| What could Macedonia Learn from a Tiger? The Asian Tigers and the Phenomenon of Uninterrupted Economic Growth |
| The first reaction of economies in transition is a sharp decline in their production, mainly in industrial production. In the co... |
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| The Ultimate PR "Scam" |
| It happens to business, non-profit and association managers when their public relations budget fails to deliver the crucial exte... |
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| Work at Home Business Ideas |
| Here are some excellent businesses that you can start, operate and grow from your home. All these |
| Public Relations: Toast? |
| Could be, when unit managers in businesses, non-profits and associations don’t get the really important external audience behavi... |
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| Walt Disney Is Coming To Town |
| In 1923, twenty-one-year-old Walt Disney arrived in Los Angeles fresh from the disappointment of his first cartoon studio going ... |
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| Time Management - Working Smarter at Work |
| Let's look at your time management skills. Most of us have to work, and the more you can do in the least amount of time, the bet... |
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| How Do Other Countries Devalue Their Currencies? |
| Countries devalue their currencies only when they have no other way to correct past economic mistakes - whether their own or mis... |
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| Going Bankrupt in the World |
| It all starts by defaulting on an obligation: Money owed to creditors or to suppliers is not paid on time, interest payments due... |
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| PR: Room at the Bottom? |
| When special events and communications tactics rule the PR roost instead of a workable plan designed to manage external audience... |
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| Youth Entrepreneurship, A Disappointing Truth |
| The psychology of entrepreneurship can be very rewarding to one who dreams of starting their own business. The freedom of being ... |
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| Public Procurement and Very Private Benefits |
| In every national budget, there is a part called "Public Procurement". This is the portion of the budget allocated to purchasing... |
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| Don't Use PR... |
| …lose the confidence of your key target audiences… discourage them from taking actions that lead to your success…fail to achieve... |
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| You Are Losing Customers By Not Doing This |
| Not doing what, you ask.
Writing and submitting articles.
Writing articles is a cost- effective way of promoting your bu... |
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| Disaster Prevention Tips For Hiring A New Manager |
| It happens over and over in businesses every day.
Within large companies, people are promoted to management positions to rew... |
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| Time Management Training - A Necessary Investment or A Waste Of Money? |
| Many organisations view time management training as something they'll spend their money on, only if they have to. Usually when p... |
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| An Evaluation of the Devaluation |
| A Minister of Finance is morally right to lie about a forthcoming devaluation and a woman has the right to lie about her age. Th... |
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| Three Steps to Writing Your Own Resume |
| While most professionals hire a professional resume writer, some draft their own resume. People who write a lot for business usu... |
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| Working at Home Doesn't Have to Mean Feeling Alone |
| Operating a home-based business may let you set your own schedule, spend more time with your children, and earn more money but i... |
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| The Ifs and VATs of Taxation in Macedonia - Should VAT be Applied in Macedonia? |
| To be justified, taxes should satisfy a few conditions:
Above all, they should encourage economic activity by providing ince... |
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| The Six Most Common Barriers To Sales Success |
| There are a variety of reasons and excuses behind poor sales lead management because the $10 to $2000 companies spend to generat... |
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| The Big Picture: 5 Questions that Can Boost your Business |
| As business managers, entrepreneurs, and Webmasters, we strive for unobtainable perfection. Why do I say unobtainable? Because w... |
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| Nuts and Bolts of Effective Cover Letters |
| As a job seeker, you shouldn't overlook the importance of a cover letter. If written strategically, a cover letter increases you... |
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| Managers and PR Genius |
| The real public relations geniuses might be managers. You know, managers who pursue their objectives by reaching, persuading and... |
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| Hiring A Virtual Assistant Can Help Your Business Grow |
| In today’s tough economical times it’s hard to think of hiring someone else to assist you, but it may be more cost effective tha... |
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| 20 Ways to Advance Your Career |
| To survive and thrive in today's competitive environment, it is not just what you know. You also need to be competent. You must ... |
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| Take This Job and...Re-staff It |
| Deciding to leave a job isn’t easy. In fact, quitting a job requires courage, especially in today’s soft economy when the unempl... |
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| Stop Procrastination- Just do it! |
| What stops you from 'getting things done?'
Have you ever started your day with good intentions of completing a task or proje... |
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| No Load Mutual Funds: Investment Hype vs. Investment Help |
| With the internet such a huge part of our daily lives, many investors have access to a wide range of instant investment informat... |
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| Prospering with Mutual Funds: How anyone can “Afford” an Investment Advisor |
| Recently I was invited to appear on a live CNNfn television show to discuss my article “How to evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual ... |
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| Get Outsiders on Your Side |
| Especially good advice for business, non-profit and association managers whose job success depends in large part on the behavior... |
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| Review of Ezine Article Creator V2.0 |
| By now most entrepreneurs realize that the most cost effective method of promoting their business and services is writing and di... |
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| Hey, Mr/Ms Manager! |
| Does it really make sense to bet your PR budget on results like newspaper mentions and zippy brochures while your all-important ... |
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| Organize Yourself Otherwise Your Work Could Kill You |
| We are in a society where people are applauded for starting work early and finishing late.
It's about time employers recogni... |
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| If Your PR Can't Do This, Bag It! |
| As a business, non-profit or association manager, why continue a public relations effort that doesn’t deliver the key external a... |
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| It's All About The Customers, Baby |
| If you want to ensure a steady stream of customers in your business, you must always remember why you're in business in the firs... |
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| Managers, Start Your PR |
| There’ll never be a better time for a manager working for a business, non-profit or association to ask this question: “Am I gett... |
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| Foolproof Customer Service Strategies (that only a fool would try!) |
| Ever notice how customer service varies from store to store? You walk into some stores, and before you can say "Buzz off!" a sal... |
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| What is an Investor Ready Business Plan |
| What is an Investor Ready Business Plan
A Business Plan, as all good entrepreneurs starting out in life should know is the f... |
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| 10 Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurs |
| Running a one-person business is a creative, flexible and challenging way to become your own boss and chart your own future. It ... |
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| Managers: Are You PR-Fit? |
| Can you honestly say that your business, non-profit or association’s key outside audiences behave in ways that help lead to your... |
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| Time Management Tips - How to Have a Filing System That Works |
| Recently I was working with a new client who had invested hundreds of dollars for a records management organisation to set up a ... |
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| Stretch Wrap Or Shrink Wrap |
| The majority of our customers who order stretch wrap call it shrink wrap and these are people who use the product daily. What ho... |
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| Web Conferencing: A Boon to Businesss |
| It is Sunday evening and you are preparing again to go on a business trip. Monday morning the alarm goes off at 4:00 am, you dra... |
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| How Managers Hit PR Paydirt |
| As a business, non-profit or association manager, you’ll know it’s PR paydirt when you’re able to persuade your key external sta... |
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| Something "New" For Managers? |
| A new public relations blueprint could be a good idea if you’re a business, non-profit or association manager who’s not getting ... |
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| The Demise of the Dinosaur PTTs |
| Telecommunications is the most important physical infrastructure in the modern world. It is more important than roads because it... |
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| Battling Society's Cancer: Unemployment |
| The official figures are staggering: 35% of the workforce - about 280,000 people - are unemployed and looking for a job. Each 1.... |
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| Be an Entrepreneur |
| The Department of Labor predicts that the #1 employer in 2010 will be “self.” A recent Internet poll of 25-44 year olds revealed... |
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| Porter's Five Forces Analysis |
| If you’ve ever listened to Warren Buffett talk about investing, you’ve heard him mention the idea of a company’s moat. The moat ... |
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| The Best PR Has to Offer Managers |
| How cool is this? You’re a business, non-profit or association manager. You decide to get serious about your public relations an... |
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| Juggling The Day With A Deal |
| Doing deals with sellers is why you went into lease purchasing. Again, using organization and time management is very important ... |
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| Information Products: A Business Owner's Best Friend |
| We live in a post-industrial age where information is the coin of the realm. Knowledge is the most valuable asset that a busines... |
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| Are You An Expert At What You Do? |
| One of the most common refrains I hear from people is, "I can’t create information products…I’m not an expert!"
Yet what is ... |
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| Can You Say No? |
| As a manager you are constantly being asked to do things - by your boss, by one of your fellow managers, by the head of another ... |
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| Introducing the Virtual Time Machine that Gives Back Your Valuable Time |
| Minneapolis, MN - October 23, 2003- Finally, a fairly new creation is giving people back their time– The errands and concierge s... |
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| Prepare to Sell! |
| Sales is a critical part of any business, including non-profits. Sales is not complicated or difficult, but requires preparation... |
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| What To Do When Your IT Project Is Late, Over Budget, and Looks Like It’s Never Going To Work |
| Here’s a scary statistic. According to four prominent research firms, only around 20% of all IT projects are finished in a timel... |
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| 10 Lessons for Every "Shoestring" Entrepreneur |
| Starting a business requires adequate capital. However, many entrepreneurs are finding that capital alone is not a guarantee for... |
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| When Managers Play the PR Card |
| The payoff for business, non-profit or association managers can be a real assist towards meeting their department, division or s... |
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| How Do I Implement The Lease Purchase Plan? |
| Well, as we have discussed in previous newsletters first you have to set up goals for yourself, both long term and short term. D... |
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| Getting Your Employees' Attention Back to Work |
| It is 9:00 am on a Monday morning. Do you know where your employees’ attention is? Is it on work?
Picture this. You are at w... |
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| The 11 Best Money Saving Ideas of All Time - Part 2 |
| At any time in history, no matter what the current state of the economy, no matter what the current trends, no matter what the u... |
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| Juggling It All |
| As we have mentioned in other articles, having a trigger to start your day is very important. One of the major problems with peo... |
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| Wanted: A Dictionary-Perfect Leader |
| Answers are often before our very eyes or in front of our noses - particularly if we read the American Heritage Dictionary!
... |
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| Virginia Workers Compensation for the Injured Worker |
| What to you do in Virginia if you suffer an injury at work?
First, you should report even trivial injuries to your employer ... |
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| DAIRY MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK FOR 2004 |
| “Two years ago the phone rang off the hook with recruiters calling all the time, it has been a long time since I had a call from... |
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| Five Tips for Analyzing an Income Statement |
| In today's article, we’ll be looking at the income statement, which is the most deceptively simple of the major financial statem... |
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| Don't Overpay for a House, Even in Today's Market |
| If there's one thing American investors love, it's an over-inflated market. Which is why they keep buying houses and new ones ke... |
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| Are You In The Right Online Business? |
| Did you select the right online business to pursue? People that are struggling find it difficult to admit they are possibly in t... |
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| I Just Lost My Job: How Am I Going To Tell My Kids? |
| One of the responsibilities of a human resources professional is to let employees know that their job has been eliminated. It is... |
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| How To Take The Pain Out Of Performance Reviews |
| The Painful Approach
For many years, "performance management" was of an annual event dreaded by both the management and the ... |
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| Starting a Small Business: Balancing Risk and Reward |
| In a perfect world, starting a small business would be risk free, but just as with everything else; the degree of risk determine... |
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| Waiting For the Official Job Offer |
| At the end of the third job interview, Helene was told by the hiring manager, “Congratulations, I am going to recommend you for ... |
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| Say It With Humor |
| When you own a business, you may find yourself in situations that may be a little tricky to handle. Dealing with customers who s... |
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| In Business, Image Isn't Everything; It's The Only Thing! |
| We have all heard this lament, but how much do we practice it. With all the relaxed rules today, do we really present ourselves ... |
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| A Career with the FBI |
| Do you have what it takes to become an FBI special agent? Do you have a sincere desire to enforce federal laws and investigate c... |
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| Various Aspects Of The Lease Purchase Business |
| In a previous article, we wrote why we believe that Lease Purchasing is the perfect home-based business, here we want to briefly... |
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| Developing Multiple Streams of Income for Your Home-Based Business |
| Many home-based business owners have a single service or product they provide. They may sell e-books or crafts or speech-writing... |
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| How To Organize Your Paperwork |
| Many people have a huge challenge coping with the incoming paperwork. (Whatever happened to the paperless office?).
Paperwor... |
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| Balancing Home & Work: The Challenge of the Home-Based Business |
| With the holidays around the corner, you may find yourself struggling to keep your home-based business and your home life separa... |
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| Managerial Malpractice Claims on the Rise |
| Protect Your Assets and Executives with D&O Insurance
(ARA) - When disgruntled shareholders, employees, customers or competi... |
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| Story Telling As A Tool For Trainers |
| Story telling as a tool for trainers - Imagery at its best
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Once upon a time... |
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| How Merchant Accounts Can Save You Money |
| We all know that accepting credit cards is the key to online sales. Unfortunately, most merchants are unaware that acquiring a m... |
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| How to Sell High Tech Solutions |
| How to Sell to High Tech Solutions
Many companies are looking to improve upon the speed, security, and accessibility of busi... |
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| Do You Really Need A Website To Succeed |
| Rosalind wants to share her inspirational poetry with a wider community. Alas, poor Rosalind lives in a remote town.
Jonatha... |
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| 7 Top Home Business Time Wasters |
| What I call "Time Wasters" is any action interfering with running your home based business.
What Are The 7 Most Common Time ... |
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| Not Getting the PR Results You Want? |
| The reason might be this simple: as a business, non-profit or association manager, you’re too focused on communi- cations tactic... |
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| Should the Government Compensate the Clients of TAT? |
| This, of course, is a political decision. There is no "right" thing to do. Even the IMF imperatives are not sacred. Sometimes, i... |
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| SWOT Analysis |
| If you’ve ever listened to Warren Buffett talk about investing, you’ve heard him mention the idea of a company’s moat. The moat ... |
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| Organization and the Opposite Sex |
| In many of the companies I have worked in, there is a very high proportion of male managers to females. This causes a major chal... |
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| Extended Enterprise In The Nesting And Cutting Business |
| In Italy there are a lot of small and medium enterprises (SME) that often act as subcontractors to bigger firms.
For example... |
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| How to be Healthier and Happier In Your Organisation |
| Did you know your work environment can actually make you sick?
The affects of airconditioning
Research has shown that ai... |
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| Organization Tips - How To Get Things Done |
| What stops you from 'getting things done?'
Have you ever started your day with good intentions of completing a task or proje... |
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| Organisation - Getting Back To Basics |
| If you look at any major organisation, there is this trend for executives to use "palm pilots" in conjunction with software sche... |
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| Organization Tips - How to Organise Your Computer Files |
| Everytime Mary had to find a file on her computer, she always had great difficulty. And it was no wonder why. Every file had bee... |
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| Surviving the Workday in your Organization |
| Most people suffer from stress at some time during the day. When you recognise your own peak and low energy levels, you can work... |
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| People Are The Heart Of Your Organization |
| Do you let your people express their thoughts about the roles and responsibilities they have in your organisation? Don't just ta... |
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| Customer Service and Call Center Outsourcing, What's The Buzz? |
| The buzz is all about customer service and call center outsourcing, also known as BPO (Business Process Outsourcing). According ... |
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| Organization Tips - How to Set Up Your Database |
| What's in a Name?
Everything.
What do you do with all the contacts you make in your organisation? Do you:
Collect bu... |
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| The 11 Best Money Saving Ideas of All Time - Part 1 |
| At any time in history, no matter what the current state of the economy, no matter what the current trends, no matter what the u... |
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