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7 Tips To Keep Your Business Legally Compliant And Secured

Strategy Driven

You must market your business, provide timely customer service, innovate, hire and manage staff, and ensure your business is legally compliant. The excise tax you may have to pay also depends on the kind of business you operate. Get Surety Bonds. The surety company offers the bond.

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Public Service Announcements

Strategy Driven

The earliest PSAs promoted the selling of war bonds and were shown in movie theatres during World War I and II. Others cut into programs and services in order to fund marketing. I performed a management study for my state comptroller’s office. Non-profit organizations need the support of Cause Related Marketing.

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Mentoring and Lifelong Learning

Strategy Driven

This is a bonded collaboration toward each other’s success. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. The mentor stands for mentees throughout their careers and celebrates their successes. About the Author.

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The Big Picture of Business – Community Relations and Cause Related Marketing Are Business Strategies, Not Sales Promotions: Determining the Right Kind of Tie-In Causes.

Strategy Driven

I support cause related marketing and have advised many corporations on setting up such programs. I say it is not, and I’m an expert on cause-related marketing. He was simply rationalizing a corporate marketing initiative. Do not run your “foundation” out of a corporate marketing department. He was not listening.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 3 of 4

Strategy Driven

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The next phase in restoring public credibility to Tylenol was the reintroduction of new product to the shelves, done in such a way as to restore consumer confidence and increase market share. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness.

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How We Think About Innovation at Cisco

Harvard Business Review

In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. Operations in a Connected World. Gartner predicts that there will be more than 6.4 Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.