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1.	Bookmarks: 4	A Dark Future For IRAs and 401(k)s? Dr. Ghilarducci has presented a socialist solution to a problem that could easily be dealt with using rudimentary controls that would limit the amount of risk allowed inside these tax deferred savings devices. She also ignores the fact that most self-directed money lies in voluntary, privately sponsored, employee benefit programs--- emphasis on voluntary and private.
2.	Bookmarks: 0	6 Factors that Determine You Need Security Patrol for Your Business Security often plays an important role for businesses, whether in terms of success or failure. Improper security services can encourage burglary and property damage that cause huge losses. However, security guard chatsworth agency can help reduce the potential for theft and assure employee, public as well as inventory safety. The professionals share the factors that indicate the need of hiring security patrol services.
3.	Bookmarks: 0	Retirement Income Investing Article Library Retirement income planning starts with the first dollar you invest... IRA, 401k, 403b, savings plan, brokerage account, whatever. These articles explain both characteristics and performance expectations. Most importantly, they define purpose. The collection will help you do the job better... in some instances, by viewing the antics of the not so distant past.
4.	Bookmarks: 0	Caveat Employer: The DOL is Coming! The DOL is Coming! Generous employers give their employees money to invest along with their own, and the feds want them to guarantee that plan participants won't lose money... in the stock market! The regulators are missing the point, and a great opportunity to actually fix what is really wrong deep inside the 401k space. No one in the 401k business cares a lick about the retirement income benefits the plans could provide to employers and employees alike…
5.	Bookmarks: 3	Retirement Income Investment Planning Defined Contribution plans are just not retirement plans --- even if your employee benefits department, the media, Wall Street, and Uncle assure you that they are. Most plans are difficult to self-manage with a retirement income objective. Still, these benefit plans are necessary and quite capable of taking you close to where you want to be.
6.	Bookmarks: 53	Social Media and How To Use It To Grow Your Business When you remove the costs of a brick and mortar business with leasing, employee, etc. costs that can quickly get to a quarter million dollar per year expense, an Internet Based Business becomes truly attractive.
7.	Bookmarks: 26	eWorkshop Hosting - The More Effective Way to Build Your Business with Online Educational Videos More and more companies are using eWorkshops to reach out to customers, prospects and employees. An effective online presentation is just one requirement for a successful eWorkshop. You need additional infrastructure to promote the event, register attendees, conduct the eWorkshop and follow up with the attendees. We provide the tools and services to help you every step of the way.
8.	Bookmarks: 5	Only YOU Can Prevent Obama Care If President Obama owned the New World Order Health Insurance Company, he would not be willing to insure an applicant with brain cancer nor would he be willing to pay an unlimited lifetime benefit to all insureds --- not without a premium that reflects the risks to his personal bank account.
9.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Stimulate Consumer Spending And The Economy --- The Romney Plan? The single, easiest, fastest, biggest, consumer-spending instant winner bonanza is not even a twinkle in an old politician's eye --- and there are far too few new politicians. Replace the Social Security Retirement Program with a plain vanilla pension plan, pre-funded by smaller, mandated employee contributions.
10.	Bookmarks: 2	How To Create More Jobs, America Today, employers are reluctant to create jobs because the mandated non-productive overhead associated with each worker adds significantly to the cost of running the business--- worker's compensation, unemployment insurance, OSHA compliance, liability insurance, social security contributions, minimum wage/union pay scales, etc.
11.	Bookmarks: 0	A Conservative's Liberal Plan To Transform Social Security A Social Security Retirement Income Annuity, or SSRIA, invested 70% or more in government (all levels) guaranteed securities, could be phased in quickly as a mandatory replacement for the existing Social Security program. The personally owned SSRIA would also become a voluntary investment option for all self-directed programs and a guaranteed safe savings vehicle for after tax discretionary dollars.
12.	Bookmarks: 5	Retire Social Security Debt and Save The Economy --- What If? What if the US Government sold the Social Security system/employees/buildings/DEBT/etc. to Insurance/Annuity industry companies for the amount of the debt plus a few billion --- all in cash plus secured debt of the hundreds of companies involved in the purchase? Is this a guaranteed winner for a presidential candidate or what?
13.	Bookmarks: 0	What Kind Of Interview Question Will You Be Faced With Next. There is nothing like a good hard interview question to strike fear into the heart of even the most qualified applicant. This is a great chance for both parties—the applicant to strut their stuff, and the potential employer to see if the potential employee has the mettle that it will take to perform the job in question well.So it therefore behooves both parties to prepare well to both ask and answer these sorts of questions. But where do these “million dollar” questions c...
14.	Bookmarks: 0	The Politics of Scrabble In business, we sometimes find ourselves playing the game. We know what needs to be done and because of our upbringing and being taught an employee mentality since we were children, we go to work in our business as employees rather than entrepreneurs. We are in essence playing the game.
15.	Bookmarks: 0	Effective Employee Internet Monitoring Many business owners find themselves in the position to confront employees about their Internet use. Non-work related activities including online games, Internet shopping, stock trading, Internet radio, streaming media and MP3 downloads represent the new temptations in the workplace.
16.	Bookmarks: 0	Awareness And Mastery – Two Essential Keys To A Successful Small Business At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.~ George LeonardUS pioneer in human potentialWe often hear managers complaining that their employees aren’t productive, don’t listen and just can’t consistently get the job done. As a youth sports coach, I hear coaches with similar complaints—the kids don’t listen, don’t know where to go and don’t try very hard. I can’t relate. The boys on my team are usually focused, do what I a...
17.	Bookmarks: 0	Awareness and Mastery -Two Essential Keys To a Successful Small Business Get the most out of your employees with two simple keys - awareness and mastery. Say goodbye to thick training manuals and long training sessions.
18.	Bookmarks: 1	Team Building: How to Create a Dynamic and Successful Work Environment Team building activities are essential if you want employees who know how to effectively and efficiently work together toward a common goal. At first, these activities may seem silly or you might wonder how they can contribute anything to your company. But the fact is, team building activities are set up to challenge a team and to sharpen communication and group skills.
19.	Bookmarks: 0	Are The Best Job Candidates Getting Away ? Hiring top employees requires a streamlined recruitment process. Joe Pelayo looks at ways to ensure your firm isn't letting the best candidates get away.
20.	Bookmarks: 0	6 Ways to help your employees beat stress and work more Most employers dream of having a well motivated enthusiatic workforce producing high quality products on time and within budget. It does not have to be a dream and sometimes only small changes can have a large impact. Here are 6 ways to improve morale and productivity in your workers.
21.	Bookmarks: 0	Washington DC: Museums, Monuments And Multiculturalism - Washington D.C. Travel Information As the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. is certainly not lacking of museums, monuments, exhibits, historic landmarks and a fantastic potpourri of cuisine and nightlife. The District of Columbia is vibrant and alive with thousands of college students, passionate non-profits and swarms of local and international government employees. Get a taste of this unique social climate when you book your airfare to Washington DC through one of the region’s major airports: Dulles Internat...
22.	Bookmarks: 0	Business Credit Cards: Three Solutions To Business Difficulties Business credit cards can be one of the easiest ways for a new company to acquire needed financial capital, as well as an excellent way for existing companies to ease the transition into the Internet-age by simplifying the company purchasing process, making travel and expense accounting by employees all the easier. However, there are a number of other benefits to a good business credit card that companies can take advantage of in order to improve their financial stability and...
23.	Bookmarks: 0	Which 1099 Tax Forms concern you? It’s tax time again and you must be sure to receive all the necessary forms. What is a 1099 tax form and who gets one? A Tax Form 1099 is used to report income other than wages, salaries and tips. Here of late, this term is used more and more frequently as many employers are opting to use contract labor versus hiring employees, who can turn out to be quite expensive when you factor in the insurance, payroll taxes, and other possible liability.
24.	Bookmarks: 0	How A Forex Or Stock Broker Can Help You Succeed A Forex broker or Stock broker will be of great importance to you In every investor's life the broker is a figure of prime importance. It is through him that all securities transactions are handled; there is no way you can buy or sell stocks listed on any national exchange except through his services.In the trade, he is known as a registered representative, a title that has now supplanted the old designation, customer's man. He is a registered employee of a brokerage ...
25.	Bookmarks: 0	Car Loan - Tips Can Help Drive Smart Loan Deals Many new car buyers will appreciate the latest automotive trends expected to take shape in 2006 and beyond. A greater variety of downsized, fuel-efficient SUVs will be available. New vehicle safety features like tire pressure monitors will reach the market. And sales promotions like last summer’s employee discount campaign are expected to set the stage for year-round, no-haggle vehicle pricing.
26.	Bookmarks: 0	Seven Reasons Organizational Culture Matters Many of us spend more time with those we work with than we do our families. For us to be content and fulfilled people, that time must be valuable for more than a dollar. . .
27.	Bookmarks: 0	Keyman Insurance – A Business Essential If you own your own business, you'll have insurance in place for your buildings, stock and vehicles, and you will be likely to have public liability insurance. You may also be insured for professional indemnity and legal costs – but have you considered insuring your most important assets – your key staff? In the UK there are 3.9 million small, often family, businesses with up to four employees – if one of those key staff were to die or fall seriously ill, it could mean th...
28.	Bookmarks: 0	Wanted: 20,000 workers Recruitment crisis on boomer exodus Canberra employers scouring the country and overseas for employees are competing with the remainder of the western world which is suffering a skills drought.
29.	Bookmarks: 0	How to Inform Employees When You Sell a Business What is the best way to inform employees when you sell your business? Wait until the transaction is a done deal.
30.	Bookmarks: 0	Gold Investment Versus Alchemy – Turning Dross Into Gold! I’m often asked if Gold is a good investment and I invariably answer that gold may well be a good long term investment for an investor but I am a wealth creator and the very word “investment” is simply not part of my wealth creation vocabulary.This statement usually results in a very perplexed look on my questioner’s face.And so it was with Walter. Walter is a financially struggling bank employee and came to me to learn about wealth creation. (Yes I assure you, there ...
31.	Bookmarks: 0	Rolling Over Your 401k Plan The Easy Way So what is a 401k retirement plan? A 401k plan is actually a retirement investments plan that is subsidized by employee or worker payments and often, corresponding involvements from your manager or employer. In addition, the most important draw for these plans is that the payments are taken from your pre-tax wage, and the funds rise tax-free until such time that it is withdrawn or pulled out. Also, the plans are, to some degree, independent and self-sufficient, and the good t...
32.	Bookmarks: 0	Asset Protection! With the offshore banking, it is easy to set up asset protection and bank secrecy. Bank secrecy also prevents its own employees, director or officer to divulge any personal information or files, bank statements connected to any bank account holder.
33.	Bookmarks: 0	Employee Benefits Driving Corporate Performance -- A White Paper Strategies to improve employee morale and productivity with unsubsidized employee benefits.
34.	Bookmarks: 19	Virtual Staffing For Your Small Business What’s a Virtual Assistant?Virtual assistants are independent contractors or entrepreneurs who provide administrative assistance to multiple clients. Unlike regular assistants, they work out of their homes rather than at your business’ physical location.There are numerous advantages to using a virtual assistant:• Location. If you work from home, you don’t have to find a place to put an employee.• No Overhead. They provide their own office supplies, desk, compute...
35.	Bookmarks: 16	Think Like an Entrepreneur In order to BE a self-employed person you have to stop thinking like an employee and see yourself differently.
36.	Bookmarks: 2	Overcoming Objections About Coastal Vacations Many Americans today are leaving the limelight of an 8 to 5 job to establish a home-based enterprise. More than fulfilling an entrepreneurial adventure, this career move is driven by the motivation of being able to work at his own pace and time, explore other earning opportunities and of course by the overwhelming desire to spend quality time with the family. There are a number of home-based businesses a regular employee could engage in. One of the most popular within th...
37.	Bookmarks: 2	Generation Y’s At Work San Diego’s Search Engine Entrepreneurs October 2, 2007. It’s a typical day at SEOhaus in the largest office located within the company’s 1400sqft. space, employees sit in a semi-circle around a cordless speaker phone.
38.	Bookmarks: 4	Are You A Suitable MBA Candidate? Sponsoring companies also find that supporting participation in the Global Executive MBA program also helps attract and retain talented employees, and prepare them for future leadership roles within the company.MBAs are often seeking a more general managerial role in their current industry. The MBA provides a portfolio of managerial tools and techniques as well as the 'softer' skills needed to succeed as a manager. Entrepreneurial spirit, dedication, commitment and profes...
39.	Bookmarks: 2	We are all self-employed We are all self-employed; even as employees of a firm, we are still primarily personal career managers.
40.	Bookmarks: 3	Small Business Success Small business is again in transition. Many employees, now working from home, are no longer tied to a geographic office and the woes of commuting. This is a relatively new phenomenon with hints of explosive sector growth in the days ahead. As this turbulent economy has forced downsizing, offshore restructuring and closures in large companies, many new entrepreneurs have been born. These are people, who instead of tirelessly attempting to find new employment and possibly enduring the same fate as
41.	Bookmarks: 3	Corporate Credit Card Is A Tempting Advantage When a businessman has a corporate credit card, it allows him to own a small business which can separate his personal expenses from his business expenses. Thus, corporate credit card is egged on employees so that the need for them to use their own personal credit card is eliminated.When an employee uses his business credit card, then there is no requirement to indicate his expenses through statements. There is also no need to wait for the lender's approval as well as the ...
42.	Bookmarks: 2	Affordable Individual Health Insurance - How To Control Your Own Insurance Costs The need for affordable individual health insurance is becoming more prevalent because of the rising numbers of self-employed. Entrepreneurs are changing the landscape. Home-based businesses are growing at a phenomenal pace. The enormous growth of small business has generated a greater demand for individual health insurance. This is a first time experience for many of these new start-ups. Group health insurance is provided by the employer. The employee that is enrolled in the...
43.	Bookmarks: 4	Advantage of Outsourcing your bookkeeping to professional BookKeeper. In order to summarize the results of a business activity, each financial transaction must be recorded in a bookkeeping system. An entrepreneur has option to employee of bookkeeper in their organization or outsource the whole bookkeeping system to a professional firm. This article highlights the cost benefit analysis available with the entrepreneur in relation to maintenance of the books of accounts by a bookkeeper.
44.	Bookmarks: 5	401(k) A 401(k) plan is an employer sponsored plan. The employer makes direct contributions to the account that are deducted from the employee's paycheck.
45.	Bookmarks: 5	Alternative To The IPO A few years ago, it seemed that nearly every company was going public with an IPO to gain capital investment, but now, with this route effectively blocked to smaller companies, entrepreneurs, angel investors and employees are increasingly looking at the opportunity of a reverse merger with a trading shell on the OTC Bulletin Board, the Pink Sheets or Form 10.Through the reverse merger, your private company merges into a publicly listed company called a “shell” and gains c...
46.	Bookmarks: 6	Why Hiring a Virtual Assistant Makes Good Business Sense Very few start-up businesses have the resources to pay employee related expenses such as vacation pay, health insurance, retirement benefits, etc. Ignoring the never-ending stack of paperwork could result in holding back your new business before it has even started.A possible solution could be to hire a Virtual Administrative Support Assistant. More and more people are turning to these highly skilled e-professionals for help.
47.	Bookmarks: 2	Companies Stifle Intrapreneurs At Their Own Risk I've noticed an interesting trend lately. Usually the e-mail I receive in response to this column comes from rookie entrepreneurs or established business owners seeking my input on startup matters, financing, employee relations, general management and leadership issues, policy matters, etc. Lately, however, many of the messages are coming from employees of medium-size and large companies who are growing frustrated at working in an environment that they deem (to quote one ...
48.	Bookmarks: 2	Cafeteria Benefits and Your Workforce Cafeteria plans shave become increasingly popular over the last few years because they were designed to offer employees a truly convenient way to pay medical expenses with pre-tax dollars.
49.	Bookmarks: 0	Business Degree Online Programs Fit Everyone There are many advantages to receiving a business degree online. For one thing, the area of study is so broad it leaves endless opportunities for employment. It is a wide-open career field, which in turn makes the job search easier and more enjoyable for prospective employees. Whether you are interested in accounting, human resources, management or administration, there is a business program out there that fits a student's needs.For many people who went straight into t...
50.	Bookmarks: 4	Accountability and Its Powerful Role In Creating Home-Based Business Success Accountability has its place in any business, regardless if you’re the employee or the entrepreneur. Discover how accountability can be a powerful driver behind your success in everything you do.
51.	Bookmarks: 0	Are You Ready To Become Self-Employed By Starting An Online Home Business? If you are interested in starting an online home business, or taking over one, you face a daunting task that carries a level of risk and excitement not possible in the 'employee' world. If the financial independence of self-employment appeals to you - no boss, no income limits as to time and wage, and the ability to let your personal drive determine your compensation - then you will no doubt be eagerly going over the many options available to release you from your current job.
52.	Bookmarks: 0	Trapped On The Treadmill: Work-Life Balance Work-life balance is a subject with broad points of view but Corporate America is finally responding to this demand. Actually it’s been a matter of company survival. Corporations expecting employees to forego family time will not find the Ace Employee. Increased irritability means less production as more as more workers struggle to ‘keep it all together’.
53.	Bookmarks: 0	Employee With Entrepreneur Mindsets As an employee, I think a good strategy is to get a job, but at the same time try to look for opportunity and ideas that can generate big income. The point is not to limit ourself in the fix salary that we are getting now. Think of the fix salary an income that can be use to cover our daily expenses. At the same time, keep ourselves open to the opportunities or ideas that can make us rich.
54.	Bookmarks: 0	Why Do So Many Home Based Businesses Fail? Have you tried running your own home based business before? If you have, you are probably aware that a large percentage of home based businesses fail within a year's time. For many entrepreneurs, it's much sooner. At the same time, you probably know that the average successful home based business entrepreneur makes more money than the average employee. How do the successful entrepreneurs do it? Why are they the minority?Well, the answer is quite simple. Each and every bus...
55.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Grow Your Micro-Business If you want to grow your micro-business (defined as a business with fewer than five employees), you might consider some of the findings of a survey by Statistics Canada.1. The FindingsAccording to Growth Determinants of Micro-Businesses in Canada (Evangelia Papadaki and Bassima Chami, Small Business Policy Branch, Industry Canada), the survey by Statistics Canada revealed the following:Micro-businesses get much of their advice from family, friends, customers and...
56.	Bookmarks: 0	Business Credit Card Offers Galore! First things first, there is a reason why there are a lot of business credit card offers around. Basically, the benefit of having a business credit card is that the company – be it a large company or a small one – is able to keep track of all the expenses its employees make.A business credit card is used by business owners, entrepreneurs and big shot executives in the corporate field.The following are some of the business credit card offers available in the market....
57.	Bookmarks: 0	IT Jobs: How to increase your return on investment with online advertising With over 60,000 IT jobs advertised daily, online job advertising has now become the main technique for recruiting new employees. Nearly every candidate looking for IT positions look on the Internet first, so getting it right has never been more important.
58.	Bookmarks: 0	Employment Law: Unfair Dismissal - Constructive Dismissal - 'Last Straw' The case of Bell v The Spirit Group Ltd [2005] concerned a claim for unfair and constructive dismissal. The employment tribunal held that a series of acts, by the employer, cumulatively amounted to repudiation of the employee's contract of employment.The employee was a manager of a national chain of pubs and restaurants. He brought a complaint of unfair constructive dismissal against his employer in the employment tribunal on the grounds of failure to support him throughout a period of a ye...
59.	Bookmarks: 0	Employee Recognition Awards Create Progress In difficult situations, when companies are in crisis and can only be saved by major effort, group morale often rises to far higher levels than before. Individual objections and objectives are bypassed in the collective drive to do what must be done. This is where recognition awards take its importance. High group morale can enrich individual motivation and performance remarkably! I. Planned Awards: 1. Recognition AwardsOn its basic concept, recognition awards are...
60.	Bookmarks: 0	Facing Resentment from Unsuccessful Candidates for Your Job Unsuccessful promotion candidates who remain in the department can make life difficult for the new manager. This article offers guidance for handling this common challenge for new managers.
61.	Bookmarks: 0	Pass Them The Crown To Build The Empire Stop for a moment…. and imagine how you would feel as an employee under this situation:You have been working for ACME for ten years now. You do the same thing everyday. You’re tied at the desk pounding a decrepit keyboard; half the keys don’t work. When you’re not nursing carpal tunnel syndrome, you’re sipping stale coffee at the greasy counter. Worse, you don’t really know anyone that you work with. Socializing involves a casual hello… with the doorman&#x...
62.	Bookmarks: 0	9 Steps for Coaching Call Center Agents Here's a field-tested and proven model for coaching call center agent phone calls. It's highly effective for improving quality, yet profoundly simple to execute.
63.	Bookmarks: 1	So You Wanna Work At Home, But Are You Ready To Become Self-Employed? So, you're interested in starting a business and you face a daunting task that carries a level of risk and excitement not possible in the world of the 'employee'. If the financial and spiritual independence of self-employment appeals to you - no income limits, no boss and the ability to let your personal drive determine your earnings, then you will be eagerly going over the many options to free yourself from your current job. However, the rush of financial excitement ...
64.	Bookmarks: 0	Can You Afford What Rudeness Is Costing Your Business? Take a quick etiquette quiz and learn how much rudeness may be affecting your bottom line.
65.	Bookmarks: 0	4 Tips To Ensure A Rewarding Experience When Hiring Others Hiring an employee is a part of just about every company, big or small. Whether you are working out of your parent's basement or a multi-million dollar corporation, there are a few principles that EVERY boss should follow!
66.	Bookmarks: 0	3 Ways A Professional Bookkeeper Will Save You $$$ Some small and medium business (SME) owners try to do their own accounts or they may employee a bookkeeper directly. This can be fine if you are lucky enough to recruit a good bookkeeper directly, however unless you have an accounting background and a thorough understanding of the accounting software involved, it can be difficult to know what questions to ask at the interview process.Even if you find someone who looks good on paper, unless you know what reports to ask for...
67.	Bookmarks: 0	Is an Independent Advisor Right for You? The process of managing personal finances is both time-consuming and complex. According to the 2005 Employee Benefit Research Institute's Retirement Confidence Survey, 55 percent of workers said they were behind schedule in retirement savings. With so many different companies offering a range of products and services, it's hard to know where to turn for financial advice.
68.	Bookmarks: 0	Employee Retention - Building Commitment A committed employee is extraordinarily valuable. You can gain staff commitment by meeting people’s key needs: paying attention to people at all levels; trusting and being trusted; tolerating individuality; and creating a blame-free, can-do culture. But why go through all these? What is the importance of gaining trust and commitment? It all goes down to the fact that when a company gains the trust and commitment of their employees they establish employee retention. And employ...
69.	Bookmarks: 0	Importance Of Skills Emphasis On Job Interviews Skill emphasis during the interview is important to show the employer what makes you different from all the other job candidates. In this competitive world, companies search for the most qualified employees by weighing skills of the candidates and determining how they would benefit the company.Majority of the top companies search for employers who stands out based from their expertise, ability to give new developments, and pleasing personalities that would enhance the org...
70.	Bookmarks: 0	Class Meetings This article describes the process of conducting class meetings with students in a school, however, there is great applicability for office meetings held with employees, and even family meetings as well.Class meetings should be held regularly and not simply be used for addressing problems, although problem solution is a valid use of class meeting time. The purpose of class meetings is to increase students’ positive involvement with school, the teacher and each other; solv...
71.	Bookmarks: 0	Can An Employee Survey Help You? An employee survey can provide you with a good understanding of what is happening within your business when you are not there or what your employees think of working there. While any company can benefit from doing an employee survey, there are many reasons for those companies that have issues with such things as poor retention of employees and high turnover to those companies that have a low productivity level. Finding out what is happening behind the scenes will help you to ...
72.	Bookmarks: 35	Branding and Employee Communication The ideas behind branding, which allow companies to build trust and good will in their products or services, can also be used to enhance employee communication.
73.	Bookmarks: 0	10 Ways To Stimulate Employee Motivation Today’s fast-moving business environment demands that the effective manager be both a well-organized administrator and highly adept in understanding people’s basic needs and behaviour in the workplace. Gaining commitment, nurturing talent, and ensuring employee motivation and productivity require open communication and trust between managers and staff.1. Understand their behaviourPeople at work naturally tend to adopt instinctive modes of behaviour that are self-prote...
74.	Bookmarks: 0	Time and Attendance Tracking in Workforce Management Time and attendance recording is the key function in any workforce management system. The workers work for pay and payrolls are prepared on the basis of time and attendance records. Accurate time and attendance records not only save employers from losing money on excess payments but also instil employee confidence in the payroll system.
75.	Bookmarks: 0	Skills Required To Run A Small Business Would you like to run your own small business? Have you an idea for a small business but do not think that you could make it work? Are you bored of being an employee and yearn to become your own boss? Have you the required skills to run a small business? In this article I look at the type of skills that people need to possess to be able to successfully run a small business.
76.	Bookmarks: 0	Home Based Business: Ten Tips For Success: With the cost of living quickly surpassing the wages (we make) necessary to maintain an “average” lifestyle, more and more employees are beginning to seriously consider the option of working from home.Being your own boss, setting and keeping your own hours, keeping all (or most of the proceeds for yourself), saving on travel time and gas, allowing for as much vacation time as “necessary”, it all has its perks. It certainly seems that way, especially for many woman who may...
77.	Bookmarks: 0	Six Things You Can Do To Prepare For The Coming Pandemic A recent survey showed that 60% of American businesses were not ready for the coming Avian Influenza pandemic. However, 73% said they wanted to get ready, but weren't sure what to do. Here then, is a starter list of six things you should include in your business preparedness plan.1. Absenteeism will be high due to illness or refusal to come to the workplace out of fear. Gather your key employees in accounting, sales, marketing, manufacturing, and management and develop a ...
78.	Bookmarks: 0	The final thing to happen! Having been utterly unhappy for over six months, John was finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning. His wife hardly spoke to him any more and there was absolutely no physical contact at all. It had all started when he was dismissed, they were suffering needed more money to pay their employees and he was the first of many to go.
79.	Bookmarks: 0	The Advantages of Self-Confidence Self-confidence has the ability to make employees perform more effectively at their jobs. Confident employees are able to take on multifaceted tasks with a greater level of commitment and concentration. Self-confidence breeds enthusiasm and lets a person inspire their co-workers. Individuals like these are valuable to an employer because they can get the job done. Self-confident people have the ability to succeed at whatever they put their minds to.
80.	Bookmarks: 0	Good Employers Want a Balance of Assertiveness and Agressiveness . How to Cultivate that Vital Balance Employers often avoid hiring overly aggressive employees as they drive business away. However employers want and hire assertive employees because assertive behavior projects capability and promotes a healthy productive working environment. What are these traits and how can you create a healthy balance?
81.	Bookmarks: 0	FAQ’s about Employee Motivation. The success of your business depends on the people who work for you. By working hard and exhibiting all their talents, your employees play a critical part in keeping your customers satisfied. This is where employee motivation is critical. It is the “bosses” responsibility to motivate employees which in turn will give them an overall better outlook on their job and will help them to strive to do their jobs to the best of their ability.
82.	Bookmarks: 16	Importance of a logo design in your branding Your logo. Your business cards. Your advertising. They're all a reflection of you and your company. Properly designed, they communicate to your employees and your customers that your company is credible, trustworthy and professional. Your business image depends on a logo design that is polished and distinctive. Your logo is the cornerstone of your brand.
83.	Bookmarks: 0	5 Great Reasons To Hire A Telecommuter How would you like to hire someone that is more motivated and more qualified to do the work and costs you less than your average employee? No, I am not talking about hiring someone illegally. You can accomplish this simply by employing a telecommuter. Let’s take a look at 5 very good reasons, why it makes sense for you to consider telecommuting from an employer’s perspective.1) Less OverheadHow much is all this office space, furniture, computer equipment along with your...
84.	Bookmarks: 0	33 Reasons To Do A News Release News releases are not the best way to get major media coverage, but they can be used to increase the frequency with which your company name appears in the press.Press releases will get you coverage in set features like business notes, and new personnel columns. They also provide a good way to let allies, employees and customers know what you are doing. For these purposes, post releases on the company website, send out by e-mail, or distribute by one of the services like PR Newswire or PR Web.
85.	Bookmarks: 0	Self Monitoring Systems Are Good For Recognition Performance Management is coming under critical fire because the complexity of some of the processes is beginning to over-ride the fundamental principles. However, as Hogan Armstrong knows, elements of Performance Management work well for both employees and managers. Hogan is an IT Service Engineer for a large multinational organization. He spends the majority of his working life away from his home office but his Self-Monitoring System lets both him and his manager know how h...
86.	Bookmarks: 0	Reward And Recognition; The Glare Of Publicity The company newsletter hit Ruth Kenyon's desk and there was her picture on the front page under the heading Employee of the Month. A simple paragraph of text explained that she had single-handedly reduced the debtor days from 39 to 32 in a period of 6 weeks. If others didn't understand the significance of her work, it didn't matter, she just felt a huge wave of pride sweep over her.Even the smallest company has a reception area. This is a great place to publicize how go...
87.	Bookmarks: 0	Developing A Document Shredding Strategy For Your Business A comprehensive document destruction policy is an important part of any business, small or large. Protecting customer and employee data is not only common sense, but is also legislated.Here are a few tips and resources to make the process easier.
88.	Bookmarks: 3	Working with Difficult People: 3 Questions to Help You Turn Your Tormentors into Teachers When faced with the prospect of meeting with a confrontational employee, the project manager of a New Hampshire insurance company heaved a sigh. Not again, he thought to himself. Every conversation with this guy is a struggle.
89.	Bookmarks: 2	Your Massage Chair - You'll Wonder How You Ever Lived Without It “Aching wrists, stiff neck and shoulders that feel like if somebody folded them”This is the phrase mostly used by any employee after 8 hours of hard work. It is obvious, that after whole day work you will surely experience the symptoms of work related fatigue.According to Palmer, founder of TouchPro Institute and co-developer of the first massage chair, most office-related mental and physical symptoms are mostly due to lack of blood and lymph circulation. Obstruction of...
90.	Bookmarks: 0	Enticing New Employees With Corporate Stability Employment is on the rise and with it, the return to attractive compensation packages and salary levels. After several down years in the employment market that was the result of the normalization of an inflated stock market and the beginning of the War on Terror, employers are constructing compensation packages with an eye to drawing dedicated employees. During the economic bubble of the late nineties, employers were in head-to-head competition with each other to offer be...
91.	Bookmarks: 1	Tips To Help Make Your Tournament Plan A Resounding Success Planning a golf tournament? Here are some tips to help you. 1. Select a good golf course and facilities that can accommodate all the needs that you have and make sure that their staff employees are likewise accommodating. Check with the employees and ensure that you tell them what you need and what you want to happen, especially if you plan on having an awards or some sort of ceremonies after the tournament. This is also the time you should think of the number of golfers ...
92.	Bookmarks: 0	Rewarding Work Well Done with Fun Has your sales team just completed its third record-setting month in a row? Did your advertising team pull off a spectacular campaign under a tight deadline? Have you just closed the books on your most successful year ever? One of the best ways to motivate your employees to continue working hard is to reward work well done with fun.
93.	Bookmarks: 0	Golf Ball Logos Logo golf balls are considered the true ambassador to the game of golf. They occupy approximately twenty percent of the golf ball business today and are mainly used for corporate branding. It is through logo golf balls that you build and maintain successful business relationships with your customers, employees, suppliers, and the millions of people who enjoy the game of golf.
94.	Bookmarks: 0	Entertain Your Staff For Larger Profits Today’s employees, particularly those involved with corporate finance and other major business sectors, are leaning more towards corporate event management and corporate entertainment as a key source of contentment and happiness at work. This reflects the emergence of what has become defined as corporate culture - one that recognizes the need to keep staff happy through team games, special event days and other activities that help build camaraderie and teamwork.1. Happy W...
95.	Bookmarks: 0	Stress In The Work Place: Active Tips To Avoid Burnout Stress in the workplace is a growing problem. Time and time again, hard-working employees hit the wall and lose all ability to perform. These employees show few outward signals prior to collapsing, as they want to impress and succeed. Any sign of weakness can be misinterpreted, and thus, they keep it to themselves.According to the Health and Safety Executive one in six employees finds their work situation to be very or highly stressful. This means, in larger companies, th...
96.	Bookmarks: 0	An Effective Trick To Help You Not Take Things Personally! [Reflections Of A Middle-Aged Man] I think it would be fair to say that we all have a tendency to take things personally. It's just that some of us have a greater tendency than others to do so. And, when it happens, some of us are better able to deal with it within ourselves than others.Taking things personally is never healthy in any relationship: employer-employee, friend-friend, husband-wife, partner-partner, parent-child, . . . for a number of reasons. One main such reason is that, if you do take thing...
97.	Bookmarks: 0	Employees - Money Is Not The Only Inspiration How to inspire employees to perform better and continue retaining their loyalty with the company? Ask this question around and the first option may be given as to raise the pay.
98.	Bookmarks: 2	STAFF AND EMPLOYESS MOTIVATION As a person with a position of decision making it is critical to provide direction to employees through staff motivation. Staff motivation is seldom an easy task as it involves working with a number of personalities & who come from different personal situations that can sometime be brought into they workplace
99.	Bookmarks: 4	Managing Stress And Fatigue – Articles That Help Managing stress and fatigue seems to be an elusive dream for many. They know they have unmanaged stress, and they realize it is leading to ongoing fatigue, but they are at a loss as to what to do. They may not want to visit a professional for help, and are instead seeking Internet articles.Managing stress and fatigue is the focus of articles across the Internet. We review a few of them here for your help.Managing Stress and Fatigue – Article for EmployeesThe New Z...
100.	Bookmarks: 4	Making The Leap: From Employee To Entrepreneur A Personal Story by Suzanne Mulvehill, AuthorEmployee to EntrepreneurI was so intent on staying in the corporate world that I went back to school in 1993 to get an MBA degree. Two years later, I received that degree and got a job making more money than ever before. I thought I had it all. The problem was that I wasn’t fulfilled.While trying to convince myself that I really was happy with my job, I had a disturbing intuitive message one day that what I was doing wasn...