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Giving Up Salary for Equity After VC Funding
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| I got a great question the other day which highlights the tension that can emerge in an early stage company between VCs and entrepreneurs. |
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American Execs Think they Deserve to be Paid Less
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| This is hard to believe, but according to a new study, most American executives say they believe they are overpaid. |
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Attractive People Inspire More Teamwork
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| If you are running a business or even conducting a meeting, here’s the ticket to success. Have a lot of attractive people around. |
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Staffing Shortages? Maybe You’re the Problem
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| Demographers are predicting that staffing shortages are only going to worsen in the coming years. Too many managers mistakenly assume the only way to keep people is to bite the bullet and pay more in salaries, benefits and perks. Unfortunately, those managers are often 'fixing' the wrong problem. Marcus Buckingham of the Gallop organization reported that the number one reason employees quit was their personal feelings about their immediate supervisor. Ask yourself if it's time your company took measures to fix the real problem when it comes to staff turnover - managers and supervisors are not equipped with the necessary skills to make their team members feel valued... |
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Creating a 6 Figure Income..... Is It Realistic?
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| With more and more online business opportunities appearing and with claims of a 6 figure income I look into this to see how realistic this actually is. Additionally is money the only reason why people joing an online business. |
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Pay for Performance - in this Economy?
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| Yes, especially now! There are three potential mistakes organizations can make when there is a downturn in the economy.
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Competing motivations creating confusion
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| How to incentivise and reward sales people has long been a contentious topic. Too many times I have seen businesses set up incentive programs that reward the wrong behaviours which can affect team morale, client relationships, sales, staff retention, and so on.
For instance, I recently met the managing director of a medium sized software business who asked me why would his sales people keep selling one version of their product when they had been instructed to also sell in a newer more comprehensive version of the product. |
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Recession impacts salaries, attrition in Indian BPO sector
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| Earlier this month, the association that supports and promotes India’s business process outsourcing predicted a bright future for the sector. While the past year has presented challenges, there is undoubtedly strong growth ahead, NASSCOM said at the CEO Summit 2009.
In fact, Som Mittal, the president of NASSCOM, forecast that outsourcing to India is likely to increase threefold by 2020, earning aggregate revenues of $225 billion. "While the short-term challenges exist, the potential for this industry is tremendous and the industry will not be demand constrained," he said.
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Why become an entrepreneur?
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| With the increase in entrepreneurs in this century, it is common that many of us are hearing or even asking the question - Why become an entrepreneur? What are the pros and cons? What do people really want to achieve when they start out on their own? I’m going to talk a little about these in the following article, and if you are looking to be an entrepreneur, then I advise you to read this first. |
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Report: 40% of companies to hire contract or temp employees
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| There are signs that the current recession could end soon in the U.S., which means employers may be considering their hiring strategy for when the economy turns around. |
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Retaining Employees – Protecting Your Most Important Asset
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| Developing and maintaining an employee retention program demonstrates that you value your employees and want them to succeed. They will be happier, look forward to coming to work, and want to remain with the organization. Satisfied employees are more committed and loyal, resulting in a productive work environment. This article provides helpful tips on how to retain your employees, your most important asset. |
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Great pieces of advice
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| When I started the company, I had absolutely no idea on how to provide consulting services, let alone run a business. A lot of people gave us a lot of good advice, and I thought I would list out the more unconventional pieces of advice we received, and immensely benefited from |
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Are you creating competing motivations in your sales force?
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| I recently met the managing director of a medium-sized software business, who asked me why would his sales people keep selling one version of their product when they had been instructed to also sell in a newer, more comprehensive version of the product.
It turned out that his sales people earned more commission by selling in the older version than the newer version of his product. And the sales people made the bulk of their income from their commissions rather than from their salaries.
There you have it. What makes perfect sense to the sales person does not always work for the organisation or the customer. |
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Let Go of What You Cannot Control to Increase Sales & Reduce Stress
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| Is your inability to increase sales directly related to where you are investing your resources of time, energy, dollars and emotion? Is this increasing your stress levels? Learn a quick way to regain control of your sales and your life. |
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Top Eight Items To Consider When Recruiting New Staff Members
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| Are you having difficulty in recruiting qualified staff members? In the nonprofit field, organizations generally have limited budgets. This can result in lower salaries and a high turnover in staff members. If you want to attract qualified individuals whose primary focus is on people and human service oriented work versus a higher salary, I have found there are certain steps supervisors should take prior to beginning their recruitment efforts. The following article identifies my top eight items to consider when recruiting potential candidates.
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What Do You Work For?
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| What do you really work for? Discover in this short inspiring Insight from david Oliver how most of the highest paid executives earn less per hour than a clerk in a grocery store. It's a shock read more... |
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Working For Money
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| What do you really work for? Discover in this short inspiring Insight from david Oliver how most of the highest paid executives earn less per hour than a clerk in a grocery store. It's a shock read more... |
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Considering a Business Partnership...Consider This First
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| Business partnerships can be difficult. This article describes the process for creating a successful business partnership before you "tie the knot" by managing your expectations and building in safeguards so that disagreements don't stymie the business. |
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Low Cost Legitimate Ways to Make Money Online
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| These top three legitimate ways to make money online have helped a lot of people survive financially during hard economic times. |
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First Time Buyers: Bright Side of Slumping Real Estate Prices
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| Expert home stager, Staging Diva, discusses how slumping real estate prices makes a great situation for first time home buyers and why home staging is so important in this market. |
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How to Keep Your Best Employees
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| During a recent executive coaching session the topic of employee turnover came up. My client shared what has been an ongoing problem in his company: losing star performers. Recognizing the tremendous expense associated with recruiting, hiring and training as well as losses in production and efficiency, he wanted to know what his company could do to keep their best people. |
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Calculating How To Charge
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| This is how my friend Rick Schilling does when he tells people how much he will charge for his service. |
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Are You Selling Pennies, Dollars or Value?
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| What are you selling? If you answered products or services, that may be the incorrect answer in today's 21st century or even 20th century. To increase sales you may just need to change the answer to that question. |
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How to Shift From Fat & Nice to Lean & Mean to Increase Sales
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| Have you ever considered that maybe one of the reasons for your less that stellar sales is because you are just too fat and nice? Read how by being lazy to not having enforced accountability, you may be your own worst enemy. |
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What to Do in a Down Economy or The Magnificent Seven
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| It’s easy to survive when business is good. There is never going to be a magic solution to save everyone when times are tough. The measure of a business is whether they flourish in bad economic times not in good. Maybe that’s why the average lifespan of a business is only seven and a half years. “If your business is not eight years old, the odds are it will never be.”
I will share with you several strategies the will not only help you survive, but thrive in this down economy.
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How to Price Your Service to Sell
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| Finding the right price for your service is one of the keys to revenue growth. Pricing isn't the only consideration used by prospects, but it can be an immediate deterrent if the price is unreasonably high or so low that your services are perceived as lacking value. What can be done to avoid those two extremes? |
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Alternatives to redundancies have benefits
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| The overall cost with redundancies is far more than just the initial redundancy pay an employee receives. You will need to add costs for the recruitment when you require staff again and the cost of training new recruits to have them reach the development stage your redundant staff were at prior to being made redundant. How do you place a cost on this?
Then there are the negatives that come from any business making redundancies which includes low morale within the workforce which inevitably reduces production, performance and service. Good quality staff can leave for alternative employment due to the uncertainty which may happen after you have reduced to the number of staff you felt appropriate as they have been offered employment from interviews taken during the redundancy process. What is the cost of this?
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RecessionProof Your Real Estate Career
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| Many newer real estate agents are struggling to make money now that the market has slowed so considerably. The Staging Diva® says there’s money to be made as a home stager and here she explains why. |
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Adjustments of Final Accounts
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| The object of preparing final accounts is to find out the profits earned or losses suffered during a particular accounting period and to present the true picture of final position of the firm. While drawing the final accounts we have taken only those items of income and expenditure that are both earned and received and incurred and paid respectively. |
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Preparation of Profit and Loss Account
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| As already stated profit and loss account is commenced with gross profit or gross loss as ascertained by trading account. Then the profit and loss account is debited with all indirect expenses and losses. This results in closing of indirect expenses and losses account. The profit and loss account is then credited with various incomes and gains accounts by which all these accounts are closed. |
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Winning the Talent War In Turbulent Times
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| Jettisoning employees in financial tough times can very well result in losing industrious producers, top talent, longtime workers, and top managers. |
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Older Employees in Big Demand!!
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| Employers are facing a critical workforce shortage in the not too distant future. There are fewer younger workers entering the US workforce than there are older workers leaving: in fact the ratio is close to 1:3. And this labor shortage is predicted for all industries, from construction and manufacturing, to technology and health care.
At the same time, the definition of retirement is changing; more baby boomers are redefining traditional retirement planning by working longer. Sound like a formula for a great and continuing partnership between you and your (or another...) company? |
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7 Critical Factors That Define A Home Based Business’ Potential To Succeed
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| A lot of people are now looking for opportunities to start a home based business and earn money from home. For some people the main reason is to just earn extra cash, while for others it's the hope that the home business will replace their job's salaries. |
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"How To Determine If You Should Utilize An Incentive Program For Your Company"
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| Let's face facts. It is hard to run a business in this day and age. Not only is money tight everywhere you look but it is getting harder to find quality employees who are willing to make the grade when it comes to sales. You need to have employees who are doing all they should be plus a little more to make your business successful in every way. The real question is, how does one make that happen?
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The Apprentice - Idiots, Stalkers and Automobiles
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| Be warned – this posting reveals who has been ‘fired’ from the tenth episode and the rest of the post is only my observation and opinion based upon 60 minutes of edited TV, nothing more. |
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Be Sure Youre Charging Enough Money
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| Entrepreneurs love to get new clients for their business. You work hard developing your skills and marketing yourself and the payoff comes when someone says, yes, they want to hire you. Then comes the negotiation regarding fees..... |
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Custom Survey Do’s and Don’ts
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| If your company opts to utilize a custom survey instead of a published market survey, here is a short guide to creating the perfect survey. With this overview your organization is sure to avoid these classic mistakes. |
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Should you consider hiring an Outsource Franchise Director of Sales & Development?
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| The current economy is causing most Franchisors to wear many hats. With limited staffing and a restricted budget, how do you continue to promote and sell more franchises? The simple solution is to consider hiring an outside Director of Franchise Sales & Development. |
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$759 Billion Wasted Each Year!
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| That’s not a statistic on the latest government pork-barrel spending spree; that’s how much American business spends on salaries for which work was expected, but not performed! |
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Compensation Definitions: Basic Must Knows for the Entrepreneur or Employee
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| Have you ever been in a staff meeting or other location and had a visit from a Human Resource Professional to discuss Compensation? Or maybe you’ve inquired about salaries or hourly rates – and have you been bombarded with terminology. Here are some basic compensation terms with definitions that will help you sail through those meetings looking like the entrepreneur that you are.
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SEM Industry Training: What are the Options?
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| The growth of the Search Engine Marketing industry has underscored the need for faster, more flexible training options. |
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Negotiation Success Step Two Do Your Homework
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| Negotiation is everywhere. We negotiate for new jobs and higher salaries; for cars and homes; with our partners, siblings, and kids. Some negotiations are life changing – careers that move us from one part of the country to another. Other negotiations are less dramatic, but may be more frequent – who will do the chores, or where to take the next vacation. |
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Manage Your Cash Flow And Share Business Success Benefits
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| Advice For Startups - Manage your cash flow. You can’t spend a lot at the beginning. I was under a mountain of MBA debt coming out of school. I didn’t have the money to pay people top dollar so I used an innovative compensation structure. We had small salaries and large pay-for-performance incentives. If we didn’t sell any work, we didn’t get paid. That was a model that helped the business get off the ground. We offered much lower salaries with a lot of upside potential. With this mode we attracted people who were entrepreneurial. We’re constantly looking to innovate and be entrepreneurs – so this compensation model fits our culture perfectly. |
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Why using a virtual office assistant may be more cost effective
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| The cost of employing full-time administration staff is costing you more than you think. Added to their salaries, you will have to pay them holiday & sick pay; other government taxes; training costs and they will have regular “down-time”. And don’t forget the overheads associated with it - a telephone; desk & chair; insurances; software; stationery and many more expenses.
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Compensation Definitions: Basic Must Knows for the Entrepreneur or Employee
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| Have you ever been in a staff meeting or other location and had a visit from a Human Resource Professional to discuss Compensation? Or maybe you’ve inquired about salaries or hourly rates – and have you been bombarded with terminology. Here are some basic compensation terms with definitions that will help you sail through those meetings looking like the entrepreneur that you are.
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$759 Billion Wasted Each Year!
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| That’s not a statistic on the latest government pork-barrel spending spree; that’s how much American business spends on salaries for which work was expected, but not performed! |
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Simple Tips To Make Bookkeeping For Your Home Business Easy
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| Most people think that starting up a business takes a lot of money and carries a lot of risk. Nowadays, even small businesses can take as much as tens of thousands of dollars to start, initially paying for the overhead and salaries until profits come in, which may come months after. But with excellent business management strategies, the business can collect its profits early on. |
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Radiology Job Outlook
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| Highly paid Radiologists may not generate much sympathy but their world may be changing. The constant rise in their salaries seems to have hit a wall and indeed due to some changes in reimbursement rates they may actually have fallen recently. Health care reform and the recession are already impacting the bottom line negatively. Last year, U.S. hospitals saw more patients without insurance or the ability to pay their hospital bills. Bad debt has risen while donations have fallen. |
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How to Secure your Future in Today’s Economy with a Home Based Business Opportunity
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| The world has slid into the depths of economic downturn. Many big and small companies have either laid their staff off or trimmed their salaries. All those who have taken housing or automobile loans are worried. |
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Tips for Optimizing Personal Wealth
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| Most people believe you need to have a high salary in order to amass great wealth. This is not the case. Many people who make huge salaries are paupers, and many people with modest salaries are multi-millionaires. This article gives 10 tips on how to build a personal fortune. |
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What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get Promoted Around Here? When You’re Feeling Overlooked at Work
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| Landing a promotion at work– and all of the benefits that come along with it, including bigger salaries and better opportunities – can seem more elusive than getting a spot in the popular group at school. |
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