Setting Smart Management Goals
You can find all kinds of goals in all kinds of organizations. Some goals are short-term and specific (starting next month, we will increase production by two units per employee per hour [more…]
Exposing Cover Letter Myths
Your cover letter is a first impression to potential employers. If you expect to be a successful job seeker, you'll want to know how to attract positive attention with your cover letter, while avoiding [more…]
Ten Qualities of an Effective Team Player
If you were choosing team members for a business team in your organization, who would the best team players be? Assuming that people have the right technical skills for the work to be done, what other [more…]
Understanding Accounting Methods
Officially, there are two types of accounting methods,which dictate how the company's transactions are recorded in the company's financial books: cash-basis accounting and accrual accounting. The key difference [more…]
Grabbing Attention with Your Cover Letter's Opening Line
Learn to write openings that fire up the reader and move the reader along without wasting tons of time. Interviewers are overloaded — whole days are a blur for them, and they have no spare minutes to decipher [more…]
Giving Constructive Feedback
Performance feedback can be given two ways: through constructive feedback or through praise and criticism. Don't fall into the trap of giving praise and criticism on employee performance. [more…]
Adding PayPal to Your Web Site
If you think PayPal is just for eBay sales, then you're missing out on a great opportunity to get revenue (or more revenue) from your Web site. If you're not already selling products from your Web site [more…]
Five Tips for Better Resume Writing
First the good news. You do not have to be William Shakespeare to compose a solid, well-organized, professional-looking resume. All you need are the ability to express your ideas in proper English and [more…]
Deciding between Cash-Basis and Accrual Accounting
Before you can start recording business transactions, you must decide whether to use cash-basis or accrual accounting. The crucial difference between these two accounting processes is in how you record [more…]
Reading Consolidated Financial Statements
Most major corporations comprise numerous companies bought along the way to create their empires. The financial statement reflects the financial results for all the entities it bought as well as the original [more…]
Constructing a Press Kit
A press kit is a collection of written materials designed to introduce an expert or a company to the media. Often these materials are contained in an attractive folder and accompanied by a cover letter [more…]
Choosing a Budget Method
A budget is nothing more than a written estimate of how an organization — or a particular project, department, or business unit — will perform financially. If you can accurately predict your company's [more…]
Rookie Teaching Technique: Choosing a Seating Arrangement
Deciding how to arrange your seats isn't as difficult as you may anticipate; the shape and size of your classroom usually dictate how your classroom must be arranged. Before you get to the business of [more…]
Zooming In on Cover Letter Anatomy
In case you've forgotten or never learned the parts of a job letter, review these building blocks. [more…]
Staffing Your Restaurant's Kitchen
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. You've heard this idea related to business a million times. Like all those other endeavors and enterprises, a restaurant can't run well or long without the [more…]
Placing Photos Inline with Your Text
Buyers love seeing pictures of the products in your auctions. That's why eBay lets you add a free picture to every auction you post. Of course, eBay also offers you the [more…]
What Is a Limited Liability Company (LLC)?
Limited liability companies (LLCs) have been generating a lot of buzz in the news lately — and for good reason: where the corporation fails, the LLC prevails. [more…]
Sending a Thank-You Letter after a Job Interview
How much do post-interview thank-you letters really impact hiring decisions? When they're canned, flat, and boring, interviewers may see them as a snore. But when you're in a classy field of candidates [more…]
How to Succeed in Your Home-Based Business
Although no one can guarantee that your home-based business will bring you the fame and fortune you hope it will, if you work hard, price your products and services right, and keep your customers satisfied [more…]
Timing Google's Crawl
Google crawls the Web at varying depths and on more than one schedule. The so-called deep crawl occurs roughly once a month. This extensive reconnaissance of Web content requires more than a week to complete [more…]
Six Steps to Handling Sales Objections
Here are six steps for handling objections or addressing concerns that almost always work in your favor. They also work pretty well in diffusing unusually tense situations, so heed them well. [more…]
Obtaining a Liquor License for Your Bar
Every bar that serves liquor must have a license to do so. Different agencies regulate the process in different states. Make sure you start the process of getting your license early in the timeline of [more…]
Understanding What Employers Want in a Cover Letter
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) conducted the SHRM Survey on Cover Letters and Resumes.The survey was faxed to randomly selected members of the Employment Management Association [more…]
Avoiding the Cardinal Sins of Resume Writing
Take some time to ponder the following pitfalls of resume writing, and do your best to avoid them in your own resume. [more…]
Conducting Effective Business Meetings
Every business, whether it has 2 employees or 2,000, has meetings as a regular part of getting things done. Although employees can communicate with one another in an organization in many different ways [more…]
