Social Business Networks inexpensively interconnect professionals online, in particular, independent entrepreneurs and smaller companies. Social Business Networks also give you the opportunity to showcase your experience and achievements within your network. If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner, you need to be literate in the curren

The green movement has created a plethora of buzzwords. One of the more popular phrases is "carbon tax." And for good reason. Businesses, traditional and emerging, will soon be affected by a carbon tax depending on where they fall in the supply chain. Wikipedia defines a carbon tax as a direct tax on carbon dioxide emissions, which is generated

So if you're like the rest of us, January (and the New Year) brings a whole host of "good intent" into our personal and professional lives. The New Year is a time to "wipe the slate clean" and "do things differently" this year. But come the end of January, unless the changes have already been put in play, a lot of that New Year Vigor has seemin

The green movement has created a plethora of buzzwords. One of the popular phrases is emissions trading. And for good reason. Businesses, traditional and emerging, will soon be affected by this indirect carbon tax depending on where they fall in the supply chain. One possible regulatory system for limiting future carbon dioxide emissions is a c

Scattered thinking is deadly to a business. Are you at risk of falling into the trap where you become too busy to really work on your business? Do you constantly run after potential work or clients, spend your days jumping from one activity to the next and end up exhausted with little to show for your efforts? It can happen to any business owner

Have you ever watched home shopping channels on television? Like me, have you been absolutely amazed by the amount of people willing to stay up late at night, whip out the credit card, and buy a product they do not really need, and probably will not use in the near future? What is the secret of their success? Here are five steps to successful

Negative cashflow is the last thing anyone wants, especially in the current economic climate, however for many it is a real and pressing issue that needs to be addressed. The problem is that often those who find themselves in this position have for years been conditioning themselves to ignore their financial problems, pretending that they don't

Have you ever noticed how hard it is to fill a bucket that is full of holes? Imagine for a moment how silly it would be to try and keep the bucket full of water when the water just keeps pouring out the bottom. Well that is what most of us do when we try to leap forward in our growth with a diminished Power Factor. Your Power Factor is a comb

Serendipity means the seemingly random things that are continually going on in our lives, that we feel that we are not controlling or in control of. Sometimes these things seem good to us at the time and sometimes they don't. However, its only with a large serving of hindsight that we can ever really tell. And the interesting thing is that with

When starting a business, many entrepreneurs empty their nest egg, or use all available collateral, to get a new venture up and running on the plus side of the ledger. Yet, they have forgotten to consider the key to unlocking the door to success. Themselves! If you want to be a professional and personal success, you need to take the time and lear

As a consultant, I've deliberately avoided making too big a deal about this recession we find ourselves in because. First it doesn't help a great deal to dwell upon problems when really you ought to be thinking about solutions; and secondly, you're probably hearing plenty about it from everyone else. I've been getting a lot of emails and ca

If you hear of the word bookmark, you associate it with something that helps you remember a page in a book, so you can come back to read it again at a later time. In the case of websites and web pages on the internet, social bookmarking is the practice of saving web pages, in a way tagging them, so you can view and read them again. When you bookmar

The green movement has created new marketplace opportunities with the emergence of intelligent green software. Industries, traditional and emerging, will soon be affected by the adoption or disregard of such technology as they move into some version of energy peak load or variable electrical pricing (where the current price is determined by the pow

In my capacity as an Event Promoter, I have associated with a large number of extremely wealthy and successful people, and although I've read pretty much every wealth and success book on the market, no one has yet conveyed just how basic the process of becoming wealthy for life really is. To a man (woman) the principles that I have noted are the

The owner of a small manufacturing company has 29 employees. After growing to this size and being in this very competitive business for just 5 years, this owner is experiencing headaches typical for a company in this stage of its growth curve. Issues include: 1. The inability of the CEO to release control to key employees creating a sense of di