10 Leadership Tips for Lawyers

Even if you don’t have your own law firm or if you are not a partner, you can be a leader of your team or even yourself. Practice being a leader of a small group and your leadership skills will grow. Not a lawyer? These statements are applicable to anyone in the business world.

10 Things to Remember for a Successful Business Startup

Starting a business and worried that you might forget something?

Ten Ways to a Greater ROI on Professional Coaching

Having an Executive Coach is quickly becoming one of the most sought after professional development options of middle and senior level executives. But how do you ensure your getting your monies worth? Here are 10 ways to ensure that you money will be well spent!

7 Job-Winning Insider Tips for Freelancers

Working as a freelancer can be a fabulous opportunity to earn money. Some small business owners use sites such as Guru.com and Elance.com to supplement their income and attract new clients, while others work full time providing freelance services. Whatever your situation is, you want to win jobs you apply for.

Ten Tips for Being a Productive Team Member for Attorneys

You have probably been asked to serve on a committee or team. When possible it is important to choose those teams wisely. Being a team player can give you visibility and credibility but if you choose the wrong team or work with a less than productive group you will lose the benefits. How do you decide which committee to serve on and then how do you make sure that team is very successful?

Top 7 Tips to Ditching Sales People

If you are in a small business you probably hate all the salespeople constantly harassing you and I especially hate it; how about you? If you run a retail business and put a sign on the door that says; No Soliciting; that only stops about half of those little bastards.

Top 7 Tips for Business Newsletters

If you are sending out corporate communication to your employees, vendors and team members there are some things that you need to know. One is that you must send them out on a regular basis and a consistent basis.

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.

7 Strategies For Effective Distributed Teams

Currently companies are investing significant amounts of investment in distributed, mobile and remote workers with the aim of reducing operating costs. This article details 7 proven ways to realise significant returns on these investment.

Are You Managing Your Work Habits?

So much of what makes our work life challenging is beyond our control. Yet so many of the things we could do to make our work life more enjoyable and rewarding are totally within the sphere of influence of each one of us. Learn ten habits to enjoy a more satisfying and rewarding work life.

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.

Top 7 Similarities of Business and Sports

It is so very interesting that some of the best entrepreneurs have some sports in their background. It makes sense because business is a rather competitive game indeed. Just how much similar is a sporting event or sports to business? Well, pretty similar and many sports exist truly because there is commercial value. Professional Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, Football and Golf all are both a business and a sport.

Top 7 Tips on Selling a Franchised Business

If you own a franchised business there will come a time when perhaps you wish to sell your franchise. When selling a franchise this is called a Franchise Transfer in franchising legal terms. You will be selling your rights in the current term of the franchise agreement to another party. The transfer must be approved by the Franchisor and therefore there is a whole lot to consider. Here are the Top7 Tips in selling a franchised business.

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.