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Firing Underperforming Employees in Your Small Business
Here are a few tips on how to hand out pink slips when it comes time to terminate an employee.As a small business owner with employees, you will likely find it necessary one day to terminate an underperforming employee – if you haven’t already. In an ideal world, that wouldn’t be so. We would hire the right people from the start, and then train and motivate them to do the job.But, that’s not realistic. In the audio book, “Sound Advice on Small Business,” entrepreneur Jim Schell says, “The world and the people who inhabit it fall something short of perfect, and thus firing is a necessary evil of having employees.”For some small business owners, taking this unfortunate step is stressful. It might be tempting to delay the action. Schell says don’t. “Once you’ve made the decision, get on with it,” he says. “Procrastination is painful for both parties.”Before calling the employee into your o

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I designed my second website when I was in High School, and it was a far more ambitious affair. I made a page for each of my friends, and filled it wi

Will You Be the Next Entrepreneur Success Story?
Are you sick of the rat race? Tired of your boss barking orders at you? Thinking of telling them all to “shove it” so you can start your own business and answer to no one but yourself?You’re not alone. Millions of people dream of going into business for themselves and becoming the next great entrepreneur success story.The United States has long been a nation of innovators and entrepreneurs, dating back to the days when steel and railroad tycoons ruled the world. With every new generation, seemingly ordinary people step forward with brilliant ideas that change the world. Some of the more memorable entrepreneur success stories include:Colonel Harland Sanders, who started selling fried chicken that he prepared and cooked in his own kitchen. But when he perfected his deliciously “finger lickin’ good” recipe and took it on the road, the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise was born.Oprah Winfrey, w

I remember putting together my first website - when I was about 14 - and how long it took me to get the design just right. I planned it all carefully in my head, working out all the pages I thought a site should have (Main, About Me, Pictures and Links!). I even drew out a sitemap on paper, to make sure everything was perfect! Then I painstakingly taught myself .html (this was back in the days before WYSIWYG editors were around), and drew out each .jpg from scratch. It took me several weeks, but eventually the site was finished. All I needed to do was to write the content to fill it. It was only then that I realised that I didn't have a single thing I wanted to say.

I designed my second website when I was in High School, and it was a far more ambitious affair. I made a page for each of my friends, and filled it wit

Acting Tip: Acting Resumes, Cover Letters, and Headshots, Oh My!
If you want to really stand out as an actor (and I think you do), you will have to make your resume stand out for you.Your resume, cover letter, and headshot are really the first impressions you'll ever make. They act as your agent—good ones get you auditions, bad ones don't…So, how does one go about standing out from the rest of the crowd? Well, first of all, you have to think like a marketer. What makes YOU interesting and unique as an actor? This is you USP (Unique Selling Point). Your resume and cover letter act as your USP…In order to make your resume and cover letters really effective, you must follow a few simple guidelines:For your resume, divide the page into two parts—one part for your actual resume, one part for testimonials (yes, testimonials!). Testimonials should be from former directors, playwrights, etc. and they shouldn't be hard to get. Just ask! (but be sure to get their per

ing out all the pages I thought a site should have (Main, About Me, Pictures and Links!). I even drew out a sitemap on paper, to make sure everything was perfect! Then I painstakingly taught myself .html (this was back in the days before WYSIWYG editors were around), and drew out each .jpg from scratch. It took me several weeks, but eventually the site was finished. All I needed to do was to write the content to fill it. It was only then that I realised that I didn't have a single thing I wanted to say.

I designed my second website when I was in High School, and it was a far more ambitious affair. I made a page for each of my friends, and filled it wi

Whatever it Takes!
I have a sign on my office door. It pretty much summarizes my philosophy of life.The sign simply says…..”Whatever it takes.”Short. Simple. To the Point.“Whatever it takes,” means exactly that. That I will do “whatever it takes” to get what I really want. It is the best description that I have ever been able to come up with to summarize the entrepreneurial experience.Decision. Commitment. Result. Something I pretty much had ingrained into my subconscious, playing sports as a kid.Make the Decision. Commit to that outcome. Visualize. Experience that Result.With my friends and colleagues I abbreviate and say…W.I.T. I’ll often refer to individuals as either having W.I.T or not. Y’know it’s like in the Rocky movies…”the eye of the tiger.” You can tell when someone has W.I.T and when someone is faking W.I.T.. Or, worse yet when someone doesn’t even know about

n I painstakingly taught myself .html (this was back in the days before WYSIWYG editors were around), and drew out each .jpg from scratch. It took me several weeks, but eventually the site was finished. All I needed to do was to write the content to fill it. It was only then that I realised that I didn't have a single thing I wanted to say.

I designed my second website when I was in High School, and it was a far more ambitious affair. I made a page for each of my friends, and filled it wi

Customer Service Is Key
I've written about customer service before but I want to touch on the subject again because this is such an important topic. In fact, getting the customer service aspect of your online (or offline) business right could mean the difference between success and failure....I don't care what you are selling, who you are selling it to, what service you provide or who your target market is, if you don't make the effort to provide top quality customer service, you will definitely be losing sales somewhere along the line.This subject is fresh in my mind at the moment because I have had cause to make several online purchases over the past week or so and the levels of service I have received have varied considerably. At one end of the scale I have had some excellent service and in contrast, some companies have totally ignored my requests for assistance!This is to be expected I guess (though there is no excuse

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I designed my second website when I was in High School, and it was a far more ambitious affair. I made a page for each of my friends, and filled it wi

How To Let Your Customers Search For YOU! - Part 3
Thank you for stopping by part 3 of the article series on ‘How To Let Your Customers Search For YOU!’ In this part I will teach you one more technique that is often overlooked, but will deliver tremendous results!In the previous parts I have told you about posting at forums, giving honest advice, writing articles for forums and much more. Now we have come to the next big step to your allround recognition. Before I reveal this dirty little secret, I want you to subscribe for my online newsletter.The newsletter is sent out once a week and contains high quality, pure original content. All the articles that are published in the newsletter are yours to use in your own business, as long as you keep the resource-box attached. The big benefit of being a subscriber is that I write articles and reports that are for subscribers only! You will get access to hot new downloads, free eBooks, free articles and much more! P

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I designed my second website when I was in High School, and it was a far more ambitious affair. I made a page for each of my friends, and filled it with things I knew would make them laugh. The home page was little more than a list of links, because I wanted people to be able to find their pages easily. The design flowed naturally from the content, and unlike my first website, this one was a huge success. Because I had written it with my audience in mind, rather than trying to fit the content around the design, it was more accessible, and people took the time to read it. As a result, the site became very popular, and people still talk about it now, even though the site has been offline for years.

Both of my sites were very basic, amateur efforts, but the principle applies equally no matter what size

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Booklet is a promotion tool used by companies to market their products and services. Booklets is a information documents usually printed in colors, The different types of booklet are pamphlets, leaflets, catalogs, annual reports and guides to name a few. While designing a booklet from a business perspective you have to keep in mind the layout, imposition and its printing. You should be very careful while planning your booklet. The margin in the booklet should have enough room to insert the holes for binding. Choose a two color or four colors for your booklet which will workout cheap on a low budget.

When you are surfing online, you visited a number of websites. Some website copies are so attractive and you are nearly ready to pull your wallet out, give them your credit card number. But before you do that, please consider some good advices.

Have we done enough to create an environment that allows for the free flow of ideas from our people without victimization? Or have we just paid lip service to the process. Why should an employee with an open line of communication in the company choose instead to go the route of the anonymous blogger?

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