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How To Build A Sales Culture In Your Organization
During my time working with (and for) companies large and small, I have discovered that there is a common element to the most successful businesses. The most successful companies have a sales…
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Speak For Yourself Or They Will Speak For You
Online reputation management: Preemptive strike or post battle damage control Reputation management has always been a necessary component of running a business. But with the advent of the Internet, reputation management has…
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How Healthcare Reform Will Affect Small Businesses
As aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) gradually kick in, the application, management and makeup of healthcare benefits, offerings and costs will change for many small businesses. Small…
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Six Ways Your Business Can Go ‘Green’
Paying attention to the environment demonstrates good stewardship and translates into good business. Companies touting their planet preservation accomplishments via marketing messages benefit from positive publicity, while saving corporate money. Though Earth…
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What Lessons Can Small Businesses Learn From Non-Profits During These Uncertain Economic Times?
Though it may be difficult to imagine, small businesses have many of the same needs as non-profit organizations. The goal of many non-profits is to help solve the urgent social problems faced…
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Education, Earning Power And Entrepreneurship
As a senior business analyst, I am afforded the opportunity to meet a wide variety of intelligent entrepreneurs. I work with the craftsman who has spent a lifetime honing his skill set,…
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Plan Ahead
Do you trust the government enough… to do your estate planning? Lindsay Lohan in (and out of and back in) rehab, Charlie Sheen’s party life, the economy on the upswing, the economy…
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Turning Adversity Into Inspiration
The story of one family’s commitment to press on despite what life throws at them. For three-and-a-half years, I have been a senior business analyst with CBS/GPS traveling around the country meeting…
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Smartphone Applications ForTech-Savvy Business Owners
Tired of lugging a huge laptop around to access presentations, files and other imperative information? Smartphones are not branded with such a name for no reason. These essential business gadgets have a…
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Phantom Stock
It’s an ongoing challenge for many small business owners in virtually every sector of the economy: figuring out how to motivate and retain employees who are essential to the company’s success without…
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Get More Prospects With The Power Of Publicity
Everyone agrees that small businesses need to get a steady supply of new prospects into the pipeline if they want to get more customers so they can stay in business and make…
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A Primer On Common Availability Solutions
Determining optimum availability is not an either/or proposition . The economically appropriate level of availability varies among systems and industries and even across applications within a single enterprise. The challenge is to…
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A Business That Clicks
It’s easy for Ernesto Dos Santos to freeze frame the turning point in his life and career. It was the day a representative from the Dominican Jazz Festival viewed his black and…
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Be The Brand
The running shoes you are wearing with the distinctive swoosh; the soda you are drinking in the distinctive red colored can; the jeans with the prominent stitching on the back asserting that…
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Continuous Data Protection: Primary And Supporting Roles
CDP improves recoverability for all types of data in physical and virtual environments. Let’s face it, we’ve all accidentally deleted an important e-mail or critical data file more than once. And, we’ve…
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Inside The Budget Battle With Congressman Paul Ryan
Geoffrey Gabor (GG): I’d like to start by thanking you, Congressman Ryan, for granting us this interview. Your press secretary informed our production crew that you receive hundreds of interview requests weekly.…
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How Small Businesses Can Compete In Google
Many small businesses only serve the geographic area surrounding their physical location. As such, some business owners may believe that there is no need to get involved with the newfangled global Internet…
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Cloud Applications
What are cloud applications and why should you consider them for your business? Cloud applications are a series of tasks and functions, including software applications like accounting, contact records management, e-mail hosting,…
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Make Money Now And More In The Future
Imagine a world in which very little changed over time. This year’s products are the same as last year’s products, and they’ll be the same as next year’s products, too. The same…
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It Can Pay To Be Nimble
In business, nothing moves faster than capital. These days—where billions can move halfway around the world with a mouse click, or professional football teams can change cities overnight—your success can be enhanced…
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Health Care – Careful What You Wish For
Health reform & how it affects your business… today and in the future Insurance is a financial service created by businessmen that enables customers to voluntarily share the risks of expensive, but…
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Digitize Your Business
How to create an effective Web site The Internet is one of the greatest marketing resources for a business, no matter how small or big a company is. There are endless possibilities…
