35 Surefire Ways to Kill a Meeting
This Article is About: Financial Investment Services
1. Play “find the meeting” by changing the location and time of your meeting at the last minute. 2. Don’t bother to book your meeting room in advance. Lead the group from room to room trying to find another place to meet. 3. Bring 5 handouts for...

Fraud in Real Estate, Are You Being Victimized? - Part II
This Article is About: Estate Financial Planning
The phone range and Peter was on the other end of the line. "Willard, I have a friend of mine that has a real estate problem." I said, "Send him over." Two hours later, Jerry sat in front of me terribly upset. Three years earlier, he had been talked...

Where Business Ideas Come From
This Article is About: Small Business Startup Funding
I was reading the local paper and came across a picture of the cleanest garage I ever saw. In addition to a picture of the garage there was a picture of a gentlemen, in his late 60's cleaning the cobwebs with an extension pole. I thought to myself I...

Business Start Ups... Let's Play Ball
This Article is About: Business Startup Funding
Starting a business is like starting your own baseball team. Start-up (Spring training) is when you are doing your research, deciding on a business name, zoning requirements, setting up your business, deciding on what form your business will take...

The Business Day (Lease Purchase or Otherwise)
This Article is About: Business Funding Start
For those of you conducting a lease purchase business (or any other business), the first thing for you to do each morning is to check your goals. How many calls are you to make, how many contacts, articles, etc. Your goals will depend on where you...

Reminders For Running A Better Business
This Article is About: Business Startup Funding
The following tips are from an article we contributed to Compute magazine. These are ideas that we all should know, but many times forget. It constantly amazes us how quickly a basic tenent of business can be shoved by the wayside in the heat of...

Enron’s Ultimate Victim: Ethics
This Article is About: Financial Retirement Planning
FROM the 'MORAL HIGH GROUND', where we imagine ourselves, the Enron fiasco should have come as no surprise. Enron is simply a quintessential example of the degradation of principles such as trust, loyalty and ethical standards. Why it...

Branding Fiasco -- Better Be Who You Say You Are!
This Article is About: Investors Financial Services
Our experience as customers offers great instruction into the concept of branding. Come with me on a recent “experience” and you’ll see what I mean. Here’s the situation: I want to order an 800 number. On my AT&T bill is a customer services...

The "What's Next" Syndrome
This Article is About: Investors Financial Services
Terms like Postpartum, Post Traumatic and Post Gulf War are all well-known Syndromes - mysteries no longer to the medical community or even those of us who count ourselves among the great unwashed. We hear and read everyday about the negative...

Money Does Talk!
This Article is About: Financial Planning Consultant
When buying something, you can buy in one of two markets. The first is buying on terms in the retail market and the second is buying in the wholesale cash market. This can be illustrated by referring to the biggest purchase we all make in our...

Thank-You Notes: An Integral Part of Your Career Design
This Article is About: Investors Financial Services
There is one little practice that is vital to generating the interest of potential employers. It is critical, but very few job seekers actually do it. What is it? The THANK YOU NOTE! Interview experts agree that EVERY job hunter MUST send...

Home Office Tips (Part 1)
This Article is About: Healthcare Financial Services
Tip One: Welcome To Part One In A Series Of "Home Office Tip Articles." Most will find the following Home Office Tips very practical and effective if they take them into due consideration, and use these basic strategies to improve their at home...

Book Review of "Articles That Sell"
This Article is About: Financial Planning Book
"Articles that Sell" by Bonnie Jo Davis Published by: Davis Virtual Assistance Genre: Business/Marketing Description: Ingenious How can you effectively and inexpensively promote your business on the Internet? But, all you have is a one page...

Open Doors by Catering to Your Clients
This Article is About: Healthcare Financial Services
Clients… they are the most important influence in the success of any business. It is vital to keep them satisfied and happy. Clients should be catered to. Their every need should be met and more. We need to make them feel like they are our number...

Increase Your Success and Reduce Your Stress by Outsourcing
This Article is About: Financial Planning Professionals
When you picture a business professional’s typical office scenario, what comes to mind? A classy man or woman, dressed in a high priced business suit, an overflowing briefcase sitting on the corner of the desk, dictating memos and delegating tasks...

Tips for a Successful Trade Show
This Article is About: Financial Services Conference
Well, autumn is upon us and with the onset of this season comes cleaner air and colourful outdoor scenery and, it is also prime season for trade shows. Sure, trade shows happen all throughout the year but, with many areas recognizing small business...

Take A Break!
This Article is About: Financial Services Conference
Calgon… Take me away! Okay, sorry about that.. a bit of an inside joke. Or, was it? How many times a day do you find yourself muttering those words to yourself. I may be aging myself here but I think that sentiment is felt by everyone, at some...

What Is A Virtual Assistant & Why Do You Need One?
This Article is About: Financial Services Conference
Virtual Assistants (also known as VAs) are home-based entrepreneurs who take pride in providing fellow small business professionals with a wide range of office tasks, from administrative support to web design & maintenance. VAs are able to provide...

Virtual Assistance = Higher Productivity
This Article is About: Financial Services Provider
Running any office can be challenging, even in the best of circumstances. Whether the company is a small business or a large corporation, as it grows so does the amount administrative tasks that need to be carried out on a daily basis. For some...

Dealing With Stress in Our Overworked Lives
This Article is About: Funding For Businesses
As small business owners, we often take on more than we can handle. Wearing all the hats running our businesses, as well as the other commitments we have (i.e. volunteer work, family, etc.), can sometimes leave us feeling overworked, frustrated, and...

Keeping Clients Happy Keeps them Coming Back
This Article is About: Financial Planning Professionals
Whether you are a seasoned small business professional, or you have just opened your doors to new clients, your marketing strategy should not only involve bringing in new business, it should also include keeping your current clients, your most...

Joining Industry Specific Organizations Has Many Benefits
This Article is About: Funding For Businesses
Recently, while providing an up-and-coming Virtual Assistant (VA) and small business owner with some start-up information, she asked me a very interesting question, “Why do you and other VA’s join organizations?” I guess I take for granted the...

How Do You Put a Value on Your Time?
This Article is About: Phoenix Financial Services
As a small business owner, does the following paragraph sound familiar to you…? “Other than doing the technical ‘fix-its’ with my computer…I do it all! I have found that this keeps me very limited in growing my business and taking on new clients. I...

The Biggest Employment Change of All - Becoming an Entrepreneur
This Article is About: Business Funding
For many of us, change can be a scary thing. When we are children, there is nothing better than meeting new friends and going to new places. But, when we become adults, change can be something that is less than appealing. From finishing school and...

Is This A Good Time To Sell Your Body Shop Business?
This Article is About: Afs Financial Services
Have you ever asked yourself the question? “Is this a good time to sell my business?” That is a question every business owner asks himself, everytime he has a bad day. I once received e-mail from the editor of the Auto Body News, asking me that key...