Customer Service Is Dying- and I'm Not Feeling So Good Myself
Have you ever called a company and been greeted with the phrase “Hold, please”? How do they know you can hold? They don’t even know who you are. Maybe you can’t hold; maybe you have 10 seconds of juice left on your cell phone and your hair is on...

How Homeowner Can Save Their Home From Foreclosure
Drive around and see how many signs you see that says House for Sale. How many lease purchases do you see? How many abandon houses are on your street? Our country is up against the wall with delinquence mortgages. FHA mortgage lenders are filing...

Network Marketing: How to Make it Work for You
How or why some people excell at Network Marketing, while others struggle is not as complicated of a question as many would think. After researching the reasons why, I have came to the conclusion that there is a common set of personality traits that...

Managers, Got a Grip on Your PR?
What are you trying to do with your business, non-profit or association public relations program? Get a little publicity for a service or product? Or, perhaps, you’re doing what you really should do, persuade your key external stakeholders to your...

How You Can Avoid Becoming A Victim Of Identity Theft
To reduce or minimize the risk of becoming a victim of identity theft or fraud, there are some basic steps you can take. The most important one is to ask periodically for a copy of your credit report. This is crucial because it is the surest and...

Credit Report And Correction Techniques
The three major credit bureaus, Experian, Equifax and Trans Union are similar and feature a "Credit Score", which is created from credit report data submitted to them about you. Their report includes where you live, your bill-paying habits, and...

Searching for a Home Based Business
"Work hard and you will reap great rewards and benefits" How many times have we heard those words? Although this is not a false statement. The definition of "work hard" varies from person to person. We have all been taught that working hard would...

What Is A Mission Statement?
In order to do your mission statement you need to be able to answer the following: Why should this business exist? Who will be its customers and how will it benefit them? Why will they be better off? These questions are easy to answer for Lease...

Is Your Business Safe?
Well, is it! Do you back up your files on a regular basis? Do you have a back up plan in place? What’s important to your business and what isn’t? What happens if you get hurt, who will run your business? Do you have customers come to your business?...

A Renewed View of the Modern Business Culture
 Life can sometimes be unexciting if not refreshed by the will to create according to one's own conscience and freedom. Often, the power of passion fuses into unexciting or appealing activities. One sometimes expects to be free from the...

A Manager's PR Paradigm
If you manage a department, division or subsidiary for a business, non-profit or association, your primary public relations model probably should read this way: people act on their own perception of the facts before them, which leads to predictable...

Lend A Hand
Small business owners are inundated with things to do. From making sure their clients are happy to ensuring there is enough capital to sustain the business, there is always something on the go. Some projects that need to be done, whether it’s a...

Common Question: Is this business viable?
Starting any small business is, for lack of a better term, a challenge. You can’t just jump into it without plenty of thought and research. Running your business is a never-ending roller coaster of good days and bad; ups and downs; rewards and...

Networking is Like Playing the Piano
For anyone who has ever read articles I have written or asked me for helpful tips for getting their business up and going, you know that I truly believe that networking is one of the most important aspects to building a successful business. The...

Before Getting A Franchise
Buying into a franchise is a great way to be part of a recognized brand with the benefit of lower advertising outlay. With many franchises to choose, here are some tips before you get involved with franchise: Get The Support of Your Family: The...

Know What Matters Most About PR?
When, as a business, non-profit or association manager, you are able to persuade your key external stakeholders to your way of thinking, then move them to take actions that lead to your department, division or subsidiary’s success. And again when...

What to look for in Presentation Folders
My husband Jerry is in love with these discount, custom printed, two pocket presentation folders that he sells at Folders Only. I’m jealous, I think he worries more about them than he does me. I come home from a hard day at work and I see stacks...

Print Buying Consultant
Ten Money Saving Tips for Print Managers Despite their stated desire to realize savings from streamlining the various components associated with the print buying process, it’s been my experience over the years, that many print managers neglect to do...

Insurance and The Engineer
The world is no longer right when the two words, Engineer and Insurance are used together, side by side in a conversation. Individually they are words that justify their use, with their own explanations and own meanings as those that compile...

Mr. Cheapie's Frugal Budget Tips
So you feel like a hamster spinning your wheel? The faster you run, the faster the wheel spins. Just when you get a raise, you notice the price of hamster wheels jumps! Mr. Cheapie is here with his super-charged budget-cutting tips. One of the...

Masterminding Your Way To Greater Success
Napoleon Hill coined the concept of the mastermind alliance in his classic book Think and Grow Rich. He believed that a group of like-minded, achievement-oriented individuals could dramatically leverage each other's success. The old adages still...

10 Tips for Investing in Distressed or Foreclosed Properties
1. Search on the world wide web for distressed or foreclosed properties as a starting point. Use a professional REALTOR to identify great foreclosure deals for you. You may be successful at searching the web on your own, but keep in mind some of...

How to Research and Purchase a Good Investment Property
 How to Research and Purchase a Good Investment Property  How much do you really know about investment property? Accurate research and professional expertise applied to the purchase of an investment property builds a solid foundation for...

Managers Need Basic PR
True, because department, division or subsidiary managers for a business, non-profit or association really DO need a dynamic yet workable blueprint for reaching those key outside groups of people who have a big say about how successful those...

Change or Die! To Change Your Organization, Hire a Business Coach
It is a common business axiom – change or die. As a small or mid-sized business owner or a manager, there will be times you will need to make changes in your organization but may not be sure how to go about it. Change is hard to implement and even...