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Separating Business From Home Life

If you're a home-based business owner, it could be difficult to manage your time. Since your office is located within your home, you tend to spend much more time working in your office than spending quality time with your family. There is that t...

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The Isolated Leader Extraverted and Introverted Styles

When an executive moves up the hierarchal ladder in theorganization, the promotion is often accompanied by anincreasing sense of isolation and loneliness. Goleman,Boyatzis and McKee coined the phrase “CEO disease” todescribe the isolation of top ...

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Tunnel Vision

"I want this gazebo on the brochure cover"I just looked at her, one of my beloved clients, holding up an image I'd never seen expectantly. I had agonized for hours over the picture choices for her mock-up, analyzing for content, contrast, color ...

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Branding – It’s More Than Just Your USP

by Karon Thackston © 2002http://www.ktamarketing.comWhen you mention the word “branding” most people automatically think of USP (unique selling proposition). The overall – and incorrect – perception of a brand is that it simply consists ...

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Ten Things You Should Know About Medical Savings Accounts

Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) are promoted as the salvation of small businesses in desperate need of affordable health insurance plans. Forbes called MSAs "Super-IRAs" and Business Week wrote "almost too good to be true". Kiplinger’s Personal Fin...

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Is Ineffective Listening Hurting Your Professionally

"Is Ineffective Listening Hurting Your Professionally?"Poor listening habits should be a serious concern to executives. When other people talk, do you really listen with your fullest attention? Do you remember the names of those you meet at functions...

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Writing a basic web design proposal

When competing for web design/implementation contracts; a professionally presented web design proposal more often than not decides whether you win or lose the project. A web design proposal also decreases the incidences of misunderstandings between y...

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Trading Baskets II The Crapolio, A Roll of the Dice in the Stock Market

In a previously written article, we expanded the use of the term “Trading Baskets” to include stocks from different sectors or industries. Now I want to share with you an approach to day trading or swing trading that I had some success with back ...

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Lets consider a Personal Loan

Back in the days where banks were the only lenders in the business, getting a loan meant putting on your best clothes to go to a nervy appointment with the bank manager. You'd sit there for some minutes, feeling like you're facing the schoo...

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How to get the best mortgage rates in any economy

Mortgage rates are intricately tied to the health of the overall economy as well as consumer demand for home loans. Two of the most important factors are the activities of the Federal Reserve Board and Fannie Mae. The Federal Reserve board sets inte...

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