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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Can we ever admit we are fried, exhausted, done, and not be judged as lacking in mojo, courage, stamina? A Woman’s Place is in the Classroom I was recently invited to speak at Purdue University and.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Five Great Ways to Earn Extra Money in 2010 :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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Social Networking: Can Someone Else do it for you? :: Women on.

Women on Business

People also self-select, meaning they are ready to move forward with us when they contact us, either because someone else referred them, they like what they see on our site, or they’ve come to our business from one of the other channels we use like our blogs, Twitter accounts, or Facebook profiles.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. By investigating resources MOST open to you, momentum increases. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Get Over Your Fear of Sales

Harvard Business Review

The partner replied, “Human resource management.”. It even has management in the title. Off to San Francisco I went to be a human resource management associate at a Big Six consulting firm. And my favorite, “I’m not in sales, I’m in business development.” The perception. The quotas.

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How the Internet of Things Changes Everything

Harvard Business Review

For managers, this development creates challenges both long term and urgent. In the field of mechanical and plant engineering, consider the advent of predictive maintenance. A study undertaken by researchers from the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St.