The success of a business depends a lot on the quality of it’s employees. Attracting and keeping quality employees is a huge challenge for most businesses. Once a business decides that there is an open position, how do businesses go about promoting this position? Some companies use recruitment firms, but recruitment firms are expensive and NOT always reliable. Another option is your local newspaper... 

Award-Winning Orange County Signs Maker Martin Neil explains how your Business Signage can transform your brand. Having an attention-getting sign is critical for any business – no matter the industry.  Your business signage identifies your business and location and it establishes your business image. Your business signage is the core of your brand identity strategy, whether it is proudly mounted... 

We compiled a list of the top 4 posts for the year 2011 and here is the list. The Fuss about Good Debt and Bad Debt This is an article on dealing with debt. Debt, if not used properly can affect your life and your personality. This is a must read for anyone who wants to get a grip on his finances. Click here to read the article… How to Start a Construction Business This is a great article... 

In this interview Gary Ryan Blair, popularly known as the Goals Guy talks about the importance of goal setting and how setting (or not setting) goals affects us in our day-to-day lives. This is part 2 of the interview with Gary Ryan Blair.  If you want to read part 1 of the interview, please click here. Vinil: How important is goal setting? I would assume that goal setting is part of the personal... 

Many people are attracted to the construction business because of big budget projects. It’s not uncommon to hear people who became multi-millionaires or even billionaires in a short period of time by starting off in the construction business. So, we asked an expert who’s been in the construction industry for over 20 years on his views on the construction business. How does the construction business... 

This is an interview with Gary Ryan Blair often referred to as the “Goals Guy.” He is the author of the best selling book “Everything Counts: 52 remarkable ways to inspire excellence and drive results”. In this interview he talks about how people should consciously create a personal strategic plan for themselves just like how major corporations do. His handbooks, training programs and consulting... 

“To hire a GREAT CEO, the work must be put in on the front end. That means ADEQUATELY TRAINED INTERVIEWERS, building the interviewing team, an accurate job description, and writing effective interview questions. If you get lazy or take shortcuts on any of these upfront steps, you’re likely to sabotage the hiring results you achieve on the backend. What’s at stake here is the success or failure... 

“I have answered many of those online ads and can tell you that all of those claims are false.  It’s just a come on to get your email address to sell to advertising companies.  The surveys are used as a way to sell individual advertising.  To participate with surveys – you need to be with survey companies that use e-mail to determine if someone qualifies for in-house surveys or not.” –... 

We don’t close until the last customer leaves I co-own a small farm winery just west of Gettysburg, PA, USA. We do our best to instill into our employees the concept that the customer is the ONLY reason that we exist. As such, we state “we don’t close until the last customer leaves”. We back this up with policies that include: No closing of registers while the last customers... 

The idea of going public is an intriguing one for many small businesses.  They see access to capital, lots of publicity and generally a better business life than the previous one they lived where they were always begging for money, no one outside their customer base ever heard of them and their business life although not always bad, certainly had ever-present challenges.  This article will lay out...