Its a Friday afternoon in early 1980 and I get the call to meet with the Regional Sales Manager. Ive been promoted into sales! WOW, was I excited. I had no idea what I was getting into. The regional sales manager (Ill call him Tom) asked me to be ready to […]
The basis of international business, is the import-export trade that has been in existence for thousands of years, in ancient times people from all over the world bought and sold goods from different countries. The East India company for example, would export Spices and Tea from India, and import goods from other countries. Trade has […]
It’s been happening rapidly and it’s been happening (with the odd hiccup) consistently. For 10 years the PRC has been growing at a break neck pace at something like 10 per cent per annum. Fishing villages like Shenzhen (the closest city in the PRC bordering Hong Kong) have become cities and cities like Shanghai have […]
Are you a business owner who is interested in improving your business profits? If you are, you may be looking for new fun and exciting ways to market your business to the general public or at least your target market. When examining marketing promotions, you will find that you have a number of different options. […]
Are you a business owner who is looking to expand your customer or client base? If you are, you likely have the goal of seeing an increase in profits. Although there are a number of different marketing approaches that you can take to make your business a successful and profitable one, you may not have […]
Jeff Hester has these observations about whether the current trend in the Web 2.0 world constitutes too much money chasing too few sound business ideas.
Here are 10 reasons to keep your business start-up (whether online or off) lean and mean at least in the early years.
1. If you can cobble it together on a home […]
Are you a business owner? If you are, you are likely already familiar with marketing. In fact, you may have a number of marketing campaigns and promotions running right now. What is nice about advertising and marketing is that you have a number of different options. Those options include something as simple as creating a […]
Are you a business owner who sells a product or a service to the general public? If you do and if you are looking to see an increase in your customer base, as well as an increase in sales, you will want to take steps to market your business to the general public or your […]
Business Process Management (BPM) is a set of activities performed by organizations to improve or streamline their business processes. Since software tools are usually used to aid these activities, these software tools are referred to as Business Process Management Systems.
- Business Process Management Systems
Business Process Management has been in place for some time now. […]
Bonds have higher yields then stocks. Bond funds have higher yields then stock funds. This means more current income for you. Bonds and bond funds are safer then stocks and stock funds, according to conventional wisdom. Bonds fluctuate less in value. That’s good, too. So what’s wrong with this […]
