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With Recession Expected To Last, Which Franchise Businesses Will Succeed?
Many are saying that our recession is far from over, but what does that mean for franchises? Here is a list of business opportunities that not even a long recession can do damage to.

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“A Business Coach’s Top Ten Tactics for Marketing Professional Services”
Marketing professional services is a real and difficult challenge. The challenges of marketing professional services are different from those of marketing products. Two major reasons for the differences are that clients cannot see or touch professional services before they buy them and the professional services are often produced and consumed simultaneously. And another reason is that marketing professional services is split among marketing, sales, professional and management staff instead of a dedicated marketing and sales force. Based upon my research and my own professional experience, I developed a Top Ten Tactics for marketing professional services. My top ten tactics for marketing professional services are:

Meetings
I had breakfast today with a senior executive who estimates she spends more than 30% of her time in internal meetings.
Elephant Math
Darwin pointed out that if you take one pair of breeding elephants and make some conservative estimates about their fertility, you would have more than 15 million elephants in less than 500 years (if none of them died an early death.)
3.8 Working to end child labour: Working Out of Poverty
Ensuring that children have a chance to break out of the cycle of poverty is a cause that has attracted worldwide support. The latest ILO estimates for 2000 are that some 352 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 were economically active.
The "2Bs": Buffett. Basics.
The subprime mess gets nastier by the day. I've seen recent estimates of the fiscal damage alone exceeding $1 trillion. (Not enough pain to reduce Wall Street bonuses, mind you—a record $39 billion in performance-based handouts expected.)

Reducing the Employee Theft Epidemic
The FBI calls employee theft “the fastest growing crime in America!” and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that 75% of employees steal from the workplace. But it possible to reduce the incidence of employee theft by following some simple tips.
Deflation and the Dollar, Round 2?
The oil inventory numbers came out yesterday and there was an increase of roughly 5 million barrels, 1 million more than the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) estimates. Consequently, the price plunged nearly 6% in its largest drop in nearly 3 months. But is this the whole story?
Become the Star You Are Meant to Be
You want more out of life than just a job. Whether you work for a large company, a startup, a nonprofit, or you are an entrepreneur, you want to be a star; a complete and total personal and professional success. But professional success is complicated and may be elusive. To achieve professional success and become the star you are meant to be you need a professional success blueprint.
Padding Estimates
We all know there is a game of padding estimates in most parts of our society. It certainly exists in business. Here are a few helpful thoughts on how you can get more accurate numbers.
5 Contractor Selling Techniques to use with Research-Savvy Customers
There are many kinds of customers, but the most classic might be the “we’re just shopping" type of customer. When this customer presents him or herself to you, they like to make sure that you know they are “just starting the process” of getting estimates.
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