Hartford Business Journal: I’m convinced you can turn the summer of 2009 into one of your most productive ever. And I’ve come up with nine steps to make your summer a business success: 1. Develop your fall marketing plan. Be ready to hit the ground running when your customers are ready to start buying again. […]
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HarvardBusiness.org: A recent report listed the happiest nations in the world. Guess what? The US didn’t even make it into the top ten. So much for the American dream. Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert argues that we can train our minds to be happier. 1. Smile. Turns out, smiling is directly linked to happiness. It may
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SmashingApps: Onyaka is an online staff time planning software service that takes all the pain out of staff scheduling. Onyaka provides you with easy to use staff scheduling software, with no downloads, no expensive license fees, and no installation hassle. It has a simple drag and drop interface and you can use all of the
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photo credit: Jasoon With the way the economy is today, and customers becoming more picky as to where they do business, it is understandable that business owners tend to feel like they need to be on call for their customers 24/7. With today’s technology it is possible to receive emails via your cell phone, have
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Ars Technica: The monthly cost of Internet access has dropped regularly for years, but the big price reductions might now be behind us. New data from Point Topic shows that prices for fiber, cable, and DSL connections have remained essentially flat since September 2007. But when the total monthly bill for Internet access is graphed
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Make Use Of: Here is a website with an inventory of over 500 business forms and templates available in Word and Excel formats. All templates are free and can be downloaded without any restrictions. Navigate to the page, hit the download button and you’re done. To find a form or template you can search or
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Trusted Advisor Associates: A Harvard Business School study of venture capital-backed entrepreneurs tested whether or not we learn from our mistakes. The results are confounding to many–including me. Here’s the story. Several thousand VC-backed companies were studied over 17 years. First-timers had an aggregate success rate of 22% (success meaning going public). The study is
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Inc.: Keeping employees engaged in the midst of layoffs, pay cuts and a skittish economy can be difficult. A new study suggests that organizations should adopt policies that address different generations of workers’ needs, rather than attempting one-size-fits-all fixes. The study, conducted jointly by Boston College’s Sloan Center for Aging and Work and MetLife, examines
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photo credit: (le)doo [4 days off] BizBen Blog: “The Lease is your most valuable asset in a Coin Laundry. Remember, that all of the Plumbing fixtures, electrical service, the sewer and building fees, along with all of the physical surroundings of the laundry are totally dependent on the property and an asset for a limited
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photo credit: Paulo Brandão Once you’ve been funded and set up for your new business, you may be asking yourself “now what?” many entrepreneurs do. It will be much easier for you if you have created a product or service that is quite meaningful to the public, so make sure your’s is a meaningful product/service.
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