Top 7 Considerations to Sales During Hurricane Evacuations

If your business has a team of salespeople who continually handle customers outside the region and you are facing a large category hurricane coming in to your region and everyone is forced by mandatory evacuation to leave

Top 7 Tips to Starting Your Own Business

When starting your own business it pays to jot down a business plan and that is not too hard considering that many of the business plans are already out there for the type of business which you will probably be starting.

Top 7 Tips to Making a Business Plan

If you are considering starting a business making a business plan is a good idea. A professional business plan can help you become more successful in your business. All businesses plans have an executive summary.

Top 7 Tips for Auto Detailing Business

Auto detailing businesses should always strive to exceed customer expectations in order to maximize referrals. Auto detailing companies should not overspend in yellow pages advertising. Auto detailing companies might wish to consider paying each one of the auto detailing technicians in their business a percentage of the jobs that they get done.

Top 7 Reasons to Shoot First and Ask Questions Later

When marketing to new customers and trying to decide if you should cold call all the people on your list or limit that list, take my advice and shoot first and ask questions later and you will be glad you did. Once I was in Tennessee setting up a franchise in Memphis for the son of a well-known doctor.

Top 7 Reasons to File Your Income Tax Returns on Time

Here are seven reasons for not being late filing your income tax returns.

7 Small Business Marketing Tips

What I want to say might be overly simplistic because there’s more to marketing than can fill hundreds of pages like this one. But, we all have to start somewhere don’t we? What I want to do is to simply give you, the average small business owner, a few things to think about.

Top 7 Reasons for Fighting Phishing Scams

If you haven't heard of phishing scams yet then Google it quickly before your bank account is emptied or you can watch last weeks episode of 'Numb3rs' and watch the angry face of an FBI agent once he realizes that his account has been the victim of war-driving. Still don't feel you should get of the couch and fight back then do a search on 'spear phishing' and get an eye full of what hackers are prepared to do to businesses and soon enough consumers.

7 Top Secrets to Business Article Online Writing

If you have expertise in a certain field or industry then you should write a business article to tell of it and then put your byline at the bottom of the article so people can contact you. This will help you in several ways. First, consider it will position you as someone who knows what they are talking about and second it might just bring you business, as people normally wish to do business with people who know their stuff.

Top 7 Tips on Hiring a Business Lawyer

Hiring a lawyer means spending money. Spending money on something that does not help your bottom line or profitability. For the most part it is a cost of doing business and one, which no one wishes to spend. Some liken lawyer costs to extortion fees to protect your company against other professional parasites.

Top 7 Tips to Prevent Lawsuits in Your Business

All businesses worry about lawsuits because we live in such a ridiculous litigious society. It is truly unfortunate and yet this is what happens, business owners live in fear. You never know when an employee is going to claim they were injured at work to sue you and then go water skiing on vacation. You never know when a non-customer will stage a slip and fall injury and sue your company.

Top 7 or Top 6.66 Similarities to Franchise Businesses and World Religions

Many people probably do not liken World Religions to a business model and yet many world religions are much like a franchise system. A modern day franchise system indeed is probably the greatest business model ever created in the history

7 Proven Ways to Keep Your Customers

It costs 7-10x as much to get a new customer as to keep an old one. Keeping our existing customers is an essential part of a successful business plan but HOW can we go about achieving this?

Workplace Safety Tips - My Top Ten List

Maintaining a safe workplace is challenging. If you are truly interested in keeping your employees safe and productive in your workplace then here are some workplace safety tips for you.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Dialogue: Applying Covey's Habits to Difficult Conversations

Stephen Covey's seven habits of highly effective people have become classic pieces of leadership and management wisdom. The same seven habits are applicable to having successful conflict conversations, both at home and at work. Here's how to use them next time you find yourself in a tense situation or conflict.