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11 Moments of Truth
Publishing Guidelines: You are welcome to publish this article in its entirety, electronically, or in print fre*eof charge, as long as you include my full signature file for ezines, and my Web site address(http://www.schrift.com) in hyperlink for other sites. By Sandra Schrift

Stay In Charge of Your Time
Are you in charge of your own time? By Arthur Cooper

All Successful Entrepreneurs Do This
All Successful Entrepreneurs Do This By John Baker http://www.best-home-business-ideas.net By John Baker

Book Review:
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Dreamcatcher Studio's
We just opened our Dreamcatcher Music Studio's In Rutherfordton, N.C. recording ( Steve Haynes ) Elton John look alike & ( Johnny Ray ) Elvis Presley look a like in our Studio. By David & Donna Caviness

Madeline Hill; Senior Community Pioneer
Madeline Hill may be unique among senior community developers. By John Darling

This Old Business...
Not long ago I was asked to come out and take a look at a business that had been around for about 10 years... but the owner was frustrated with the amount of money he was making. Here is the story of a natural food retail store located in New York State. By Michael S. Winicki

Multiple Channels, Multiple Times
I've just been reading about the frustrations of a Human Resources manager. He's tired of having to answer the same questions about benefits over and over again. By Robert F. Abbott

Multiple Streams of Income: Internet Myth or Vital Business Strategy?
So often we, as online business owners, fall victim to the hype surrounding the latest buzzword or idea. It’s a truly pitiful state of Internet affairs when we can’t distinguish sound truth from blurred theory. By Diane Hughes

Speak With E's Part 3
“Educate, Energize, Entertain, and provide an experience for your audience” By Sandra Schrift

Multiple Channels, Multiple Times
I've just been reading about the frustrations of a Human Resources manager. He's tired of having to answer the same questions about benefits over and over again. By Robert F. Abbott

The Chicken or the Egg?
Even before I checked my calendar on Monday morning, I knew the appointment would be there. Passed over for promotion again, Ralph wanted specifics on why I hadn't chosen him for the position. This was not a new conversation. I thought of Ralph as my chicken and egg dilemma. Ralph was the chicken. By Nan S. Russell

3 Surefire Ways to DESTROY Your Business
Title: 3 Surefire Ways to DESTROY Your Business Word Count:591 URL: www.simplesteps2success.biz/winateverythingAuthor: Terah J Logan, tjlogan@simplesteps2success.biz Full Rights; Must be published in it’s entirety.==================================================================== By Terah J. Logan

Managers: Can We Agree on This?
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 1040 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2004. By Robert A. Kelly

Johnston Sweepers launches free parts delivery service
Johnston Sweepers' Customer Support Division has announced big improvements to its supply service for original equipment parts, making it cheaper, simpler and more convenient for customers to purchase spare parts for their Johnston machines. By Johnston Sweepers

What is a Sale
What is a sale? By Bonnie Kettenbach

Starting Out For Success!
Hello, By Lee Callister

Strategic Checklists
I've been through a couple of checklists in the past few days, and it's reaffirmed my faith in their effectiveness as a communication tool. By Robert F. Abbott

Speak With E's Part 2
“Educate, Energize, Entertain, and provide an experience for your audience” By Sandra Schrift

Beating The Competition
Unless your product or service is one-of-a-kind, you've got competition. To beat them, you have to make sure you're the key company, the one your customers turn to above all others. How do you do that if you're new and small? By Sue and Chuck DeFiore

Can You Say No?
Can You Say No?By Arthur Cooper(c) Copyright 2004 By Arthur Cooper

Write and Speak for the Ear
You and I may not aspire to write great books or make great speeches. But almost all of us want something to happen when we write or speak. And, the more we direct our words to the ears of readers and listeners, the greater our chances of getting the results we want. By Robert F. Abbott

4 Things That Make A Web Site Great
First you need original content. Content is the heart beat of any exceptional Web site. The By Sue and Chuck Defiore

How to Get Your Small Business to Succeed
When I’m in Omaha on business, I stay with an old friend, Richard. This is how our day begins. “I’m going for doughnuts,” he says. “What would you like?” By Susan Dunn, MA, Marketing Coach & Consultant

Speak With E's Part 1
“Educate, Energize, Entertain, and provide an experience for your By Sandra Schrift

The Road to Success
Never have I been in the position of making as many critical decisions as I am now - at the helm of my own business. By Kate Smalley

Considering the Importance of Corporate Culture
Considering the Importance of Corporate Culture By Kate Smalley

Building Your Business With a Specialist
Building Your Business With a Specialist By Kate Smalley

Understanding Your Importance To Your Corporate Team
Understanding Your Importance To Your Corporate Team By Kate Smalley

A LEADERS OR A JERK?
Some years ago, five other instructor candidates and I were being trained to teach a course on public speaking and human relations. As the grueling hours in the lab classes began to take a toll, one candidate summed up the session on leadership with the following words: “It’s really very simple. By Terry L. Sumerlin

Why Bosses Don't Get All the News
Not long ago, a friend who works in television complained that the industry has no interest in real business stories. And, I had to agree with him, since we don't see much coverage that doesn't involve stock prices or some sort of scandal. By Robert F. Abbott

Three Foundation Stones for Building Organizational Integrity
When the stock market crashed in 1929, there were a lot of people who lost everything they had. You would think that the result of that event would be complete and utter despair. And, in fact, there were those who reacted that way. By Dr. Freddy Davis

Your Organization Is Only as Good as Your People
Let’s begin by singing the jingle from an old US Army commercial. Ready? Sing! “Be all that you can be, in the Aaaaarmy.” Now, don’t you feel better? “Be all that you can be. By Dr. Freddy Davis

The Fastest Way to Ruin Yourself
I don’t know many people who would admit to wanting to ruin themselves, but there are a lot of people who are doing everything they can to accomplish that very goal. They certainly don’t see it that way, but if you look at the way they live, you can see it happening. By Dr. Freddy Davis

PR: Focus on What Matters!
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 1025 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2004. By Robert A. Kelly

Don’t Allow Yourself to Get Burned
I am not a big fisherman, but I do enjoy it whenever the opportunity comes my way. I have some friends who are fanatics and occasionally I will go out with one of them. They have nice boats and it makes for an enjoyable day. By Dr. Freddy Davis

Breaking Through Uncertainty - Welcoming Advertisty
We all question our ability at times. Uncertainty plagues us. It is even more intense if the ability we are questioning relates to something we have never tried or not succeeded at in the past. By Jim McCormick

Overcoming Resistance
Virtually any type of organizational change involves role transitions of some type. In light of role transitions, it is almost natural for employees to resist major changes in the workplace environment. By Judith Richardson

Once Upon a Conflict
Once upon a time there lived an innocent, hardworking manager. One day he dared to wander from the safety of his open-concept office to speak out at a team meeting. He was immediately challenged, nay attacked, by another team member and his senior manager, embarrassing him in front of his peers. By Judith Richardson

It's Still About Customer Service
My shopping experience lately has been amazing, and not in the good sense. Most of the time when I walk in a store one of four things happens: By Susan Dunn, MA Psychology, Professional Coach

How Quickly Can You Reach out and Touch Someone?
How Reliable are Cell Phones?Cellular phones and pagers are part of the "now" generation, instant contact, anywhere at any time. People are looking for convenience, comfort and security. The question is how instantaneous and reliable is the contact? By Sharon Housley

Cross-Cultural Communication:Grin and Jump In!
Multiculturalism is a reality in North America and for those of us who do business globally. The US has more legal immigrants yearly than all the other countries in the world combined. By Judith Richardson

Is it Perfunctory of Desultory? It Pays to Know the Difference.
Part of Emotional Intelligence is being able to label emotions and therefore attitudes, and in the workplace, these lead to motivation and performance. It’s important to understand the distinction between desultory, and perfunctory when dealing with an employee or colleague. By Susan Dunn, MA Psychology, Coach

Radical Success!
Most successful businesses began with someone's passionate mission: to share new information, produce a better product, provide a new understanding, and contribute to the culture. A successful business remains successful because it stays true to its mission. By Judith Richardson

Buyer Beware: Choose A Business Coach Carefully To Get The Results You Want
Consider this scenario. A colleague suggests you get a business coach. Via the Internet, you find one close-by. The woman says she’d love to help. She charges $300 a month for two 30-minute calls. It seems like a good deal, so you eagerly sign on the dotted line. By Jim Jenkins

How To Ruin Your Business
If you're like the rest of us, you've spent a lot of time tryingdifferent things to make your online business come together.There are countless methods of conducting a viablemarketing career, but there are also as many ways todestroy one as well. By K.R. Nadreau

While yardselling it came to me
It seems like everyone knows what you mean when you mention the term yardselling. Well, Webster doesn't agree. In fact many dictionaries leave out the term altogether. These days the term has evolved. By John Ashley

Do You Really Need PR?
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 990 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2004. By Robert A. Kelly

Lifetime Value Online?
In "Big Time Banner Advertising," we discuss the importance of establishing an acceptable level of return for your promotional investments. This number becomes the criteria for what is deemed a success and what is deemed a failure. By David Bell

About Your Work
I like Simon, one of three judges on American Idol. I find his feedback refreshingly honest. And while his words startle me with their ego wounding potential, the traditional feel-good, let-you-down-easy, sugar-coated feedback is not much of a gift. By Nan S. Russell

Not Another Meeting!
NOT ANOTHER MEETING! By Terrill Fischer

A Uniting Culture for the New Multicultural Workplace
Never has it been more important in your organization to have a common language, and never has it been more elusive. By Susan Dunn, MA Psychology, Emotional Intelligence Coach

Improve Your Business Dealings with Improvisation
"Nothing is accidental ... use everything." -- Keith Johnstone By Terrill Fischer

Survival Tips for Office Heroes
This one goes out to all you administrative professionals out there. That’s right. YOU. Not your boss. Not the guy down the hall who demands everyone’s attention. No. This is YOUR thing. By Maya Talisman Frost

To Meet or Not to Meet…What are the Questions?
Meetings can be a total waste of time or a powerful and productive communication tool that solve problems, stimulate ideas, promote team spirit and generate action. The results lie totally in how they are run. Organized and well-managed meetings will inevitably produce effective results. By Susan Friedmann

Grow Your Business The Natural Way
Grow Your Business the Natural Way By Al Hanzal

The Benefits of EQ Coaching for Mid-Level Executives and Professionals
The majority of CEOs, executives and professionals are left-brained -- analytical, linear, and focused. They are good with numbers, and in communication tend to listen to the actual word spoken, word-by-word, missing the nuances, the expressions, the tone of voice, i.e. By Susan Dunn, MA, Emotional Intelligence & Professional Development Coach

Want This Kind of PR?
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 960 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2004. By Robert A. Kelly

Rehabbing a House
It is easy to be intimidated by the size of a rehab project, particularly if you’ve never tackled one before. This chapter breaks down the steps involved in completing a renovation from start to finish and removes some of the mystery, and hopefully some of the fear, surrounding a renovation. By Jim O'Keefe

Navigating the Global Internet
If you have clients or customers in other countries and work on the Internet, here’s a primer to help you decipher the URLs and emails you’ll be receiving. By Susan Dunn, MA, Internet Marketing Coach and Consultant

How to Start Your Own Business
Have you ever seen an business opportunity infomercial? I saw one last night that was a classic. The product was set against a backdrop of cascading dollar bills (literally money flowing over the equipment). The voice over said something like "want to work less and get rich? - call now!". By Dave Miller

PR Advice You Didn't Ask For
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 1025 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2004. By Robert A. Kelly

Just Call Someone: Preparation for Your Next Technical Support Call
Your new PC seems to have eaten that critical file that you are sure that you saved last Friday. By Steven Presar

Office Networking: Are You Ready to Connect Your Small Business Office?
Thinking about networking your office computers, printers, modems to share your key office computer equipment? By Steven Presar

Is Wireless Right for Your Office?
A traditional Local Area Network (LAN) uses cables or wires to share your office resources like; software programs, files, printers, scanners, etc. By Steven Presar

How to Prevent Computer Security Risk and How to Keep Your Small Business Safe
You know that computer security is important to your small business. By Steven Presar

How Safe is Your Critical Business Data on Your Computer System?
Network security company, Internet Security Systems, recently issued a report stating that "security events" (an "event" being anything from a computer virus to a major attack on your computer network) increased by more than 80% in the first quarter of this year compared with the previous three By Steven Presar

Setting-up Your New Computer: How To Move Your Old Files to Your New Computer
You've got a new computer for your office. It's cleaner, better, faster and you can't wait to start to use it! By Steven Presar

Booking Events & Shows
Booking shows starts with a positive attitude. Work on having a pleasing attitude. Believe in yourself, your service and your product. By Angelique Watkins

How Protected are You? Safeguard Your Small Business from Computer Viruses
The fact is, every time you log onto the Internet, send an email message, open an attachment, or insert a floppy disk, you risk infecting your computer system. Computer viruses are out there just waiting to wreak havoc on your data, documents, programs, or whole computer system. By Steven Presar

Dealing with Your Pending PC Disaster: A Guide for Small Business
It isn't a matter of if it will happen to you but -- when. PC users may be divided into two groups -- those who have had a disaster and those who will have to deal with a PC disaster. By Steven Presar

Increase Business by Squashing Your Fear of Phones
Copyright© Trent Brownrigghttp://www.work-at-home-jobs-iowa.com By Trent Brownrigg

Are you HIPAA Compliant?
A closer look at HIPAABy - Matt Sears, Senior Vice PresidentAthens Benefits Insurance Services, Inc. A division of The Jenkins Athens Group By Matt Sears

Website Manifestation - 7 Steps to a Successful Site
Website Manifestation - 7 Steps to a Successful SiteJason OConnorcopyright 2004 By Jason OConnor

Managers: Paying for PR-Lite?
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 1040 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2004. By Robert A. Kelly

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