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Top 5 Employee Retention Mistakes
Yes, it's an employer's market and there are plenty of capable people looking for work in the current economic climate. But now isn't the time to sit back and assume your employees have no options available to them so you can ignore them or treat them poorly. Many employers are making these costly employee retention mistakes.
Starting A Home Based Business? – Avoid These 6 Costly Blunders
A lot of people would like to start an internet home based business. However, many people do not know where to start. Starting a home based business can be overwhelming and confusing for the inexperienced. The fact that there are a lot of ‘business opportunities’ on the internet does not make it any easier.

A Dead Simple Way to Get More Free Advertising for Your Business and Website
Would you like a simple way to promote your business—and drive traffic to your Website—for free? One of the best things you can do is something far too many small business owners aren’t doing...Learn what it is and how you can take advantage of it in this sassy article from Practical Marketing Expert Stacy Karacostas.

9 Practical Reasons Why Web-Audio is a Necessity
Many business people are scared-off by an assumption that multimedia solutions like audio are expensive - but that is just not the case. Audio is far more cost-effective than video, animations, and other labor intense rich media creative. If you hire the right people who know what they are doing, you can have an audio presentation professionally produced and incorporated into your website for a budget within the reach of any serious marketer.
How to Create Great Direct Mail Copy That Will Get Noticed
Direct mail can be a good way to grow your business, but it can also be a costly mistake if not done correctly. What can you do to get the best response possible?

Sell Them What They Want
Imagine you’ve decided you want a red mustang. You can just see yourself zipping around corners hugging the pavement. You see heads turning in admiration as they watch you whiz past. You can almost feel the wind in your face as you cruise along with the top down. You envision heads turning staring at you and your red hot car when you stop at the traffic light. You know they’re thinking if only it could be them.

With a Lease The Devil Is In The Details
This week we'll discuss the most important aspect of the process: signing a commercial lease (insert dramatic music here). One of the biggest mistakes many entrepreneurs make when leasing commercial space is not reading the lease. Forget reading the fine print. When it comes to a lease its ALL fine print
10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a Franchise
Many people dream of being their own boss someday, but are afraid of the risks involved. We know that it is impossible to take all the risk out of going into business. In many cases franchising provides a way to minimize the risk, but it can never remove all of it. Franchising methods can be quite complicated, and certainly anyone looking into a franchise quickly learns that there are a large number of factors to be considered. Again and again, I’ve seen people ignore the important warning signs and make Costly Mistakes when buying a franchise. They fall into the same traps that have victimized others before them. As they say, what we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat!

10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a Franchise
Many people dream of being their own boss someday, but are afraid of the risks involved. We know that it is impossible to take all the risk out of going into business. In many cases franchising provides a way to minimize the risk, but it can never remove all of it. Franchising methods can be quite complicated, and certainly anyone looking into a franchise quickly learns that there are a large number of factors to be considered. Again and again, I’ve seen people ignore the important warning signs and make Costly Mistakes when buying a franchise. They fall into the same traps that have victimized others before them. As they say, what we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat!

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Remember That the People You Address Are Selfish
Remember that the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interest or your profit. They seek service for themselves. Ignoring this fact is a common mistake and a costly mistake in advertising. Ads say in effect, buy my brand. Give me the trade you give to others. Let me have the money. That is not a popular appeal.
Smarter Marketing in a Slow Economy
More often than not, when times get tough marketing gets the bullet. In some cases where there has been an incorrect allocation of resources within a company this may be justified. But in most cases it is a mistake. Sometimes a very costly one!

Documenting A Bad Experience Can Cost You Sales
The “Documenting Bad Experiences For Future Reference Could Be A costly Mistake!
Why Charging a Flat Fee Can FlatLine Your Home Staging Business
Many home stagers make the costly mistake of charging a flat rate rather than an hourly fee. Structuring the pricing for a home staging business this way can quickly lead to bankruptcy.
How to Create Great Direct Mail Copy That Will Get Noticed
Direct mail can be a good way to grow your business, but it can also be a costly mistake if not done correctly. What can you do to get the best response possible?

4 Words Your Web Site Should Never Use
There are 4 words used on millions of web sites that are seemingly innocent, but very costly if you make the same mistake. I'll not only tell you what these words are, but why they are counter productive and what you can do to be more successful with your web site.
5 Factors to Consider when Choosing the Right Target Market
I often see small businesses making the costly mistake of not having a clearly defined target market. They continually try to please everybody rather than focus on a narrower field to those who really will benefit from the product or service their business has to offer. Trying to please everybody usually ends up in pleasing nobody.
The Single Biggest Mistake That Salespeople Make
Ask 10 people and you'll get 10 different answers about the biggest mistake that salespeople make. Ask the question a bit differently and I will give you a different answer too. But ask the question in the title - "What is the single biggest mistake that salespeople make?", with the key word being mistake - something they do incorrectly rather than due to a weakness - and I can provide data to back it up. There are actually 3 mistakes that are nearly always made but 2 of them happen as a result of the single biggest mistake.

Sales Killers to Avoid
Sometimes it is the very basic things that make the difference. We are so focused on the latest way of doing things, the latest technology and techniques that we forget the basics and when dealing with people this can be a costly mistake.
When Does it Pay to Replace rather Than Repair?
I cringe when I see novice real estate investors remodeling a house on a street that doesn’t deserve that kind of attention. This is called over-improvement and is a very costly mistake. That’s why it pays to know your market and the neighborhood where you buy.
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