You've got your new venue, you've planned out the menus, you've hired a great chef and come up with a fantastic design for the staff uniforms. Now you're just missing that one crucial ingredient - you know the one. Customers. Unfortunately for people to start eating at your restaurant they […]
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Things Not To Do When You Run Your Own Business
Never moan Moaning is one of the most unattractive features of any personality. Whose company would you prefer? Someone with a positive, optimistic outlook or someone who spends the whole time bellyaching about things that aren’t going well? Moaning is unacceptable for anyone who works on their own. Why? Because […]
How You Can Make Facebook Work For Your Business
When you've just set up a business, you usually lack two things: sufficient financial resources and audience. To improve all aspects of your business, you need to reach as many potential consumers of your service as possible. And this is where Facebook comes in. Facebook has grown from a tool […]
How Cloud Computing Will Change Our Lives
Cloud computing is arguably the most significant, disruptive, and game changing, innovation to emerge in a long time. In many ways, it represents the most prominent way that people participate in online interaction and idea sharing. It is the primary facilitator that enables countless people to access, add to, and […]
Enhancing Management Skills Via Auditor Training
A growing trend is business is to arm managers with the training and knowledge they need to become effective auditors. No matter what kind of business you operate, you have a number of internal systems that could use the attention of qualified auditor, and your managers are the perfect trainees […]
How to Protect Your Reputation as a Valuable Human Resources Rep
Human resources professionals are responsible for wearing many different hats, all of which involve the difficult, mostly unpredictable, task of interpreting, guiding, organizing, and strategizing around human nature. For this reason, it seems that the human resources specialist is exceptionally vulnerable to character attacks based on emotion and misunderstanding (two […]
Mortgage Rates Fall Again while Credit Remains Tight
The fallout from the 2007-08 mortgage collapse continues to rear its ugly head some five years later. Kareem Serageldin, a former executive for Credit Suisse, pleaded guilty on April 12 to fraud after admitting to artificially inflating the value of mortgage bonds in 2007, in an attempt to mask the […]
Issue Management Plan Structure and Approaches
The issue management plan (ISM) is basically a representation of how a company or an individual will deal with technical, environmental, and project-specific issues. While such issues exist or will inevitably appear, ISM’s purpose is to discuss and identify possible solutions. ISM application The issue management plan is usually used […]
Components of an Invoice
An invoice is a bill providing the client with necessary details on how to pay for goods or services he or she purchased. An invoice should also feature the necessary information and instruction on how the payment should be completed. Usually, invoices are sent before the goods are shipped but […]
Are Americans Suddenly Driving Less?
It’s not that people are “suddenly” driving less, but there has been a decline over the past decade. The strange thing is the cause isn’t what you might expect. You might also be surprised to learn that the attitude people have towards driving and car ownership is changing as well. […]
Critical Analytics for Your Small Business
Small businesses can reap major benefits from taking advantage of web data and analytics, but many companies are intimidated by the prospect. Although most companies are aware of Google Analytics, there are more powerful tools that work in line with social networking sites and other parts of the digital sphere. […]
How to Get Your Small Business Through the Recession
With the recession currently gripping the country, many small business owners are very scared at what their future may bring. Rather than taking proactive action, however, many are taking the opposite approach and are not reacting to the situation at hand. Fortunately, there are a number of things that you […]