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How to Save Money as You Leverage the Power of Great Copy, Marketing and Brand Building
Like any budget-conscious business owner, you may feel uneasy about spending money on marketing. A few hundred here for website tweaks, a few hundred there for articles... it doesn't take much to swing the other way, from marketing optimist to doubtful, stingy, money-hoarding pessimist... does it!Scrimping on the marketing, cutting back on the copywriting. Failing to keep pushing your name out there. Losing the customer advantage that steady search engine marketing brings.This is what happens when you let your Inner Marketing Miser and Copywriting Curmudgeon get the best of you.You needed complimentary advice and the copywriter came through? Great!A friendly designer took the time to plug you on his blog, for fr^ee? Awesome!It feels

t sometimes arises when employee confrontations become necessary. They rarely “push” their people; they allow each employee to se

Don't Train Your Future Competitors
Former employees and business associates become competitors every day.When hiring others to work on your team, be mindful that employees and contractors might: - Leave and start a competing practice; - Go to work for a competitor; - Solicit your clients; or - Use and/or disclose company confidential information.So, how do you reduce the risk of training your future competitors?The best business relationships are grounded in trust and mutual benefit. Many people work on a handshake understanding, which is fine until something goes wrong. A little paperwork on the front end can prevent problems down the road. But, all the paperwork in the world won’t prevent someone from leaving. So, to retain key people, they need to feel th

In articles I’ve written over the years, I have used “laissez-faire,” a term more frequently used to characterize governments than businesses, to describe a rather laid-back management style. When I use this term, I am referring to management personnel who put very little pressure on employees to achieve their full potential by pushing them toward peak performance levels.

Laissez-faire managers had much rather maintain a stress-free relationship with their personnel than face the antagonistic environment that sometimes arises when employee confrontations become necessary. They rarely “push” their people; they allow each employee to set

Checklist for Starting a Business
Use this comprehensive checklist to plan each step of your new business and transform your dream of entrepreneurship into reality. These steps may not necessarily be completed in the order listed; however, you can use them as a guideline for completing all of the necessary business startup tasks.- Determine what kind of business you want to start. - Learn about the industry for your business. - Analyze the market for your business. - Study your competition. - Educate yourself on running a business. - Join trade associations. - Name your business. - Perform a trademark search. - Register a domain name. - Design a website. - Obtain a logo. - Determine business structure (sole proprietor, partnership, or corpo

businesses, to describe a rather laid-back management style. When I use this term, I am referring to management personnel who put very little pressure on employees to achieve their full potential by pushing them toward peak performance levels.

What Is Most Important - Copy Or Pic?
When, some little time ago now, I first descended upon the advertising scene, we were a good deal more concerned than most people seem to be today about the nature of the business we found ourselves in. We were always holding debates – in the saloon bar of the Coach & Horses in New Bond Street, to be tiresomely precise – about the meaning of advertising, the significance of advertising, and the past, present and future of advertising. And an unconscionably serious lot we no doubt were. Not to mention drunk.Among the hardy perennials of our debates was the relevance of sex in advertising, and also the question of whether the copy element in ads was more important than the visual or vice versa.Of course, these were the days when it was possible for agency

t very little pressure on employees to achieve their full potential by pushing them toward peak performance levels.

Social Value Is Part of the Organizational Goals
No organization, even if it were interested in profitability as a prime goal, could avoid producing some kind of social benefit or avoid intending at least in some part to achieve some kind of goal, which is other than purely making money. If something else were to be required in order to start up a business enterprise in addition to defining the essence of the goal of a business as being "a business to make money," then there must be another element, which is the defining feature of the business, in addition to the profit margin. Making profits is not a goal on its own. It does not define the mission of a business. One must add in something else in order to produce a product that is needed, or to provide a service that is requested. The notion of filling some kind of

faire managers had much rather maintain a stress-free relationship with their personnel than face the antagonistic environment that sometimes arises when employee confrontations become necessary. They rarely “push” their people; they allow each employee to se

On Corporate Culture - It's the CEO
The CEO of a company represents a company’s culture. Important –- regarding change -- is whether the role of the CEO is more that of a manager who is safeguarding the current culture or one who is leading a (cultural) change.The difference between leading a company and managing the same is not a secret. Leaders take the lead and come (up) with a new direction. The manager is the custodian of the (new) direction. Let’s take Google as an example. Larry and Sergey were leading the company (before it made any real profits), and Eric “took over” to manage the profits.Nancy is the CEO of Wolters Kluwer a Dutch company dedicated to information brokerage. Nancy got elected to manage Wolters in 2005 as an incentive to increase the company’s performance. Before he

t sometimes arises when employee confrontations become necessary. They rarely “push” their people; they allow each employee to set his or her own performance standards.

Now Judith M. Bardwick, a psychologist and management consultant, has used another typically government-associated term to describe an equally costly corporate malady; this time it’s entitlement. I believe that entitlement is deeply rooted in many businesses in our industry.

Barwick describes business entitlement programs as “giving people reasonably good jobs without documenting what the company gets in return, resulting in people either not working, or people th

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Giving away promotional materials, like fitted hats, is a great way of advertising your business.

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Similar to the human body, the corporate body has two types of dysfunctional tumours – the benign or inactive ones, which are often dormant as well as the malignant or harmful types which are very dangerous.

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