Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 21, 2010

Make promises sparingly, and keep them faithfully, no matter what it costs. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Keep skid chains on your tongue; always say less than you think. Cultivate a low, persuasive voice. Praise good work, regardless of who did it.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 3, 2010

If you think your employee’s poor performance is costing you profit, instead of overhauling your employee roster, why not try motivating them to become better employees ? Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting!

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The Marq

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

In an About.com article titled, Fighting Employee Turnover Costs , Darrell Zahorsky explains variances in these costs. I won’t regurgitate what he’s already explained, except that the cost depends on a multitude of factors and can vary from 50% to 200% of an employee’s annual salary. TheMarq.com.

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Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

At the least, you spread the cost of buying gifts over twelve months rather than breaking the bank at the end of the year. Comments Trackbacks 11 Ways to Get in the Christmas Spirit Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 13, 2010

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? What was his main problem?

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The Marq

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

This additional cost and inability to quickly respond can mean doom for many organizations. Photo Credit: Mykl Roventine Posted by Arash Sayadi on Monday, February 01, 2010 Topic: Business Startup , Business Strategies , Entrepreneurship 0comments: Post a Comment Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe | Content copyright 2009.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 7, 2007

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Build your own network!

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 21, 2008

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Build your own network!

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The Marq

AUGUST 17, 2009

These include the rise in prices for metals other than gold (gold prices rise in recession, while others drop), the drop in Libor rate (signaling that banks are lending to each other again), or the rise in cost of moving freight (signaling the resurgence of international trade), among others. Remember, you want to set a BHAG! !! TheMarq.com.

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The Marq

DECEMBER 18, 2009

The optimist realizes that long recessions mean that people will change their spending behaviors and look for higher-value, lower-cost goods, even if only for short-term. This change in spending means the market is now more open to existing or new products and services that deliver on the higher-value, lower-cost demand. TheMarq.com.

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The Marq

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Posted by Arash Sayadi on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 Topic: Inspirational Thought , Motivational , Personal Family 0comments: Post a Comment Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe | Content copyright 2009. My flexibility in thoughts, business acumen, motivational theories, family loyalty, and spiritual nature I owe to his teachings.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Build your own network!

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The Marq

APRIL 29, 2010

A complete UC package involves other services such as email, IM, and presence meta data. International calling : low cost calls to the world I know the Skype users will want to know this: Google Voice gives you better international rates than Skype. You can even forward them as an email. TheMarq.com. All rights reserved.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Build your own network!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 18, 2010

New Low Price When Gamer Lifestyle first opened, it cost $450, and slots for the course filled up fast. But Johnn and Yax knew that price kept a lot of would-be gamer-lifestylers out of the course, so they racked their brains for a way to cut costs. That’s $250, for a course that used to cost $450. It’s a pretty insane deal.

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 28, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Procrastination Carries Big Costs Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on April 28, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. There are big costs to procrastination. Count the cost – I focus on what procrastination is costing me. Thanks for visiting! Health is one.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 3, 2010

A client emails you in a panic and the tone is so urgent that you feel the need like it’s your own. Here’s a tip: make a 48-hour waiting period the standard policy in your business for all incoming requests. We can say “Sure, but it’ll cost ya&# or we can say “No&#. Ah, the rush job. You drop everything.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? E-Mail me or follow me.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Emails bombard you. You were supposed to deliver this project at 5pm and you’re almost finished but… A new email comes in. For example, you could redesign your website so it appeals to more clients and lessens your advertising costs. I like a little pressure, but stay far away from ‘frazzled’ at all costs.

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Productivity Bits

MARCH 24, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. A good number of SMEs now have policies in place that allow their staff to use the internet and email in order to chat, bank online and even play games during their working day yet provide guidance on what they can and cannot do. Your email will remain private. Guest-Post. 100% No Spam.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

You could try cold-calling (or cold-emailing), knocking on doors or praying to the freelancing fairies for some work, but there are some better techniques you can use that will be sure to get you clients in a hurry. Just send an email, comment on someone else’s blog, make a cold call, ask someone to recommend you.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Dale Carnegie said, “ It costs nothing, but creates much. Comment by Sean Rasmussen on February 5, 2008 @ 11:25 am Trackbacks Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! W ear a smile – A smile is one of the strongest communication tools. Great post Ian!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

Written by Agent X - 25 Comments When I get an email from pro copywriter Dean Rieck , I’m always happy. Get RSS right here Get email updates here Recent Posts What to Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Catch Up How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career What To Do When Clients Haggle Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You?

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

It only takes a few seconds to curse under your breath and fix the little ones, sure, but those wasted moments add up to big costs over the year. And you might make a big mistake one day that costs you a lot, like deleting a critical file by accident. Check out these fast examples: You’ll make mistakes. Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

There are other, more effective, time-efficient, cost-reduced ways of achieving everything a blog can provide. Have you considered if your own blog is cost effective? We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 20, 2010

com) Related Posts: Save on Home Heating This Winter Calculate How Much Money You Can Save on Energy Costs 20 Tips for Saving Money on Gas Productivity Did you enjoy this post? Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Comments No comments yet.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 1, 2010

You’ll have to apologize for mistakes you made or for something you forgot and that fell through the cracks or for being snappy in that last email. If I didn’t love my job then ANY time doing it would be costing me more than it’s worth. Time is money. Wasted time adds up to pretty big losses quickly. Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

How to Cut Your Losses and Move On – Sunk Costs Reply Ben Bush ( @benbush ) February 22, 2010 at 7:33 am I know what mean about reading over long-forgotten posts. They start too late, cost too much money and if I want produced music I can download the album. I only have about ~180 posts, but I discovered a similar thing.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The cost of everything else in our lives is going up and up, but we expect bloggers to sacrifice hours every week or every day to provide us content for free? However, if you want to join his new (gated) forum, that will cost a few dollars a month. Rational discussion may not work when bloggers start to charge for their content.

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Men With Pens

JULY 18, 2010

You just carried out a useless action that cost you the whole win. Get RSS right here Get email updates here Recent Posts What to Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Catch Up How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career What To Do When Clients Haggle Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You? And you’re out. Leave a Comment!

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 10, 2010

Thanks and regards, Horia Reply 24 dragos March 11, 2010 at 7:57 am There’s a contact page on this blog where you can find my email, I’d be happy to know how can I help you. Are Coupon Code Searches Costing Our Online Store Money? Mazzola March 13, 2010 at 12:40 am Honesty is always the best policy! Keep writing.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

Listening to Experts is Expensive When new business owners believe faulty information they find on the web, it costs them a great deal. Like I told someone last week: “If you don’t know the first thing about automobiles, a tuneup might cost you $2500.&# But why would they doubt you? Nothing good would have come from it.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2007

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Build your own network!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 2, 2010

We live in a world of rising costs, and almost everyone expects prices to go up a little each year. Rising costs happen with taxes, with utilities, with groceries, with gasoline, with books, with everything, so most people aren’t going to be particularly surprised that your rates increase as well. Like clockwork. Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

One friend refers you to someone who only has an email address, a generic address like annepottertherapist@mail.com. Would you search online for Anne Potter before writing her an email? Compounding the problem was the president giving me an @comcast.net email address. In my industry, I hear excuses like it cost too much.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

Zero marginal cost products will approach zero in price over time. John – Interesting comment, and I just wanted to address your comment of “zero marginal cost products will approach zero in price over time&#. Ebooks aren’t a zero marginal cost product. That is an economic fact that can’t be debated.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

It might cost a bit more but it tells freelancers you believe in their great work and you believe in them. Everyone wins, and it’s a simple, zero-cost, low-effort gesture that makes all involved feel good. Let freelancers do their job. Trust freelancers to see the project through. 6) Thank them. .&# Reply Go ahead.

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