1. CRACKING THE BILLABLE HOURS CEILING

By C.J. Hayden How many of you made as much money as you wanted to last year? Don't be shy; raise your hands. Hmm, I don't see too many hands out there. What would you say is the cause of this gap between your goals and your earnings? While you could certainly name the economy or inadequate marketing as the culprit, I'd like to suggest a third alternative. It may be the constraints of the billable h... read more

2. Seven Lessons I Learnt Whilst Losing Thousands Internet Marketing

By Alan Cutler SEVEN LESSONS I LEARNT WHILST LOSING THOUSANDS INTERNET MARKETING By Alan Cutler – alan@leadershiptalks.com This is the story of a novice internet marketer who has spent a miserable, frustrating and expensive twelve months learning the lessons of selling on the internet – the hard way! However, he believes that he has turned the corner and is now looking forward to, at least modest, futur... read more

3. Are You Seeking Advice From The Right People?

By Noel Peebles Contact Author: noel@marketleadersltd.com Publishing Guidelines: May be freely published w/bylines http://www.instantsellbusiness.com/index1.html ****************************************************** Are You Seeking Advice From The Right People? By Noel Peebles http://www.instantsellbusiness.com/index1.html Who should you listened to and get advice from? Who can give you t... read more

4. Budgets!

By Mike Shannon Budgets! There I've said it. For some the most hated and feared word in business. But it doesn't have to be that way. As a matter of fact, a well thought out and constructed budget can be the small business owners best friend. After all, a budget is just a laid out plan to produce profits and profits is what we are all after. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by looking at a 13 column budget sprea... read more

5. Avoiding ID Theft and Credit Fraud

By Eve Abbott, the Organizer Extraordinaire AVOIDING ID THEFT AND CREDIT FRAUD Article excerpted from the new book, “How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain” TM copyright 2004, all rights reserved, by Eve Abbott, the Organizer Extraordinaire Each year billions of dollars in credit fraud is perpetrated on unsuspecting citizens. With so much personal information publicly available (or easily available to someone with medium comput... read more

6. Tom Sawyer Day

By Steve Gillman My river-rafting adventure started on a bicycle. The small daypack I wore carried a hatchet, a saw, some scraps of rope, food, water, a garbage bag bivy sack, a hat, and odds and ends. It weighed less than fifteen pounds total. It was late May, so Id stay warm in my homemade bivy, without a sleeping bag. I might wear my hat, and pile up some leaves to sleep on. If the mosquitos were bad, I'd us... read more

7. Design a Winning PopUp Display

By Rick Hendershot A PopUp Display is essentially a backdrop used to give your floor space definition and focus. Because it normally covers the entire back "wall" of your space, a properly designed PopUp Display provides you the opportunity to make a bold statement about your company and your most important product or service. This is where Trade Show booth design is important. When designing more extensive trade... read more

8. Bar Charts Come Alive through Data Visualization

By Joe Miller Bar charts have always been one of the simplest means of conveying information, even somewhat complex information. Bar charts take into account at least two variables and have become one of the most useful tools in corporate reporting. Budget plans, market reports, comparative analysis reports on products or locations, and many other sets of information are communicated within the simple, yet i... read more

9. Planning Procedures for Building Effective Management Systems: Phase II

By Chris Anderson You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 548 words long including the resource box. Thanks for your interest. Part One of Series: Planning_Procedures_for_Building_Effective_Management_Systems:_Phase_II_4322_15_article.html">read more

10. Groupware as a Document Manager: Collaboration Series #3

By Joe Miller This article is the third of a series of articles exploring specific aspects of groupware. The brief informational articles in this series discuss some of the technologies associated with groupware, as well as some of the characteristics of groupware. Some of these characteristics may go hand in hand with business collaborative needs. Other characteristics go beyond what some groupware provider... read more

11. Effective Promotion with the Use of Cold Calls

By Rachel Goldstein Article submitted by http://www.Allfreelancework.com - 1000s of freelance jobs Cold calls tend to be the least effective form of marketing for consultants. But, if implemented effectively "cold calls" can land you a gig, maybe even your first gig. The trick is to place yourself in the shoes of the prospect on the other end of the line. Anyone can pull it off with a little bit of strategy. Be... read more

12. Boost Your Leadership Skills By Disciplining Yourself In The Way Of The Question Mark

By Brent Filson PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.com Word count: 735 Summary: The author contends that one of the most effect... read more

13. Discovery Procedures for Building Effective Management Systems

By Chris Anderson You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 531 words long including the resource box. Thanks for your interest. Part One in a Five Part Series Imagine what a professional football team would be like w... read more

14. Creative Offline Website Marketing Techniques

By Adam Senour Although the vast majority of website traffic is the direct result of search engines, there are many offline marketing techniques that can be used to draw customers to your website. The examples listed below are but a few ways in which you can market your online presence to an offline audience in an inexpensive manner. Some of the examples listed below even can be implemented at no extra cost! ... read more

15. Forbidden Knowledge - What Is It?

By Steve Gillman Is there really "forbidden knowledge?" Probably not much remains truly hidden or forbidden, but there are little secrets about how things work. Politicians, salesmen and others always learn and use subtle techniques to influence you, for example. Here are some examples. Control Through Words The classic joke, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" is difficult to answer without incrimi... read more

16. Productivity: So Many Small Things

By Robert F. Abbott We rarely see stories or articles about productivity in the newspaper or on TV. When we do, it’s usually just another story on the economy that defies understanding. Which is too bad. Our prosperous standard of living arrived, in large part, because of the ability of companies and organizations everywhere, and for the past several hundred years, to increase productivity. Productivity simply... read more

17. Reverse Merger, IPO Or Direct Public Offering (DPO), Which One Is Right For You?

By Joseph Quinones A direct public offering is when a company raises capital by selling its shares directly to what is refer to as affinity groups, unlike an IPO which are sold by a broker dealer to its customers and the general public through other broker dealers who have customers interested in buying shares in the company. In IPO’s you have a firm commitment underwriting, where the underwriters promise to purc... read more

18. Finding the Groupware with a Grip on Ad Hoc

By Joe Miller Groupware Groupware is a software package that manages the ad hoc collaboration needs of the Information Age of business. In an information age of business, new phrases describe new styles of business. The word used to describe today’s fast-paced business collaboration methods: read more

19. Business Entities – A Quick Guide

By Richard A. Chapo Business entities comes in so many types that business owners can easily get confused. Here’s a quick guide that will hopefully shed a little light on business entities for you. Business Entities "C" Corporation: A corporation whose shares are held by shareholders. The entity stands apart from the shareholders for legal and tax purposes. The shares of the corporation may be “taken public” a... read more

20. 10 Days to Making More Money

By Lori Giovannoni Title: 10 Days to Making More Money Author: Lori Giovannoni Email: lori@xmission.com Word Count: 895 Copyright: © 2005 by Lori Giovannoni Web Address: www.lorigiovannoni.com Publishing Guidelines: You may publish my article in your newsletter, on your web site, or in your print publication provided you include the resource box at the end. Notification would be appreciated but is not ... read more

21. Cheap Houses For Sale

By Steve Gillman We found cheap houses for sale all over the country. My wife Ana and I were on a seven-week drive around the country. It was a vacation, but we looked at houses too, and bought one in a great little town in the mountains of western Montana. It cost $17,500, and after $2000 to fix it up, we lived there for several months before selling it for $28,000. We loved Anaconda. Where else can you fly fi... read more

22. CEOs And Boards Are Locked In A Spiral Of Doom

By Brent Filson PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.com Word count: 700 Summary: The relationship between boards of director and... read more

23. How to Start Writing Policies and Procedures

By Chris Anderson Any old policy and procedure format saves time by not having to start from scratch, right? Well, not necessarily. Using a weak starting point can hurt employee usability, introduce confusion and user-error, and may not assist in your compliance and control objectives. The result could set your project back further and cost you even more time to fix it later. But it doesn’t have to. Drive... read more

24. Customers Say the Electronic Medical Record is the Safer Choice

By Joe Miller The management of medical transcription, medicare billing , cpt codes, and other medical records has typically consisted of wall to wall files of paper records. According to a recent survey conduc... read more