Build, Don't Blow, Your Annual Bonus
This Article is About: Commercial Loans, Money Making Tips, Make That Money
(NC)—More and more companies are incorporating a bonus structure into compensation programs. Bonuses are generally based on performance and are tax advantageous for companies. If you're one of the fo...

The Sink Or Swim Approach To Leadership
This Article is About: Business Coach, Business Success, New Business
Looking around in most corporate environments today you'll find mission, vision and values statements proudly displayed on the walls, in print materials and even engraved in granite. Often, they've ...

Storytelling - The Great Motivator of People
This Article is About: New Business, Business Help, Business Leadership
Storytelling - The Great Motivator of People In a data-driven world, facts and figures are the order of the day in sales calls, employee meetings, board rooms, and political assemblies. Traditionall...

Public Relations: Why it Works
This Article is About: Strategy Business, Strategy Implementation, Entrepreneurial Strategy
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 570 including guide...

Where is the Best PR Value?
This Article is About: Practice Of Public Relations, Strategy Business, Business Change
Wherever the fundamental premise of public relations is practiced. Look at what it suggests. People act on their own perception of the facts before them, which leads to predictable behaviors about w...

How to Maximize Your 401k Mutual Fund Returns
This Article is About: Company Strategies, Market Strategies, Make That Money
When it comes to 401k's there is an overabundance of sad stories. Here is one that at least has a happy ending—and it's getting happier all the time. Last year (in 2002) a friend of mine—let’s call h...

How to Evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual Funds
This Article is About: Make That Money, How Much Money Do You Make, We Make Money
If you have been dealing with mutual funds for any length of time, you undoubtedly have faced the question of which is better: Load Funds or No Load Funds. If you are new to investing, "load" simply ...

Successful Small Businesses Use PR
This Article is About: Strategy Business, Business Strategies, Business Change
It’s obvious when a small business has accepted the fact that its most important outside audiences need lots of care and feeding. They do something about it. There’s a sense of urgency and a recogni...

PR: Ouch! Tells the Tale
This Article is About: How To Start Business, Strategy Business, Start Business
Ever get the feeling that your public relations program isn’t doing much about the behaviors of your important outside audiences? Those audiences whose actions have the greatest impacts on your busin...

Addressing Terrorism and World Peace with Ideas: Global Commerce & Com..
This Article is About: Ideas For Business, Internet Business Opportunity, Making Money Online Business Opportunity
Minnesota-based Global Commerce & Communication today announced a worldwide competition for new ideas. This competition titled "New ideas--Gateway to the future," is expected to stimulate the innovat...

Can Small PR Firms Deliver Huge Results?
This Article is About: Public Relations Firms, Public Relations Firm, Pr Firms
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 1040 including guid...

How Would You Ever Know?
This Article is About: Strategy Business, Business Change, Business Resource
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Net word count is 730 includin...

Why Small Business Must Turn to PR
This Article is About: About Public Relations, How To Start Business, Start Business
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Net word count is 670 including g...

It's Just Common Sense!
This Article is About: Strategy Business, Business Change, Business Resource
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Net word count is 835 including g...

Top Ten Brainstorming Techniques for Business Success
This Article is About: Business And Money, Business Tips, Business Change
We experience creativity every time a fresh idea pops into our minds. We recognize creative imagination in everything from a pastel painting to a business plan. By trying these ten tips, you will dis...

How to Find Value in No Load Mutual Fund Investing
This Article is About: Auto Repair, Auto Repair Shop, Research Finance
What are you thinking when it comes to your no load mutual fund selections? Are you saving pennies and sacrificing dollars? Are you spending your time looking at expense ratios, analyzing Morningstar...

How to Find Value in No Load Mutual Fund Investing
This Article is About: Auto Repair, Auto Repair Shop, Research Finance
What are you thinking when it comes to your no load mutual fund selections? Are you saving pennies and sacrificing dollars? Are you spending your time looking at expense ratios, analyzing Morningsta...

A Mass Customization Revolution
This Article is About: How To Start Business, Start Business, Start Up Business
A Mass Customization Revolution The Industrial Revolution The great social and economic changes due to the introduction of machine and power tools and large-scale industrial production began in 1760....

Why Can't Microsoft Make "Soft" Packaging?
This Article is About: Small Business Development, New Business, Business Help
Why is it that Microsoft wants you to buy its product but does not want you to open the plastic case that is welded around the cardboard box? I believe that such packaging along with cockroaches wil...

How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 5
This Article is About: Real Estate, How To Start Business, Start Business
How To Raise Your Fees There comes a time when it is inevitable that you must raise your fees in order to maintain both your profit margin and income level. You will find that the greatest resistance...

How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 4
This Article is About: Real Estate, Business And Money, How To Start Business
Effect Of Bad Debts So far, we have covered the major factors involved in setting your fee structure. We have set a realistic number of billable hours, calculated the effect of expenses and taken int...

How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 3
This Article is About: Real Estate, Health Insurance, Business And Money
Effect of Benefits We have previously examined realistic billable hours and the effect of business expenses on your hourly rate. Now we'll look at the effect of benefits. Once upon at time, when we w...

How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 2
This Article is About: Real Estate, How To Start Business, Start Business
Effect of Expenses The last article examined how to calculate your realistic billable hours. If you remember, we arrived at approximately 1100 hours in a year. To earn our mythical $46,000 per year, ...

How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 1
This Article is About: Real Estate, Business And Money, How To Start Business
We all know there are 52 weeks in a year and 40 working hours in a week. Therefore, we can bill 2080 hours per year, right. Wrong. Too often this is the trap that many new service businesses fall int...

Ethics in Business... A Lost Art
This Article is About: Real Estate, Business And Money, How To Start Business
While watching Face the Nation one Sunday earlier this year, Bob Schiffer discussed the airline industry, his mother and ethics in business. Like Bob, I think it is a sad commentary today, that we ha...