This tip’s for small business owners. Possibly for freelancers or home office type businesspeople. Not having a space in your home office to meet clients is a limitation on having a work-at-home arrangement. But does this mean that it’s time to scope out some office spaces? Nope. It may not be worthwhile to up your [...]

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Hobby turned to a business? Why not. Hit to birds with one. Make money with something you love. And your wife can’t blame you for spending too much time and money on your hobby. So read on for some tips on turning your little hobby into your own business.

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Small business owners should still always into security. Sure you may not be facing threats like industrial espionage or sabotage but petty thievery can cost you thousands of dollars in the long run.

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Raise? Promotion? If you’re gunning for one or both, the real answer lies in just being a value employee. If the management sees that your performance is sky high, there’s no reason for them not to promote you, or give you a bonus or a raise. Or deny you one if you ask for it [...]

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Business letters are quite effective in getting points across. It also serves different purposes depending on the reasons behind the writing. In any case, writing a good one is common across these purposes so better beef up your writing skills when writing one.
Here’s a follow-up to my tips on planning a letter or a [...]

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Just check out all the new crazy and weird Web 2.0 names out there - Flickr, Skype, Twitter, Google. Or some of the less popular (but still “up-there”) names like Fluctu8, Muiso, Upto11. We can just go on and on… Ever wonder how you could come up with a catchy company name?
The old way [...]

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Here’s a list of web applications for management and collaboration. Take control and share data through these websites:

Basecamp
CentralDesktop
Planzo
Backpack
Zimbra
ProjectPlace
Doodle
ZohoPlanner
vyew
norada
stikipad
30boxes
near-time
shortText
Project360
Thinkature
ThinkFree
SlimTimer

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Looking for that Visio killer? Here’s Gliffy for you.
Gliffy is a web-based online application that lets you draw great looking diagrams, flowcharts and floorplans on your web browser. You can even conceptualize web page wireframes with this app. That means no need to invest and install expensive software like Visio if all your work. [...]

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If you need to keep track of time across multiple time zones, then your desktop clock is definitely not enough. Here are a couple of ways on how to view .

The first option is to install Qlock Lite. It allows you to dock clocks showing the current time for any major city in the [...]

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Funny how I’m putting up all sorts of Vista tips while I, myself, am a self-confessed “un”-fan of Windows Vista. Well, that shouldn’t stop me from giving streamlining tips to Vista users, right?
Anyway, I’ve got plenty of reasons why not to like upgrading to Vista. For one, the cost of hardware upgrade is [...]

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It has been a long-drawn discussion whether all of these advances in technology has made us fat, particularly office junkies who spend a good part of our lives hacking away at keyboards and staring at monitor screens.
Perhaps the only movement you’d do is to walk towards the coffee dispenser to drown vats of [...]

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Now this is absolutely a killer home office set-up I found on Digg. This is Stefan Didak’s home office.
Now my home office rig seems so… so pitiful compared to this rig. It makes me cry.
Anyway, you can view the gallery here and his FAQ (yes he has for this rig!) here.

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Starting a small business may force you to beg and borrow rather than invest immediately on high-end stuff. And there’s a good reason for that. You really have to manage you cash flow first.
But what if you workers will be sitting on worn-out chairs? Sooner or later, they’ll be complaining about bad backs. Discomfort, [...]

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Nothing sustains businesses more than satisfied customers. And BW Online has chosen their picks on who are the best in satisfying their clients.
And here they are:

USAA
FOUR SEASONS HOTELS AND RESORTS
CADILLAC
NORDSTROM
WEGMANS FOOD MARKETS
EDWARD JONES
LEXUS
UPS
ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR
STARBUCKS
THE RITZ-CARLTON
AMICA INSURANCE
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
WASHINGTON MUTUAL
CABELA’S
RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL
PORSCHE
APPLE Electronics
PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS
HERTZ
FEDEX Shipping
JW MARRIOTT HOTELS & RESORTS
T-MOBILE
BUICK Automotive
LINCOLN Automotive

Source: Business Week Online

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Now as a follow-up to my previous post on the topic. I originally meant it as a cursory look at earning with Adsense, but since the post got a decent number of hits (thanks to David and our sister blog, Blogging Pro), I’m now making a follow-up.
You’re writing on your blog and you’ve got [...]

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