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Guest Column: Blue Sky
Most industries have their scam artists. In fact, movies have been made around many of these shady characters. Think of how many used-car movies or portrayals of shady used-car dealers you have seen. In fact, the car industry took the bulk of this abuse for many years. But with the proliferation of on-line internet scam sites, some offshore, some within Canada, the Buyer Beware cliché has become that much more important.
Most industries have their scam artists. In fact, movies have been made around many of these shady characters. Think of how many used-car movies or portrayals of shady used-car dealers you have seen. In fact, the car industry took the bulk of this abuse for many years. But with the proliferation of on-line internet scam sites, some offshore, some within Canada, the Buyer Beware cliché has become that much more important.
Get Your Late-Paying Customers to Pay on Time
Your business was running pretty smoothly - sales growing, and profits growing, too - and then the credit crunch hit, someone said the “R” word and everything started slowing down almost overnight. Most troubling of all, your customers have been paying you later and later, as if they are using your money to fill their own personal credit crunch. Well, they probably are.
Your business was running pretty smoothly - sales growing, and profits growing, too - and then the credit crunch hit, someone said the “R” word and everything started slowing down almost overnight. Most troubling of all, your customers have been paying you later and later, as if they are using your money to fill their own personal credit crunch. Well, they probably are.
Transform Your Business with 2010 New Year’s ReVolutions
Businesses seem to be waiting for government stimulus money to trickle down into their cash flow. Unfortunately, few people seem aware of the glacial slowness of big government. Rather than wait on the Fed, businesses can create their own stimulus plan.
Businesses seem to be waiting for government stimulus money to trickle down into their cash flow. Unfortunately, few people seem aware of the glacial slowness of big government. Rather than wait on the Fed, businesses can create their own stimulus plan.
Is Your Business a Pipeline to Profits?
Is your business a “bucket brigade” or a “pipeline to profits”?
Is your business a “bucket brigade” or a “pipeline to profits”?
A New Coffee Order?
The OCS market is constantly changing and the players in that market seem to be competing with greater efficiency and less return.
The OCS market is constantly changing and the players in that market seem to be competing with greater efficiency and less return.
The ‘Being Nice’ Strategy
A seventh grade teacher once told his class that he didn’t understand what “being nice” meant.
A seventh grade teacher once told his class that he didn’t understand what “being nice” meant.
CAMA connection: Being Customer Focused
In case no one noticed we are in the trough of a recession. That is to say, that while some economists have declared the recession over, nobody realistically believes we are back to a state of “business as usual.”
In case no one noticed we are in the trough of a recession. That is to say, that while some economists have declared the recession over, nobody realistically believes we are back to a state of “business as usual.”
How to Find Your Own Pot of Gold
Businesses seem to be waiting for government stimulus money to trickle down into their cash flow. Unfortunately, few people seem aware of the glacial slowness of big government. Rather than wait on the Fed, businesses can create their own stimulus plan.
Businesses seem to be waiting for government stimulus money to trickle down into their cash flow. Unfortunately, few people seem aware of the glacial slowness of big government. Rather than wait on the Fed, businesses can create their own stimulus plan.
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Guest Column: Blue Sky by Neil Madden | 12/03/2009 Get Your Late-Paying Customers to Pay on Time by Gene Siciliano | 12/03/2009 Transform Your Business with 2010 New Year’s ReVolutions by Michael Guld | 12/03/2009 Is Your Business a Pipeline to Profits? by Jay Arthur PhD | 12/03/2009 A New Coffee Order? by Brian Martell | 09/30/2009 |
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