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5 Ways to Save Time on Email
Getting through your email each day is a major accomplishment. But the
amount of email you receive is increasing daily, with no end in sight. So
what's the solution? Here are 5 tips you can use
to gain control of your inbox.
Franchises Stand the Best
Chance of Success
If you’re considering starting a business, one of your safest bets
is to invest in a franchise. Franchises are a popular way to launch
a new company because they are highly likely to succeed.
Read more >>
USERRA Poster
Requirements
Employers are required to post a notice by March 10, 2005 informing
employees of their rights under USERRA. Here's information on how to
get the
USERRA posting.
Using Title Tags to Improve Search
Engine Placement
Search engine optimization (SEO) is serious business when hundreds of
thousands of visitors are lost because rankings disappear, which equates
to hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenues.
Learn
how you can use your web pages' title tags to improve your rankings.
Lower Marginal Tax Rates Increase
Entrepreneurship
Reducing marginal income tax rates on entrepreneurs increases entrepreneurial
entry, decreases exit from entrepreneurship, and lengthens the duration of
entrepreneurial ventures, according to a new study.
Read more >>
Find Spyware On
Your Computer
 Is
spyware tracking every keystroke you make and watching every web site you
visit? Is your computer grinding to a halt due to popups when you try to
surf the web? Find out if spyware is lurking on your computer with a free
scan from Spyware Begone.
4 Dynamic Marketing Tactics
Some of the simplest marketing tactics often produce the most profitable
results. Here are 4 examples that have proven highly
effective for any business.
Top 10 Reasons to Use Postcards
If you don't have a lot of money to spend on advertising, much less on testing
ads in expensive media, postcards may be your answer. Learn the top ten
advantages of postcard marketing, plus the two keys to postcard marketing
success. Details >>
IRS Announces the 2005 Dirty Dozen
The Internal Revenue Service has unveiled its annual listing of notorious tax
scams, the “Dirty Dozen,” reminding taxpayers to be wary of schemes that promise
to eliminate taxes or otherwise sound too good to be true.
Find out what they are >>
How to
Handle Counter Offers
Congratulations, you’ve just accepted an offer for the job you’ve been
chasing for months. But then your boss presents you with a very tempting
counter offer.
Consider these points before accepting it.
Double Your Sales
Without Doubling Your Customers
You might think that to double your sales, you'd need to double the number
of customers you serve. While that approach no doubt would work, there is
a much faster and easier way to get the same results.
Click here to learn how >>
Boost
Direct Mail Response
What kind of response can you expect from your direct mail campaign? What
can you do to boost that response?
Find out
here >>
10 Ways to Create More Time in
Your Day
Not enough hours in the day to get it all done? Make sure you're using your time
wisely. Follow these ten time management tips to
find extra hours you didn't even know you had.
Working
Without Pay
One company having financial difficulties has quit paying its sales force
their commissions. Should this sales rep be faithful and stand by the
company, or cut his losses before they get any worse?
Read Ask Sue's reply >>
4 Resume
Makeover Tips
With a few minor adjustments, your resume can be improved to the point where
it ends up in the callback pile as opposed to the trash bin.
Give your resume a makeover and avoid common mistakes
with these four tips.
Turn Cold Leads into Hot New
Sales
What's the difference between
businesses that grow and those that never get much beyond the startup
stage? In a word, persistence. Read why >>
Using Lists to Learn
Lists work great as an organizational tool, but that's not all. You can leverage
the power of list making to learn about yourself, your business and even your
customers. Read more >>
New Report Details Minority
Business Dynamics
Minority-owned businesses expand, contract, and survive at rates that differ
from non-minority owned business, according to a study released by the Office of
Advocacy of the U.S. SBA. The report tracks the success of minority-owned
employer establishments that were in operation from 1997 to 2001.
Read more >>
15 Questions
to Ask Before Choosing a Franchise
You've decided that investing in a franchise is the best way for you to
start the business of your dreams. But just which franchise should you
buy? Here are
15 questions you can ask to help you make that decision.
Marketing or Selling: Which Is
More Important?
The main purpose of marketing strategies like public speaking, writing
articles, getting publicity, networking, promotional events, and
advertising is to gain visibility. Why do you want to be visible? It's not
just so people will know who you are and what you do, it's so they will do
business with you. Read more >>
Increase Retail Sales With Meetups
Meetups are informal social gatherings of people with similar interests in
a particular topic. Topics for Meetups range from political to cultural to
intellectual to fun. Find out how you can use Meetups
to increase your retail business's sales.
Online Registration Officially Opens
for SBA Expo '05
Small business owners, entrepreneurs and others who would like to take part in
the National Small Business Week celebration in April at the U.S. Small Business
Administration's SBA Expo '05 can now register online to attend the event.
Details >>
Honda Vehicles Certified for
Clean-Fuel Vehicle Deduction
The IRS has certified the 2005 Honda Insight, the Honda Civic Hybrid, and the
Honda Accord Hybrid as being eligible for the clean-fuel vehicle deduction. This
means that taxpayers who purchase one of these hybrid vehicles new may claim a
tax deduction of up to $2,000 on Form 1040. Read more >>
Top 10 Tips for Building a
Profitable Web Site
Having a web site and profiting from it don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand.
In fact, some web sites are so poorly designed that they drive customers
away. These top ten web site design tips can help
you build a site your customers will buy from again and again.
How's Business?
Take the Business Know-How Small Business outlook survey and tell us how
your small or home business is doing now and what you expect for the
coming year. Click here
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You know your stuff. You are an undisputed expert in your field.
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