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The Importance of Goal Setting
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...
How to Start a Construction Business?
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...
Interview with Goals Guy – Gary Ryan Blair : Part 1
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...
Make $ 5000 a week online Jobs – Scams or Opportunities
“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.”
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Would You Stay Open Beyond Closing Time for a Customer?
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...
Taking your Small Business Public in USA
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...
Recycling Electronic Products
Recently, someone emailed me about recycling electronic products. I do believe in conserving the environment and I do believe in recycling. But it never crossed my mind as to what we do with our electronic items once they reach the end of their life cycle.
It’s been a long time since I bought an electronic item, my laptop has been with me for the last 5 years. My old mobile phones are lying somewhere...
How to Choose the Right Social Media Consultant for Your Business
With the strong emergence of social media in the internet marketing world, every Tom, Dick and Harry has come out saying they are social media experts. They are feeding on the desires of entrepreneurs who do not have time to dedicate to developing their social media presence effectively. If you do not ask the right questions you may wind up spending thousands of dollars and get no results. That’s...
Interview with Shelly Sun CEO and Co-Founder of BrightStar
Shelly Sun is the CEO and co-founder of BrightStar, a premium healthcare staffing company that provides the full continuum of care from homecare for newborns, disabled adults and seniors, to supplemental staffing for corporate clients such as nursing homes and physicians’ offices.
At BrightStar’s inception, Shelly, along with her husband and co-founder JD, risked everything to pioneer a company...
Innovative Businesses that could shape the future – Part 1
We compiled a list of 10 business that we thought were out of the ordinary. Just not the regular old economy businesses, but something new, something innovative and something that looks “interesting.” There are so many innovative business concepts that we could compile a list of 100. We decided to start with 10. Maybe, at a later time we’ll come up with more innovative businesses....