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Market Perspective
September was a long and volatile month in the financial services industry and markets are taking most investors on a wild and sometimes frightening ride. The news about corporate failures and bailouts is confusing and the economic news is disheartening. That said, I wanted to remind you that we have a financial plan in place that assumed we'd hit rough patches like this eventually. People react emotionally to money and volatility, and this fact is not new.
Get Prepared for the Upturn
Tips to get your ready for the upturn in the economy
Managing Through Challenging Times
Tips to manage through this economy
Surviving and Succeeding in the Current Global Financial Crisis
Despite the turbulent economic news swirling around us, there is really no better time in history to consider starting a business. This is because the internet has literally delivered the world to our living rooms. Starting a home based business that leverages the awesome power of the internet is something more and more people are undertaking as they seek to generate extra income, and to ease the constant worry about being fired from their jobs.
Flight To Safety No More?
Friday's market action was rather interesting. Both the equity markets AND the US dollar gained as the S&P 500 index ETF (SPY) and the Powershares US Dollar Index Bullish (UUP) were up 1.3% on the day. Has the dollar's status as a safe haven currency been broken?

Better Business Prospecting-Looking for Mr. Goodlead
Aren’t we all getting a little tired of hearing the dismal economic news? The endless stream of droning discussions about foreclosures, bailouts, bankruptcies, and, recession is enough to make even the most upbeat, positive salespeople want to bury their heads in the sand. Sure, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed and discouraged when times are tough, but this is NOT the time to slow down. Instead, it’s a clear signal for you to stay in the game and ramp up your efforts.

Create a Think Tank & Create a Business Revolution
In this article, Rosemary Rein, Ph.D links the pain of the current economic crisis with the potential of major business revolutions occurring during “an economic tsunami”. Rosemary also provides 10 tips for bringing a creative climate of year-round innovation to your organization.
How To Grow Your Business By Ignoring Bad News
People need to eat. Those people are both your customers and your employees. You, as the business owner, marketing professional, or generally responsible businessperson, have a role to play to ensure that you and those around you continue to eat. The question, though, is how can you continue your business when everywhere you look you see bad economic news. Ignore it.
Leveraging Retail Technology
Retailers need to continue to invest in enabling technologies, even in an economic downturn, to enhance efficiencies, productivity, and customer experience.

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More Strategic PR Advice From Your PR Doctor
Did you ever wonder why your news release never resulted in an article or story in the media to which it was sent? Or did you ever wonder if the release was ever read? Do you know why some news releases always get tossed into the wastebasket? Your strategic thinking business coach shares the following tips for your news releases that will help get them on the news desk instead of in the news wastebasket.

Sub-Saharan Africa Learning What Works
Africa is the world's poorest continent. But for the first time in a generation—amid all the bad news—there is hope for change. An increasing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa are showing signs of economic progress, reflecting the implementation of better economic policies and structural reforms.
Small Business Fuels the Economy
On a global basis the news continues to be gloom and doom on the economic front. Major corporations around the world continue to downsize or right-size as they attempt to move towards profitability. Jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate. Along with the jobs go the economic benefits of full employment. There is, however, a brighter side to this economic picture. This can be found in the area of small business.
Market Perspective
September was a long and volatile month in the financial services industry and markets are taking most investors on a wild and sometimes frightening ride. The news about corporate failures and bailouts is confusing and the economic news is disheartening. That said, I wanted to remind you that we have a financial plan in place that assumed we'd hit rough patches like this eventually. People react emotionally to money and volatility, and this fact is not new.
Find The Good
We are constantly inundated with a barrage of “news” from the media. It is complete and total overkill. Our daily lives are being bombarded with the daily stew of bad economic news served up by so called “experts” who all seem to have emerged “after the fact” giving us their interpretation of how things are bad and how they will get worse before they’ll get better. Who says? Where were these oracles when we needed them, ahead of the trend versus monday morning quarterbacking?

Surviving an Economic Downturn: Creative Alternatives to Layoffs
It seems that you can't escape the headlines these days about the gloomy economic news. In every media outlet, we read or hear about stock market losses, real estate slowdowns, job losses, bankruptcies and bailouts. These are clearly challenging economic times. One key question for your business is how do you handle the economic slowdown when it comes to your staffing levels? Should you institute a hiring freeze? Can you take advantage of layoffs at your competitors by snatching up strong performers that they've been forced to downsize? Or do you need to layoff employees yourself? In this article, we look at some of the options facing small- and medium-sized businesses when determining how to handle their human resources needs during an economic slowdown.

The Upside to the Downside
I’m not denying the economic hard times, but I am saying that not only are we finally beginning to see positive news filter through, but that there have also been upsides to this financial upheaval we’ve been going through. Lessons can be learned and fortunes made during tough economic times. It was during the Great Depression that the billion dollar cosmetics industry was launched.
Staying Current and Adjusting in the Retail Business
In the not too long ago past there were three main sources of live news; TV, newspaper and the radio. This older format allowed people to either look at or not look at what was being presented by the media. Nowadays, there are countless sources of live news, thanks to the Internet. So, with so many sources of news, I select only the subject matter I am interested in and sources that I find to be accurate; hence "selectively". It is obvious that we are in an economic crisis, which is old news. But it wasn't old news back in September or October of 2008. I knew that the economy was being steered into a storm, like nothing I had ever seen before.

5 Reasons Why Now Is The Best Time To Buy A Franchise
Whether it's the top headline on the evening news or front-page news in your daily newspaper, we are consistently bombarded with bad economic news in the national media. With all that's happening, you could easily come to the conclusion that in today’s economy you would be crazy to consider purchasing a franchise. What the media forgets to mention, however, are all the "right" reasons for opening a franchise business in today’s economy. Here are 5 great reasons to buy a franchise in the current economic climate:

Don't Become a Digital Dinosaur
Today's Internet means amateurs have more power than ever before. This is good news and bad news. The good news is that anybody can have their say. But the bad news is that anybody can have their say! If you still want to be "The Go To Guy/Gal" in your area of expertise, you'd better be out there, making a contribution. You can bet your life somebody is else doing it - on your turf, to your clients, in your market.
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