Category: Operations

Dec 11 2006

Phone Based Membership Deals

Tip of the hat to CoolBusinessIdeas

Personalized comparison shopping site, DealMine.com announces the launch of its wireless application for consumers to access their membership deals on the road. Wi…

Dec 01 2006

Is It Time to Panic?

You are a Mom/Pop brick and mortar store and this weekend a nationwide chain is opening their doors within your market.

Is it time to panic?

It's past time.

Too frequently we wait until it'…

Nov 30 2006

Do companies really save money by outsourcing?

Outsourcing. It's everywhere, be it maligned business trend or everyone's best hope for a fat bottom line.

Outsourcing Guru Bob Booton knows one thing for sure: that it is here to stay.

In …

Nov 28 2006

Improve Productivity 40+%

Caution tongue in cheek post ahead!

Most business leaders spend untold hours and a small fortune trying to eek out meager productivity gains.

Maybe it is time for a new strategy, hiring just the rig…

Nov 15 2006

Save Money on Your Mail Campaigns

In my never ending search for truth, justice, oops sorry wrong search.

I mean my search for web-based services that can help businesses improve productivity and Save Money I have discovered FlyDoc.

Nov 07 2006

Did You Put The Lid Down?

Most blogs are about voting today and hopefully you have done your civic duty.

I thought I'd change up the conversation and talk about toilets. Not to imply that all the political back-stabbing,…

Oct 09 2006

Are You a Pack Rat?

I just organized myself for the second time this year. I'd outgrown my file cabinets and needed to add another. I was having trouble finding just what I needed.

And then I remembered a frightenin…

Oct 02 2006

Goal Setting

I just got back from a terrific weekend in Rochester, NY where I sat with fellow writers, editors and proof readers and discussed our business.

Mary Ann Shew, of Business Vitality (pictured with me -…

Sep 17 2006

Mission Or Mantra – Which Do You Have?

At a recent meeting, the discussion of whether or not company should have a mission statement came up.

There was much debate, but the general consensus was that mission statements are usually just a…

Sep 15 2006

60-Second Guide to Organizing Your Business

When you organize your business and eliminate the clutter, you will feel reenergized. You will find that you are easily motivated to get straight to work when you don't have a mess to deal with. Y…