Recent Posts Tagged With 'running a business'

• Where’s my bailout?!

  Posted on Friday March 20th, 2009 at 13:17 in america, Economy, small businesses, off-topic, auto industry, contract, contracts, lawsuits, bickering, running a business, bailout, aig

  Arguing over contracts equals bad business. Huh? Well the whole AIG thing is rediculous. Not in the way you may think based on all the bad press it received.  The fact is that the company had  contracts with it’s employees. It was smart ...

• Retaining customers vs. getting new ones

  Posted on Sunday March 1st, 2009 at 12:29 in business, sales, running a business, sales conversion, new customer, valued customer

  How much is a valued customer really worth to your business? Do the math. It costs you up to 4 times more to get a new customer than it does to retain an existing one. Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use onl...

• The key to success is getting out of the rat race

  Posted on Wednesday December 31st, 2008 at 14:05 in real estate, passive income, robert kiyosaki, rat race, opportunity, starting a business, monetizing, running a business, sales performance, make a profit, pay per performance, strategic partnerships

  The rat race. The definition by Robert Kiyosaki is basically a rat wheel that you constantly run on split up in pie slices. Each slice can be a paycheck, a liability, or an opportunity. Getting out of the rat race means that your passive income ...

• How do you compete with outsourcing?

  Posted on Monday December 29th, 2008 at 17:01 in india, china, outsourcing, sales, expert, outsource, running a business, static website, art of negotiation, avoid cheap gigs, cheap developers, cheap labor costs

  The golden question is how do you compete with outsourcing when India and other countries have such cheap labor costs. The answer is you avoid cheap gigs. If you consistantly bid on cheap gigs you are bound to attract cheap clients on a regular ...

• Cheapy Yahoo!

  Posted on Friday December 26th, 2008 at 08:09 in google, panama, Yahoo!, settlement, algorithm, running a business, advertising system, holiday bonus, yahoo lawsuit, staff issues, unpaid overtime

  Did you hear about the one where Yahoo! forced it’s employees to work unpaid overtime on the failed Panama advertising system then gave them a $50 holiday bonus for their troubles? This went to court and a settlement was reached. Now plain...

• Using leverage to explode your income

  Posted on Sunday October 19th, 2008 at 21:09 in business resources, starting a business, running a business, staff issues

  Leverage is what rich people and large busiesses use in order to expand at an explosive rate. You will notice that the average Joe that works 40+ hours per week seems to live paycheck to paycheck. Even the middle class seem to overlook leverage ...

• Photoshop gives me gas…

  Posted on Friday October 17th, 2008 at 15:37 in photoshop, creative financing, photo editing, running a business, high gas prices, personal projects, gas cards, project work, expand your business

  Funny title, but not a joke. In these times of high gas prices I find that it is good to barter small project work in exchange for gas cards. I can get $50, $100, $200 gas cards or some photo editing work. This falls back into the category of b...

• Financial dominance in a struggling economy

  Posted on Wednesday September 17th, 2008 at 15:09 in verizon wireless, campaign, word of mouth marketing, tmobile, subway, donald trump, gecko, household name, running a business, geico, expand your business, web design taxi

  Ecommerce is a tough business. There are alot of fly-by-night web design and seo companies out there who take money and run. They show little or no results and usually offer no customer service so that the customer is the one that suffers in...

• Sales 101 A Call To Action

  Posted on Tuesday August 12th, 2008 at 21:41 in running a business, call to action, sales performance, contact us, sales 101

  Well, it has been hectic here. But pluggin away anyways. To revive the fresh posts here we would like to offer a sales tip. What many websites lack is a call to action. You have to provide a valid reason and something worthwhile to your visitors...

• Adding to existing site or starting from scratch

  Posted on Thursday July 10th, 2008 at 17:47 in web development, web developer, ecommerce, open source, client, running a business, gpl

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