Month: February 2021

Business Travel

Business Driving Etiquette – Tips For Good Business Manners on the Road

When you travel on business, everything you do reflects on the company and on you, so you must maintain a high level of professionalism, and not behave in a way that would tarnish your company’s image, or your own. As an example, criticism of a traveling companion’s driving could be interpreted as a grab for power — a deliberate attempt to undermine the driver. Another example: you will appear to be out of control if you show frustration during traffic […]

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Management

Supply Management – The 7 Steps to Getting Value From Your Key Suppliers

In supply management you get value from your key suppliers by agreeing a purpose for your relationship with them and then translating this into objectives, targets, measures and specific actions that deliver that purpose. If you don’t do this then their failure to deliver real value either goes unnoticed (and so operational problems are never solved and there is no innovation) or at best is informal and unstructured and therefore never delivers. To get this value you need a process […]

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Management

Top Down Accountability For IT Project Success

So how can we manage C-level executives of organizations before their next IT Projects commence? Specifically, they need to be kept fully accountable for their initial input and project decisions that they make *before* the project commences. This is because these are the critical investment and pre-implementation decisions that will drive subsequent business processes for these IT projects. As HP CEO, Mark Hurd, went on to say about the job of the CEO: “At the end of the day, [the […]

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PR

Strategic PR Tips and Prescriptions To Enhance Your PR Plan

The challenge of today’s business makes it essential to get your company’s portrayed positively in the media. In today’s business world, the image and reputation of your business is critically important. And therefore, it is essential that businesses and organizations have an effective and strategic public relations program and positive and healthy media relations. Too many businesses do not have any organized public relations plan to achieve healthy publicity for their organization year in and year out. Many firms complain […]

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Small Business

Which of the Many Graphic Design Studios is a Fit For My Firm?

Your primary goal is to find just the right graphic design studio, so here’s a thought. Do a hunt for graphic design studios, and even localizing it for your area, there will the tons of responses. And, in today’s internet world, it’s not necessary for the firm to the local. That merely broadens the scope of what’s available to you and adds to the adversity of making a conclusion. So, how do you decide? Look first at what you need […]

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Branding

Create a Community Around Your Brand

A lot of challenges face brands today. In the past, brands relied on traditional media to broadcast their message – it was a monologue, where most marketers were simply intent on getting their message out there to be viewed by as many people as possible. But times have changed, and consumers aren’t easy to convince anymore. The key to getting them now is through engagement and conversation, not through marketing and advertising. Consumers of today aren’t passive followers who simply […]

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Small Business

Small Business Ideas That Involve Pets and Dye

There are many small business ideas out there and a lot of them involve pets. For example, you can have a dog grooming business. With a dog grooming business, you are doing dogs and their owners a great service by making their dogs look great. But there is also this very unique business idea that is really starting to take the world by storm. This is dying pets whatever color their owners want them to be. Some even look like […]

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Accounting

Qualities of a Successful Accountant

So you want to be an accountant? Successful accountants don’t only have the educational background to make it big but most also have a few qualities that should make him stand out from the rest. If you want to be a successful accountant, then make sure that you have the following abilities: Areas of Expertise As an accountant salary you have to have some areas of expertise, great if these areas are the usual needs of the public like taxation […]

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Advertising

How To Save Money When Exhibiting With Your Company’s Trade Show Exhibit

Business expenses continue to rise with each passing year. However, many companies are quickly realizing that their marketing budgets just can’t keep up with expenses. If you’re thinking about attending a marketing event with a trade show exhibit, your budget is probably weighing heavily on your mind. Before you discount an event because of cost, learn about different ways you can slash your budget without feeling the pinch. Reducing your costs can easily increase the return on investment of attending […]

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Business Travel

Teleconferencing Services Save Businesses Money on Travel

The cost of business travel is out of control these days. Hotel rooms aren’t cheap. Rental cars and flights aren’t cheap either. Also consider the opportunity cost of other work that an employee could be getting done if they weren’t sitting in airports waiting unproductively. All of these costs combined add up to a pretty penny. Don’t you think it is time you looked for ways to save the company some money? One of the ways you can do this […]

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