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Top 7 Home Business Time Wasters! - BB Lee
7 Ways To Eliminate Home Business Time Wasters by BB Lee (C) 2003 What I call "Time Wasters" is any action interfering with running your home based business. What Are The 7 Most Common Time Wasters? Check Out The Following! 1. Email. Email is...
Creativity as a treasure hunt - Angela Booth
It’s not enough to be creative, you have to be creative at something. Creativity is a doing, rather than a being. The doing comes from discovering goals, and achieving them. I say discovering goals, rather than setting goals, because we’re good at...
:: 15 Ultimate Success Tips For Your Internet Business - Michel Richer
:: 15 Ultimate Success Tips For Your Internet Business by: Michel Richer 1. Your first ultimate start must include written goals and plans. Don't wait for everything to be exactly right to start...THERE WILL NEVER BE A "PERFECT" TIME! Start now,...
Can You Really Make Money Online? - Denise Hall
Can You Really Make Money Online? By Denise Hall (C) 2003 The internet is a vast world of information, products and services for everything imaginable. Can the average person truly become financially successful? How do you even begin? First,...
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Don’t Shrink – RETHINK!
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Written By:
Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE
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Now is the time to pull together and think creatively about our businesses. When times are easy, unfortunately, we often lose the edge to monitor performance, to question out-dated procedures and unnecessary expenses. Maintenance items slip when we’re busy “filling orders”. This might be anything from physical maintenance to reconnecting with clients, to exploring new opportunities for growth, to taking classes for improvement and enrichment.
Consider brainstorming some of these questions:
What would happen if we had a product that was 180 degrees different from today? (Example: A hospital with low census went from finding ways to get sick people in the door to finding ways to get well people in the door! They re-created their unused physical space into a wellness center and found lots of takers!)
What if we blew up the business and started all over? What would we get rid of because it is extraneous, irrelevant or an unnecessary expense?
(Example: How many people really READ that report? Does it have to be so immense? What’s the bottom line here? )
Have we put people in positions where they play to their strengths? Talk, talk, talk and figure out where is the match.
(Example: One employee is great with web research, web design, and staying up on the competition. She’s lousy on the phone. Right now, she’s willing to cut back and work half-time - continued below ...
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from her house with a company-supplied computer and cable modem.)
If your job opened up today, would you get it? Are you consistently producing great results, solving problems and finding more efficient ways of doing things?
(Example: Take on a project no one wants and make it work. Can you persuade people to get onboard and achieve a goal? Now, that’s leadership—a quality that is in GREAT demand and therefore, recession-proof.)
Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE, is an international speaker, author and seminar leader. Her book ‘Work for A Living and Still Be Free to Live’ is also the title of one of her most popular and upbeat programs on Work/Life Balance. For more information on Eileen and her presentations, please call 949-496-8640 or visit her web site at http://www.eileenmcdargh.com.
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About the Author
Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE, is an international speaker, author and seminar leader. Her book ‘Work for A Living and Still Be Free to Live’ is also the title of one of her most popular and upbeat programs on Work/Life Balance. For more information on Eileen and her presentations, please call 949-496-8640 or visit her web site at http://www.eileenmcdargh.com.
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The Four Greatest Fears of Starting Your Own Business - Leonard W Clements
Way back in the last century (1991, actually) a survey was conducted by my research firm, MarketWave, Inc., of over 6,000 people who were not, nor had ever been, business owners. The question was a simple one: If all obstacles were removed,...
Business Plan Competitions - Laura Ciocan
The idea of a business plan competition first started in the 1980's at the initiative of some MBA students from Texas and has increasingly gained popularity. Such events happen yearly and rejoice a great affluence of contestants, which highly...
We Do Eat Our Young: The Story of a Successful Home Business - Joe Saddoris
Whether it is in the world animals, recovering drug addicts, or business if the truth were told we do eat our young. As when I was young I would watch Wild Kingdom every Sunday night, sure enough there it was a big strong fast Cat would be chasing...
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