Business Articles

1. Productivity: The greatest TV story ever told...

By Robert F. Abbott The gains we get from increased productivity come to us in two main ways: higher wages, or less expensive products. Let's take a look at one product that costs less and delivers more value because of higher productivity: When I grew up in the 1950s, everyone in the neighborhood took notice when a new television set arrived. The cost of a set represented a big portion of a family's income. ... read more

2. Teamware: Answers the 5 Questions of Document Collaboration

By Joe Miller Every organization which creates collaborative documents, whether they are budgets, presentations, reports, spreadsheets, or other documents recognizes that collaborative efforts are requirement. That collaboration always forces the 5 eternal document collaboration questions: Who? What? Where? When? How? The reason I refer to them as eternal is that every day businesses are faced with these que... read more

3. Groupware: The Triple Threat of Document Collaboration Technology

By Joe Miller Document Collaboration has made leaps and bounds since the explosion of the technology revolution. In any business era, the need to collaborate remains a constant. What varies is the ability of technology to keep up with demands of the collaborators. Groupware has risen to the challenge, delivering solutions that streamline the editorial process - tracking documents, sorting, and even merging ... read more

4. Copywriting: Engage Prospects By Involving Their Senses

By Lisa Packer Imagine a bland, colorless existence. Where food had no taste, silence surrounded you and everything smelled the same. Not very appealing, is it? Now imagine a crisp, fall morning. The sun is burning away the last of a lazy fog. Robins are singing sweetly on branches covered with bright yellow leaves. You swing gently on a creaky porch swing, sipping your Chocolate Caramel Latte and thinkin... read more

5. Groupware and Online Collaboration: Collaboration Series #4

By Joe Miller This article is the fourth of a series of articles exploring specific aspects of groupware. The brief informational articles in this series discuss some of the technologies associated with groupware, as well as some of the characteristics of groupware. Some of these characteristics may go hand in hand with business collaborative needs. Other characteristics go beyond what some groupware provide... read more

6. Productivity: So Many Small Things

By Robert F. Abbott We rarely see stories or articles about productivity in the newspaper or on TV. When we do, it’s usually just another story on the economy that defies understanding. Which is too bad. Our prosperous standard of living arrived, in large part, because of the ability of companies and organizations everywhere, and for the past several hundred years, to increase productivity. Productivity simply... read more

7. Review: Words That Sell

By Karon Thackston by Karon Thackston © 2005 http://www.copywritingcourse.com/wordswork.html It's the Golden Rule of copywriting. "Know your target audience." It is impossible to persuade someone you know nothing about to take any type of action. But the question remains: How - exactly - do you get to know your prospective customers? For copywriters, this task is the most time-consuming. When you're fa... read more

8. Relation: building opt in list and affiliate marketing

By Eugenijus Sakalauskas Building opt in list and affiliate marketing have become synonymous to online success as an effective internet marketing strategy. For many online sites, building opt in list and affiliate marketing have proven quite profitable. Primarily because most online users are not exposed to any unscrupulous internet marketing strategies prevalent on the World Wide Web. As an effective Inter... read more

9. Real Estate Post Card Marketing; Million Dollar Mailings

By Lanard Perry Real Estate Post Card Marketing is an underutilized real estate marketing strategy known by many, but used by few. The test? How many agents do you know market real estate with postcards. Not many - that's what I thought! Yet, those that do maintain high visibility with their prospects. From useful tips to delicious recipes, customized real estate marketing post cards can leave ... read more

10. Teamware: Avoid the Ad Hoc Shuffle

By Joe Miller Teamware Efforts are continually made to manage the unavoidable ad hoc business process, but ad hoc processes do not necessarily mean a pile of messy, shuffled documents, at least not anymore. Teamware is software which tracks and manages the ad hoc business collaboration. Look at the search engines to see just how many solutions similar to teamware are available to help businesses organize ... read more

11. Groupware as a Document Manager: Collaboration Series #3

By Joe Miller This article is the third of a series of articles exploring specific aspects of groupware. The brief informational articles in this series discuss some of the technologies associated with groupware, as well as some of the characteristics of groupware. Some of these characteristics may go hand in hand with business collaborative needs. Other characteristics go beyond what some groupware provider... read more

12. Turn your FREE eZine into a moneymaker, Tip # 2

By Terry Telford Turn your FREE eZine into a moneymaker, Tip # 2 (c)copyright 2002 Terry Telford Sell subscriptions. While you are spending countless hours creating and sending your ezine for FREE, others are getting paid for their efforts. You can get paid for your efforts too! I know this sounds crazy at first, but please let me elaborate. First, you need to take an honest look at your eZine. Do ... read more

13. Decisions: How Close Are You To A 100% Strike Rate?

By Eric Garner Managers, team leaders and their staff can take as many as a hundred or more decisions in the course of a day, each day and every day. Many of these decisions are, of course, no more than automatic responses to familiar situations in which they have to choose between two or three options. However, from time to time, we all have to take decisions on which the course of our future and that of others... read more

14. Turn your FREE eZine into a moneymaker, Tip #1

By Terry Telford ------------------------------------------------------------ Note to the editor: Please feel free to publish this article as long as the tagline is intact. This article is also available at http://www.bpcpublishing.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Turn your FREE eZine into a moneymaker, Tip #1 (c)copyright 2002 Terry Telford Almost every online busines... read more

15. Insanity: A How-To Guide

By Steve Gillman Somebody once said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result. Optimal mental health, then, may include adapting your approach if you don't get the result you want. (NOTE: Seek help if you need it - this is just a general discussion of how to stay mentally healthy.) There is a problem solving technique that involves finding all the ways to cause a pro... read more

16. Stress: Guilty As Charged

By Steve Gillman How To Defend Yourself Do you ever find yourself feeling overwhelmed? Do you sometimes feel like you just have too much to think about? Does it make you tired, irritable, or even depressed? What can you do about it? People rarely go to the doctor to say "I think I have stress," and yet the National Institutes of Health say that 80% of illnesses are caused by stress, directly or indire... read more

17. Time: Do You Spend or Invest It?

By Paula Gregorowicz Time is our greatest and most precious asset. Time is the great equalizer of all us human beings. Why then do we not recognize and treat it with the respect it deserves? Whether you are rich, poor, healthy, ill, or just humming along in your life somewhere in between, we all have only 24 hours in each and every day to invest wisely. We often spend a great deal of time and energy thinking and wo... read more

18. Keywords: They Unlock All The Right Doors

By Erik Wickstrom Keywords: They Unlock All The Right Doors Are you missing out on some great five-cent traffic? Did you know that by bidding on variations of popular keywords you can grab hundreds or even thousands of visitors that your competitors didn't even consider? Why Keywords Are So Important What is a keyword? The answer is simple... It's what a user types when they are searching for something the... read more

19. CHANGE: Do you Do It? or Does It Undo You?

By Connie Butler Change: Do You Do it or Does it Undo You? It has been said that CHANGE is THE only constant. Change is all around us every day and every day our lives our changing. It CAN’T be avoided. We can’t bury our heads in the sand or a favored pillow and pretend it isn’t there. • Sometimes it creeps up slowly: over time we’ve gotten older, gradually the kids grow and leave, incrementally our heal... read more

20. Character: Is It Necessary In Leadership? (Part Two)

By Brent Filson PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.com Word count: 1000 Summary: One element of leadership that many leaders i... read more

21. Collaboration: 3 Keys to Keeping Your Documents from Getting Lost in the Shuffle

By Joe Miller > Often, collaborating documents in a team or in a business can feel like a complex sports play gone wrong. The ball gets passed off to the wrong person, dropped, or even lost. In addition, most document collaboration happens electronically. We are always told to save and resave these electronic documents, but it gets to the point that we can’t even keep track of which draft we’re on. Not to men... read more

22. Customers: The Key To Successful Marketing

By Debbie LaChusa How well do you know your customers? What is the primary reason your customers or clients come to you? Or purchase your product or service? What is the Number One problem you solve for them? Do you know? Are you certain? If you don't, your marketing could be missing the mark, and you could be missing out on sales. Uncovering Your "Key Selling Point" This is the Single Marketing Message t... read more

23. Ecuador: One Month, $1000 Including Airfare

By Steve Gillman On my first trip to Ecuador I discovered that the official currency of is the U.S. Dollar. A nice surprize, since I thought I'd have to find a place to exchange money at midnight in Quito. Not only could I use the dollar bills in my pocket, but just one of them would buy a three-course lunch at a clean restaurant. I fell in love with Ecuador immediately. I fell in love with my wife Ana a few days ... read more

24. Groupware: What Works the Way Businesses Do?

By Joe Miller Groupware The internet is full of 1.5 million to 7 million indexed pages of groupware packages available on the market today. Every business needs groupware to control, manage, or track documents. Groupware is similar to other systems that enable document management, often using a centralized system to work through business collaboration processes to create budgets, market reports, presenta... read more