Prospering with Mutual Funds: How anyone can “Afford” an Investment Ad..
Recently I was invited to appear on a live CNNfn television show to discuss my article “How to evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual Funds.” (You can read that article on my website http://www.successful-investment.com/articles21.htm) As the producer and...

No Load Mutual Funds: Investment Hype vs. Investment Help
With the internet such a huge part of our daily lives, many investors have access to a wide range of instant investment information. Whether you’re into stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures or options, there are tons of electronic investment...

Stretch Wrap Or Shrink Wrap
The majority of our customers who order stretch wrap call it shrink wrap and these are people who use the product daily. What hope is there for those who are not regular users of these products? And for that matter, who cares? Well if you need...

Story Telling As A Tool For Trainers
Story telling as a tool for trainers - Imagery at its best ............................................ Once upon a time…………."Yeah right, don't tell us a story, we are not kids". ............................................ "If stories come to you,...

Don't Overpay for a House, Even in Today's Market
If there's one thing American investors love, it's an over-inflated market. Which is why they keep buying houses and new ones keep coming onto the market. According to the latest data, housing starts rose an annualized 3.4% in September, matching...

Five Tips for Analyzing an Income Statement
In today's article, we’ll be looking at the income statement, which is the most deceptively simple of the major financial statements. I say simple because it’s just a list of all the revenue, minus all the expenses, to calculate what’s left over in...

Managers, Start Your PR
There’ll never be a better time for a manager working for a business, non-profit or association to ask this question: “Am I getting the public relations results I’m paying for -- the really important external audience behaviors I need to achieve my...

Walt Disney Is Coming To Town
In 1923, twenty-one-year-old Walt Disney arrived in Los Angeles fresh from the disappointment of his first cartoon studio going bankrupt in Kansas City. He went to see his twenty-nine-year-old brother Roy in the Veteran's Hospital were he was...

DAIRY MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK FOR 2004
“Two years ago the phone rang off the hook with recruiters calling all the time, it has been a long time since I had a call from a recruiter, but now they are starting to call again” said Linda Wetzel, Quality Control Manager of Inland...

The 11 Best Money Saving Ideas of All Time - Part 1
At any time in history, no matter what the current state of the economy, no matter what the current trends, no matter what the unemployment rate is or where interest rates lurk, some money-saving ideas stay true. Some of you may have heard of these...

Introducing the Virtual Time Machine that Gives Back Your Valuable Tim..
Minneapolis, MN - October 23, 2003- Finally, a fairly new creation is giving people back their time– The errands and concierge service industry. These services are popping up more and more all over the country. The newest errands and concierge...

Organize Yourself Otherwise Your Work Could Kill You
We are in a society where people are applauded for starting work early and finishing late. It's about time employers recognised that their people have a life and that working from dawn to dusk does not make them a happy and productive employee. Have...

Stop Procrastination- Just do it!
What stops you from 'getting things done?' Have you ever started your day with good intentions of completing a task or project only to find that by the end of the day you've hardly worked on it? Or have you ever set a goal to attend a seminar, learn...

Time Management Tips - How to Have a Filing System That Works
Recently I was working with a new client who had invested hundreds of dollars for a records management organisation to set up a filing system for his business. The system looked impressive. The only problem was it didn't work! It had been set up in...

Time Management - Working Smarter at Work
Let's look at your time management skills. Most of us have to work, and the more you can do in the least amount of time, the better. Working smarter frees you up so that not only do you have a job, but you have a life too! Getting Back To Basics The...

Time Management Training - A Necessary Investment or A Waste Of Money?
Many organisations view time management training as something they'll spend their money on, only if they have to. Usually when pruning the company or department budget, training is often the first area that gets the chop. And yet can you really...

Disaster Prevention Tips For Hiring A New Manager
It happens over and over in businesses every day. Within large companies, people are promoted to management positions to reward them for performance as individual contributors. After all, the compensation system limits reward options, so why not...

You Are Losing Customers By Not Doing This
Not doing what, you ask. Writing and submitting articles. Writing articles is a cost- effective way of promoting your business. It exposes you to potential customers in a way that few other marketing vehicles do. Writing and submitting your work to...

PR: Room at the Bottom?
When special events and communications tactics rule the PR roost instead of a workable plan designed to manage external audience behaviors that impact your organization the most, that’s where public relations results can wind up. You know, bad...

The Ultimate PR "Scam"
It happens to business, non-profit and association managers when their public relations budget fails to deliver the crucial external audience behaviors they need to achieve their department, division or subsidiary objectives. Behaviors they should...

Do You Really Need A Website To Succeed
Rosalind wants to share her inspirational poetry with a wider community. Alas, poor Rosalind lives in a remote town. Jonathan is a graphics artist who settled in a mountain resort community after he left college. He would like to start a graphics...

Youth Entrepreneurship, A Disappointing Truth
The psychology of entrepreneurship can be very rewarding to one who dreams of starting their own business. The freedom of being your own boss has billions of people seeking financial independence and other entrepreneurial expectations. But is...

Be an Entrepreneur
The Department of Labor predicts that the #1 employer in 2010 will be “self.” A recent Internet poll of 25-44 year olds revealed that 90% of them hoped to own their own business. A survey conducted by Ernst & Young found that 75% of influential...

Don't Use PR...
…lose the confidence of your key target audiences… discourage them from taking actions that lead to your success…fail to achieve your department, division or subsidiary objectives. A sad scenario that should not occur. In fact, as a manager in a...

In Business, Image Isn't Everything; It's The Only Thing!
We have all heard this lament, but how much do we practice it. With all the relaxed rules today, do we really present ourselves in the best light. It seems all the articles I see today are about how old fashioned today's workers find their...