Business Management
Do
You Know Where The Real Profit Pools Are?
Ever had that feeling you've got a great business, but that its' not delivering
the results it really deserves? More likely than not, you do have a great
business - it is simply that its strengths are not being directed towards
the right opportunities, or that those opportunities are not being well
exploited…
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Listen
to Your Customers
Mastering the art of managing customer complaints can seem like a thankless
job, but keep in mind that for every customer that shares their worries,
concerns or complaints, there are likely more that did not express their
dissatisfaction, and instead simply moved on to a competitor…
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10
Killer Job Interview questions and Answers
There is no way you can accurately predict the questions that will be
asked in an interview, but you can be ready and prepared by thinking about
the factors that might concern an interviewer or employer before the interview…
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Fifteen
Advertising And Promotional Ideas
Every successful company uses some sort of promotion to influence certain
audiences, usually customers or prospects, by informing or persuading
them. Reasons for promoting a business include: increasing visibility…
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Comparing
Three Ways To Go Public
Traditional Underwriting:
Time: 6 to 12 months
Cost: $175,000 to $500,000 (The company will be out of pocket at least
50% of this amount prior to completion
Capital: Typically raises more capital than other types of transactions…
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Overcoming
The Objections That Keep You From Achieving Massive Success
Realize that most objections can be resolved before they even arise. Cost
is often the first objection that is put up, but usually it’s not the
true reason, deep down, for rejecting a product or service…
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Intellectual
Property Protection In China
If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, then the Chinese
can be very sincere flatterers indeed. But if you prefer prosperity over
flattery it would be wise to take precautions against losing your shirt
in one of the world’s most dangerous IP jungles…
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Establishing
A Representative Office In China
Among foreign investors, the most popular form of business establishment
in China is the Representative Office. Its main attraction is that it
is simpler and cheaper to establish than either a Joint Venture of a Wholly
Foreign Owned Enterprise…
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China
Company Start-up Checklist, Part III
The following activities should also be undertaken as soon as possible
after receiving the Business License: (1) Obtain any Necessary Construction
Permits…
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China
Company Start-up Checklist, Part II
The following activities must be taken within 30 days of the issuance
of the Business License: (1) Engrave the Enterprise’s Official Seal This
requires advance approval from the municipal Public Security Bureau (the
police). Documents include: the original business license and a copy …
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China
Company Start-up Checklist, Part I
Although Company Establishment Checklist is primarily geared toward the
establishment of Joint Ventures, it can be easily adapted to the establishment
of Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises…
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Seven
Service Principles Guaranteed To Create Raving Fans
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody
in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money
somewhere else"…
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Warning
To Direct Marketers: Asking These Questions Will Kill Your Conversions
For those marketers who labor tirelessly, though fruitlessly, oblivious
to marketing history, and unversed in copy that brings home the bacon—please
take note: this article is for you…
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27
Reasons To Invest In People: The Evidence Keeps Mounting
Enthusiastic workers often increase the quality of work by huge percentages-up
to a 75 percent reduction in defect rates. (Sirota, Mischkind, and Meltzer,
The Enthusiastic Employee, 2005)…
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The
Layers of Your Brand
Branding is a hot topic in marketing these days, but it's defined in different
ways and looked at from different angles. There are many components that
make up a brand, and we call each component a Brand Layer…
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Advantages
Of Forming A UK Limited Company
When starting a business there will often be a point when you think of
forming your business into a limited company – perhaps before you collect
a penny. So why should UK businesses look at limited company formation?…
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9
Things You Should Know About Dealing With Venture-Capital Brokers
You want to buy a new company, expand operations, acquire a business,
or raise capital. You’ve decided to go for venture capital funding versus
a bank loan for a multitude of reasons from the risks involved to the
amount you need to carry out your plan…
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The Laws of Sales Success
Sales professionals must create magnetic appeal to increase closing efficiency.
Our present global environment creates numerous obstacles that polarize
sales efforts, form the proliferation of the Internet to advanced media.
Ironically, with the intrigue of technological miracles the foundation
of sales success exists upon 10 principles…
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How To Stand Out At A
Trade Show
Think of the last time you were on the midway at a state fair. Every booth
was brightly colored, full of interesting things to see, do, and win.
Hawkers yelled: "Step right up!", "Three tries for a dollar!", "Win a
stuffed bunny for the lovely lady!" Lights flashed, kids ran around, and
everyone seemed to be talking at once…
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Overcoming The Objections That Keep
You From Achieving Massive Success
Realize that most objections can be resolved before they even arise. Cost is often the first objection that is put up, but usually it’s not the true reason, deep down, for rejecting a product or service. Nothing de-energizes your persuasive efforts more than lingering doubts and concerns that remain unresolved in your prospect’s mind. No matter what you’re selling, all objections can fit into one or more of the following categories…
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Creating More Sales Through Active
Participation
People have an innate desire to feel wanted and needed. When you fulfill
this need, you open the door to persuasion, a fact that has been proved
beyond a doubt by records kept on industrial workers. Workers who have
no voice whatsoever in management, who cannot make suggestions, or who
are not allowed to express their ideas simply do not do as much work as
workers who are encouraged to contribute…
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How To Write A Startup Business Plan
Why do you need to write a business plan? There are a number of reasons.
Writing a plan dramatically increases your chances of success as an entrepreneur.
Here are just a few reasons why you would want to write a business plan…
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Motivation Equation And Orientation
When we break motivation down to its most fundamental level, it’s either
inspiration-oriented or desperation-oriented. Whatever action we take,
we are moving either toward something we favor or away from something
we disfavor…
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The Obstacles That Keep You From Closing
The Sale
The very first obstacle that many persuaders experience is prejudging
a prospect. They set up an appointment, hang up the phone and then immediately
say, “Oh, great. This lady’s looking for a product we don’t even have.
She’ll never buy.” It could be for any number of reasons, but basically
the salesperson decides, based on one scrap of information, that the lead
isn’t going to go anywhere before s/he has even met or spoken with the
prospect…
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The Layers of Your Brand and How Your
Brand Helps Your Business
Branding is a hot topic in marketing these days, but it's defined in different
ways and looked at from different angles. There are many components that
make up a brand, and we call each component a Brand Layer. Here are our
definitions of some of the most important Brand Layers…
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What Kind Of Capital Is Appropriate
For Your Business?
There are two kinds of capital: debt and equity. Both kinds are typically
used by a company during its lifetime. Lenders have different objectives
than investors and therefore look at different factors about a company
when deciding whether or not to invest or make a loan…
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Ten Simple Things That Helped Make
Me Millions
I’ve had my own business since I was 9 years old. I’ve started, bought,
sold and helped out in many different kinds of businesses over the thirty
some odd years since then. I’ve done everything I’ve always wanted to
do, and I’ve had a lot of fun. Some of the highlights: I worked on Wall
Street, I helped take a company public and I threw one of the biggest
VC names in the country out of my office…
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20 Tips On Presenting Corporate &
Office Areas
If you operate an office that receives visiting clients you probably have
a reception area. Such an area can be used to great advantage. While your
client is waiting to see you why not give them the opportunity to learn
about you and the company? Large photographs of the factory or the products
/ services you provide help to make it clear what your company does or
stands for. It also gives an insight into areas your visitor may not be
able to access under normal circumstances…
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Are You Wasting Time and Money Marketing
to the Wrong People?
One of the biggest mistakes I see consultants, coaches and professionals
make is to be unclear about who their ideal client is, and to carry out
their marketing without any specific definition of their target market.
In fact, most are hedging their bets and trying to appeal to everybody…
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Delving deeper into
LLC
Limited Liability Company or LLC is what you will get when you combine
the attributes of both corporations and partnerships. So this is like
corporation's protection from personal liability for business debts and
the pass-through tax structure of partnerships and sole proprietorships
put together…
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Sales Proposals - How
to Write Proposals That Sell
Depending upon how much you enjoy writing, writing sales proposals can
be a joy, purgatory, or something in between. However, if you sell a complex
product or one that involves the delivery of professional services, learning
how to write effective selling proposals can be critical to your success…
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Ten Meeting Management
Issues to Watch Out For
Meetings are valuable components of organisations. Yet they need process,
discipline and leadership/facilitation to work best. Here are some indicators
to watch out for to highlight where things may be going wrong…
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Working Capital & Cash
Flow Solutions: Should I Borrow From A Bank?
Recently, my newspaper reported that a local bank “...earned a four star
excellence rating for the sixty-fourth consecutive quarter.” That’s sixteen
years of four star excellence! The article went on to say that the “rating
is based on a complex formula that includes …capital safety levels, quality
of loan portfolio, and the ability to meet obligations…”…
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Use This Simple Time
Tested Process And Move Your Business Forward In 2006!
Another year is just about ready to finish and it is time to start thinking
about next year. If you own your own business or you manage a business
division, then you need to ask yourself if all of the expectations that
were set forth at the beginning of the year were met. If not then maybe
what stopped you was a lack of goals and objectives, or just a lack of
a good process to use when planning them. The goal setting process is
essential to the success or failure of the business, and many careers
have derailed due to a lack of them. Goals and objectives apply to everyone
involved…
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Frustrated With Your
Company's Inability To Develop New Customers?
Try A Sales Blitz.
One of the most common complaints I hear from my clients is this: "I can't
seem to motivate the salespeople to call on prospects and develop them
into new customers."
There is a relatively simple, fun and inexpensive way to remedy this situation.
It's called a sales blitz. Unfortunately, few companies are even aware
of it, and fewer yet use it…
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How Business Davids
can overcome Goliaths
In the story of David and Goliath, young David challenged the mighty Goliath.
King Saul wanted David to wear his armour so that he could fight Goliath
in the traditional way. But David chose to forgo the armour, used a weapon
of his choosing, and relied on his own speed, and was ultimately successful
in slaying the giant Goliath…
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Strategic Planning
Steps For Optimum Business Management
The Strategic Planning Steps philosophy/business system is an organizational
tool that is used by groups and corporations globally to refine their
goals and maximize their resources. Drawing from the concepts of strategic
military planning, the Strategic Planning process is one way in which
businesses strive to attain a competitive edge…
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Myths of Sales Management:
The Entrepreneurial Salesperson
I just had a phone conversation with a client who had a familiar story
to tell. He had built his business on the model of an entrepreneurial
sales force. Give them a territory, pay them straight commission, and
tell them they are in business for themselves, free to develop the customers
they chose with the products they wanted…
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Strategic Selling -
How to Sell Strategically
If you want to maximize your sales performance, take a strategic approach
to selling. After all, wouldn't you agree that "the 80/20 rule"
applies to customers, where approximately 20 percent of customers produce
approximately 80 percent of sales?…
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Sales Prospecting -
How to Stand Out From Competitors in a Commodity Market
The key challenge when prospecting for "commodity" product or
service sales opportunities is capturing enough of your prospect's attention
to convince them to meet with you. This article provides four strategies
to help you win more of these elusive first meetings…
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How To Gain Monopoly-Like
Profits Through Ethnic Marketing
In today's U.S. marketplace, marketing to various ethnic audiences is
vital to consumer-oriented product and service companies. Latinos and
African Americans already have a critical mass of buying power of over
$1 trillion combined and this total is increasing rapidly. The growth
of the Hispanic and African American affluent and middle class is occurring
faster than the majority of Caucasian Americans…
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Taboo Words and Terrific
Words
You have had it happen, I’m sure, possibly several times. You had an idea
that seemed perfectly suited for your organization, because job functions
would become more manageable, customers would respond favorably, your
brand recognition would increase, or profits would rise immediately…
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Company Policy Does
More Damage to Customer Service Than Anything Else
As a customer service consultant I see things across many companies that
most companies don’t see while working inside the company.
One of the biggest problems is “company policy.” Many company policies
are structured to protect the company from the customer instead of helping
the customer get what he wants and has paid for…
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The Process of Due
Diligence
A business which wants to attract foreign investments must present a business
plan. But a business plan is the equivalent of a visit card. The introduction
is very important - but, once the foreign investor has expressed interest,
a second, more serious, more onerous and more tedious process commences:
Due Diligence…
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Business Competition
Best Practices: Win Loss Research
Frequently I am asked "how do you get information about the competition?"
Most people are surprised when I tell them that getting useful competitive
intelligence is actually the easiest part of managing successful business
competition. One of the best methods to gain valuable competitive intelligence
is so simple, straightforward, and productive that I have put it on my
list of Business Competition Best Practices: Win Loss Research…
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Business Process
Management: Understanding and Implementing
If yours is a business with several departments, at one point you start
to realize that in order to stay competitive, increase productivity and
bring efficiency to your business, you need to optimize and automate some
of your business processes. To identify which parts of your business activities
required to be optimized, first you need to have a clear understanding
of the processes involved in your particular business…
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So, Do
You Need Financial Planning?
Well do you need Financial Planning? In this article, I will show you
how you can answer this question.
Immediately after we complete our college education, we automatically
participate in a race call rat race…
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Managing
the Income Portfolio
The reason people assume the risks of investing in the first place is
the prospect of achieving a higher rate of return than is attainable in
a risk free environment…i.e., an FDIC insured bank account. Risk comes
in various forms, but the average investor’s primary concerns are “credit”
and “market” risk… particularly when it comes to investing for income…
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Understanding
Option Trading, Simply
Option trading is one method of trading that you can partake in. But,
in order to take advantage of it, you need to find out just what it is
and how it works. This will help you to make decisions that will affect
you throughout your trading experience. Here is some basic information
about option trading to help you…
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Fibonacci
Numbers and the Golden Ratio 3 Tips for Greater Trading Profits
In this report, we will look at the history and background of Fibonacci
numbers and The Golden Ratio. We will then outline three specific money
management tips that can help increase your profit potential.
Support and resistance levels are an important consideration for most
traders to help identify entry and exit points when trading…
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The Insight
Trader Reveals Effective Ways To Deal With Losses
At some point in the insight trader`s career, he will be faced with a
string of losses that will bring his confidence to an all-time low. Every
active trader hits this point at least once, and some will visit it several
times. This active trader will reveal to you ways to successfully deal
with this problem…
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Commodity
Trading Systems Learn From a Trading Master and Boost Your Profit Potential!
Legendary trader W D Gann amassed a fortune of $50 million dollars in
the first half of the last century, although he died in 1955, his commodity
trading systems are still used today by traders all over the world.
Successful commodity trading systems have the ability take the emotion
out of trading, liquidating losses quickly and spotting and holding the
big longer-term trends and that’s exactly what Gann’s Commodity trading
systems did…
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Unconventional
Home Business Financing Alternatives
While unconventional financing can cost you money in the long run, it
does allow you to avoid borrowing money as a loan that needs to be paid
back... whether or not your business makes a profit. With the alternative
financing options presented here - if your business fails, your obligation
to pay back the money expires…
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Retirement
Fund Management Programs
A number of the large Mutual Fund Institutions are offering various programs
targeted at establishing retirement funds for individual investors. These
programs are all accompanied by disclaimers that indicate that there are
no guarantees with regard to performance and indicate that they cannot
assure profit or protect against losses in declining markets…
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Business Loans
- 7 Reasons Not To Use A Bank
So you're a small business owner and you need a business loan to further
the objectives of your company. Where do you turn?
When it comes to a business loan or commercial real estate loan, there
are many good reasons NOT to turn to a traditional bank. Here are some
of the most important reasons…
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Dealing With Market
Corrections: Ten Do’s and Don'ts
A correction is a beautiful thing, simply the flip side of a rally,
big or small. Theoretically, even technically I'm told, corrections adjust
equity prices to their actual value or “support levels”. In reality, it’s
much easier than that. Prices go down because of speculator reactions
to expectations of news, speculator reactions to actual news, and investor
profit taking. The two former "becauses" are more potent than ever before
because there is more "self directed" money out there than ever before…
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Market
Failures And Business Cycles (Part 2)
Something reverse can happen which would be even more damaging than
the just discussed case. Instead of Consumption growing at a faster rate
than Savings, it might so happen that Savings and Investment grow at a
much faster rate than Consumption. For example, prior to Great Depression,
the importance of aggregate demand as explained by Keynes was not understood…
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Market
Failures And Business Cycles (Part 1)
The following is the most comprehensive ever explanation to the most
mysterious phenomenon of Capitalism – the Business Cycles. In order
to ensure that the article can be read by any well educated reader, I
have minimized the economics jargon and have added a short and simple
introduction to the structure of the economy…
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