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Solving the Late Paying Customer Blues


Nothing can drive a business down faster than customers who don?t pay their bills as agreed. When you sell to customers on credit you are making an agreement with them. You will provide them with goods or services in exchange for their payment within the terms you agree upon. Period.

How to Raise Your Fees and Thrill Your Customers


Think the best way to get more customers is to have the lowest prices in town? Think again. Think the best way to create a successful business is to try to appeal to everyone? Wrong again.

The Wrap on Ag Plastic


While driving through Pennsylvania farmland, you have probably noticed an increased amount of white plastic bundles stacked in lines or piles along farm buildings or edges of farm fields. Sometimes referred to as ?marshmallows? or ?long white tubes?, etc. these objects are increasing in farmer popularity and represent a changing trend in harvesting of farm livestock feeds.

Increase the Wealth in Your Community


Many of us have noticed how some nearby communities seem to be ?wealthier? than other nearby communities. They seem to have more shopping markets, more restaurants, more choices; items often cost more in these communities than they do in surrounding areas, yet the affluence remains where the prices are high; people are drawn to these communities, bringing even more resources and more wealth.

A Day in the Life of a Self Employed Professional


It?s Monday morning and Connie the Consultant sits in her executive office chair overseeing her business empire. Her desk is strewn with half finished projects, several weeks worth of to do lists (none of them completed), scribbled post it notes, and a permission slip for her daughter?s field trip to the Planetarium that should have been turned in last week. Somewhere, buried deep in the rubble is Connie?s business plan. The last time she saw it was during the Clinton Administration.

11 Things Small Business Owners Can Learn From The Supreme Court


1. Have A Strong Constitution ? Justices deliver decisions by interpreting the U.S. Constitution. Never let the challenges of running your small business overwhelm your judgment.

11 Things Small Business Owners Can Learn From Rudy Giuliani


1. Leadership Is Learned ? While many people appear to have an innate ability to lead, most learn from their life and business experiences, then put these lessons into practice. Giuliani wrote, ?The greatest leadership you ever have is the ability to lead your own life.?

11 Things Small Business Owners Can Learn From The Miracle On Ice


1. Know Where You?re Going ? Coach Herb Brooks had a strategic plan for assembling the American team. Take time to determine the direction you want to take your small business, then put in place the action steps and players to accomplish your goals.

11 Things Small Business Owners Can Learn From Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer


1. Everyone Makes A Difference ? Despite not letting him play in their games, the other reindeer came to understand Rudolph?s importance. Look for the talents in each of your employees.

11 Things Small Business Owners Can Learn From Tiger


1. There Are No ?gimmes? ? They count two-foot putts on the PGA Tour. Hold your small business team accountable for completing everything they commit to starting.

Explode Your Consulting Income


Here are just a few ways to increase and diversify your income from your consulting business.

Marketing a New or Small Business on a Budget


There are almost as many opinions and views on marketing as there are companies to market. The big names and multinationals will have an extraordinary amount of funding set aside in which to convey their marketing message to the masses.

Eight Ways To Improve Your Companys Cash-Flow ? TODAY!


Cash is the lifeblood of any business. As humans need air to breath and food to eat, your business requires customers that provides the primary substance that keeps a business in business: cash.

Six Sigma for Small Business


It is not surprising that some people may perceive Six Sigma as being only for large corporations. Major corporations such as Allied Signal, Black & Decker, Dow Chemical, Dupont, Federal Express, General Electric, Johnson and Johnson, Kodak, Motorola, Sony, and Toshiba have all rolled out Six Sigma efforts and achieved outstanding results. Yet, it is incorrect to think that Six Sigma process improvement results can only be achieved by huge organizations. Small businesses can also succeed in implementing Six Sigma and reap the process improvement benefits that Six Sigma provides.

Expand Your Professional Organizer Business


Grow your Professional Organizer business by branching out into related areas. If you have been doing the same old thing for a while, and are comfortable with it, it may be time to stretch your capabilities and offer something new.

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