Readying Guest Rooms in Your Bed & Breakfast
If you’re running a bed & breakfast, you want to give your guests the best possible experience in your inn. Use the following checklist to make sure your guest rooms make a good first impression: [more…]
How to Take Complete Reservations for Your Bed & Breakfast
You need to gather essential information when taking guest reservations for your bed & breakfast by phone, and you’d be surprised how easy it is to forget the basics. To cover all the bases, begin by taking [more…]
Important Phone Numbers to Keep Handy for Your Bed & Breakfast
Even the best-run bed & breakfast suffers an occasional crisis, and the time to search for a drain-cleaning service is not when you have guests waiting for breakfast. Record telephone numbers for the following [more…]
How to Be Productive When You’re Working from Home
When you’re working from home, separating your home life from your work life can be a real challenge. Your home-based business is a real business, and, as such, it demands both a professional environment [more…]
Unified Remote Call Control
With remote call control (RCC), you can integrate your unified communications platform with your existing Private Branch Exchange (PBX) phone system. RCC enables you to leverage some of the capabilities [more…]
Menu Categories for Bar Food
If you want to run a successful bar, you must create the right menu to complement the beverages. Even if you already have your menu planned, consider the food categories in the following list. After your [more…]
Must-Have Bar Tools
Although keeping a toolbox behind the bar isn't a necessity (though it really isn’t a bad idea), if you’re running a bar, it makes sense to keep the following tools behind the bar to keep it running smoothly [more…]
Items Bar Servers Need to Carry
If you own or run a bar, your servers are your foot soldiers in a very real sense. You need to make sure that they’re well armed and prepared for anything. Post the following checklist for your wait staff [more…]
What to Put on a Bar Table
If you run or own a bar, you want to make sure to supply your patrons with what they need to make their visit to your bar as comfortable and convenient as possible. The best way to do this is to make sure [more…]
Exercises to Combat Computer Eyestrain
A recent survey found that nearly 70 percent of us use a computer to do our jobs. Although working on a computer all day won’t permanently damage your eyes, you might find that after several hours at the [more…]
Tech Tools Your Call Center Needs
Are you thinking about what technology you need for your call center? Or do the terms VoIP, ACD, IVR, and CRMintrigue you, and you want to find out more? Here are some of the top tech tools that your call [more…]
Primary Components of the Call Center Business Model
Thinking about creating a business model? Such a model gives you a great place to start because it’s critical for the successful operation of your call center, helping you clearly identify your mission [more…]
Thriving in the Workplace All-in-One For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Thriving in today's workplace — despite longer workdays, larger workloads, and less job security — is possible. To survive (and thrive) at work, take stock of the qualities that your employer values and [more…]
How to Make a Brain-Friendly Workplace
Productivity flourishes under the right conditions, not just the right leader. If you want a successful business, make your employees happy. If you want a successful and [more…]
What to Watch Out for in a Business Lease
If your business has a physical presence, you’ll most likely negotiate a business contract known as a lease for rental of space to house your business. Be aware that the landlord may use a form lease that [more…]
Retail Business Terms
If you run a retail business or even work in a store or for an online marketer, knowing retail-business terms is key. The following list contains key terms you need to know so that you can stay on top [more…]
How to Network with Your Colleagues
Although a lot of great advice you get to be successful will come from your franchisor, it’s a good idea to stay connected and find new people and new ideas to benefit your franchise business and your [more…]
Information to Gather when Troubleshooting Telecom Systems
Every telecom system needs some troubleshooting now and again. If you're the troubleshooter, make your life easier by gathering certain information on every telecom job you called to. The following list [more…]
Information to Record about Your Telecom Carriers
If you're managing a telecom system, you have to keep track of a great deal of information, not the least of which is the local- and long-distance carriers you use. The following list shows you what to [more…]
Information to Record about Your Telecom Circuits
Telecom systems run on circuits, so to manage your telecom systems effectively, you need to keep track of the circuits and on the toll-free numbers associated with them. The following list shows you what [more…]
Evaluating and Protecting Your Business’s Good Name
Research shows that companies with good reputations can charge higher prices for their goods and services — anywhere from 3 to 8 percent more than their less-reputable competitors. [more…]
Being Open with Workers to Promote Ethical Behavior from Management Down
Most business leaders face the perennial problem of encouraging their employees to think like owners. Open book management, the practice of sharing financial and other information with your workers, can [more…]
Mapping Out Stakeholder Interests that Influence Your Business
A stakeholder is any group or individual that can crucially affect or is crucially affected by an organization. For your business, stakeholders include your stockholders, your employees, your customers [more…]
Business Ethics For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Business students often object to required courses in business ethics, and the more cynical members of the general public consider the term business ethics [more…]
Useful Metaprogram Patterns in Business NLP
In Business NLP, metaprograms are unconscious filters that people develop to allow themselves to handle the high level of information and stimuli they receive. Of all the metaprogram patterns, the following [more…]
