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The Flip Mino HD
With social media invading the business world, it’s important you and your business aren’t left behind. The new Flip Mino HD will help you join the “in crowd” because:
1. It’s easy to use. No fancy cords, settings, or tricks. Just a steady hand and a bit of creativity.
2. It’s high definition! I [...]
Celebrities are human too, you know. Even beautiful, rich, and famous people can fall for icky money schemes.
(Photo: the bad guy himself, Bernard Madoff)
We first heard about the Ponzi scheme a few weeks back when it was announced Steven Spielberg’s charity went belly up due to kaput investments. Then, the “Forrest Gump” guy lost money [...]
So often, our daily work tasks go unnoticed. We put ourselves on autopilot and move throughout our workdays without so much as a fleeting though as to what we’re doing or saying. Your mission for this week is to BE CONSCIOUS.
NOTICE the small things. Checking your email, responding to voicemails, faxing documents, photocopying, typing. Think [...]
Holidays Schmolidays. It’s one of the hardest times of the year to achieve a work/life balance, especially if you work in retail or are self-employed. The demands can be overwhelming at a time when all you want to do is sleep in late, spend time with family, and drink spiked egg nog. Now that you [...]
The key to making a lot of money really fast.
Some people have no common sense. Or, they don’t care if that it’s a holiday celebrated by a lot of people. Even people who don’t celebrate Christmas take the day off anyway. But, like I said, some people either just don’t care or they have none (zero) common sense. They call you about work related [...]
An architect wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint so why do so many small business owners skip over the blueprint for a successful business? It’s called a business plan and the answer could be…laziness, ignorance, or stupidity. Surprisingly, quite a few entrepreneurs skip right over this step.
Do you have a business plan? If you [...]
There are days and weeks when the workload is never ending and you start wising there were more than 24 hours in a day. What to do…what to do… Here’s some advice:
Stop wishing for more than 24 hours in a day.
Instead, be glad there are only 24 hours. As luck would have it, there are [...]
Never write an email that simply says “give me a call” with no further information.
When the economy gets tough, customers stop paying. This is a problem for both large and small businesses. Unfortunately non-payment has a trickle down effect that impacts a large number of businesses that have dealings with these truant companies.
Here are a few tips to ensure you get paid, even during economic hardship:
Have a contract. Be [...]
