Organizing Business Cards for Effective Contact Management by Christopher J. Brunner
Now that you've had colorful new business cards printed, and have been distributing them diligently, what do you do with the cards you collect from other people?If you're like most people, you have a stack of rubber-banded cards floating around you desk. ... more

Business Continuity Management: How Do You React When Your Business Continuity is at Risk? by Adrian Pepper
The biggest problem with owning a small business is that your life can be full of worry. I encourage my coaching clients to manage their potential risks. If you do the same, this will allow you: To identify which issues must be resolved to keep your bus... more

Competitive Intelligence for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, and Consultants by Cathy Gariety
Most of us are familiar with the term market analysis or evaluation but few of us actually think of Competitive Intelligence when we make business decisions. How are we going to market our product or service? Is there a market for it? Who's doing it now, ... more

Ethics in Advertising by Kenneth C. Hoffman
Making money and corrupting the morals of a minor at the same time is not my idea of ethical advertising. Recently a television ad depicted a small boy breaking a window so the owner's wife could upgrade to their own style of window. There were severa... more

What Role Do Compliance and Risk Have in Small Business? by Rick Carbone
What do Risk Management and Compliance have to do with Small or Home-based businesses. Take for example the typical web site owner who sells several products on their site. What Compliance issues do they face? Plenty! Is this web site owner compliant ... more

Federal Government Employee Information Security by Josh Riverside
Though stringent measures have been taken to secure the information pertaining to federal government employees, lapses often take place and vital information is leaked either inadvertently or due to a laxity in vigilance. The result is that vital data abo... more

Business Ethics: Lesson Plans, Knowledge Management, Ethics and Capitalism Collide by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
Recently I read of a new website where teachers can post and sell their lesson plans to recover the time that they had spent in developing these plans. On the surface, this sounds reasonable and why would anyone object to teachers making a little more mo... more

Business Continuity and Payment Systems by Stanley Epstein
The Bank for International Settlements definition of a payment system states; A payment system consists of a set of instruments, banking procedures and, typically, interbank funds transfer systems that ensure the circulation of money (From A glossary o... more

Succes and Business Intelligence Hand in Hand by Finn Jensen
A business without succes in some degree is not good. Succes comes from either growth in the number of customers or in the numbers of sales you do per customer. Business Intelligence can assist a company to gain new customers and keep hold of old ones. An... more

Work Attitude Ethics For Progress by Pierre du Plessis
This "fruit for thought" article is for all human beings, who somehow find themselves in the role of breadwinner and striving to improve their living standards.The heading of this article could just as well have been "How to position yourself for promotio... more

Are You in Compliance? California's New Sexual Harassment Law AB1825 by Rhonda Goetz
I was speaking recently at a business network meeting when a business owner asked whether she needed to be concerned with California's new Sexual Harassment law, AB1825. This business owner runs her company with 18 full-time, 20 part-time employees, 8 tem... more

Information Security Systems by Josh Riverside
The old order changeth, yielding way for the new. This adage especially holds true when you consider the latest advances in technology and the way they have changed modern business practices, and also the socio-economic fabric of countries. The Internet h... more

Management Aircraft Washing Business by Lance Winslow
If you are setting up an aircraft washing business you need to be concerned with your management skills and the need to start by writing a business plan. I started my first aircraft washing service when I was 12 years old at a small airport in California.... more

Business Continuity Testing by Albert Streab
Disaster Recovery is not Business Continuity. Many companies do not have full business continuity plans. They say they do have business continuity plans but they really mean that they have a disaster recovery plan, usually meaning that they have alterna... more

Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing in a Business Perspective by Yasas Vishuddhi Abeywickrama
34fb Business IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence has become a very important activity in the business arena irrespective of the domain due to the fact that managers need to analyze comprehensively in order to face the challenges.Data sourcing, data analys... more

Professional Entrepreneurial Ethics -- How Trustworthy Are You? by Chris King
Both weekly and monthly, I receive a large number of publications that deal with business and technology. Ever since the whole Enron scandal became news, these magazines have and are featuring more and more articles dealing with business ethics, honesty a... more

The Compliance Officer's Killer Application by Martin Day
It used to be that only the largest multi-nationals needed a Compliance Officer. Today most practices, regardless of size, would be wise to charge someone within their organisation with the responsibility of keeping abreast and managing the compliance pro... more

Building Security vs Information Security by Eric Meyer
Most companies hire highly paid computer security professionals who spend hours and hours a day configuring access policies and patching computers. Then they turn around and hire a minimum wage security guards to protect their millions of dollars worth o... more

Defining Supply Chain Management by James Hunt
Companies that deal with inventory will have to have some sort of system in place to effectively manage the supply chain that exists for any type of sales. A system of inventory needs to be as smooth running as possible so that a company is able to fulfi... more

Disaster Recovery Services for Small Businesses by Alexander Gordon
In this era of automation, disaster recovery is gaining increasing significance. Since all the business have adopted computer technology, and rely on the computers� memory to run their businesses, any attack on the machine can adversely affect a company's... more

4 Steps To Understanding Six Sigma Redundancy Analysis by Tony Jacowski
Innovation and growth are the only ways to company survival and prosperity. Consistently meeting and exceeding customer expectations requires intensive efforts at minimizing process variation aided by creative thinking. One must remember that creative thi... more

Six Sigma Training - Why and How by Gary Preston
Although Six Sigma sounds like a distant star in a galaxy far, far away, the term is very easy to explain, once you know sigma is the character in the Greek alphabet that is used in mathematical statistics to identify a standard deviation. A standard devi... more

Improving Your Customer Relationship Management With Blogging Technology by Etienne Gibbs
Before I address the following questions: What is a blog? and What can a blog do for your business?, let me pose a few "What if . . ." questions to you.Keeping in mind that before your prospects and customers buy from you, they need to know you, like you... more

6 Steps to Effective Customer Relationship Management by Ettione Stuckey
Nurture Your Customer RelationshipsSimply put, customer relationship management is a way of tracking and nurturing your customer relationships throughout the customer's life-cycle, as they move from prospect to customer, to repeat-buyer. Once a customer b... more