Kicking Winning Business GoalsThe competition for business is hotting up. The advances in new technology, ease of communication, and increasing expectations from customers have combined to make the marketplace more competitive than ever. In this world it is critical for small and medium businesses to be proactive about creating their future. Without proactivity, things just seem to happen without your control.A management...

My, how our dictionary has changed. Podcast, Skype, Wikipedia,Googlebot and WiMax were all regularly used terms during 2005.VoIP, WiFi, Blog, iPod, and SEO are in every day vocabularies.By the way, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization just incase you’re uninformed like the vast majority of the populace,and I believe Podcast was Webster’s Word of The Year for 2005.That was then, and now it’s today....

There are many reasons why good employees quit and go to another company, perhaps even your competitor. Most of the reasons start with management and most are preventable. Good people dont leave good companies, they leave poor managers. Here are seven reasons. Are they prevalent in your organization? Management demands that one person do the jobs of two or more people, resulting in longer days and weekend work. This...

Making an international phone call, for those of us who just dont need to do it very often, can seem like a daunting task. After all, calling from one city in the United States to another never means dialing more than 11 digits: 1, the area code, and the phone number. But making a call to London or Paris or Istanbul means dialing a sometimes perplexing combination of codes followed by a phone number that isnt necessarily...

Corporate gifting is a big headache for most business owners; how much to spend, who to spend the money on, where to get the gifts, what to get and how to gauge the effect of that giving in terms of benefits for the company are all important questions. When a company decides to give gifts it needs to be planned out as part of doing business, not just a last minute impulse. The cost of gifting should be built in to the...

Three little words. But they carry a world of meaning and theseeds of the oncoming generations. I love you. Romantic SMSmessages are evocative. When said with the right mix of emotion,earnestness and adoration, they are powerful enough to melt thestoniest of hearts. And kindle a love story of epic proportions.At several times in our short life, we tell our significantother these magic words to unlock a sea of positive...

If you’re old enough and were living in America about 30 years ago, you may remember the scandal in the motion picture industry known as “the Begelman affair” or “Hollywoodgate.” A skillful analysis of the crisis that rocked Columbia Pictures, a leading company in its field, is presented by Steven Fink in his book, “Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable.” I am telling...

Are you new to online marketing? Or are you one of the millionsof frustrated website owners watching helplessly as your sitefluctuates up and down (even on and off) the search engines? Is your traffic suffering as you try to stay on top of the mostcurrent methods of finding traffic, only to find that they areineffective for bringing targeted traffic or stop working soonafter the search engines catch on?There is a reason...

If you sit at a computer for most of the day, it’s tempting to constantly check your email to see what’s new. But that’s a time management disaster if you’re trying to make progress in your business. Resist the temptation. Here are some tips to help you get that time eating monster under control. - Turn off email notification (like the beep or pop up screen). It’s just like a ringing phone...

In the coming years, a majority of UKs population is expected to dispose off their traditional landline phones in favour of broadband telephony which offers cheap calls. Broadband telephony is gaining popularity as consumers are becoming increasingly aware of this technology. Analysts Gartner say that by 2009, 70% of voice calls will be wireless as a result of slashing mobile prices. Since Internet telephony does not...