Blog - Page 10 of 12 - Business Reflection

8Jun

By Jeff J. BoughnerNo Comments

Business Travel

Convention Transportation Services for Your Whole Company

When you have a convention booked for your company, you want to make sure that everyone who needs to go arrives in style. Instead of making everyone drive to the convention center and have to park, you can book convention transportation services - and ensure that everyone arrives to the convention at the same time.You may live locally or you may be flying into Houston for the sole purpose of attending the conference in town. Regardless of the situation, you can book convention transportation services to simplify life. You can choose the size of the charter bus based upon how many people will be going to the convention with you. Whether you have two or twenty, there is a mode of transportation available to you.If you want everyone in your company to attend the conference at the convention c...

8Jun

By Jeff J. BoughnerNo Comments

Sales

The Secrets Behind Hypnotic Selling

Hypnosis has been a taboo word for far too long. And many people see it in a mystical light. Yet what they do not realize is that hypnosis is a naturally occurring state experienced by everyone every single day. And it is only in recent times, that business professionals have discovered the power of hypnosis and boosted their sales and their businesses.So what specifically is hypnotic selling? It is a process to trance your prospect with the product or service you offer as the solution to their need or want. If you are wondering if this is manipulation, it is not. To successfully become a hypnotic salesperson, it is imperative to have the customer's interest at heart. Your focus should congruently be on servicing the customer rather than just closing the deal.KNOW YOUR PROSPECTHypnotic sel...

8Jun

By Jeff J. BoughnerNo Comments

Innovation

Innovation: Brainstorming Tips for Success

Innovation is often driven by thinking "outside the box." Brainstorming is a process to generate those breakthrough ideas. Here are 14 ideas to successful brainstorming.1. Put time limits on each part of the exercise.2. No one can dismiss an idea when the brainstorming starts and it will create an atmosphere of openness and trust.3. Start out with a break the ice activity to engage the group.4. Try using a neutral environment.5. Don't let anyone raise an objection during the creative part of the process because the premise is that "nothing is impossible."6. Make sure to combine similar ideas and to discard duplicates.7. The role of the facilitator is to get those involved who are quiet.8. Offer gag or joke prizes for different ideas like, longest, shortest, and craziest.9. The facilitator ...

8Jun

By Jeff J. BoughnerNo Comments

Accounting

Online Accounting: Save Time And Focus On Your Business

Online accounting, especially automated accounting, can help keep your data secure, save you time, and conduct bookkeeping and accounting essentials rapidly and in a more streamlined manner. Because accounting and bookkeeping are business essentials, it pays to invest in technology that can help you secure your company's data. Moreover, unlike popular perceptions of being expensive or out-of-reach, if chosen wisely, online accounting helps the average business save immense expenses.SecureIt helps private data remain confidential. The security levels offered by online accounting programs can be set by you. Passwords and access codes ensure that only those authorized to particular data can access it. This means that in the event of theft or damage to the computer, your data remains safe. Dep...

7Jun

By Jeff J. BoughnerNo Comments

Advertising

About Digital Printing

This kind of printing is by far the highest and most widely used printing method in the world today. It actually accounts for well over 9% of the pages printed every year. The pages printed each year are around 45 trillion.There are many areas in life today that require printing. These places include engineering environment, the office or even home. The printing in these cases can be dived into two categories. The first is the small format that is highly used in the libraries as well as business offices. The paper sheet size is usually like a ledger. The wide format, which is the second category, can be applied in design establishments as well as drafting. These are 3' or even 914mm rolls of paper in width.When we talk of digital printing, there are a lot of technologies that can be applie...

7Jun

By Jeff J. BoughnerNo Comments

Customer Service

How a Simple Conversation Puts Your Clients at Risk for Identity Theft

Are you taking as much care in protecting the privacy of verbal communication as you are in securing your data? Sensitive information is often conveyed in every day conversations with the exchange of customer telephone numbers, account information, and appointment dates and times. Speech privacy is becoming increasingly important in the workplace. In a business setting, overhearing sensitive conversations can lead to a breach of privacy that can decrease a client's trust and cost money for the company. Some institutions such as the healthcare industry, financial firms, law offices, and educational institutes, have put laws in place to make sure speech is private. Noncompliance with these laws can lead to exposure of sensitive information resulting in identity theft, and in turn cost the co...

7Jun

By Jeff J. BoughnerNo Comments

International Business

Bridge the Language Gap With Your Overseas Clients and Customers

The current age of the internet and cellular connections means that we communicate faster and more efficiently across the world. It also means that the concept of local markets have been replaced with the concept of global markets, where products and services are offered virtually to people in all countries across the world through clicking of a single button. This shrinking of the world into a global village also means that people speaking different languages are now thrown together to conduct business.In order to be able to effectively offer services to customers speaking different languages, it becomes essential for organizations to reach out to their customers in their own languages. Speaking the language of the customers also goes a long way in establishing a personal connect with the...

6Jun

By Jeff J. BoughnerNo Comments

Marketing

Get FREE Web Tips From Your Competition

I knew this one would get your attention. How can you, the savvy business entrepreneur, get FREE ANYTHING from your competition? The answer is simple: Google!Yes, there are many things that Google can solve. As listed above, they are providing their users with endless utilities to help you in your web search. So how can they help you with your site? Watch this:Go to Google (http://www.google.com [out]) and type in the following, exactly as shown, using your business URL in place of the examplelink: http://www.yourwebsite.comThe results show you a listing of all sites that link to your site. While chances are your competition will not be listed, you can get an overview of the 'type' of websites that link to you. If there are a bunch of similar sites, that can help you with your marketing an...

6Jun

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Sales

Easy Methods For Church Fundraising

Church fundraising has got to be one of the easiest ways of fundraising that is out there. Everyone is willing to give to the church and is more than willing to help in any way possible. Church fundraising is fun and is a way of getting the whole congregation in the mood to help. Depending on what you decided to have as your fundraising product, it should go over very well.Whether it is baked goods, crafts, candles, hot suppers served, a quilt sale or one of the many choices that are out there it is sure to be a hit.Another good idea for a Christian fundraiser is a cookbook. However, this type of church fundraising takes more time and effort, but it is well worth it. Collect all your congregation favorite recipes and get them together. Pick out the amount you want to enter in your cookbook...

6Jun

By Jeff J. BoughnerNo Comments

Accounting

What Are Capital Investment Models?

There are several different decision models we can use to evaluate proposed capital projects. We want to consider three and mention a fourth. The three that deserve most of our attention are net present value, internal rate of return and the payback period. It should be noted that these are not competing methods. Each has its individual strengths and one is not inherently better than the others. Nor is it a matter of using one versus the others. If you are going to make a capital expenditure decision involving a large amount of money, it only makes sense to look at it from different perspectives. The fourth model we will discuss is the accounting rate of return. It is not generally thought to be as good a model for decision making. We mention it only because, even with its faults, it is st...