Defining Success Your Way!
In my career advising practice, I often find that my clients are not clear about what success means for them. Our society defines success primarily around three elements: power, money and fame. Many of you reading this may be saying, “wait a...

BOOK REVIEW: Performance of Financial Institutions: Efficiency, Innova..
BOOK REVIEW: Performance of Financial Institutions: Efficiency, Innovation, Regulation It is rare for a financial text to be written by a Cypriot author yet one of the authors (Stavros A. Zenios) is a Professor at the University of Cyprus. The aim...

Monday Morning Mindfulness 08/23/2004
Welcome to Monday Morning Mindfulness . . . to my Clients, Colleagues and Friends. Join me every other Monday in getting motivated and inspired to act/think/feel something differently. 1. ON SPECIAL OFFERS AND INVITATIONS Would you like to be...

It Takes Two - How to Cultivate Profitable Alliances
“Cross promoting with other businesses can give you a significant advantage over the competition, with many benefits and cost savings.” -Heidi Richards- More and more competition in the marketplace is making it necessary for companies to find...

The Fine Art of Relationship Marketing
“Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.” – Heidi Richards The buzzword these days is “relationship” marketing. Just what is it? And why is it important?...

Bringing the World to Your Door
“The key to your success on the web is the ability to get surfers to stop at your site, look around and ultimately to buy something.” – Heidi Richards According to Internet.com, by the year 2008 nearly 30% of offline purchases will be influenced by...

How to Achieve E-commerce Success –You Gotta Plan!
Before becoming a netpreneaur, I was an entrepreneur. First, I owned a successful child care center which grew to capacity in less than two years. When I sold that, I bought a little flower shop that had less than 300 customers and grew it to what...

Attracting Clients With Ease
Whether you are already running your own business, or still thinking about starting your own business, I suspect that deep down you know you have gifts and talents that can really make a difference to others. In an ideal world, you'd spend the...

Hurdles to Cross Cultural Business Communication
International businesses are facing new challenges to their internal communication structures due to major reforms brought about through internationalization, downsizing, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Lack of investment in cross...

New Credit Scoring Model Could Help Millions
Mark and Beth, a young married couple in their twenties, established a goal to buy a home within the first three years of their marriage before starting a family. They budgeted and used their money wisely in order to save for the down payment. ...

Site Design....Site Disaster....What Do Your Visitors See?
So you got your own website now. Exciting isn’t it? You're ready to start putting your website to work for you. What will you do first? So many ideas going through your head...you want to make it the best website on the internet. You want to make it...

A PR Question For Chinese Managers
As the practice of public relations in China continues to mature, it seems appropriate to ask whether Chinese business managers – tutored as they have been by European, North American and other PR specialists – continue to apply major public...

Tips to Energize Your Presentations
“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.” – Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) Ask yourself, “What...

New Energy Bill: Reducing Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
Growing transportation requirements combined with declining domestic oil production have led to burgeoning oil imports. Rising oil prices are having an adverse impact on the U.S. economy as evident from recent economic data and stock market...

Cross Cultural Communication Consultants
Cross cultural communication consultants have come a long way in the short period of time such specialists have been in demand. No longer are they expatriates with a few years overseas experience and the capability to impart their knowledge onto...

Fire Your Bank
Corruption In The Banking Industry Drowns American In Debt 91 years ago, way back in 1913 our Federal Government implemented legislation that removed their sovereign rights to increase the amount of money that circulates in this country. At the...

Comprehending a Credit Report
Obtaining a credit report is an excellent way to begin taking control of your financial future. It's recommended that you review your credit report once a year, not only to be aware of your standing with creditors but to also keep abreast of errors...

"Planning" To Make a Decision?
The longer I've been around companies the more I believe the words 'Planning' and 'Decision' are seldom used in the same sentence! And the business fallout because of poor planning when making decisions is staggering. The effects of a decision...

The Home Business Dilemma - Success vs. Failure
Regardless of your career or goals in life, no one wakes up, gets out of bed, and says to themselves “I’m going to fail today!” It’s the same in business whether you’re a brick and mortar store or a home based business owner. I think what makes the...

The INCOTERMS
EXW - Ex-Works, named place where shipment is available to the buyer, not loaded. The seller will not contract for any transportation. International Carriage NOT Paid by Seller FCA - Free Carrier, unloaded at the seller's dock OR a named place where...

Medical Receivables Funding
Medical Receivables Funding: The Rx for Ailing Cash Flow The current adverse financial structure of the healthcare industry has placed hospitals, medical groups, private practitioners and other providers in a perilous position. Cumbersome and...

More Business for Sellers, Builders
Many of us thought that by now the real estate market’s favor would have swung from buyers to sellers, but that does not appear to be the case. With summer coming to a close, some would argue that a solid home buyer in today’s flat real estate...

Is Your Home-based Business Properly Insured?
Do you work from home full-time or part-time? Chances are your homeowner's insurance doesn't cover your home business, or at least not to the extent you need it to. For one thing, insuring just the physical assets of your business (computer,...

Mark Victor Hansen to Keynote Success Summit
Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of 'Chicken Soup for the Soul,' will keynote a meeting of entrepreneurs at San Diego’s Bahia Resort Hotel Sept. 10-12 as part of the 'Wake Up Succeed Summit.' Hansen, author of 'The One Minute Millionaire: The...

How CEO's Can Use Axiology To Improve The Bottom Line (Part 2)
In the first article (first in a three part series) we explained the little known science of Axiology, the Value Profile and how it is helping CEO's obtain the greatest leverage from employee's strengths. We described how a CEO (we called him...