Commercial real estate from 50,000 feet- how does it look to you?

Marketing your value may feel a little awkward at first, but with a little practice to make it feel authentic, the initial discomfort will melt away. Your reward is others viewing you with greater esteem, which sets you up for even greater success. Because, after all, success isn't over rated, it feels fabulous!

Learn how to control beverage costs for your restaurant.

Tacit knowledge is the innate natural wisdom each person holds deeply within them. The trouble is clearing the clutter so it can be accessed. Meanwhile, business along with humanity faces challenges and unprecedented opportunity. It will take the release of tacit knowledge in each person to power the innovation required to meet the challenge.

The ideology of patronizing locally owned and operated businesses.

It is also interesting to note that we are now subjected to messages that not only extol the virtues of branded products, they even go so far as to make a point that certain companies do not make own-label, to justify their premium pricing. You have to take your hat off to the ad man who came up with that little gem of building a campaign out of that one. Sadly, for the client, the horse had already bolted. But the ad men, as usual, were pocketing their fees and laughing all the way to the bank! It is no surprise then that with more and more competition, now including own label, there has been a significant increase in the number of advertisements, vying for customers’ attention. So, more competition in the marketplace and more competition to attract the viewer/reader to engage with the message, so what’s the solution?

Leadership is a marathon, not a sprint. All too often leaders push themselves as if they are sprinting and fail to make it to the finish line. They burnout. In this article Bill Pullen looks at three different leaders and how they pushed themselves to the edge then stepped back and saw the impact of doing so.

If you're setting up a medical billing company and you're trying to decide between NSF 3.01 and UB-92 for your electronic claims transmission, the following article should give you some insight into the advantages of each.

Learn how to make money as a wholesale distributor. It's fun, easy and profitable.

Interestingly enough the majority of people who ask me whether their sales letter is too long have missed the boat somewhat. You see a sales letter can't be too long... it can only be too boring.

If you have ever run your own business you know how much of a hassle it can be to try to keep employees updated on new technology. Training can be very time consuming and expensive for both the company and the employee. This is where business simulations come into play. Using this technology you can find fun, unique, and cost effective ways to train your work force.

Have you ever wanted to tear your hair out over revisions to a complex document or proposal? An article describing a foolproof way to manage complex documents or proposals.

Not only is plastic corrugated counted on for industrial applications, many electronic firms use it to protect their most sensitive products. Find out how!

It is easy to gather cards and names of people who may purchase your products or services. The biggest problem with having the collection is finding the time to follow-up. Try these tips to make the process simple.

Why do we use experts? To predict the future. Consider a patient who is asking a physician about the future effects of a certain drug, or the investor who is asking a stock analyst about the future prices of a certain stock, or the manager who is asking a human resource manager about the future performance of a certain candidate, or the brand manager who is asking a market researcher about the future sales of a certain new product. Should we believe these experts? History tells us that accurate predictions of the future are rare. Many examples exist where the brightest and most qualified individuals failed to see the future. This series of articles presents examples from the arts (see part I), business (see part II), and science (see part III).

This article talks about the dangers of credit cards today.

So it’s been a while since you’ve played house or made art out of macaroni noodles—that doesn’t mean that you aren’t creative! With effort and continued practice, ANYONE can be creative, and ANYONE can use this creativity to set their company and product apart from their competitors.

Metric fasteners are fasteners that are manufactured and labeled according to a worldwide standard of measurement. That worldwide standard is set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which is based in Geneva, Switzerland. That worldwide standard is based on the metric system.

The American manufacturing base still matters. Outsourcing may provide the foundation for stealing America’s manufacturing AND high-tech future.

A tremendous amount has been written about Executive Compensation, and lately, most of this information has been extremely unflattering. Much of the criticism has resulted from the gross excesses, misinterpretations of regulations, and the rash of criminal cases brought against the top management of a number of large firms, such as WorldCom, Tyco, Enron, and a host of others. Virtually every day another egregious example of corporate greed has come to light. The effect has been a huge increase in media attention, which in turn has acted as the stimulus for new government regulations aimed at curbing these abuses.

Ohio has 28 of the fortune 500 HQs there. Many corporations have picked Ohio for its regulatory policies in the past and Corporations have been willing to hang their hat there; some come and some go, but in this decade is the first time they have a net loss of Corporate HQs in Ohio. Some was due to the Tech Bubble where many companies dropped off. Yet the fortune 1000 listings Ohio is about equal or better.

Are business incubators a profitable option when preparing to start-up a business?

Failure has a devastating effect on people who are easily discouraged. This is not something that you should be ashamed about. You are a failure only when you quit trying. Those with big successes usually had a few a failures along the way. Failing doesn't mean failure; it just indicates that you need to keep trying.