1. If Real People Ran the Bank - I (a spoof for the heart)

By Lynella Grant Banish Loans Forever If ordinary, hard-working, people ran the bank... the very first thing to get rid of would be loans. Absolutely no more loans! Because once they’re gone, there wouldn’t be any more: - Due dates - Interest charges - at any rate of interest - Late fees or penalties - Liens - Applications or rejections - Credit reports [Old joke - If it weren’t for bad credi... read more

2. Top 7 Methods to Empower Employees

By Chris Anderson You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 801 words long including the resource box. Thanks for your interest. How many times have you asked someone to do something like “draw up a plan for such and such proje... read more

3. How To Get Others to Market Your Product or Service for You

By Debbie LaChusa Marketing can be expensive and most small business owners don’t have big marketing budgets. So looking for targeted ways to get free marketing exposure is a great solution. You may have considered public relations as a low cost marketing tactic, but what if you can’t write, or you don’t have the time to sit down and create a press kit or even write a press release? Well, there’s an easy way to g... read more

4. 13 Ways to Improve your Perseverance Quotient

By Abi Motala You may not have control over what happens to you in every season or cycle of your life, but you most certainly have a choice as to how you deal with everything that happens to you. You may experience health problems, business setbacks and personal difficulties, and have to face the consequence of extensive devastation and loss of lives caused either by the evil of man, such as 9/11 and the bomb... read more

5. Teamware: Avoid the Ad Hoc Shuffle

By Joe Miller Teamware Efforts are continually made to manage the unavoidable ad hoc business process, but ad hoc processes do not necessarily mean a pile of messy, shuffled documents, at least not anymore. Teamware is software which tracks and manages the ad hoc business collaboration. Look at the search engines to see just how many solutions similar to teamware are available to help businesses organize ... read more

6. Mind over Milkshakes

By Callie The adage that the most valuable lessons in life are learned in the hardest ways may be applied to the hardest activity of all – dieting! It’s not fun; it’s not easy. But it’s something most of us do, and something at which many of us will fail. And despite the importance of physical activity while dieting, the most successful dieters will tell you that mental activity is equally – if not more... read more

7. 5 Steps to Identify Core Processes

By Chris Anderson You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 1,122 words long including the resource box. Thanks for your interest. Part Two of Creating Well-Defined Processes Series Part One: 5_Steps_to_Identify_Core_Processes_4664_15_article.html">read more

8. Why Trading Links With Competitors Can Be A Good Thing

By Ginger Geracitano For over two years now, I've enjoyed the benefit of higher search engine ranking through reciprocal linking with sites of similar, *quality* content. Done correctly, this can help your business in a variety of ways, NOT just search engine ranking! Keep in mind that my main business is Web Design. Web Designers are certainly not in short supply are they? No, of course not, everyone that's e... read more

9. 10 Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals

By Stephanie Chandler If you feel like your life moves faster than a Nascar race, you’re not alone. We are living in a time where dual income families and single parent homes are the norm, a sharp contrast to the happy sitcom families we grew up watching on TV. So how do you get everything accomplished when there are only 24 hours in a day? The first step is to reprioritize. Does it really matter if you’re house... read more

10. Behavioral Interview Questions You Can Use Monday Morning

By Mike Nacke If past behavior is the best way to determine future behavior then behavioral interviewing is a requirement for anyone serious about hiring top talent. This skill isn’t something that should be taken lightly, but everyone’s got to start somewhere. Keep in mind that you’re looking for specific examples rather than vague descriptions. A good communicator can dance around the question and sound ve... read more

11. Identity Theft – Impacting Your Taxes?

By Richard A. Chapo If your identity is stolen, your finances can quickly become a nightmare. A less obvious problem is the effect identity theft can have on your taxes. Identity Theft Generally, thieves steal your personal data for the purpose of running up credit card charges or opening and abusing new accounts. A developing trend in the identity theft field concerns schemes impacting your taxes. Selling S... read more

12. GETTING ORGANIZED: You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks…or CAN You?

By Kathy Paauw Were you born disorganized? If so, do you excuse yourself by saying, "That's just the way I am! You can't teach an old dog new tricks!" ? So many people seem unhappy in their professional lives. Very few connect that dissatisfaction to being disorganized, which can make a good job seem unbearable. The good news is that it's easy to correct! Some of the most organized people I know were not "... read more

13. The Page Stares Back!

By Heston Nolan I was sitting at my small, but user-friendly desk rewriting an article I recently composed. As I thoughtfully stared at the page I noted the page was staring back at me! I could see there were too many "I" 's in the article and the page was staring back! What was I to do? The above paragraph contains fifty-four words. Seven of these words are " I ". Is it fair to your reader when he/she is nint... read more

14. Status Quo Pep Talks That Can Threaten Your Leadership

By Brent Filson PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.com Word count: 742 Summary: One of the biggest obstacles leaders face when ... read more

15. 7 Essential Elements To Every Organizational Change

By Mike Beitler [This article is based on excerpts from the special report "Overcoming Resistance to Change" by Dr. Mike Beitler.] Senior management often creates a plan for implementing an organizational change while completely ignoring the following elements necessary for every organizational change. Without these elements the attempted changes will always create a large amount of resistance. Change leaders ... read more

16. Eliciting Constructive Website Feedback

By Adam Senour "It's good." "You've done a nice job." "I don't like it." At some point, you have probably received comments like this when asking for constructive criticism of your website efforts. Unfortunately, the generic nature of these comments does not give specific information on elements that you need to improve your site. So how do you elicit specific, constructive, targeted feedback from the pu... read more

17. Jump from Unknown to Widely Quoted in One Week

By Dr. Lynella Grant Jump from Unknown to Widely Quoted in One Week Dr. Lynella Grant Start by Being Quotable It's tough to stand out online. With millions of experts and websites on the Internet, what are your chances of getting noticed? Long odds, certainly. But that's not your biggest challenge. Most fail to grab attention because what they're dishing out is dull - rehashing what's already been said, ti... read more

18. Book Yourself Solid, The 7 Keys To Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even If You Hate Ma

By Michael Port & Julie Hunt If you haven’t already heard the buzz, Michael Port is the guy to call when you’re tired of thinking small! Michael Port & Associates LLC is the premier marketing and sales strategy consulting firm for professional service providers. His clientele includes the top lifestyle companies, micro-businesses and 1000's of up and coming solo-professionals. His speaking gigs are packed, his articles emerg... read more

19. Should you ever take a payday loan?

By Prakash Menon Payday loans have many names -- cash advances, signature loans and paycheck loans, etc. Payday lenders provide quick and easy short-term cash to those who need money immediately. That's the big reason why they're so popular. However, payday loans come at exorbitant costs. This can -- and often does -- lead borrowers into a downward spiral of rapidly escalating debt. Let's look at the issue fro... read more

20. Collaboration: 3 Keys to Keeping Your Documents from Getting Lost in the Shuffle

By Joe Miller > Often, collaborating documents in a team or in a business can feel like a complex sports play gone wrong. The ball gets passed off to the wrong person, dropped, or even lost. In addition, most document collaboration happens electronically. We are always told to save and resave these electronic documents, but it gets to the point that we can’t even keep track of which draft we’re on. Not to men... read more

21. Take Control of Your Paper in 3 Easy Steps

By Mike Shannon Do you have piles of paper on your desk. Many do and don't know how to deal with them. They have no working system to deal with the day to day influx of paper, email, magazines and other information. Worse yet, after a while that pile on your desk gets moved to the top of the file cabinet. And the pile on the file cabinet gets moved to the window sill. Pretty soon you have piles of paper all over ... read more

22. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

By graham and julie Whenever we have a bad experience or we own up to having a weakness people immediately jump on the band wagon and tell us to work with our weaknesses. “Focus on them until you have overcome them and then you can move on”. But we only have a limited period on this earth. And what is more, I don’t know how long that will be. So why oh why should I spend so much time focussing on my weaknesses? W... read more

23. Who Are You, Anyway?

By Steve Gillman Self-identity? Who are you really? We identify with many things, but this is just a process in our minds. In fact, this identification causes us to suffer. Your favorite basketball team loses, and you suffer as though YOU lost. Your car is damaged and it feels like YOU are hurt. Somebody attacks who they think you are, and it is as though they could actually reach inside and poke at your true ... read more

24. Privacy Rights – Big Brother’s Bumbling

By Richard A. Chapo The General Accounting Office has reported the federal government is ignoring individual privacy rights of citizens. Not only is it ignoring guidelines, the actions being taken may server to put your privacy at more risk of being violated. Government Run Amuck Five federal agencies are charged with using electronic data mining tools to track terrorist, catch criminals and prevent general fr... read more