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- Sales Call Reluctance
Sales Call Reluctance is an emotional hesitation experienced by people when selling - an anxiety that stops them taking action.
- Ad-aware
Ascertain if spyware is embedded in software you have downloaded or are using. Spyware is used generally to gain marketing information.
- winTack
Useful to anyone having difficulty keeping track of scores of documents, spreadsheets, web pages, etc.
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- Content is king
I would like to go one stage further: Unique Quality content is king.
- The more 'hits', the better ?
Conventional wisdom has it that the more hits on your web site, the better.
- The Blog Profits Blueprint
Most bloggers are rewarded with little more than "chump change" for their time, expertise and efforts. Find out about the potential for cash flow.
- Fresh Content Management for your Web Site
How often should you update the content and design of your web site ?
- What to do with that old computer …
The opportunity to give someone else an opportunity.
- Choosing a Business Partner
There is more to a successful business partnership than just a person's skills, experience and money.
- Affiliate Programmes
Affiliate Programmes are big on the Internet - some are scams, some are genuine.
- Are You Backed-Up ?
A hard disk crash could cost you your business.
- Is Business Coaching Worth It ?
Is there a need for coaching, or is this one of those 'New Age' things - or worse, a solution looking for a problem.
- Follow Up … and Follow Up
Don't just thrown away sales leads.
- The Dangers of Discounting
The myth of discounting to make a profit !
- Your Computer ... is it Costing You Money ?
If you don't know how to use it properly, it is costing you money !
- Stress — or Distress
A small amount of stress is not harmful, it does become harmful when it is prolonged and reaches the level of distress.
- Time Management
The term Time Management is really a misnomer - it really should be Self Management.
- To-Do Lists
Off-line and On-line (avoiding tangential surfing).
- Web Site Turn-Offs
When you are browsing the web, what is your pet hate ?
- Web site for home based and small bussiness.
- Why Have One ?
A web site can have relevance for all businesses - it's a question of developing a strategy.
- Where should you start with a web presence ?
A small web site can fit with the Research, Awareness, Customer Management and Up-Selling/Cross-Selling stages of the Selling Cycle.
- Web Site Content Management
How often should you update the content and design of your web site ?
- Is yours a Trustworthy Web Site
What would a visitor perceive as being a trustworthy web site ?
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- Procrastination
Procrastination can wreck your Dream ...
- Occupational Health and Safety
O. H. & S. issues also apply to home-based and small bussinesses.
- Does Information lead to Wisdom ?
Given the state of Information Overload most of us are in, some differentiation between the often blurred meaning of these concepts might be useful.
- Guard Your Email Address
- Reduce the junk email coming to your email address.
- How to conceal your email address on your web site from the junk email merchants.
- Dealing with Spam (Junk) Email. How to configure Outlook Express to deal with spam.
- Your Software: is it legit ?
Don't get caught with illigitimate software on your computer.
- Winning Government Business
Government Tendering - is it for You ? Governments at all levels are making some effort to attract small and medium enterprises to tender for goods and services.
- Expressing You View Point
How often have you thought you would like to let the relevant government small business Minister know what you think of an issue ?
External Articles
- Sea Change or Career Change - Stepping off the Hamster Wheel by Trina E. Roach
It was great while it lasted (most of the time, anyway), but now the spark is gone. You know it's time for YOU to finally hop off the hamster wheel and start something new.
- Stop Advertising and Start a Conversation
It's no longer business as usual in the ad business. Today, the consumer's in control. It's time to stop advertising to them and start talking with them.
- Mobile Internet The Future For Mobile Phones
When WAP was first announced, it was hailed as the latest stage in an information culture, but failed to deliver. But, now there are the web enabled 3G phones ...
- Self employment article
Self employment and employment in small and micro businesses is a major form of employment in Australia. Equally significant is the education of self employed people in this sector. By and large however, this education is informed by practice in and literature from much larger business, it attends to expertise of existing businesses, traditionally with an emphasis on what is taught. Flowing on, little education research is tailored to small and micro business, less still on a purpose of the education: what is learned, and less again on learning to start a new small or micro business, despite the total number of people in the sector and entry and exit numbers. This paper briefly looks at aspects of this paradox, before exploring some emerging images from the hitherto largely hidden world of people learning to start new small and micro businesses.
- Starting and Managing a Small Business From Your Home
General detailed article on what's required of you when starting to work from home.
- Characteristics of Small Business 2004
Australian Bureau of Statistics article
- Is home-working on the rise?
B.B.C. article detailing changing work patterns in U.K.
- Working from Home: Both Sides of the Coin
Some advantages and disadvantages derived from interviews with home-based business owners.
- Procrastinators always finish last, even in health
Your health and your success may suffer, say the results of two recent studies of procrastination.
- Barter Economies - from Background Briefing, ABC Radio National 12/03/00.
Since Adam and Eve we've bartered for things: a few eggs for a few plums, your camel for my daughter. Then came Money. And now comes virtual money - an alternative to money - called things like BEENZ.
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