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... 

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... 

Patricia Thompson, a corporate psychologist who works with companies and does psychological assessments on candidates for high-level positions writes in great detail about some of the qualities required to be a great CEO. The qualities a company looks for in a CEO can vary somewhat, depending on the organization’s culture and the state of the business.  For example, companies in turn-around or... 

Seth Godin’s book Permission Marketing is one of the most timely books for the new era of marketing. With the internet becoming a prominent form of communication, the new ways of marketing are dramatically changing. Seth believes the new marketer will take permission from his prospects before sending him information. Seth believes the old era of interruption marketing is over. However, several... 

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... 

Seth Godin’s book “The Dip” according to Seth is a book on quitting. According to me, this is more a book on being the best at something rather than on quitting. It is an amazing book, very short and something every person motivated at being the best should read. This book is a such a short read, most people can read the entire book in a weekend, even if you are a slow reader. I...