What Information Should You Store In Your Customer Database - And Why?After 15 years working as a Business Analyst and an IT Specialist, the most common question I get asked by business owners is what information should I store in my customer database. Up until five years ago, I would have given them the same answers most Business Analysts would give. It wasn’t until I decided to go into business and build my own company from scratch that I really began to get a much clearer picture on what we should be storing and the real reasons why.I am certainly a great believer that all Managing Directors should in fact be required to build a business from scratch before bei
ts you save your documents as .PDF files. Good luck doing that with Microsoft Word without shelling out some more dough!
Mozilla Thunderbird
What it is: email client
Where to find it: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
H Chairing A Meeting The Most Effective WayHow many times have you attended a meeting where the only thing that gets decided is the date of the next meeting? Or where one person dominates the meeting? Or the meeting is swamped with trivia or unrelated information?It is a commonly held assumption that chairing a meeting is simply a matter of reading out the agenda – that is assuming there is an agenda and that the addenda actually covers the topics which are most pertinent to the matter in hand.Chairing an effective meeting is a skill. One that is learnable. Outlined below are some simple principles; which if followed can result
I’m guessing you’re pretty busy. You’ve got a ton of stuff to get done everyday and you don’t need to waste time doing monotonous and repetitive tasks. But you also are probably pretty cost conscious and don’t have money to throw away on every piece of software that you need. Thankfully, there are several fully-functional free software packages out there that can help you and your business save time and money.
OpenOffice
What it is: office suite that’s compatible with all other major office suites
Where to find it: http://www.openoffice.org/
How it helps you: Are you sick of paying $500 for each copy of Microsoft Office Professional? Well, the OpenOffice suite is a completely free alternative that includes a word processor, spreadsheet, database, and more. Each program has comparable features to its Microsoft counterpart and is completely compatible with Microsoft Office files. I regularly pass .DOC and .XLS files back and forth between the two and have never had a problem. An added bonus: OpenOffice Writer lets you save your documents as .PDF files. Good luck doing that with Microsoft Word without shelling out some more dough!
Mozilla Thunderbird
What it is: email client
Where to find it: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Ho 7 Ways to Enhance Your Career With Effective PresentationsPresenting has become one of the most important tools in business communication. It is required by most, if not all, employers as an essential skill to have in order to secure a good position in the organization.This means that having this skill and knowing how to use it can help you succeed in your daily operations and in your career. No matter in which field you work, you still need to present your ideas and to put them across to other people. If you work in a team, you need to transfer your knowledge and findings to your colleagues in order for them to contribute to your work when you need th
ou need. Thankfully, there are several fully-functional free software packages out there that can help you and your business save time and money.
OpenOffice
What it is: office suite that’s compatible with all other major office suites
Where to find it: http://www.openoffice.org/
How it helps you: Are you sick of paying $500 for each copy of Microsoft Office Professional? Well, the OpenOffice suite is a completely free alternative that includes a word processor, spreadsheet, database, and more. Each program has comparable features to its Microsoft counterpart and is completely compatible with Microsoft Office files. I regularly pass .DOC and .XLS files back and forth between the two and have never had a problem. An added bonus: OpenOffice Writer lets you save your documents as .PDF files. Good luck doing that with Microsoft Word without shelling out some more dough!
Mozilla Thunderbird
What it is: email client
Where to find it: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
H 15 Irrefutable Marketing ProficienciesTime and again I talk to people who try one or two promotional strategies, don’t get the desired results and give up. They are confused about what marketing is and convinced that it will never work for their business. Does this sound like you?You see, marketing is more than just one technique. It’s about becoming proficient at many “little” things. Here is my list of a few of those “little things”. I call them '15 Irrefutable Marketing Proficiencies'. Check to see how many of them you’ve already mastered.1. PASSIONI’m passionate about why I’m in business. What I do
ere to find it: http://www.openoffice.org/
How it helps you: Are you sick of paying $500 for each copy of Microsoft Office Professional? Well, the OpenOffice suite is a completely free alternative that includes a word processor, spreadsheet, database, and more. Each program has comparable features to its Microsoft counterpart and is completely compatible with Microsoft Office files. I regularly pass .DOC and .XLS files back and forth between the two and have never had a problem. An added bonus: OpenOffice Writer lets you save your documents as .PDF files. Good luck doing that with Microsoft Word without shelling out some more dough!
Mozilla Thunderbird
What it is: email client
Where to find it: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
H Leading Change - I'm Feeling Better, Now that I've Given Up All Hope"I'm feeling a lot better now that I've given up all hope."That humorous quote came from one of my lieutenant's. He was reporting on the morning change update by my boss. Our company had been working on change forever. Unfortunately, it was coming off like Alfred E. Newman once said, "Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything changed." We were burning cash and not a single thing was really happening.At the time we were working for Houston's other rocket, Compaq. We were changing a lot just by virtue of our growth. We were growing at about a 40% rate our first two years wi
and more. Each program has comparable features to its Microsoft counterpart and is completely compatible with Microsoft Office files. I regularly pass .DOC and .XLS files back and forth between the two and have never had a problem. An added bonus: OpenOffice Writer lets you save your documents as .PDF files. Good luck doing that with Microsoft Word without shelling out some more dough!
Mozilla Thunderbird
What it is: email client
Where to find it: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
H School Career Counselors and Advisors and the Advice They GiveSo often school career counselors and advisers hurt the psyche of our children in Junior High, High School and even later on in College. This is a tragedy indeed. One career counselor I talked with at length worked for the University of Phoenix and she told me of how they were changing that problem.She agreed that it was indeed a serious issue and so I did a little research on all of this last year and read all the psychology white papers out there. It seems that they really are on the right track. Although I have never attended the University of Phoenix, only observed them from an outside speak
ts you save your documents as .PDF files. Good luck doing that with Microsoft Word without shelling out some more dough!
Mozilla Thunderbird
What it is: email client
Where to find it: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
How it helps you: One program that OpenOffice doesn’t offer a counterpart to is Outlook. Thunderbird is more like a souped up version of Outlook Express with hundreds of free extensions https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/ that let you do anything from change the color scheme to translate your emails to Chinese.
FeedReader
What it is: desktop RSS and ATOM aggregator
Where to find it: http://www.feedreader.com/
How it helps you: Configuring FeedReader can literally save you hours a day of flipping threw newspapers, websites, blogs, and newsletters for news. With FeedReader, all you need to do is subscribe to your favorite RSS feeds http://www.rss-specifications.com/ and watch all of the news come to you. I am able to scan hundreds of news sources in a matter of seconds to find the stories that I really need. Many sites put the entire story in the feed so you don’t even need to open your browser to stay connected.
Web CEO
What it is: web promotion software that promotes, analyzes, and
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Managers and bosses have to give feedback to the teams that they lead. The other day one of our hygienists remarked that she hated performance reviews because she worries that I'll tell her something about herself that she won't like. She generally gets very edgy to the point of almost panic before a review. I told her she never again has to worry about a performance review. I never tell anyone anything bad about themselves in a performance review.
Technological advancements have brought many benefits not only to people from all walks of life but also to different businesses and organizations, whether big or small. In the past, companies and other business firms rely on job interviews and written examinations when pre-screening applicants. But nowadays, these tools are not enough to determine the accuracy of the information provided by job applicants such as educational background and work experiences. Good thing, companies and private investigation agencies now conduct thorough background checks by using employment screening technology.