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9 Ways to Keep Cash Flowing in Your Business
Cash flow is a problem that plagues every small office from time to time. On paper you look like you're doing very well. But your creditors are breathing down your neck and you're always playing catch up. What can you do about it? Here are some tips help keep your cash flow in the positive.

Why Innovation Matters
Innovation is key to the success of both large companies and small. In this excerpt from The Game Changer by A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan, find out how innovation has helped companies like P&G develop new markets and stay ahead of the competition.

It’s Not All About Location, Location, Location
No matter what your product or service the key to finding a great location is through good old fashioned legwork. Beyond identifying whether a location has the amount and type of traffic your business needs, you'll also need to consider things like sign ordinances, building ordinances, and whether there'll be enough parking available. Read more >>

Safeguard Your Business Information
What would you do if an ex-employee took your customer list to a competitor? Or a dishonest employee ransacked personnel files for private information? Here's advice on how to protect your company's intellectual property and proprietary information.

17 Low Cost Ways to Build Your Mailing List
Online newsletters and ezines are one of the most cost-effective tools you can use to market your business. So how do you grow your list without breaking the bank? Here are 17 tried and true methods of getting new subscribers for your newsletter.

Top 10 Strategies for Becoming Uncommonly Successful
People who become uncommonly successful share many of the same traits. Here are the top ten strategies they use to overcome adversity and excel.

The Sixth Secret of Customer Service
Don't you just hate it when things go wrong? You have an angry customer to deal with who's been let down by some aspect of your product or service. This is a fantastic opportunity to show just how good your customer service really is. Read more ...

Developing an Affiliate Program for Your Website
One of the best ways to improve traffic to your website is with the help of targeted websites who earn money promoting other peoples products. Find out what an affiliate program can do for your website and get tips for starting one.

Find the Best Location for Your Business
You've done your market research and are ready to choose a location for your new business. Should you locate next to Wal-Mart, a grocery store, or in a strip mall on the other side of town? Find out how to scout and research potential storefronts in this continuing series from business author and radio host Tim Knox.

Why Facebook and LinkedIn are Good for Your Business
Have you been hearing all of the buzz about social networking? Feeling confused? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. The great news is that it isn’t as complicated or time consuming as it may seem. Plus, it’s more than just social; it’s good for your business to get involved. Read more >>

Why Promiscuous Prospecting Doesn't Work
If you're in sales, you probably have a quota of calls you are supposed to make each day or week. But calling on as many prospects as you possibly can is not the best way to be successful. Find out the three things you can do to break free from the "promiscuous prospecting" trap.

What to Do When Your Customers Change
Even when you've researched your customers and think you know what they want from your product or service, they can change on you. In this excerpt from The Breakthrough Imperative, learn what you can do to anticipate and respond to those changes.

Learn to Avoid Ugly Baby Syndrome
Market research is something that many entrepreneurs choose to skip when planning a new business. Maybe they find the task too overwhelming, or perhaps they are afraid they'll find out their business idea can't succeed - that their "baby" isn't so cute after all. Read more >>

Convention-Goers are Targeted by Crooks
Springtime is peak convention season. If you're planning to attend a convention soon, learn why you might be a target for pickpockets, hotel thieves or other criminals and get tips to protect yourself.

Promote Your Business with Postcards
Just because you can implement loads of marketing strategies on-line, it doesn't mean other methods are obsolete. A fabulous off-line marketing strategy that works is using postcards.

A Real Estate Agent's Guide to Personal Safety
This safety checklist, though written with real estate agents in mind, is applicable to anyone working from home or in an office alone. Get the Do's and Don'ts for keeping yourself safe here >>

11 Ways to Keep Home Business Costs Down
Stocking your business with the equipment and supplies you need doesn't have to bust your budget. Here are several ways you can control costs as you start and run a home business.

Don't Overlook These Valuable Tax Credits
Tax credits can help you pay part of the cost of raising a family, going to college, saving for retirement, making energy-saving improvements to your home and getting daycare so you can work or go to school. Many taxpayers overlook them even though they qualify. See if you qualify for one of these tax credits >>

Four Tips for When You Don't Know What to Say
You spend months, sometimes years, building relationships with your business associates. Yet when life deals them a blow, it can still be hard to know what to say. Rather than saying nothing at all, follow these four guidelines and you'll not only strengthen your relationship, you'll also comfort a friend.

The Story Behind the Story
Are you trying to learn from the rainmakers in your company? Or from gurus outside your company? The stories they tell about how they achieved their successes can provide valuable insights, but usually leave out a lot of pertinent facts. Here's why you need to get the story behind the story.

How to Be a Top-Earning Coach or Consultant You know your stuff. You are an undisputed expert in your field. The few customers you've helped sing your praises. But that's the problem. There are still too few customers. What's the single most important thing you can do to build your business and grow your profits? Click here for details >>

Eight Key Ingredients to Build Customer Loyalty
An ongoing challenge for any company is the retention of customers. Getting new customers costs much more than maintaining ones already doing business with you. These eight ingredients for building customer loyalty will produce dramatic results!

Protect Your Business from Rooftop Cat Burglars
Although films and TV often glamorize cat burglars as cool and courageous rogues, they are in fact merely low-life thieves with a bit more skill and physical ability than your common sneak thief. Get advice from security expert Paul Davis on how you can protect your business from rooftop intruders.

5 Reasons Your Voice Mail Doesn't Get Answered
Do your voice mail messages go unanswered? Here are five reasons people don't return voice mails and what you can do about it.

10 Sure Fire Ways to Fail as a Manager
Here are ten sure-fire ways to alienate and demotivate your team on your change journey. Hit-or-miss approaches don't go far enough; this is your chance to use the best methods of corporate torture and humiliation developed by dictators, steamrollers and other "tough guy" bosses.