By vanko on January 8, 2012
You can learn a lot by watching customers use your offerings and asking them about what you see them do. One business leader was amazed to watch her customers remove the decorations on her cakes and substitute their own. From that experience she learned to provide undecorated as well as decorated cakes. [...]
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By vanko on September 17, 2011
Would you like to know how you could stop a home foreclosure? The best answer is to take immediate action. Many people overlook the best solution, and ignore the lenders, this is not the good solution, the lenders will continue to pursue it until either they sell the home at auction or take the home [...]
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By vanko on August 23, 2011
Many for-profit manufacturers and service providers concentrate only on influencing their own prices and costs. In the process they ignore or are insensitive to what customers and end users pay to use these offerings. While this narrow viewpoint may be profitable, much more profit is missed because demand is dampened due to soaring costs incurred [...]
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By vanko on June 14, 2011
You probably already know some good methods for getting a lot of traffic to your site(s), but in my opinion, buzz marketing ranks at the top, and the best part — it’s Free! If you aren’t using buzz marketing, you are missing out on an avalanche of links, swarms of traffic, and yes — even [...]
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By vanko on March 14, 2011
There are many questions that regularly come up when businesses are looking to raise extra capital for expanding their businesses or manage day to day cashflow. This article looks at three commonly faced issues and provides the best possible solution.
Q. My company imports garden furniture from China and India and I distribute to the UK [...]
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By vanko on November 7, 2010
To exceed a moving target of top performance, you have to aim past where the target will be . . . not where the target is now. To accomplish 20 times more, you’ll need to outdo others in the future. Seeing where the best will be performing in five years can give you a firm [...]
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By vanko on November 13, 2009
If you want to jump start your myspace music promotional campaign and watch and increase your MySpace song plays you need to follow a deliberate strategy.
You can increase your Myspace music plays – Even choose how many plays go to each individual song and if you do this consistently you will get attention to your [...]
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By vanko on October 1, 2009
News about the current credit crisis in America should cause everyone to reflect on what got us here in the first place. It’s not fair or reasonable to place the blame on the mortgage companies and other big banks. That’s like blaming a fast food chain for your obesity. Hopefully you all understand that you’re [...]
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By vanko on September 1, 2009
Ghandi’s famous words lead us to one of the most powerful facts about human nature. To lead others, we must first lead ourselves. He believed that this was a way to create the world we want to live in.
On a personal level, this can be linked to the way you see your world [...]
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