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One Of The Benefits Of Ecommerce Is That It Is A Recession-Proof Market
One business sector that has not been damaged by the current recession is ecommerce. This article looks at this phenomenon and offers advice on how to benefit from it.
Sales Tips for Trade Shows and Major Accounts
The exhibitor and visitor attendance is more good news relative to confidence, spending and outlook in the business sector. The bad news is that the exhibitors were clueless as to how to get people to stop at their booths and engage.
What Small Business Owners Really Want
We wonder where the time went, what the New Year will hold and how we can take our enterprise to what we euphemistically call the next level. This year there is an extra bit of haze in the picture because the mid-term elections have sent a lot of rookies to various legislatures and embracing small business may not be their #1 priority. I think that the biggest thing small business owners want from all levels of government is simply respect. With over 60% of all jobs created in the country coming from the small business community, won’t politicians and others simply say “nice job” to the men and women who hustle and risk ev
The Value of Income Producing Activity in your Home Based Internet Marketing Business
Without a focus on income producing activity each day your home based internet marketing business is a non-starter. You may think this is plainly obvious but there are a number of frustrating diversions which affect your ability to make money online. Follow the leaders in the internet marketing industry with a laser-focus on income generating activity.

Should You Start a Retail Business, Stay with Retail Management or Look at a Star Business Online?
Retail management? Start a retail business? What about the current economic conditions? What other alternatives are viable? In this article I offer my solution to some of the problems facing people who are part of a sector that has suffered greatly in the last couple of years.

Favorite Small Business Franchises For The Techie
Techie, Nerd, Geek, while many of these pay have been put downs at one point in time, these days geek is chic. If you're a techie looking to startup your own business, check out some of the best small business franchises currently available.

10 Canadian Home Based Business Opportunities
Getting creative when it comes to business opportunities is more important than ever these days, so if you're considering a new franchise business, why not check out some great options available for Canadian franchises.
Crystal Ball
Today’s economic situation is new to all of us, and the size and complexity of the modern problem may seem to diminish what we have learned and practiced for years. Let’s apply what we know, perform the basics, and at the same time pay attention to current events, trends and indicators. Read your own crystal ball, establish what you believe will occur, and act accordingly.

Achieving Brand Leadership in the Age of E-
The benefits of being a brand leader are endless. Brand leaders attract talented employees, have increased bargaining power, don't have to sell on price, and routinely receive the lion's share of publicity.

An Oasis of Creative Thought and Action in a Desert of Conflicting Policy (Associated Manufacturing Marketing Group Profile)
“From a domestic engagement perspective, public sector procurement practices are leading to an erosion of the overall supply base. This escalating level of erosion and its negative impact on innovation was initially presented as part of an October 2002 U.S. report by the Executive Office of the President. Specifically, the practice of contract bundling which resulted in a steadily decreasing number of Small – Medium enterprises receiving federal contracts was seen as a direct threat to the nation’s pool of “innovation and creativity.” This of course has paved the way for newer legislation which has resulted in agencies such as NASA unbundling contracts in an effort to make business more manageable for small enterprises, or groups of small enterprises.

Too Late to Avoid Warming
Yes, Global Warming is real and is caused by humans. We need to get used to it. We will have more droughts, more fires and more extreme weather events. We can slow it down but we can't prevent it now.
Business Knowledge to Shape Your Future
We are living in a “customer driven economy.” People are walking into car dealerships with an internet invoice price list in hand and stating what they will pay for a vehicle and in some cases stating exactly how they want the vehicle equipped and when they want it. In this new environment; Time – want it now, Money – want it cheap, and Quality – expect it in product, sale and service, is the admission price to do business.
Powerful Strategic Networking Questions From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Networking is an important and absolutely critical activity for business marketers and sales people. People who have the ability to network strategically will always enjoy a competitive advantage in business. Are you comfortable in a networking role? Are you striving to be the best you can be when it comes to networking? What is one major thing you can do to ensure you will be successful at networking? Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach believes the number one thing you should become is a master at asking questions. There is so much power in the ability to ask the right questions and Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach has developed a list of ten (10) powerful strategic networking questions for you to use in any business or social setting to open valuable conversation.

A Prescription From The PR Doctor To Prevent Unhealthy Public Relations
The public’s perceptions of the health and well being of a company can be formed by the publicity the company and its leaders receive in the media. And certainly no business or individual wants negative publicity that will taint the current “state of the business” or images of the company and its leaders. Positive public relations are very important to all businesses and require a dedicated strategic thinking effort to achieve the desired results. Yet, there are so many times and so many examples of public relations efforts being done in an unhealthy manner. The PR Doctor has developed a prescription for you to use to prevent unhealthy public relations. The prescription includes the following ten (10) prescribed strategic actions.

A Prescription From The PR Doctor To Become Positive Headline News
Publicity is an essential ingredient in any integrated marketing communications plan. Positive public relations are very important to all businesses and require a dedicated strategic thinking effort to achieve the desired results. The impact of media coverage and positive media headlines can mean an enhancement of your company and your individual image in the communities and the markets where you do business. The PR Doctor has developed a prescription for you to use to become positive headline news. The prescription includes the following ten (10) prescribed strategic actions.

What is Franchising?
Franchising offers an excellent opportunity for you to be in business for yourself. When you hear the word " Franchise" you probably think of fast food restaurants such as Burger King, McDonald's or Subway. But the truth is Franchising is so much wider than that.
Exploring entrepreneurship in a declining economy
The paper explores entrepreneurship in a period of economic decline by identifying reasons for business start-ups under such conditions and examining whether the reasons were extrinsic in nature and entrepreneurial in origin.

Improving business conditions - Increasing SME Access to Finance: A Four Pronged Approach
Improving business conditions, boosting the capacity of SMEs, expanding the financial sector and strengthening links between firms will permanently increase SMEs’ access to finance.
The Franchise Business Plan
What to consider when raising funding to buy your chosen franchise.

Other business sector Related Articles

Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
Benin Mwangi, who blogs about doing business in Africa, asked me recently: "should the discussion be about how to get the informal sector to become part of the formal sector or should it be how to cater to the informal sector?" This in an excursion into the morass of African poverty and development. The short answer is: neither; ending poverty has nothing to do with the informal sector.

2.2 Sectoral performance I: Economic Report on Africa 2007
African economies are experiencing a structural shift whereby the service sector is becoming an important driver of growth. In 2004, the service sector contributed 49 per cent of GDP growth compared to 36 per cent for industry (including mining and quarrying) and 15 per cent for agriculture. In 2004, all three sectors continued to grow, albeit at relatively low rates. The industrial sector had the highest growth rate at 9.05 per cent, although growth in the manufacturing sector fell by almost 3.8 per cent compared to 2003. Developments within each sector and for each subregion are discussed in more detail below.
4.0 The state of women’s enterprises in Tanzania: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
Currently, there is no comprehensive data on the number of women in the MSME sector, the size of their enterprises, or their distribution by sector. Only proxies are available. In NISS (1991) women accounted for about 35 per cent of informal enterprises. By 1995, it was estimated that the proportion of women in the sector could have risen to 70 per cent of the informal sector labour force. In a 2000 Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) study, 55 per cent of the enterprises in the sample were owned by women (as reported in Mlingi, 2000, p. 89). Swisscontact (2003) estimated that women owned 43 per cent of MSEs.
Unleashing entrepreneurship: Making business work for the poor
There has been a big change in the United Nations's engagement with the private sector influenced by its stewardship of the Millennium Development Goals. It was the urgent need to enhance the contribution of the private sector in achieving the MDGs that prompted Secretary General Kofi Annan to appoint a commission to examine how the role of the private sector in this major global effort could be maximized.

Residual Income Affiliate Business Opportunities In Technology
Creating a business in the technology sector is as easy as it has ever been before. Many of the services within the technology sector such as internet, cell phone and web hosting services used to be monopolized by large corporations such as At&T, and Go Daddy. Now, with the advent of affiliate marketing....
Making Finance Work for Africa
South Africa’s success in getting the financial sector to extend services to poorer communities could be adapted for other African countries, said Trevor Manuel, Minister of Finance of South Africa. He told participants that this is exactly what has been achieved by South Africa’s Financial Sector Charter. The charter was developed some four years ago by the financial sector, including banks and insurers, after the government urged it to transform its practices and policies
Facing and addressing the challenges as an SME in Kenya
The recent political and social skirmishes in Kenya have added an extra layer of challenges to the Kenyan business community, the SME sector being one of the worst affected. The reason I say this is unlike big business that have cash reserves that help them weather the storm, the SME sector commonly operates on working capital and day-to-day cash, the reserve that is there is primarily used to pay bills and source for new business.

The Bands of Public Sector Supplier Engagement
“To really leverage vendor partnerships, solution providers need an in. For the public sector, that entre has to go beyond the program to the individual behind it who understands the market nuances and challenges that can hold partners back.” From the article 25 Public-Sector Channel Leaders (ChannelWeb Network, March 19, 2007) In one simple statement within the confines of a single article there has never been a better or more succinct explanation of what plagues public sector procurement practice today. Especially in the area of supplier development and engagement!

About.com’s Martin Murray’s post “Non-Profit Organization Suing ERP Supplier” A Sign of the Times?
In a white paper that I had written in 2007 titled “SAP Procurement for Public Sector” I had highlighted how the challenges with failed ERP-centric initiatives extended beyond the public sector to include the private sector. The difference as one senior Colgate-Palmolive executive told me shortly after scrapping a failed program was that “unlike the public sector in which a failed initiative becomes front page news, private sector company ERP failures rarely make a blip on the media’s collective radar screen.” The lack of media awareness notwithstanding, the frequency of failures in the private sector is comparable to the number of setbacks that occur in the public sector.
The Revised Payment of Gratuity Act - A Boon for Private Sector Employees
Employees of private sector organizations have a reason to smile. Government of India will be revising the ceiling on gratuity payable and increase it from 3.5 lakh to 10 lakh rupees. The main behind considering this revision proposal has been to bridge the disparity between private sector and government sector employees.
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