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Have you ever returned to your office after time away to find where you left off and what priorities you are working had escaped your memory?
I have. Too many times before I learned this…
Before I share the answer, come and experience my journey to the answer.
A year or so ago, I was returning after […]

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I started my company (EMJ) from the trunk of my car (and it was a small trunk so that’s a small business). I grew EMJ to $375,000,000 in sales prior to selling it to SYNNEX. I am now CEO of a $1 billion business.
One certainty in life is you will not always see eye […]

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Any form of training, so long as it is directed towards enhancing the present will always turn out to be a productive means for improvement. And for that matter, critical thinking is one form of training that creates the edge between the achievers and the non-achievers.
Critical thinking, in a nutshell, is the facility by […]

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Any work-at-home-mom will confess that owing her own business is as challenging as it gets. While the rewards are bountiful, the word easy is not one used to describe small business ownership.
Many moms who work out of their home also have to multitask tending to the needs of their small children. In fact the […]

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Man is inherently prone to either giving up or making up with the problem as they come his paths. Since problem is a great part of one’s life, it is expected for a person to create a suitable and well-adopted entity in him. In fact, man would never be complete unless he passes through […]

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Good customer service is indeed hard to find, much more to provide. It is one thing to want to provide good customer service to your customers and yet another thing to do it. Information sharing between the management and frontline staff, budget constraints and equipments needed to do the job makes providing good customer […]

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Integrating a business software package with a payment processing module is simple. The module can be fully integrated with a tabbed section inside the application or accessed via buttons within the applications. Or, it can be created as an external module that uses batching for transferring data between the processing program and the main […]

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Throughout the years, I have seen a lot of people all making the same old mistakes when constructing their websites, Here is my guide on how to stop losing customers and how to avoid these online business mistakes that will turn visitors away from your website and cause you to lose profit and popularity.
Avoid […]

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If you think someone has knowledge of someone or something specific, this technique can be used to help you find the truth. It works on this psychological principle: A person is drawn equally to that which he has no prior knowledge. Simply put, if a person has never heard of Fred, Peter, and Marvin, […]

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“Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.” —- George Carlin
When you have a sneaking suspicion another person may be up to something underhanded, you are left with three options, none of which is often productive: confront, ignore, or try to gather […]

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