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Small Koi Pond Businesses in Troubled Economic Times

We should all be familiar with the common philosophical adage directing us to follow our dreams, do what we love and the rest will follow. Well, some people do actually devote themselves to their passion and end up creating multimillion dollar businesses or at least end up making a healthy living. And interestingly, this is [...]

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Capitalize on Web Site Testing

If your company is designing a new website or revamping an existing one, you may be asked to serve on the development team. The temptation when budgeting for website development will be to put a large chunk of money into creating content, such as videos, animations, or well-written and researched information. The next big budget [...]

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Taking the Necessary Time to Develop Executives

An Executive Development seminar should examine fundamental management topics in a timely format that focuses on practical business applications, as well as refresh and expand upon business acumen without neglecting the job at hand. Any executive with, on average, 10 to 15 years of professional experience should want to hone in on becoming a more [...]

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Realistic Sales Expectations

People going into sales for the first time often have high expectations of what is going to happen. It’s somehow even more so when the person is a door to door sales person. Even if they are a person who has never bought anything from door to door sales people, they feel like they are [...]

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The Importance of Management Training Workshops

Choosing a specific training company for corporate and business management staff can be a difficult process. And as many businesses are outsourcing their standard training needs this is becoming more important and fundamental to their internal stability and structure. This is one of the main reasons that researching your management training company is essential. However, [...]

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Derrida and Denver and Lawyers

Denver is a place tucked from me or it was. It was a tiny and silent location on a map I never much thought about except if a stranger on the bus in a flurried question and a letter in hand with a half in address on it asked me if I knew the capital [...]

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TransGlobe Building Neighborhoods

With an impending move, life can become a little more hectic than usual.  It’s certainly the natural way of things, but that doesn’t make it any less stressful.  According to most every source, moving is one of the most difficult things we can do in our lives, and we live in times when people are [...]

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How to Win Friends and Influence People Author

In Roman Polanski’s “The Ninth Gate,” one of the characters is seen reading the famous book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.  After watching the movie on SyFy the other night, I decided to look more into the history of the book.  I had seen it referenced in other films, but my curiosity finally [...]

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The Changing Market and Customer Service

In today’s market it is extremely important to demonstrate excellent customer service skills. This has always been a strong factor of successful businesses, however, with the shrinking global environment and the competition facing companies of all fields, a slight difference in the manner in which a consumer is treated may make all the difference in [...]

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Complex Deterioration

Our complex is getting old and we are beginning to have more maintenance issues than we really can keep up with. We are really are at the point of needing to overhaul the infrastructure and modernize this complex. Being in the neighborhood of 30 years old it isn’t exactly modern and keep full occupancy is [...]

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