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Online Classified Ads Are a Great Source For Job Seekers

As we are facing global economic crisis now, more people are jobless. The biggest hit was in America where several years ago they announced that some kind of Wall Street or Lehman Brothers thing declared bankruptcy, which affects lots of business. Not only America was affected, but also other business firms around the world. Huge…

11 Common Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur

How often are you faced with challenges? Getting up on time can be a challenge. Maintain the family, house and dog can be just as challenging with all the other 20 things on the daily to do list. Let’s toss in running a business, are you really up for the challenge? Do you have what…

Adventure Tourism in New Zealand – Understanding the Risk Profile

New Zealand deservedly has a reputation as a tour destination that offers some of the best and most accessible adventure opportunities available. However, with adventure travel comes risk. Understanding this risk and how to manage it is the key to operating a quality adventure tour experience. The increasingly sophisticated world traveler demands a level of…

Common Surety Bonds You Ought To Know

A surety bond can be defined as contract between three parties guaranteeing that a job will be completed in accordance to the contract terms. The three are the project owner who is the obligee, contractor who is the principal and the surety who ensures the task at hand is completed as per the agreement terms….

Why 90 Percent of Entrepreneurs’ Businesses Fail

Entrepreneurship has become the general dream work for both the employed and unemployable. Business opportunities are springing up everywhere, enticing and calling you to make the leap of destiny into the wealth and affluence you’ve often dreamt about. It is also notable that 9 out of every 10 businesses collapse within 2 years of starting….

8 Tips on How to Get Advantage of Foursquare For Your Business

If you haven’t heard of Foursquare, there’s a big chance that you’ve been a little disconnected. Foursquare is an interesting social geolocation tool that has captured the attention of a good number of Internet users recently. It basically allows you to tell your friends and others where you are at all times and leave a…

A Housing Crisis Solution – Add Another Kitchen!

In the current housing slump, the large new homes just aren’t selling. They are too big to afford when the mortgage money tightens up. Existing homes are for sale at below their original purchase price, depleting the homeowner’s equity. People can’t justify paying the mortgage or selling homes that are valued less than the mortgage….

How to Branch Your Business

If you’re thinking of growing your business (or increasing its revenue), focus on your business structure first. I’m not referring to your internal business organization (e.g., marketing, sales, administration, development, customer service, etc.) – I’m referring to your external business conversations. Businesses converse with (at most) five different target groups, each of whom have different…

Hiring and Training the Right B2B Telemarketers

An extremely important aspect of your profitable B2B telemarketing is locating and taking on the best people. It’s not as if you can just put someone on the phone with expectations of good results. Once understanding the main objectives of your telemarketing efforts, you’ll need to take the specific role that telemarketers will play into…

What Makes a Great Email Newsletter?

In order for you to be able to write a great email newsletter it is important that you know what the characteristics of such a newsletter are. So take a look at the following tips: A great email newsletter is one which builds a relationship, rather than tries for an immediate sale. The idea is…