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Lesson #4: Get Hooked Up
“I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been,” he said.

Step By Step Branding Is Your Company Logo Important Enough To Make Or Break Your Brand
Some people will tell you that your logo is everything when it comes to branding your business. However, that is not really true. A good logo is important, a great logo is even better; but neither one is even remotely vital to your success. Why? Because when all is said and done, a logo is a visual image that will remind people of your company. The greatest logo in the world will do nothing at all for your success if it just serves as a reminder of a company that people neither like or trust.
Does your Accountant provide value, or are they just a cost?
Accountants are people who do the books, file tax returns and generally fulfill a necessity of life that most business owners would prefer to do with out! Well that is the case the majority of the time, however there are professionals out there who offer services that can really enhance your business’ wellbeing, and as a result your wealth. This brief article looks at some of the areas you could be looking at.

How a Bookkeeper Can Help Your Cash Flow
Many small business owners struggle with keeping their bookwork up to date. Yet good record keeping is an essential part of any successful small business.How can you make an informed decision about your business if you don’t know where you are at financially with your business?
How to Sell Insurance – Really
Here’s the million dollar secret. Stop selling insurance. No one wants to buy insurance.

How to Watch Your Words & Sell More Insurance
The words you use have a dramatic impact on the people who receive them. Unfortunately, the insurance industry has a bad habit of using words that are counterproductive. The worst thing is you use and hear those words so often they are such a natural part of your conversation you don’t even notice them.

Don't Shrink RETHINK!
Creative brainstorming for keeping afloat during difficult times. Eileen offers some alternatives to economic turbulence rather than the knee jerk reaction of cutting costs and laying off employees.
Run Effective Meetings Save Time Money
The way you are running your meetings could be costing you unnecessary expense. Consider this: when making small changes, consider the multiplication factor. 5 minutes shaved off of weekly meetings of 10 people earning $30 per hour would amount to a savings of $6,259 a year. The following tips will help you think through ways to modify the meetings you are holding.
Social Media Marketing is Branding
Think of all the ways that companies use branding to build awareness of themselves or to promote their social awareness and customer service values. A few things come to mind such as greeters at the entrance of my favorite store, go-green awareness issues, charity drives that "give back" to the community for every purchase made, TV screens playing music videos or news as you wait in line, and the list goes on. None of these things lead directly to conversions but they do lead to higher company awareness and the good old fashioned fuzzy-feelings we get when we know that that we are valued as a customer. Most times we are probably not even be aware of these things on a conscious level. But the effect shows as we have a tendency to patron these companies more frequently than the other alternatives.

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The Mind Body and Soul Solution to Stress
I hope to provide you with key insights into how your business can succeed without the unnecessary stress and potential burnout.

Run Effective Meetings Save Time Money
The way you are running your meetings could be costing you unnecessary expense. Consider this: when making small changes, consider the multiplication factor. 5 minutes shaved off of weekly meetings of 10 people earning $30 per hour would amount to a savings of $6,259 a year. The following tips will help you think through ways to modify the meetings you are holding.
If you JUST build it...They WON'T come!
You may be one of those frustrated companies who spent tens of thousands of dollars on your website and feel like you want to jump out the window because you are getting absolutely no results and very few visitors from that huge investment. In fact you may be viewing your site as a HUGE expense and it doesn’t feel as if that expense is ever going to deliver any revenue. Well I am here to tell you that doesn’t have to be the case.
Constipated by information
I confess, like most sales people I do not like - no I hate - paperwork and administration, because in my experience most of it is unnecessary.
Mistakes of a Marketing Budget Strategy
If marketing is an expense, then it should be stopped! The whole point of marketing is to increase sales, to turn a profit, to generate revenue. The whole point of marketing is to make more money! That is not an expense to your business. So often you hear of a business doing poorly and one of the first things they cut is their marketing. How are you supposed to make more money if you are not marketing?
Reduction in Force needs to be a “Surgical Strategy”
During tough economic times a reduction in force (RIF) often becomes a necessity for many companies. Let’s face it; payroll expense is probably the biggest expense for the majority of companies in business today. Unfortunately, many leaders have a tendency to panic and make across the board cuts without regard for the long term effects, including employee morale and the overall health of the company and its ability to weather the economic storm.
When Should You Seek a Home Equity Loan?
Home equity loans are a better option compared to many other types of loans as they come at lower rates. This is because the lender is able to secure the loan against your property. However, you should only take them when you have a particular expense in mind and take only as much as is required to cover this expense.
Dental Care Insurance For The Self Employed
The self-employed man or woman may have several place they can look for dental expense insurance. Dental Care insurance may be available through a group policy, a dental expense insurance alternative may be available through a medical care insurance policy they acquire directly from an insurance carrier, a standalone dental care insurance policy may be available and simply paying for care out-of-pocket is another choice.
Guaranteed Issue Life Insurance An Expensive scam?
Don't get scammed by buying a guaranteed issue or simplified issue final expense insurance contract. These final expense insurance policies have their place, but too many people who could qualify whole life insurance plans that are both cheaper and better overpay for guaranteed issue or simplified issue life insurance plans.
Excel Spreadsheets for Time Tracking - Hazard or Handy Tool?
Excel, one of the more popular members of the Microsoft Office family, has been used in some pretty creative ways. A common practice is to manipulate Excel functions for employee time and expense tracking. With the potential risks for security breaches, data corruption, and inaccurate record keeping, using Excel for time and expense tracking could lead to a host of problems for organizations of any size.
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