Posts Tagged ‘business’

Is Google Ready to Handle Your Business? (Part 2 of 2)

In part 1 of this post, I discussed the communications offerings that Google offers and the role they might play for small- and medium-sized businesses. In this follow-up, I will cover their productivity and promotional services, ranging from the productivity suite Google Docs to the free hosted blogging service Blogger. While Google's communications tools are generally quite excellent, their productivity and promotion tools are much more a mixed bag… Continue reading

October 1 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, business-tools, google, online, software, web-2.0, web-apps | 5 comments»

Is Google Ready to Handle Your Business? (Part 1 of 2)

As a big fan of online, Web 2.0 applications, I've long followed Google's ever-increasing stable of web-based services, from Google Docs to Google Voice to Google Reader. Their large and growing collection of online applications and services make it increasingly possible to consider running the bulk of your business using free (or low-cost) Google applications. Even big businesses have gotten in to the act, with mega-corporations like GE giving Google's… Continue reading

September 30 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, business-tools, google, online, software, web-2.0, web-apps | 7 comments»

A 6-Step Guide to Networking for First Year MBA Students

If you are a first year MBA student, especially if you are at a lesser-known MBA program, networking is going to be an essential component to landing your summer internship. Start Early If there’s any piece of advice that I would give first year MBA students it’s that your job search stats the day you start school, and if you are really a go-getter even before you arrive at school. There are… Continue reading

September 24 2009 | By | Tagged: business, career, education, networking, planning, student, success, work-life | 3 comments»

12 Tips for Better Business Writing

Today’s business world is almost entirely information-driven. Whether you run a small business or occupy a small corner of the org-chart at a massive multinational corporation, chances are that the bulk of your job consists of communicating with others, most often in writing. Of course there’s email and the traditional business letter, but most business people are also called on to write presentations, memos, proposals, business requirements, training materials, promotional… Continue reading

September 10 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, business-writing, freelance, writing | 28 comments»

This One’s Free: 10 Basic Tech Tips that Make a Difference

Coaching is usually about ‘the big change’: generating significant new business strategies or leadership behaviours. But along the way there are dozens of small adjustments that make a big difference as well. Many of those are in the realm of technology.Especially when working with small businesses and lone entrepreneurs, I suggest to a variety of tools and approaches to build capacity and pull down obstacles. Here are 10 tips that… Continue reading

September 1 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: business, Communication, email, networking, organization, Productivity, software, time | 18 comments»

How to do Good AND Make a Profit

With the world economic and business outlook still so uncertain, a key question is just how the businesses world can continue to do good as well as maintain their bottom line.Over the last few years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become such a buzz word for business people with companies sprouting all sorts of CSR initiatives, but are companies really embracing CSR because they believe in it or are they… Continue reading

August 18 2009 | By Arvind | Tagged: business, mission, social-responsibility, vision | 16 comments»

Seven Great Questions to Ask at a Job Interview

If you are going for an interview as a prospective employee then you should do some research. Read the job description and requirements carefully. Browse the web site to see how the organization presents itself. Search for news items and comments about the company on news sites and blogs.For the interview itself you should dress smartly and appropriately. It is important to have some questions prepared and here… Continue reading

June 30 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: business, candidate, career, interview, job, sales | 66 comments»

Are you Satisfied?

In September of 1960, J.F. Kennedy engaged Richard Nixon in the first presidential candidates’ debate. Kennedy’s opening statement in that debate has now become the famous “I am not satisfied” speech. What Kennedy’s team rightly strategized was that in any competitive environment, political or businesses, sustainable success starts with focusing on your own house. You will not win the race by focusing on the competition. There are a number of reasons for this... Continue reading

June 16 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: branding, business, coaching, competition, customer, entreprenuership, leadership, Management, marketing, success | 6 comments»

You Want Engagement? Then Start Being Clear!

You want engagement. But no one’s buying. If you want something done you have to spell it out in detail, or even give up and get to that ugly “I’ll just do it myself” place of the defeated manager. You feel like every time you turn your back, the wheels come off the bus again. You’ve got zero engagement.So how do you fix that? Continue reading

May 8 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: business, change, clarity, commitment, engagement, entrepreneurship, growth, hopefulness, leadership, organizational development, teamwork, vision | 16 comments»

Overplanning Can Kill Your Business Idea

Most articles about starting a business cover planning. Creating your business plan. Creating your marketing plan. Creating page upon page of plans, plans with great intentions and perhaps excellent potential for success. There’s nothing wrong with planning itself; if there was, I’m sure we wouldn’t see such an emphasis on it in business literature.But not so often mentioned is the dark side of planning, and it’s the dark side that… Continue reading

April 27 2009 | By Joel | Tagged: business, ideas, Money, planning | 7 comments»

Starting A Business in A Challenging Economic Climate, Part 2 (Limiting Risk)

In Part 1 of this series, I talked about why now is a good time to start a business. But without Part 2, Limiting Your Risk, you may be setting yourself up for problems. Now is a great time to start a business, but part of starting a business in this kind of economy is playing it smart. How You Can Limit Your Risk: When you start a business in challenging… Continue reading

April 16 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: business, entrepreneur, Management, recession, small business, startup | 2 comments»

3 Scary Misconceptions About Money

It’s strange that for a society that’s so focused on making money and owning assets, we have some pretty unusual and downright scary approaches to the stuff and how it comes into our possession. Money doesn’t grow on trees, but we give our children and ourselves the idea that it’s nearly unattainable to make enough of it to live the way we want. Here are three of the common misconceptions… Continue reading

April 8 2009 | By Joel | Tagged: business, entrepreneurs, mindset, Money | 22 comments»

4 Steps to Personal Branding Success

In light of my new book, Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan), coming out internationally today, I want to share the main process used in the book that will help you build a powerful brand. Personal branding helps you stay very productive because you can focus on projects you enjoy and have a sense of purpose and passion behind them. It's… Continue reading

April 7 2009 | By Dan | Tagged: brand, business, marketing, personal branding, self-promotion | 11 comments»

Shattering A Few Myths About Copyright

It is unfortunate that people don’t know as much as they should about intellectual property rights. One day recently I briefly checked in to Twitter to see a discussion on the matter — a discussion that was propagating misinformed ideas. You might see copyright as a topic that’s only relevant to artists and engineers, but the truth is that this isn’t called the information age for nothing and intellectual property… Continue reading

April 6 2009 | By Joel | Tagged: business, copyright, law, Management, rights | 8 comments»

How to Find Your Entrepreneurial Passion and Purpose

A few weeks ago, I wrote a few articles about starting a business based on something you love doing and are passionate about. I received several responses from people saying they weren’t sure how to go about figuring out what they were most passionate about or how to find their true purpose. So I’m dedicating this week to these issues.When I work with a new client, the first thing we… Continue reading

March 31 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: business, entrepreneur, life, Lifestyle, motivation, passion, purpose, small business, success | 6 comments»