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13 Examples of Continuity Income in a Service-Based Business
Tired of the day-to-day struggle of chasing one client to the next? Want a better way to run your business that enables you to better predict your monthly income? One of the best ways to stabilize your income when you're a self-employed service professional is to create a monthly recurring source of income for yourself, commonly referred to as a continuity program. Here are 13 examples of how I've seen recurring income for services offered:
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100 Ways to Succeed #95
NON-LINEARITY RULES. NON-LINEARITY = LIFE. IF SUCCESS [OR FAILURE] IS DETERMINED ALMOST ENTIRELY BY THE UNPREDICTABLE [LITERALLY], THEN WHAT?
Succession and Leaving a Legacy
Succession is always a challenge in business - it needs to become a planned process of continuity. It's a bit like carrying a serviceable spare tyre in your car. You never planed to have a flat tyre but you did plan to get there regardless!

Top 5 Ways To Low Cost Traffic For Your Online Business
There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.
It Takes Planning
Some companies hit on just the right product or service and find success, business plan or not. But generally, operating a business without a business plan is a mistake. A business plan gives you a blueprint to follow during the life of your business. If you update it frequently, it will tell you when, where and how to implement changes that will make your business more profitable.
Building Relationships That Work With Stress
Six keys to relationships that reduce stress all round
Independent Consulting Tips - 3 Steps to Clearly Defining Your Target Market
Do you know the 3 steps to grow your business by defining your niche more closely as an independent consultant? You will after reading this article. The more you know exactly who you’re targeting, the sooner you can make those ideal connections.

Continuity: Creating Your Greatest Image
The strategy and process of coordinating all the elements of a marketing message to achieve a consistent, memorable, overall look and feel for a company, service, or product.

10 Questions to Help You Determine Why Your PPC Campaign Is Losing Money
AWAI Staff Writer, John Wood, points out the 10 most important things to look for to determine why your PPC campaign is losing money.
HR Departments Need Business Acumen Too
The problem with a lot of HR departments is that companies relegate them too far to a “back office” mentality. This only renders the people who work in them out of touch with the front of the house where an understanding of the business and the people driving it is critical. So, in order for human resource employees to be the necessary link that connects internal functions with external performance, those working in HR should be as business minded and savvy as they are administrative and up on HR laws.
Alternatives to Redundancy Reviewing the Options
Businesses, both experienced and new, are finding themselves with a number of HR headaches but it's not the first time markets have slowed down. But before resorting to redundancy, which often means letting go of good staff, employers have a number of alternatives that they should explore first. Jane Caven, Director for Sagegreen HR Outsourcing, gives advice on a number of alternatives you can consider.

Transcendental Powers
Ralph Waldo Emerson explained that matter and objective things are products of the subjective mind. Lynne McTaggart, a well-respected international authority on the science of spirituality is masterminding ‘The Intention Experiment that rests on an outlandish premise: thought affects physical reality.

Succession Planning: Refilling the Pipeline
In the next 3 to 5 years, the first surge of Baby Boomers is expected to exit the workforce. The volume of turnover could be unprecedented and its impact on all organizations will be dramatic. Beyond the loss of people, there will be significant loss of experience, knowledge, perspective and wisdom. This prospect of losing so much talent and knowledge in a short period of time has forced even the most reluctant to take notice and begin focusing on succession planning.

You Are The Problem
In business you can often think that with better marketing and more capable staff your business and your life will improve. However if you're disorganised and the internal business systems are the same (which is very common), then your ability to cope with additional work and find and retain good people will diminish greatly. Through my work with small business, I find the personal strengths and weaknesses of the owner directly impacts the business... for better or worse.

MAXIMIZING RESULTS OF A BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS CAMPAIGN
With rising commodity prices, transportation/shipping costs, and dwindling capital access, chances are that you are asking your business–to-business customers to feel your pain in the form of price increases. And chances are good that your customers are starting to push back by reducing orders and lengthening the time they pay your invoices. While this is a basic business problem, you can help mitigate the potential rift in your customer relationships by increasing your communications to customers. Here are some recommendations.
Are Multiple Supply Chains Important (Survey Response 8)
A 2006 Report made the following statement: "Designing and operating multiple supply networks to meet the needs of specific market segments--supply chain innovation and the use of multiple supply chains will be important to future revenue and market share growth." Based on your own experience is this an accurate assessment? If yes, why? If no, why?
Have you read Forrest Breyfogle’s new book on Integrated Enterprise Excellence? Thoughts/comments?
Member Question: I recently read one of Forrest Breyfogle’s new books in his 4 book-volume series on the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) System; i.e., "The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System: An Enhanced, Unified Approach to Balanced Scorecards, Strategic Planning, and Business Improvement." The subtitle to this book describes what is covered in varying details in the other three volumes. My sense is that Breyfogle has pushed his (and our) thinking to the next level and addressed issues that many of us struggle with regarding Continuous Improvement efforts. His “Integrated Enterprise” thinking makes sense to me, what are your thoughts or feedback?
Get on the right track with executive onboarding
Most organizations offer some level of orientation for new leaders. But without a well-defined plan for integrating the new leader, the risk of poor performance and failure is high. Executive onboarding has grown out of traditional orientation to provide a more comprehensive and systematic plan for helping executives transition into their new role. Onboarding reinforces conventional orientation and training programs with highly focused one-to-one leadership coaching, targeted skills development, and timely objective feedback. The goal is twofold: first, ensure that new executives find their footing quickly and avoid costly missteps; second, help them build effective alliances with their direct reports to ensure continuity and cooperation in achieving organizational goals.
Summary of main recommendations - Impact Study of the Zakoura Microcredit Program
In preparing the recommendations, we shall try take into account not only the results of the client surveys, on the basis of each of the five tools used, but also the ground reality of the ZMC program. In other words, the aim is to take into account what is desirable while bearing in mind what is actually feasible.
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Creating a Disaster-Preparedness Plan
According to a Traveler's survey, 44% of small businesses do not have a business continuity plan and only 36% have ever spoken with an insurance agent about developing one. This is despite data from the American Red Cross showing that 40% of small businesses do not reopen after a fire, storm, or other disaster. Here are some ideas to help you get prepared.

How to Run Your Business Like Tony Soprano...not get whacked.
ou might not think that organized crime is a good model for running your business. I will definitely agree that you don’t want extortion, prostitution, murder,, theft, drug running and all the other nasty dealings that mobsters are involved with as part of your business plan. As with anything though, there are elements that can be learned from.

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Succession Planning: Laying the Groundwork for Continued Success
Succession planning is a vital business activity, a key element of ensuring organizational continuity and growth. In brief, it entails lining up the right people to take over important roles as they open up. Lack of a solid plan can place strain on the organization and its employees. Here's what can be done to increase the odds of success.
Succession and Leaving a Legacy
Succession is always a challenge in business - it needs to become a planned process of continuity. It's a bit like carrying a serviceable spare tyre in your car. You never planed to have a flat tyre but you did plan to get there regardless!

Home Based Business Boom
The best continuity advertising strategy on the market. A great business idea for beginners. Outstanding marketing websites.
5 Steps to a Successful Continuity Program
You understand that having a continuity program ... or several ... as part of your marketing funnel is an excellent way to increase profits and build a stable income. But how do you create one that will actually attract new subscribers and maintaing membership on a regular basis?
Top 10 Things Small Businesses Should Do To Increase Team Productivity
Tough times are here to stay. Stressful work environment, economic meltdown, lack of work continuity, and many other factors make the operating conditions even more difficult. At such a time, businesses big or small have only one solution in their hands that could help them out of many of their problems - “do more with less.” This could be done by boosting the productivity of your employees. Here are the top 10 ways to help you do so:
Business Continuity is not just about backups....
The amount of businesses I speak to who don’t have a Business Continuity Plan is horrendous. I usually get the stock reply of ‘but we do backups’. Doing backups is not preparing your business for all potential eventualities that could hinder, damage or destroy your business. Here's a few points to get you thinking...
Considering BCP in relation to Cloud/SaaS
I was writing some notes around a few questions that I get asked regularly regarding cloud and SaaS, and how Business Continuity Plans (BCP) are affected. I've tidied them up and have placed them here as they should be a good starting point if you are looking into your DR/BC plans in relation to cloud/SaaS.
Creating a Disaster-Preparedness Plan
According to a Traveler's survey, 44% of small businesses do not have a business continuity plan and only 36% have ever spoken with an insurance agent about developing one. This is despite data from the American Red Cross showing that 40% of small businesses do not reopen after a fire, storm, or other disaster. Here are some ideas to help you get prepared.

BUY/SELL AGREEMENT
It is a strategy to ensure the continuity of a business should a partner leave the business. This may be a planned retirement or because of death or a disability. It is basically a funding arrangement for the remaining partners or owners to purchase the share of the business from the departing participant.
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