Dealing with Bozos

Anyone who's involved in their own business has been there, or will arrive soon. There are unscrupulous people who waste your valuable resources. I conclude God has a funny bone when He created such creatures.

You Can Get A Fast Start On Your Rainmaking Today

Rainmakers are people who attract new clients to their service businesses or professional practices. Get started as a rainmaker today with these easy ideas. Learn how to start down the road to becoming a highly successful rainmaker in less than 10 minutes. Find out how one activity, if done in daily small steps, can produce outrageous success within a year.

Physical Therapy Marketing Secrets: Step-by-Step Instruction

Physical therapy marketing is the single most important aspect of your private practice. Everything else can be figures out as you go but you have to have paying patients coming in through your doors.

How Effective is Your Sales Cycle?

If you are an independent professional or small business owner providing services, here is a simple four step sales process you can use to close more sales and expand your business.

Sole Proprietorship as a Business Structure - Advantages & Disadvantages

This article discusses the particulars of operating your business as a Sole Proprietorship and also throws light on its advantages and disadvantages.

Turn Your Business Into A Lead Generating Machine

In order to grow, your number one priority must always be to generate new leads for new clients and new business. Without a constant flow of leads, all your efforts will never be leveraged beyond the number of hours you put in each week. Find out how to create new leads and make your business a manchine to produce more leads.

7 Ways To Improve Your Small Busines or Professional Practice With Kaizen

Kaizen is the Japanese philosophy of continual, small, daily improvements. Over time the cumulative of these small improvements is nothing short of revolutionary. Learn these seven ways to make these small improvements a part of your daily routine and in time the results will astonish you.

Cary Grant Told Me Not to Smoke

Showbusiness is PR driven these days. But, in the late Seventies, celebrities were more accessible.

Marketing & Selling to Solo Professionals, Entrepreneurs & Practitioners: the Why and How to, Part 1

If you happen to be or sell to professionals, solo entrepreneurs, practitioners, consultants or service industry providers, you have a different kind of marketing task. You have to convince them that you are able to provide the kinds of services they need. You are selling a service, not a product. A service is invisible, intangible, perishable and experiential in nature....it’s like trying to bottle fog.

How To Start A Nursing Agency or Become an Independent RN Contractor

Today becoming an independent nurse contractor within the healthcare industry is a viable alternative for many nurses. A nurse becoming an independent provider is basically an entity that provides nursing services to private individuals and medical facilities on a contract basis.

How Do You Rate on Sales Etiquette?

First impressions are critical and it's imperative when you approach others that you watch their behavior. It's a great learning tool. You will easily learn the wrong and right ways of conducting business to improve your business image. Read 37 Tips for calls, events and dining.

The Art of Art Workshops: Getting Everyone Involved

My students come in prepared. They know the drill. But, workshops that aren’t well organized often lose the interests of the artists they are trying to motivate. To run a workshop successfully, you have to be ready when the students come in your door.

What The Self Employed Should Look For In A Tax Preparer

How the self employed can more effectively select and interview a tax preparer. Get the right person and use them effectively.