The Seven C's: Partnership Danger Signs - Conflict Becoming the Norm - Part 1A series of articles exploring the seven critical areas that can indicate a partnership is in trouble.Conflict Becoming the Norm – Part 1Dr. Dean Ornish, noted cardiologist, says the greatest cause of disease is the stress that comes from conflict. Conflict is bad for your health, your personal life and definitely bad for your business.When disagreements have reached the stage of conflict, emotions have overcome the issue. At this point no one is thinking clearly or speaking truthfully about the original problem. It becomes all about winning. How useful is that?You can win the battle and lose a whole lot more. Conflict becomes a nail in the coffin of your marriage, or in your business partnership. Though you may win in court, you often lose in life. This is a major component of the scenario that accounts for the high rate of divorce in marriage and even higher rate of dissolution of business partnerships.
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Okay, you've decided start a blog and you've put together a rough publishing plan: how often you're going to post long and short articles, who is writing, who is editing, who is managing the webmaster-related tasks (blogmaster). [See link at bottom.]
If you're a small business owner, you're probably going to have to wear all of these hats. But if you're prepared, the next step is to set the blog up so you can start posting articles (sometimes called "entries" or even "posts"). (All links shown at the end of this article.)
You have two blog hosting choices:
- Set up your blog on a free host such as Google's blogspot.com, or Typepad's Livejournal or WordPress's WordPress.com.
- Set up your blog on your own domain that you've registered and that you own.
This article will focus on choice #1. A follow-up article will discuss choice #2.
If you've visited any number of blogs, no doubt you've seen little text ads crying out "free blog". There are numerous choices and this article has no intention of listing all of them. While I have registered with several free hosts including Typepad and Wordpress, I've found that Google's blogspot.com uses a very simple, easy to use blogging platform and client (interface) called Blogger.com - so I'll focus my example on these services.
To clarify, Blogger.com has both the blogging "platf Credit Counselor Audits And The IRS FocusIn the past few years a lot of folks have complained about so-called credit counselors who don’t get them out of debt and charge them a lot of money. They pay a fee to get counseling and receive nothing in return.Well, it turns out one reason these companies increased exponentially is because they were given tax-exempt status for claiming to be credit counselors.The IRS commissioner is focusing on dishonest credit or debt counselors, 41 debt counselors have lost their tax-exempt status of the 61 they recently audited. These organizations exist mainly to prey on debt heavy individuals by charging them excessive fees for little or no service.Everson, the IRS commissioner, said that these 41 agencies collected 40% of a billion dollar industry, most offering little or no debt service. The 61 agencies audited by the IRS represent half of the revenue generated by the credit counseling industry. An additional 740 agencies
ll business owner, you're probably going to have to wear all of these hats. But if you're prepared, the next step is to set the blog up so you can start posting articles (sometimes called "entries" or even "posts"). (All links shown at the end of this article.)
You have two blog hosting choices:
- Set up your blog on a free host such as Google's blogspot.com, or Typepad's Livejournal or WordPress's WordPress.com.
- Set up your blog on your own domain that you've registered and that you own.
This article will focus on choice #1. A follow-up article will discuss choice #2.
If you've visited any number of blogs, no doubt you've seen little text ads crying out "free blog". There are numerous choices and this article has no intention of listing all of them. While I have registered with several free hosts including Typepad and Wordpress, I've found that Google's blogspot.com uses a very simple, easy to use blogging platform and client (interface) called Blogger.com - so I'll focus my example on these services.
To clarify, Blogger.com has both the blogging "plat From the Desk of a Business Coach: The Rule of Threes -- Get Them Talking About You!It seems that most folks I talk to these days want to build their business by word of mouth. That stands to reason. Word of mouth implies maximum acceptance by prospective customers and clients and minimal investment on part of the business. But how on earth do you get word of mouth started?One is to follow The Rule of Threes, a time-tested public relations tool. The Rule of Threes is a way to start a buzz; that is, a way to seed a conversation about your work among your prospective clients and their networks. Here it is in a nutshell.1. Decide who you want to be talking about you and your work. Who should be buzzing in order to bring you new work? Distill this to a few words, for example, "independent professionals who are cultural creatives." This is your target market.2. What do you want them to be talking about? Example: "business coaching for people with heart."3. Ask friends, colleagues, and acquaintanc
have two blog hosting choices:
- Set up your blog on a free host such as Google's blogspot.com, or Typepad's Livejournal or WordPress's WordPress.com.
- Set up your blog on your own domain that you've registered and that you own.
This article will focus on choice #1. A follow-up article will discuss choice #2.
If you've visited any number of blogs, no doubt you've seen little text ads crying out "free blog". There are numerous choices and this article has no intention of listing all of them. While I have registered with several free hosts including Typepad and Wordpress, I've found that Google's blogspot.com uses a very simple, easy to use blogging platform and client (interface) called Blogger.com - so I'll focus my example on these services.
To clarify, Blogger.com has both the blogging "plat Strategic Marketing For Medical Staffing AgenciesThe Power Of LeveragingLet's talk about strategic marketing and how it relates to the medical staffing industry.How can a medical staffing agency create an environment to promote a strategic marketing effort from its staff to increase productivity and profit? The strategic marketing effort needs to transcend old habitual routines. The strategy within the power of leveraging will produce more profitable and larger results than otherwise would. What are the drivers, the path and the basic formulation to begin the power of leveraging to take hold the strategic marketing effort?Let’s take a journey to illustrate this very important question. Because the question above will be the difference between growing your medical staffing organization verses your organization dying a horrible death.I have identified and refined these drivers using my experience, actual field research, and the great canons in the field o
focus on choice #1. A follow-up article will discuss choice #2.
If you've visited any number of blogs, no doubt you've seen little text ads crying out "free blog". There are numerous choices and this article has no intention of listing all of them. While I have registered with several free hosts including Typepad and Wordpress, I've found that Google's blogspot.com uses a very simple, easy to use blogging platform and client (interface) called Blogger.com - so I'll focus my example on these services.
To clarify, Blogger.com has both the blogging "plat Affiliate Project X - Rip Off or Bargain of the YearChris McNeeney, who wrote the hugely successful Adwords Miracle has provoked a storm of interest with his latest offering, so I thought I'd better have a look and see what all the fuss was about.Having downloaded and printed the ebook, the first thing I did was read it through and then go through it again with highlighter. I'd downloaded it around 8pm and by the time I'd finished it was Midnight, but boy was I excited. It may be small in size but it's huge in content and packed full of excellent tips and techniques for generating a decent income.First off it's not just another manual about affiliate marketing, there are more than enough of those out there already. Although you may already know some of the techniques such as squeeze pages and building a list, this ebook describes in great detail how to go about it.There are 50 pages of decent content with each method written down step by step - all you have to do is
veral free hosts including Typepad and Wordpress, I've found that Google's blogspot.com uses a very simple, easy to use blogging platform and client (interface) called Blogger.com - so I'll focus my example on these services.
To clarify, Blogger.com has both the blogging "platform" and the "client". A blogging platform is the software that generates the blog pages for you. Examples include MovableType, WordPress, TextPattern, Drupal, and Blogger.com. Every one of these platforms has an administrative panel page where you can manage your blog - add, edit, and delete articles; add article categories; etc.
The admin panel page is typically called the blogging client and its features are platform-specific. However, there are standalone software applications - also called blogging clients - that you can download to your computer, and which do not work from a web browser.
With these standalone clients, you can write your blog entries and pretty much post to any of the platforms. That means you can have one client to manage multiple blogs on several free (or private) hosts. (But let's not get ahead of ourselves.) I've tried numerous standalone clients, but use two of them exclusively.
One is Zoundry.com's BlogWriter, which is a true standalone client. The other is Performancing.com's Firefox Extension (PFF), which works as a p
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