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After Christmas World Class Customer Service is Needed
Every business makes promises to customers. Those promises are put to the test in a peak season. All businesses have peak seasons and have to make good on their promises. Tomorrow is the start of the peak season for customer service personnel who work in retail businesses. It is the “return” season, the time of year that requires real gumption, patience, and courtes

. Organizations are living, breathing entities in a constantly changing environment and the folks at the top have one of the

Change Management and Expectations
When managing change, expectations are like communicating vessels between current insight and future risks. Negotiate well, knowing that every future has more risks than you can imagine. It is a matter of convincing the sponsor.Management of expectations is an issue that is always around when dealing with change. Expectations are not present in operational busine

Executives and other business leaders who “make it to the top” typically have invested many years in education, hard work, and self-sacrifice. They are seasoned veterans who have the potential to lead their organizations to new heights of competitiveness, profitability, and success.

But truthfully, most business leaders don’t know everything they need to know. It’s not their fault -- it’s simply a fact that’s helpful to admit. Running an organization of any size is a complicated undertaking. Organizations are living, breathing entities in a constantly changing environment and the folks at the top have one of the

Do You Want To Be In Business For Yourself Or By Yourself
Dear Fred and Lyna: For the past 20 years I have worked as an account executive for a major soft drink company and frankly, I am sick of it. I have been looking into owning my own business and have run across several franchise opportunities. Do you think a franchise is the way to go or should I start out on my own from scratch?Fred: In our last blog we looked a

d self-sacrifice. They are seasoned veterans who have the potential to lead their organizations to new heights of competitiveness, profitability, and success.

True North of Your Career Search: Creating a Professional Mission Statement
Suzanne was accustomed to sweaty palms. Getting established on the speaker circuit, she hadn’t yet moved beyond stage fright. On one occasion, however, she was delighted to find her palms dry! What was the secret? Talking it over with her coach, she saw that her topic, and this particular audience, was precisely in line with her vision of her purpose, the reply to “

ness, profitability, and success.

Entrepreneurial Vision
Entrepreneurs must have a vision of where they want their company to be in the future. In addition, the entrepreneur must be able to communicate this vision in an exciting manner to employees and investors, so that they share the vision and are motivated to help achieve it.Unlike a business plan, a vision doesn’t provide a specific roadmap for a business. Rather,

t their fault -- it’s simply a fact that’s helpful to admit. Running an organization of any size is a complicated undertaking. Organizations are living, breathing entities in a constantly changing environment and the folks at the top have one of the

Is Your Child Running A Better Business Then You? Getting Back To The Basics Of Business
We've all done it, if you grew up in a neighborhood summer time was the right time for making a little money on the side. You had a great location, no rent, utilities, and very little overhead, and you felt everyone needed what you had. Lemonade anyone? For some of us it was our first entrepreneurial voyage, with dollar signs in our eyes we set up our stand in the front

. Organizations are living, breathing entities in a constantly changing environment and the folks at the top have one of the toughest jobs around. How could they possibly know everything?

Successfully getting everyone on the same page, developing vision, planning, and then executing to maximize profits and attain other objectives requires a delicate balance of cooperation, coordination, and communication. In the present business climate, executives are expected to accomplish increasingly ambitious goals with a decreasing pool of resources.

To compound this problem, many capable executives heap added pressur

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In this article we take a look at the definition of advertising, the benefits of an ad agency and advertising in general plus the online adverting arena and how it can streamline your next campaign.

You labor long and hard trying to create the perfect advertising piece but only about 20% of your copy is going to get read. The rest will simply be scanned. After all your work, your potential customers won’t even read every one of those well chosen words. Is your genius lost on them?

Ah, a great, cheesy classic American rock song! Wasn't it so right, too? In the 80's when that song came out, everybody was working for the weekend. Your week was simply black and white; you worked Monday through Friday and at 5pm on Friday you free and clear until Monday morning at 8am. Let's a take a look at how things have (DRASTICALLY) changed since the good ol' days.

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