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Deadline Approaching for Mass Data Security Law: No More Time to Procrastinate

The March 1, 2010 deadline for compliance with the Massachusetts Data security Laws is fast approaching and will not likely be further extended. This law effects any business or individual who stores data on any Massachusetts resident whose unauthorized access might compromise the privacy of that individual’s personal information. Failure to comply could be costly. Compliance for some may be very simple, while for others it could be both complicate and expensive.

Planning Your Exit
This article emphasizes the importance of advanced exit planning for business owners and offers a practical guide to the steps for sound exit planning.

Lost Your Job? Thinking of Going Into Business for Yourself? If You Do it…Do it Right!

Many career professionals have lost their jobs during this recession and are having a hard time finding new employment. Many of those individuals are eventually deciding to go into business for themselves. It is not necessarily a crazy idea to be starting a new business during a recession but if you are going to do it, you need to do it right. This article covers the basic issues to consider and important steps to take.

Integrating Social Media Into Your Marketing Plan

Social media provides a set of tools, which when used properly, can greatly leverage and enhance your other networking/word-of-mouth marketing and your other internet marketing efforts. It is cheaper, faster, and less geographically restrictive than our traditional networking activities. Like any other tool, social media can be very effective when used properly, or very dangerous when misused. Improper use can damage your brand, erode relationships and create threats to your personal safety and security.

Gearing Up for the New Economy
This article addresses how the current recession will impact your customers' buying decisions even after the recovery and emphasizes the need for strategic planning for how to survive and thrive in the post-recession economy.

A Time To Consider Strategic Alliances

In any economy, strategic alliances can make good economic sense. Strategic alliances can strengthen the depth and/or breadth of an organization’s capabilities, giving it competitive advantage, while often reducing overhead and improving the bottom line. In a challenging economy, such alliances can be a crucial survival strategy. However, a poorly conceived, poorly planned or poorly executed alliance can be a disaster for all involved. This article covers what issues to consider and how to proceed with exploring and executing a strategic alliance.

How to Use Barriers to Entry to Your Business Advantage
According to Cisco Innovators Forum guest blogger Bob Goedjen when we refer to barriers to entry for a business we are not talking about such issues as normally required start-up costs of business but rather about those things that are inherent in the industry or selected market place that impede a small business or any business from entry.

So, You Think You Want To Become An Entrepreneur?
VocationVacations Founder, Brian Kurth, provides five key questions to ask yourself prior to becoming an entrepreneur.

Business Partnerships: Hope for the Best and Prepare for the Worst

In this changing economy, small businesses will grow and thrive through partnerships, affiliations and collaborations. Partnerships take many forms. Whether joining together to form a new business, merging or consolidating existing businesses, bringing new partners into an existing business entity or developing working collaborations between separate business entities, choosing the right partner(s) and developing a comprehensive written agreement, are critical to assure success and minimizes the damage, should any of a number of worst-case scenarios occur.

Ten Tips for Selling B2B in China
As the world economy struggles to recover, China continues grow due to strategic infrastructure investments by the Chinese government. Companies with products or technologies that support the government's agenda may have major opportunities. But, selling in China is filled with challenges and expert guidance is advisable. As a beginning, we offer ten key point (tips) for your consideration.

Find a Quality Mentor - Are Looking For Advice in All the Wrong Places?
If you've ever found yourself consumed by a challenge, unable to see which way is right......check your rolodex and make sure you're getting advice from the best sources, not the most available.

Consultants Can Be Scary but Do They Provide Value

As a CEO before I became a consultant ten years ago I had very little time for consultants and did not have a high opinion of them. One of the things that always stuck in my craw - and still does for that matter -- is to see a consultant conduct sales training that never actually carried a bag themselves. Some have very little if any experience in the field as an outside sales person. Even more concerning is to watch a consultant give leadership or business acumen advice when that consultant never had to meet a payroll or run a company personally. Consultants can provide real value on many occasions but they can also be your worst nightmare.

3 Lessons for CEO's from Reality TV Show Undercover Boss
When was the last time you operated on the line, did the work of your assistant, or went back out to make sales? You may be amazed by what you could learn. Following are three business lessons I gathered from just a few episodes of the show, Undercover Boss.

Andrew Carnegie Biography
When he was alive, Andrew Carnegie was the second richest man and the founder of the most powerful corporation in the world. Thus, from his humble beginnings in Scotland to his rise to the top of the industrial world in the United States, there is no shortage of information on the biography of Andrew Carnegie.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned: 10 Easy Ways to Save on Business Expenses

Whether adapting to declining revenue, or simply looking to increase profits, business owners and non-profit executives are always looking for ways to save money without decreasing quality, customer satisfaction or efficiency. The first, most obvious cuts that most organizations have already implemented over the past couple of years, involve laying off non-essential employees and/or freezing vacancies and cutting all non-essential outsourced services. If there is a silver lining to the recent recession and subsequent slow recovery, it is that whatever you are buying, the market is likely soft.

Small Business Strategy
There are many strategies for all sorts of businesses. When running a small business, know the specific strategy that many entrepreneurs use in order to become successful in their market.

Small Business Jobs & Credit Act: What’s in it for Small Business?

On September 27th, President Obama signed into law, the much awaited Small Business Jobs & Credit Act. I’ve been surprised by how little most small business owners seem to know about the provisions of this law and what is in it for them. The most highly publicized feature of the bill is the $30 Billion dollar small business loan fund. For many or most small businesses, this may be the least relevant feature of the law. Other features of the law include tax breaks for small to medium sized businesses, tax incentives for equity investors in small businesses and some significant changes in SBA lending programs.

Entrepreneur Traits
It is highly important for entrepreneurs to know the right traits in order to build a successful business and help it grow. Here are the three most important entrepreneur traits that business people should have in order to succeed in their goals.

Entrepreneurial Qualities
If you plan to join in the entrepreneurial career, then you should know the important qualities of entrepreneurs that will surely help in becoming successful. Here are the vital skills that one should learn or adapt in order to become a successful player in the industry.

Formulating Business Ideas
You can turn on your idea generating faucet any time you want it, all it requires is the proper motivation in order for it to be opened easily. Follow the advices listed in this article in order to learn how you can motivate your mind in coming up with ideas when others are having a hard time doing it.

Importance of Entrepreneurship
Going through the process of entrepreneurship was a tough time for entrepreneurs and marketers alike during the 1970s because economists did not pay them much attention at that time. Now, many economists believe that entrepreneurs are contributing a lot to the economy of a country because of the small businesses that they are generating, which in turn creates jobs and productivity.

Important Business Characteristic
Business opportunities arise almost all the time especially nowadays. Yet finding a business partner is no easy task if you want to do it correctly. Follow the advice in finding the right business partner by basing their characteristics on the important qualities you should look out for in a future business partner.

Why Some Entrepreneurs Fail
If you are an entrepreneur that would like to know about the common mistakes that drag down your fellow workers, then it is best that you learn how to avoid them. This article provides a good overview of the most common mistakes why some entrepreneurs fail in their businesses.

Marketing to get results!
Many businesses just knock any type of ad or marketing campaign together not really knowing if it will work!

Phase2 of Entrepreneurship and Company Growth
After your 3rd, 4th or 5th employee, you now know that you are once again a start-up. Only this time the stakes are bigger and butterflies of failure are higher.

Could a Coach Get You There?

You know what coaches do for athletes. You've heard what they've done for the rich and the famous. What about you? Have you ever thought about partnering with a coach? Barbara Garro spent the time to graduate from both Corporate Coach University and Coach Training Institute. Why? Corporate/entreprenerial coaching entails complexities personal/life coaching does not. Why else? Business people have personal lives and I wanted to combine my skills so my coaching clients get Work-Life Coaching or Life-Work Coaching. Garro coaching is all about getting you where you want to be when you want to get yourself there.

Stop Assuming And Start Asking
The mistake that is most common throughout the sales industry is that, sale consultants think they know what their clients want rather than ask. By asking the right questions you will not only uncover your clients buying strategy but most importantly find out if you can deliver on what they are looking for.

Hire On Attitude Not Skill
It seems as though every year that passes by; the process of hiring quality sales people is becoming more and more expensive. Recruitment fees are increasing by the year, and the resources required to train new recruits can sometimes cost thousands of dollars. This is why hiring the right sales person is absolutely critical to the success of any business.

How To Discover What Truly Drives Salespeople
Finding and keeping quality salespeople is not the easiest task for any company. Before you hire any new staff you need to first discover what motivates sales people to succeed within your organisation so that you can ensure their intentions are aligned to your company.

The Sales Phobia That Kills Bottom Line
When it comes to closing a sale the most important ingredient is being comfortable in taking the order. Too many sales people get nervous or are fearful that the customer will say no. What’s the point of being in sales if you’re not comfortable in taking the order?

The Single Most Important Trait Within Salespeople
It’s surprising that there are so many sales people these days selling products without first building rapport. They are missing the first and most important step required when selling a product or service which is costing organisations heavily, with the loss of revenue and decrease in repeat business.

The Worst Business Advice You Ever Received
Don’t worry, the title of this post doesn’t suggest something you’ll find here, it’s about something I want you to share.

Home Business Expert: 50 Best Resources For Home Based Business
Here are some resources to make your home business a grand success. Thousands of people across the world are starting off and becoming successful you can too.

Recession Reality and 15 Simple Strategies for Growing Your Buiness
Good businesses principles work regardless of a recession, in fact they probably work even better during a recession because customers are more tuned in when purchasing. Bad business principles are routed out and killed during a recession. This happens to also be good for people who conduct business in the right way.

Online Home Business Advice To Take Control Of Your Life
Have you actually thought about what it would be like to be in total control of your life? That used to be a dream for most of us, but now thanks to the Internet it is possible. Here is some online home business advice that will help you to take control of your life.

WHEN TO USE OR NOT A BUSINESS CONSULTANT
What you should know about business-consultants before you decide if you should do-it-yourself, or hire a consulting firm.

The Thick Line Between Buddy and Boss
I have made just about every business blunder you can imagine. I am like the Evel Knievel of the small business world, if Evel Knievel wrote a weekly column on motorcycle safety. One of the more unpleasant things I've had to do is fire a good friend who was not doing the job I hired him to do. He needed a job, I needed an employee, so I thought I would give him a shot

Why Networking Marketing Makes Smart Business Sense
Cursed by some, lauded by others, network marketing creates a fire in many. Whether you’re for or against, love it or hate it, the industry is growing faster than ever. Find out why this rousing business model is attracting business moguls and average Joe’s alike.

Internet Home Based Business Equipment Needed For Start Up
This article talks about the various types of equipment needed to start an internet home based business. It will also inform you of what crucial equipment you will need to invest in and what you can wait on until you get into profit. The equipment needed to get your internet home based business started may be less than you think.

Business Coaching As A Valuable Asset For You and Your Business

The challenges facing business owners and senior mangers seem to get more complex each year. And these challenges call for additional resources and tools to deal with the challenges and to take advantage of the opportunities that lie within each challenge. One of the most valuable assets for business owners and their management team members is the strategic thinking, strategic planning and independent, unemotional and unbiased outside advice from a strategic thinking business coach. A business coach in today's business world can be a very valuable asset for business owners.

Are You Stuck in the Mediocrity Trap?
We find ourselves stuck in the mediocrity trap, frustrated that our businesses aren't making the money we feel they should be for the efforts we are putting in. So how can you shift from blasé to brilliant?

5.7 Meeting the needs of the entrepreneur: Enterprise solutions to poverty
Simply making finance available in the $10,000 to $500,000 deal size was crucial to attracting the interest of Ugandan and South African SMEs since it had never been available before. But other features were also designed into the model to provide tailor-made support to entrepreneurs.

Do You Have a Broken Heart and an Empty Wallet?
In your leadership role, yes we are all leaders in some way, lead yourself first. Stand by your ethics and what you know is right first. Then look to guide and lead others. When you seek guidance and advice, trust your gut instinct. Do you feel right about this person or this company?

Why Criticism is Important to Success

Success is limited only by how much attention you can get for yourself, your products and your ideas. The right amount of attention will always attract criticism, even haters. While criticism is never enjoyed, it should be anticipated when trying to get your projects known. The longevity of a project is determined by the quality of what you offer, the success of your project is determined by how much attention you can get for it.

Lamborghini Expands His Business Interests

“Lamborghini Trattori was completely self-sufficient, so I turned my interests to other industries,” Ferruccio Lamborghini was quoted as saying about his expansion into other industries. After becoming a multimillionaire in the tractor industry, he turned his interest to a new industry, heating and air conditioning. Lamborghini was good at figuring out future business successes and this was an industry that few ventured into at the time.

Ferruccio Lamborghini Began Life as a Farm Boy

Ferruccio Lamborghini did not start life as a wealthy man. Instead, he worked for everything he got. Growing up on a farm owned by his parents, Lamborghini was not interested in the farming life. He was more intrigued in how the equipment on the farm operated. This love of machinery is what made him become one of Italy's richest entrepreneurs and would lead to his creation of one of the most luxurious sports cars in the automobile industry.

Lesson #1: Do What You Love

"I liked to take things apart when I was younger," Ferruccio Lamborghini said about starting his tractor business. That love of machinery made Lamborghini look at business as more than a way to make money. He not only wanted to earn a living, he wanted to earn a living do something that he loved to do and that was building machinery. He also noticed that most of Italy's industry was used to support the war effort and little machinery was available for the working people.

Lesson #2: Produce What People Need

"I saw a need and had an instinct of what people had to have after the war," Ferruccio Lamborghini said. He was good at recognizing what people needed and it just so happened that he knew how to offer it to them. His skills as a mechanic made building tractors a perfect fit for a business start-up. Since most of the industries in Italy were used for the war effort, he knew that something had to be done to help people out and make life easier for them.

Lesson #3: Remain Approachable
"One thing I tell all the young people around me is to remain approachable," Ferruccio Lamborghini said in one of the last interviewed he ever gave. If Enzo Ferrari would have been approachable and listened to Lamborghini, we may never have seen the Automobili Lamborghini started and the improvements to the high-performance sports cars we see today.

Lesson #4: Set Yourself Apart From the Competition
Ferruccio Lamborghini spent a lifetime making sure that his tractors, automobile and other products he manufactured were different from his competition. "Look at what others are not doing with their products and perfecting it," he would often say. He believed that his companies had to set a higher standard than the others, especially when it came to high-performance sports cars.

Lesson #5: Hire the Best

"Well, in the early Sixties there was quite a number of designers and stylists to choose from. But Scaglione arrived at my place in a big shiny Mercedes, immaculately dressed and accompanied by a breathtakingly beautiful secretary. ‘Your car will be ready in a week,’ he told me. So I gave him the job. In the end my car was bodied in a ramshackle hut that hardly measured three or four meters long," Ferruccio Lamborghini would say about how he chose his first automobile engineer. This started a relationship that lasted many years, but Lamborghini was still the main engineer.

Lamborghini Finishes His Work
Ferruccio Lamborghini would say, “I never planned on getting into the automobile industry, but I knew a better car could be built,” during an interview toward the end of his life. He had accomplished everything he wanted and built a legendary sports car that continues to be one of the top luxury cars today. However, he did find out that business is not always fair.

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Stuck Launching Your Business?
If you or others you respect think you’re crazy for starting the business concept you’re working on, that is great news. That is where the best game-changers come from. But it is only the first step towards success. Here is the other one.

Toplevel Business Consulting Now Free
Can you think of a single business success story where the entrepreneur worked in isolation, without expert advice? Now, thanks to the wonders of Web 2.0, that advice is universally available, and mostly completely free of charge.

Sales Secrets - The Best Advice
Some advice you receive naturally falls by the wayside. Some advice sticks to your ribs for a lifetime. See some of the advice that has made a difference.

Online Business Success: Attracting Ideal Advisory Board Members
Are you consistently getting free customized business advice from industry leaders? Read this article and learn strategies for attracting expert advice for your business.

Internet Businesses - The First Advice You Must Listen To Before Any Other
Advice is cheap and anybody can give advice. But there are some advice that is worth a minute or two or your time.

Pay No Attention To "Free Advice"
When you get inspired to take on something tough, you're bound to get free advice that you can't make it work. Generally, you should thank the advisor but ignore the advice. If everyone who'd ever been advised against a risky venture had heeded the free advice, nothing great would ever have been accomplished by the human race.

Franchising - Great Expectations
It is vitally important to seek advice when purchasing a franchised business. Do not try and go it alone. The cost associated with seeking advice will potentially save you money in the long term. Seek advice from experienced franchise advisers. Do not be nervous to ask about their experience in franchising.

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