Percival Everett?s Erasure takes a look at how racism affects various aspects of our lives that we may be unaware of. An excellent example of this is when Ellison ventures into the bookstore to look for his novel only to realize that they are in the Africa-American literature section. A place, as ...

Ah...the dreaded "P" word. I see window washers bring procrastination into their window cleaning business quite a lot, and it`s unfortunate because it`ll seriously slow down the success of your business. This problem certainly doesn`t extend to only the window washing business. People naturally le...

As you likely know from personal experience, the value of email has been greatly tarnished by spam, unsolicited messages, online junk mail. So, many subscribers and would-be subscribers care very much about the exposure of their email addresses. Since this issue is so important, articulate a priv...

As a children`s writing instructor myself, it`s not every day that I get writing tips from an eight-year old, especially GOOD writing tips. But I just finished reading FLYING FINGERS: MASTER THE TOOLS OF LEARNING THROUGH THE JOY OF WRITING, which includes tips, stories, and writing activitie...

Recently one of my customers told me the chaos swirling through his company was the result of poor cash flow. If only he had more money, his company would run better. I must respectfully disagree. Poor business processes produce chaos. Chaos leads to poor cash flow. Fix the poor business processes a...

Visual processing is the most important way for gathering information for all human beings. A good design or graphics work is remembered for ages and that is what drives the multinational companies to spend millions of dollars on developing their logo and other branding material. They would go to an...

From what I have seen and experienced, to quit is the greatest temptation during the first year of working at a home-based business. If smoking was like working at a home-based business, the occurence of lung cancer would be dramatically reduced. It is a known fact that a majority of the people t...

Ask some of the more successful MLM marketers and they will tell you that the key factor in networking MLM is simplicity. Networking MLM is a very simple business. But keeping it simple does not mean that hard work is not involved. One of the common mistakes is that people try to make it complicated...

Q. I am a former pastor who left the ministry after sixteen years to spend more time with my family. We moved to a very small town (less than ten thousand people) and I want to start an internet café business and also offer PC repair. How can I investigate and then promote this business? A. In a big...

Incredible as it sounds, you have a goldmine of free business advice and resources available to you for starting an online business. Many entrepreneurs are taking advantage of the unbelievable opportunity of financial independence by starting an Internet business. Over 300,000 individuals already a...

I have compiled 9 tips to remind you what can and can`t be done when doing collections for your business, or a collection agency. Print this out and hang it in your office on the wall you stare at when you make collection calls. These are some good reminders to keep in mind as you feel your blood p...

There are both fixed and mobile detailers. Consumers often will use either or both during the life of their car. Mobile Detailing is nice because they come to you. Fixed site auto detailers often work in a controlled environment and can produce higher quality work. Due to the competitive aspects fi...

I would like to comment on the ?A Beautiful Mind? movie and the book, which was actually much better. I just finished reading another book on the similar side of John Nashs? assertion of working together rather than competing against. That book was ?Co-opetition.? By Adam M. Brandenburger (Havard gu...

The way the economy is today, we should, as independent professionals, be in demand and busier than ever - filling in those important spaces that have been created in so many companies. To make ourselves marketable, however, we must define what our USP (Unique Selling Proposition) is. What makes us ...