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Should you Take C.O.B.R.A.?
Should you leave a job, C.O.B.R.A. insurance might be the optimum choice to insure yourself. It may also be a very big error. Knowing if you should take your previous company's C.O.B.R.A.
COBRA Healthcare insurance vs Individual Health insurance
While C.O.B.R.A. Insurance is often a good choice for many former employees, people often accept the C.O.B.R.A. option when there are better choices. If compared to private health insurance, C.O.B.R.A. can be too expensive, it can conclude too early and it can put someone else in control of your policy.
Monday Prayer for Work
Monday Prayer for Work Lord, Help me to always give 100% at work….. 12% on Monday 23% on Tuesday 40% on Wednesday 20% on Thursday 5% on Friday
Are you fishing or hoping for a free boat ride?
This morning Joanne and I were talking to some locals on a tiny island where we’re hanging out for a few days. We saw a fishing boat come in right after a pretty violent storm. There were probably 20 guys hanging around the edges of this very small boat. No one is paid for their services – they all fish and keep track of their catch. Typically, they pay the captain and owner of the boat 2 pounds of fish per day for the privilege of fishing from his boat.

No and Low-Cost Marketing Ideas To Grow Your Business.
Here are seven no-to low-cost business ideas to market your product or service. Ideas from networking and joint venturing to honoring and doing simple math. Most of this idea can be done with your investment of time and effort.
3 Simple Steps to Creating Your Marketing Calendar
What is a marketing calendar? This article asks and answers the questions what is a marketing calendar and offers in three easy ways for you to create your next marketing calendar. First you'll need a strategic marketing plan with all your marketing tactics ready to be put into your new marketing calendar. Then you'll need use your marketing calendar to kick all your marketing into fast action.
Goals setting tips for your business pt1
Rocco here from Bluesilver Business ,Marketing & Property Consultant goals and planning is very important to succeeding in life it helps you and the people around you to see where you a heading in life helps get what has to bee done on a daily or weekly basses

Strategy vs. Tactics: Which Drives Your Organization?
You don't have unlimited time or resources to do a hundred things. If your organization is 'raining down' with tactics you could be chasing stuff as opposed to being guided by the stragegic direction you have set.
Top 14 Marketing Tips for Technology Businesses
A down economy and slow summer season make it one of the best times to re-evaluate your company’s marketing strategy. Here are some marketing tips which work successfully for technology product or services companies.

Enjoy the Holiday Season... because Mayhem is Just Around the Corner
Want to increase your profits by thousands in the new year? This is your guide to fufilling your resolutions.
Lessons on Excellence
The Road to "the Top" comes through constant practice and is paved by the pursuit of excellence. Remember, mediocrity is miles from excellence. Mediocrity is easy, unnoticed, uninspiring, and boring. Excellence is difficult, visible, inspiring and fun.
New Years Resolutions
Make sure your New Years Resolutions succeed.
Goals & Plans
Are Goals and Plans Cosmic Laws?
The world doesn’t pay for what you know, but for……….
Okay I’ll go ahead and finish the sentence: The World Doesn’t Pay You For What You Know but for What You Do. I guess we would all acknowledge the truth of that and yet I am amazed at the number of people I run into who are bogged down in analyzing, learning, planning and organizing when what they really need to do is take action. I think more than anything else that’s what separates winners from losers – the winners take action.

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Strategic Thinking – A Wise Business Investment, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Strategic thinking is critical to the long-term success of businesses today. Yet, there are too many businesses that fail to invest time, money and human capital into planning for the future. So many businesses are concentrating only on the day-to-day activities in their business and are failing to create or remember a vision for the future. Some businesses work diligently to create strategic plans, business plans, integrated marketing communications plans, etc. only to leave these plans dormant on some shelf. They fail to remember that these plans are living documents, which warrant follow-through, review and updates. Businesses need to commit to spend more time spent on strategy on a regular basis. Here are ten (10) tips from your strategic thinking business coach to help make the best use of time for strategic thinking.

Business Plans Don’t Last Forever
Business plans... you either love them or hate them. They are a beautiful thing when they create a unified focus and alignment across your company... And empower your team to go out and do what they must do to produce results. But fast-growing companies outgrow their business plans. Often, it is just a matter of time, because business plans don’t last forever! It’s highly likely you have outgrown your business plan when:
Resolve to Follow the 5 Stages of Planning for a Prosperous 2010
With the challenges and uncertainties facing small business owners in 2010, a well-crafted plan is more important than ever. Many companies with 2009 plans that were “in my head” or “sketched on a napkin” aren’t making plans for 2010; they’re no longer in business. Unless your 2010 plans include becoming a statistic, you must resolve to commit the resources necessary to develop a high quality plan for 2010. Developing an actionable plan that increases your odds of success is as technically demanding as any of the products or services you offer to customers.
Business Plans: Uses and Abuses
“Some men see things as they are and say "Why?". I dream of things that never were and say "Why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Do you ever dream about business success and wonder how to make it happen? We all have aspirational dreams and goals but how many of us know how to turn them into reality. Many of you will have thought about writing business plans to make your dreams come true and been put off, thinking them either too hard to write, not necessary, or feeling that they are not really needed as the plans are already in your head. In fact it is important that you create plans, as they provide focus and a pathway for you to follow to achieve your business goals. In principle plans are not that difficult to write, providing some fundamentals are clearly identified and followed before you start the process.

Business Plans: Summary Format
Do you dream about business success and wonder how to make it happen? We all have aspirational dreams and goals but how many of us know how to turn them into reality. Many will have thought about writing business plans to make goals become a reality but been put off, thinking them either too hard to write or not necessary. In fact it is important that you create plans, as they provide focus and a pathway for you to follow to achieve your business goals. In principle plans are not that difficult to write, providing some fundamentals are clearly identified and followed before you start the process. The following main areas should be summarised:

The 4 key reasons that people build business plans
There are a number of different reasons why people create business plans. Understanding the reason for your plan can help you better target your message. Whilst all plans are largely similar, the key areas of focus should differ slightly based on the reason for building your business plan. The business plan should clearly articulate the opportunity represented by your business and the approach you propose will best capitalize on the opportunity. Investor focused plans should also include an explanation of the proposed exit approach.
How can Hyper-Question based business planning improve planning quality?
Not all business plans are created equal. After creating hundreds of successful business plans, we have come to understand some of the key elements that determine planning success.

Change Management Can Lead to Rigidity and Resistance to Change
Beware of formal organization improvement or "change management" (an oxymoron) plans. Like strategic plans, organization improvement or change management plans can reduce an organization's effectiveness. They can lead to rigidity, bureaucracy, and resistance to change. This sounds like an argument against planning. It's not. We have found that constant and ongoing personal, team, and organization improvement planning is vital. But too many "change management" and improvement plans are built on the same faulty premise as strategic planning - that there is a right path, which can be determined in advance and then implemented. We often hear managers declare that they have the right strategic or improvement plan, but the reason things aren't going according to plan is because of "execution problems." This is a deadly assumption.
Team Spirit Built from the Top
Team spirit is the catalyst every organization needs to achieve outstanding performance. Strategic plans, marketing, technology and capital investment are clearly important, but emotional commitment of the people using the tools and executing the plans is what determines whether companies sink or soar.
Now is the Time
I love the hopeful feeling of having a new calendar and fresh plans laid out in front of me. But of course the New Year doesn’t wait long before euphoria subsides and it begins testing your resolve, persistence and plans. Whether your goals for 2012 were written in indelible ink or simply mumbled to yourself during your commute, the universe somehow seems to know about them and begins delivering the challenges. At some primal level, we know that our plans will only take wing if we get both hands on the steering wheel and are not shy about turning it in a direction we want to go. So, if starting a business is on your list of resolutions, I have some thoughts to share with you.

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