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Leveraging Resources Creatively
Leveraging Resources Creatively Improving your cash flow in a tight economy Many of my fellow business owner colleagues faced the challenges of the post-financial crisis in the fall of 2008. For some industries, it meant an immediate sharp drop in revenue. For others, it was delayed a bit. Nevertheless, many businesses are still facing tight [...]
How Soccer Relates to Business–Author Linda J Lord “The Pitch”–Virtual Book Tour Starting May 3, 2010
During the month of May, Linda will be interviewed on May 19th at The Business Women - Official Blog. Linda will be discussing her recently published novel that reaches out to business owners, entrepreneurs, and working women who are looking for practical business strategies. Her book “The Pitch” explains how soccer has very similar [...]
Blogging as a Marketing Tool
Blogging, writing, speaking are all ways for entrepreneurs to develop a following, increase their email marketing lists, and eventually acquire new clients. The two burning questions that I hear from clients in this regard are: When do I have time to blog? What do I blog about? Let's take the first question, having time. Blogging has to be [...]
Continue to Learn
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist In some respect or another we are all lifelong learners. Sometimes the teachers are found in traditional institutions of learning or [...]
How Soccer Relates to Business–Author Linda J Lord “The Pitch”–Virtual Book Tour May 2010
Join Author/Coach, Linda J. Lord on her Virtual Book Tour, Starting May 3, 2010 During the month of May, Linda will be traveling the hemisphere. India * England * United Kingdom * Canada * New Zealand * USA Linda will be discussing her recently published novel that reaches out to business owners, entrepreneurs, and working women who are [...]
Come and JOIN US on The Bridge for WOMEN!
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, site of over 5 million deaths and hundreds of thousands of rapes in a conflict spanning more than a decade, women are imagining peace. They say peace means being able to live and work freely. They see peace as walking to the fields without fear of rape. They envision a more prosperous future, harvesting [...]
The Social Credit Crisis Solution – Microfinancing
February 5, 2010 2010 Canadian Wide Winner Small Business Credit Challenge - Solution - Microfinancing Lana Larder of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada is inspired by the success of micro financing success stories around the world. Larder has developed a microfinancing plan for Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Larder is dedicated to [...]
Don’t sack the receptionist – give her more work instead!
Isn't it frustrating when you arrive at an office reception only to find that there's no receptionist! There you stand, waiting for someone to notice you. And some how the staff manage to beaver away while at the same time giving you glances but, infuriatingly, not making any effort to come to your rescue? You think to yourself, should I wait, [...]
PEST Control- What are you putting up with?
PEST Control- What are you putting up with? Maybe you believe you aren’t putting up with anything but may I ask you to reserve your judgment until you’ve read through to the end because most of us do ‘put up’ with things we don’t need to. The type of things we put up with varies from the trivial to the traumatic, from a door [...]
BUSINESS SUCCESS STARTS WITH BEING FIT
By Tammy Slater-Kendrick Remember the earliest life lesson my father taught me 43 years ago like it was yesterday. He said, "Because you're a girl, you have to be twice as smart, work twice as hard and do everything twice as good as everyone else." I was 7-years old and in the second grade. At the time, I thought it was a terribly [...]
The, supposedly, un-employable cooked my lunch beautifully!
There is a restaurant in London called Hoxton Apprentice. It is set in a fabulous old Victorian school house on Hoxton Square. I was invited by the proprietor, Val Corbett, to attend a ladies lunch in aid of raising money to help their training program. You see Hoxton Apprentice is no ordinary restaurant, they train and employ the young, long [...]
