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Do You Own Your Web Site Design

Your web site has been up for a few months and you aremaking money hand over foot. While surfing sites oneevening, you are shocked to find a competitor using your design. You find out your designer sold them thesame design. They must be breaking the ...

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Diffusion of Responsibility

Why don’t more people purchase online? A common question asked among online business owners. In today’s economy it is not uncommon to find businesses based solely online. It has become part of our culture, and readily acceptable by society. These...

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Keys to Creating a Winning Marketing Program

Does your company spend thousands of dollars on marketing with little to showfor it? Poor response rates are enough to drive us all crazy. Fret no more. Thereis a solution!According to recent studies, businesses are reaping greater rewards by usingpr...

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Use Hands-on Marketing to Sell Like Crazy

I have a neighbor who, last year, started her own house-cleaningservice. Paula had been living on a shoe-string for years, andnow that her children had all reached school age, she decided sheneeded to enter the workforce. She was looking for somethin...

Marketing  marketing business clients hours make
Stretching That Comfort Zone

Where is your "Comfort Zone"?Every person on Earth has a comfort zone, whether it bein their personal life and/or their business life. I definethis zone as "the place where one feels safe that is devoidof challenges or threatening circumstances".When...

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PRONTO North America Users Conference in Eden Prairie Minnesota May 3 - 5

Peggy Smedley is the editor of Start Magazine and will be addressing the first annual PRONTO North America Users Conference on Thursday, May 5th. Smedley was recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal and authored Mending Manufacturing, How America...

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Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 2, Multiple Conversations

Side conversations ruin meetings by destroying focus and fragmenting participation.Approach 1: Ask for cooperationStart by asking everyone to cooperate. Look at the middle of the group (instead of at the talker) and say:"Excuse me (pause to gain ever...

Business And Finance  business finance conversations issue person speak
Shopping For a Franchise

Shopping for a franchise is easy if you know what you are doing. You can choose between radio adverts, newspaper adverts, personal recommendation, Internet, or visit a franchise exhibition. Attending a franchise exhibition allows you to view and comp...

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Refinancing Your Home - IS the Time Right

Refinancing your home is a major decision not to be takenlightly, even in this era of low interest rates and easymoney. While every mortgage company in town is touting thestrategy of getting a new loan before rates rise again,there are several things...

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Debit and Credit - Learning Accounting Basics

Debit and Credit - Learning Accounting Basics The terms ‘debit’ and ‘credit’ can be confusing when learning accounting for the first time but why is that? If you go to the bank and put money into your account then teller will say, “I am cr...

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