Small Business Tips

Verizon customer service, a model of how not to do it?

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:01:30 +0000

Verizon Customer Service - more like Verizon Customer dis-service. Sometimes the best way to learn how to improve your business is see how other people do it wrong. In this case Verizon proves that customer satisfaction is the last thing they care about.

Marketing to seniors, why you should look at baby boomers

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:17:45 +0000

It is easy to become jaded and disillusioned in marketing advertising. As a marketing consultant, I thought that most of the markets were tapped. Consumers, you see, are simply too cynical nowadays. Advertising and marketing have to resort to increasingly cheap tricks. There is no finesse in the field anymore. Marketing campaigns rely more and [...]

Management Consulting, Have you considered consulting?

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:14:06 +0000

When I first got involved in management consulting, I was surprised at how easy it was to get into. After all, I had never worked as a management consultant before. I had no formal business experience, no business training, and basically little knowledge of how the business world works. I knew that management consultants salaries [...]

Money Making Ideas

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:12:42 +0000

With the economy is utter disarray, people are looking for almost every way possible to make a few extra dollars. The skyrocketing cost of living and ridiculous gas prices is putting a tremendous strain on the average American. More and more people are desperately looking for money making ideas. Unfortunately, this time of desperation is [...]

Franchise Opportunities, have you considered a franchise?

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:07:10 +0000

Finding the right franchise opportunities in your city will open a whole new world of success for you. A lot of people think that the only way to make it is to work for someone else. After all, there are a lot of advantages to being employed in a business. There is less risk to [...]

Employee Handbooks - How much attention does yours have?

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:03:20 +0000

When I first got involved in the food industry, the employee handbooks that we received were awful. They read like instruction manuals for Japanese DVD players, completely convoluted and unreadable even as they were trying to explain simple procedures. This employ safety handbook was basically designed to cover every possible contingency, making it so that, [...]

What are the advantages of outsourcing and who benefits?

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:01:14 +0000

There’s been a lot of heated debates out there about the outsourcing of work and technology from America to foreign countries. Looking strictly from the perspective of the average American, it can hardly be said that we, the people, reap benefits from corporate advantages of outsourcing. On the other hand, the large corporations and even [...]

privacy policy law at work - privacy at work

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:12:35 +0000

Intro: As an employee or a business owner you must know the levels and boundaries of privacy and the workplace. Respecting an employees right to privacy is critical to keep moral high and lawsuits down. On the flip side if you work for a business and are worried about your privacy you should know where [...]

Short tail or Long Tail? What is Seth really trying to tell us?

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:49:24 +0000

Author Seth Godin has some interesting observations about Long tail vs Short Tail. There is this common misconception that the long tail basically tells us “forget trying to be the vanilla, be really good at chocolate peanut butter crunch with strawberries.” Meaning that going for the highest demand keyword, product, industry, etc is ineffective because [...]

Why Do We Outsource Jobs to India?

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:43:23 +0000

Intro: There is a lot of contraversey over the outsourcing of jobs to India. A lot of people question why it is done, and others while they understand the potential monetary and bottom line advantages, wonder why morally we outsource jobs to India. It is important to learn and understand why it started happening, and [...]