Article is About: Marketing Material, Marketing Secrets, Business And Money
In my professional experience as a sales and marketing coach/consultant, I've had the opportunity to work with a number of small business owners on various issues related to sales and marketing. The ......

How to Start a Business on the Internet
This Article is About: Business And Marketing, Business And Money, How To Start Business
So you want to start a business? Good for you. Really, I mean that sincerely. I think about the millions of people that let the thought pass briefly through their minds on he way to work everyday.......

Alternative Legal Billing -- Win Win Strategies
This Article is About: Business And Money, Business Strategies, Business And Insurance
In the old days of legal billing, lawyer's invoices — usually a single page of elegant letterhead—contained only the phrase, "legal services rendered," and a hefty dollar amount. No time breakdowns, ......

Top 7 Tips for Speakers
This Article is About: Business Tips, Business Coach, New Business
Public Speaking is the number one way to advance your business career. Do you get nervous when speaking to a group? Do you feel butterflies in your stomach? The following tips will help you g......

Temp Gretta and the Great Seattle Race
This Article is About: Business Building, Small Business News, Business News
They met at the very edge of Queen Anne Hill, in the parking lot of a defunct Safeway store. In the dead of night they gathered, this gang for sly and sneaky temps, to fight for the longest and best......

Costing At No Cost
This Article is About: Business And Money, How To Start Business, Start Business
Cost estimation is always a crucial topic in many industries. For converters, it may be one of the keys to success… or to failure. The estimation comes into play for several reasons: to prepare produ......

Hidden Traps for Life Partners Who Work Together
This Article is About: Business Coach, Ideas For Business, Business Success
You may think that it would be wonderful to be in business with your spouse, but the truth is that when life partners become business partners unspoken assumptions can cause significant problems. Nei......

Developing Life & Business
This Article is About: Marketing Plan, Business Tips, Business Growth
As the last day of school arrives I feel the same tendency I had as a child... to drop everything and scream “let’s go play!” After all, extreme self-care is so important. I also wonder if we tend to......

Working at Home - The One Thing You MUST Know
This Article is About: Business And Money, How To Start Business, Start Business
You will spend more time, effort, money, and headaches in the beginning of starting a home business than with practically anything else in your life. However, when it all comes together, the hard ......