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What Type of Employee Benefits Should Your Business Offer?
Once an entrepreneur has grown from working in his basement or garage to having employees the question about benefits will ultimately rise. That leaves small business owners in cross roads between spending money on benefits and spending money on growth.
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Influence Of Changing Prices On Accounting
The historical cost principle stipulates that the price actually paid for assets and operating expenses must be brought into account in the accounting process. The price of an item is the amount asked or paid for it.
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Good Contracts Make Good Clients
Having a good contract may be your only defense against a dishonest client, but only if you're willing to use it. Here's a classic and true example of that principle in action.
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Is Your Corporate Wellness Program Floundering?
Article examines the 3 critical mistakes that cause corporate wellness programs to fail. This can have a disastrous, financial impact on health insurance, workers compensation and employee productivity. Article cuts to the heart of the failures and how to avoid them.
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Building Customer Loyalty
The following tips can apply to virtually any profession or industry. If you think that these are self-evident, then I challenge you to take a personal assessment. Print this page and keep the list on your desk for one week. Place a checkmark next to each item when you conduct an activity that fulfills one of these objectives. Can you check all of these items in one week? Are you actively practicing the commitment that you desire from your customers?
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10 Innovative Packaging Ideas
In today's competitive retail environment, for someone to try your product your packaging needs to stand out from the crowd. The fact is that most people will judge new products by their packaging, so your packaging needs to be memorable. Here are 10 ideas that will help you to create packaging that is innovative and impressive.
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Abatement Consultants Often Drop the Ball and Miss the Boat
Many industry sectors have abatement professionals and consultants and there are even trade journals specializing in these things. Unfortunately the greatest abatement consultants are so busy that they generally cannot even return phone calls as they travel the world putting out fires and handling crisis management.
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Create an Alliance and WIN Business
Alliances are many things. They are businesses that agree to refer clients to each other. They are also Power Partners that work together for a common customer. Everyone should have an Alliance Network to maximize marketing dollars.
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Tools of a Skip Tracer
Every industry has tools that can be specific to that industry. Why is it that those that skip trace do not utilize the tools that are available to our profession or we try to use the tools of other professions to do our job? What are the tools available to the skip trace industry? Here they are.
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A Primer In Executive Compensation In Not-For-Profits
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.
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Guns on Business Premise
Should you have a gun at your small business to defend yourself or blast a criminal who tries to rob you using their gun? More and more criminals using firearms are likely to shoot and kill their victims to eliminate the chance that they might get caught later due to the key witness being alive?
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Franchise Rule, Thoughts For The Future
The Federal Trade Commission recently put forth a report to the franchse industry for comments to use in an upcoming rule-making event, which is sure to modify the current franchise rule. Many have been critical of additional rules in the industry, but none more critical than myself.
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What It Takes To Succeed In Business
In today’s terrorized world, complex global economy, and intensely competitive business environment, salespeople from the small mom and pop to large corporate giants in every market face unprecedented challenges.
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