Aahh. Money. It’s great to have money. It can’t buy you love, but it can sure as hell buy you a lot of other things. It’s probably everyone’s dream to live the good life, right? However, while it may a bit too optimistic to dream of retiring a millionaire, being driven around in a limo, [...]

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A lot of small business owners think that websites are just for larger companies or only to those companies related to technology. What’s the point in shelling out cash that could be used to purchase a few more office comforts for your employees, right? Well this is where you can explore and weigh the merits [...]

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Outsourcing, like any other, has its pros and cons. One great advantage to it as a business owner is you get results without having to deal with things internally. Let’s face it, manning additional people and resources can be a real chore. So why not just be grateful to pay for results, right?

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Sometimes, it takes a guy from below to give the boss some much needed perspective to make the right decisions. However, there are times when the thought of saying anything less than a praise can be quite tricky. Either the boss takes it well, or you’re painting a bullseye on your back. So be careful [...]

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Loaned a couple of grand to some bastard friend who wouldn’t pay back? Some darned client/company owes you some collectibles? If you are planning legal action to get back your money, you might want to think about the whole issue first. As with any thing, you have to weigh the pros and cons of small [...]

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Investing in real estate is a good move, only if you could pick a choice position. A lot of people have already made their millions through real estate – investing on some locations for a low cost that eventually became choice property. However, it’s quite tricky to do (and do cheap) these days because of [...]

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“If were to ask a raise from your boss, describe the social context that your share with him/her,” I told my business communication class a few weeks ago. One student said that his best case scenario would be that he is friends with the boss. Probably 90+ of them raised their hands when asked if [...]

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One philosophy that plagues many a small business owner is that notion that “The customer is always right.” While total customer satisfaction should be one of the goals of your company, there may be cases where in you don’t have to consider everyone who enters your store a valued customer.

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Now here’s an interesting bit. AskMen.com features the top ten highest paying jobs in the US according to the Department of Labor. Take note that in the actual list, eight out of the top ten are actually careers in the medical field. To narrow things down, they’ve taken the liberty to diversify the fields in [...]

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Not good news for Sun employees. Sun plans to hand out $100 to $150 million in severances according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. No word yet on how many employees will be affected but it’s definite that Sun will be trimming down it’s 34,219 strong workforce. Sun executives decided to [...]

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Whew. We couldn’t just count the ways advertisements can bombard us, huh? I’m just waiting for the time when we’ll have a Minority Report-ish personalized advertising everywhere we go. Or probably some Futurama stuff, where we get advertisements in dreams. But I guess, for now, we’ll just have to content ourselves with ad placements on [...]

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Teaching college students business communication required me to dedicate a huge part of the discussion tackling workplace cultures and socio-cultural contexts. I teach in a state university that’s not known for developing the student’s business sense so it took me some extra weeks and a lot of effort to give students’ a glimpse of how [...]

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Clinching a sale can be a real challenge. If you’re new to sales, it’s important to remember that it clinching a sale in one go is more of luck. Consistency is really the key. However, consistency also relies on taking smaller steps to be able to finally seal the deal. While the idea of always [...]

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I missed this bit since my news feeds are the most abundant in my feed reader. It’s already a few days old but still, I think it’s an important issue to discuss. The business school of the University of Chicago is now requiring applicants to submit PowerPoint presentations together with their applications according to a [...]

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The great thing about being a small business is that you can easily pull-off community-based projects that can surely boost your image and stock in your locality. Local businesses have been doing it for many years, and there’s no reason why your small business can’t.

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