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<title>Online Coaching Business: Creative Ways to Drive Qualified Prospects to Your Blog and Website Part 1</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:59:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the things that you need to focus on when selling coaching programs online is traffic-generation. It's important to ensure that everyday, you'll attract hundreds or better yet, thousands of individuals who are more likely to benefit from what you're offering. Let me tell you now that this will not happen overnight.]]></description>
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<title>Tips on Choosing a Consultant</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 10:55:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How can you tell whether a consultant want to empower you or make you dependent on them? Here are 3 tips that will help you decide.]]></description>
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<title>Online Coaching Business: How to Reach Out to Qualified Prospects</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 03:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are just so many aspects of running an online coaching business that you need to focus on to ensure you'll get the kind of results you're dreaming of. One of the most important is reaching out to your potential clients. You need to know how to find these people and build connection with them.]]></description>
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<title>Starting a Virtual Coaching Business: Important Questions to Ask</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 23:59:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you seriously considering starting your very own virtual coaching business? I am sure you have hundreds of questions in mind. Let me help you by addressing at least some of them.]]></description>
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<title>Practical Applications for Mobile Qualitative Research</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:07:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The 21st Century has ushered in the mobile revolution. The use of mobile devices, such as smartphones and other internet-enabled mobile phones has increased rapidly in the past years, and as such, mobile internet usage has become a commodity.]]></description>
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<title>5 Features of Winning Coaching Programs</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:59:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Properly designing your coaching programs is one of the best things that you can do to excel in this endeavor. When doing this, you need to seriously consider the specific needs and demands of your potential clients. You must also commit yourself to giving them exactly what they're looking for.]]></description>
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<title>How to Start a Thriving Coaching Business: A Comprehensive Guide</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 16:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Making money online is something that really sounds enticing for a lot of people especially for those who are sick and tired of office politics and who are no longer happy with their 9am-5pm job. The good thing about making money online is that anybody can do it. You can do freelance work for example or sell anything that can be useful to other people.]]></description>
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<title>A Comprehensive Guide to Jumpstart Your Coaching Business - Part 3</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Below are the other things you need to do after promoting your programs and your business: List building. Next step is to build a huge, responsive list. Although this will take a lot of your time, you can be assured it's worth it.]]></description>
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<title>Eight Reasons Why You Need a Business Coach</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:57:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I started my coaching business, one of the first things I did was get a coach of my own. I purposely chose someone who had built a successful coaching business herself. After all, why reinvent the wheel? I wanted to benefit from the expertise and support of someone who had already done what I was trying to do.]]></description>
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<title>How Well Do You Maintain Balance?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:55:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If trying to maintain balance between your personal and your professional life seems like you're on a tightrope, you are not alone. Most Entrepreneurs and professionals have so much on their plate such as; Businesses, Family, Parents, Spouses, Friends, etc; that our time and energy has been sucked up by the end of the day. Take the quiz below to see how well you are maintaining your balance.]]></description>
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<title>Property Tax Consulting Jobs</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Looking for a recession proof business helping others reduce an erroneous property tax assessment? This is a work-from-home business that few are aware of and it has a never ending line of clients that need help.]]></description>
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<title>Simple Questions to Answer Before You Start Building Your Virtual Coaching Business</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 08:59:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest mistakes that you can ever commit when starting any type of business is not doing enough preparations. If you're not equipped and you dive in, you can be assured that your business will sink to the bottom. So, do the process right.]]></description>
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<title>Secrets to Excel in Virtual Coaching</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A lot of people have actually tried their luck in virtual coaching and some of them were pretty excited with the initial results they got. They were able to get some people to sign up and in the process, they made serious money. If you're one of them, the next thing that you need to do is to find different ways to ensure that your lucky streak will not end too soon.]]></description>
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<title>Is Online Coaching the Best Career for You?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 02:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of my clients contacted me a couple of months back after he came back from a two-month vacation and was asking for advice as to how he can make money without reporting to the same office every single day. He figured life is too short to just spend it in one geographical location. Then, I asked him; are you an expert in any field?]]></description>
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<title>A Step-By-Step Guide to Starting a Virtual Coaching Business Part 2</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Below are the other equally important steps that you need to take when seriously considering starting your very own coaching business online: Get a great website. Be very careful when building the website that will represent your coaching business in the World Wide Web. It's important to ensure that it's perfect or at least close to it.]]></description>
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<title>A Step-By-Step Guide to Start a Virtual Coaching Business Part 1</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Making money online can be easy if you're an expert in one particular field. At first, you can sell ebooks, audio products, newsletters, etc. Once you've attracted a community of loyal followers, you can offer virtual coaching programs that have higher tag prices.]]></description>
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<title>Things to Consider When Creating Online Coaching Programs</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This article is for those people who are seriously thinking about creating and selling coaching programs online. In here, I'll share you with the list of most important things that you shouldn't forget. Read on!]]></description>
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<title>Understanding Project Management Maturity in Your Business</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:56:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Project Management Maturity is not a measure, as some people think, of the amount of time the management function has been in existence at a particular business or organisation. Project management maturity is more to do with performance. It may well be the case that a programme management function that has been in place for a considerable period of time has in fact, increased in maturity levels, but this is not always the case.]]></description>
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<title>Be Wowed By The Benefits Of Outsourcing For Small And Medium Businesses!</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:33:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In today's economy, outsourcing information technology (IT) can be vital to small and medium business owners alike. Small and medium business do not have the capital or the resources to take on larger companies with in-house IT departments, by outsourcing IT, the smaller businesses have a better chance of competing. It's estimated that in Canada this year, outsourcing IT will rise approximately 5%, up from last year's 4% increase.]]></description>
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<title>Oil and Gas: Investing In Technology Based Methods</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:23:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ever since man became aware of the natural resources the planet held, there have been many ingenious ways to extract it. In time, the methods used have evolved and made drastic changes to how man extracts oil and gas from the Earth. The machines that were once considered to be ideal are presently obsolete.]]></description>
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<title>Five Key Business Coaching Advantages for Profit Growth</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:35:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Business coaching will help you setup you goal setting activities aimed for increased revenue and business growth. It will also guide your employees improved the time management skills by clearing out business priorities. Most of all, it can unlock communication barriers from different corners of your business organization.]]></description>
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<title>Reasons for the Need of Business Valuation Services</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:28:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even though it may seem that you would only need to know the actual value of a business when it comes to buying or selling it, there are many reasons you may need to know the value of your business. Understanding what those reasons are will help you figure out when you need to hire business valuation services. These valuation expert services can help you find out how much the business is worth.]]></description>
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<title>Re-Charge With Your WHY to Boost Results</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:15:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We tend to lose sight of WHY we're in the game and our efforts show it. Uncovering your WHY could position you to capitalize on opportunities right away.]]></description>
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<title>Group Facilitator: Ways a Facilitator Can Help Warring Coworkers</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:54:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Would you associate with your current coworkers if you worked for a different company? For some people, the answer is no. Each day in conference rooms across the U.S., groups of co-workers meet to discuss business, but argue over personal differences instead.]]></description>
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<title>Strategic Planning Facilitator: How Can a Facilitator Help Projects?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:54:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In project management, the goal of strategic planning is to develop the best approach for meeting the objectives of a project in timely fashion. As project managers know, deciding the best approach to a project can be difficult at the outset-a time when idealism can overpower logic. Consequently, many mangers request the assistance of a strategic planning facilitator who can help project participants develop the best approach by helping them perform the following: ]]></description>
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<title>Real Estate Bubble Really? Business Professionals Take Note!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 10:17:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you're like me you have felt the effects of the economy on your income and not in a very good way. Two days ago I started on a process that I believe will change things back to the way they were when things were good and debt wasn't a concern. Now don't get me wrong, this isn't a get rich quick plan or something where you need to give a Nigerian princess your bank account info. ]]></description>
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<title>What Are the Advantages of Using a Meeting Facilitator?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 10:11:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If group meetings at your company seem to fail as often as they succeed, hiring a meeting facilitator can help improve their success rate. When professional facilitators oversee a meeting, they can help the group in the following ways, among others: ? Ensure Participants Follow the Itinerary ? Some meetings are literally a waste of time. Despite carefully planned itinerary, the participants become sidetracked or dwell on a particular subject, resulting in a rush to address the remaining itinerary before the session concludes.]]></description>
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<title>Group Facilitation: When Does a Company Need a Facilitator?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 10:07:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When colleagues have good relationships and feel motivated by their work, the meetings they hold are typically productive. When they have poor relationships, or find their work frustrating, they often have difficulty being productive as individuals, much less as a group. When a group has difficulty conducting productive meetings, group facilitation can help.]]></description>
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<title>Discover What One to One Coaching and Mentoring Could Do For Your Business</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:10:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Discover the benefits to you and your business of one to one personalised coaching and mentoring. Imagine having a hugely successful business partner on your "virtual" board. Learn and profit from his mistakes and successes, so you ensure you don't repeat the former, but do enjoy the latter in your life and business.]]></description>
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<title>Independent Consultants: How to Test the Market for Your Consultancy Services</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:42:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It can be very frustrating for a new independent consultant or contractor when they first try to sell their services. Some key questions you need to as are "How should I package my service to make it an attractive proposition for clients?" and "Who is likely to be a prospect for my services?" This article shows you a simple but tried and tested way to do this.]]></description>
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<title>Independent Consultants: How to Assess Your Skills</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:41:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you first start out as an independent consultant or contractor, it is vital that you have a good understanding of your core skills and capabilities. These will form the basis of the service that you want to sell to prospective clients so without this understanding you are unlikely to be successful in selling your services. This article looks at how to assess your core skills.]]></description>
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<title>Independent Consultants: How to Design Your Consultancy Services</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:38:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A key activity for independent consultants and contractors is to package their services in such a way that prospective clients find it easy to buy from them. A great way to do this is to turn your services into a product as clients often find it easier to buy a product than a consultancy service. It overcomes two potentially fatal objections - "we don't use consultants" and "we don't have a budget for consultants."]]></description>
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<title>Independent Consultants: How to Make It Easy for Clients to Buy Your Services</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:37:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things to do as a newbie consultant is to sell your services and build a valued base of clients. What all independent consultants need is a tried and tested process for making that first sale to a new client and then building the business from there. This article will show you a way to do this.]]></description>
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<title>In Need of a NEXT Attitude Adjustment?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:26:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I was attending an Administrative Conference this week where there was lots of laughter, stories and tears (mostly from laughing so much). The speaker of the day was totally hilarious. She had so many jokes and stories and she even brought upon a song or two. But the one thing that caught my attention that afternoon was her take on having the "NEXT" attitude. Read below on more!]]></description>
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<title>Why Professionals Are Needed When It Comes to Transcription of Marketing Research</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 09:49:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this day and age where information and technology are keys to success, many have learned to appreciate the value of transcribing data for marketing research. Marketing research transcription plays an integral role in the accurate processing the data.]]></description>
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<title>Basic Tips on Public Safety</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:52:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the basic human requirements is safety. Everyone wants to live in an environment that is safe for them to conduct their daily activities. No one wants to dwell in a society that is full of crime and violence.]]></description>
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<title>Effective Business Communication Strategies</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/7024188</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:46:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Effective business communication is one of the most important things to achieve in a work environment, establishing strategies to deal with managerial and domestic issues with in a workplace is vital for a productive and friendly place of work. So what does effective business communication really mean? Too many people believe that it means "getting want I want" but this is not effective business policy.]]></description>
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<title>Going Green Has Never Been So Easy With Energy Saving Consultants</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:09:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Energy saving consultants is a new breed of business that has cropped up within the last decade or so as a result of the increasing need to be able to have more sustainable products and businesses that are not hugely detrimental to our planet. The problem of greenhouse gases and the depletion in our ozone layer was hugely worrying and dramatic when it was first discovered and ever since then there has been an enormous drive internationally to be able to fix this problem before it is unfixable. With the help of energy saving consultants such as M&amp;C energy group...]]></description>
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<title>How Congruent Are You With Your Intention?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:49:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In a given day I facilitate a lot of conversations where I reflect back to those that I am coaching how they occur through their communication. Those in a leadership capacity think that they are clean with their intent on what they are communicating but often times HOW they are communicating gets lost in transit.]]></description>
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<title>National Planning Policy Framework</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:05:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Planning Minister, Greg Clarke, today introduced to the House the National Planning Policy Framework following consideration of consultation responses to the Draft NPPF published last year. The policy guidance document comes into effect immediately. It remains to be seen whether casting aside over 1,000 pages of policy guidance can in practice be replaced by a document of some 50 pages.]]></description>
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<title>Executive Peak Performance</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:36:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are all performers. What corporate performers can learn from elite sports, performing arts, and the military.]]></description>
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<title>Goal Setting and Achievement: 4 Steps to Awareness and Success</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:53:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Awareness is the key to setting and achieving life-long goals. I will provide 4 steps to awareness which will make setting and achieving goals more successful.]]></description>
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<title>What Is a VA?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:19:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some say it's a personal assistant or a secretary, and both are true. A Virtual Assistant (VA) is a professional who works remotely from their own office providing administrative, technical and creative services to busy Entrepreneurs and professionals, like you.]]></description>
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<title>What to Do When You're About to Give Up!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:47:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you come close to throwing in the towel on your business? Ever have one of those days when you wonder "Why AM I doing this?" or thought "This is never going to work for me?"]]></description>
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<title>EHR Adoption Gains Popularity With Oregon, Georgia, Washington and Virginia Leading the Trend</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:01:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The EHR adoption rates in the United States are definitely increasing and this fact is corroborated by a report released by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) which states that - "American Hospital Association's Survey of IT adoption, 15.1 percent of acute care non-federal hospitals have adopted at least a "basic" EHR. Moreover, according to the report 24.9% of office-based physicians have implemented at least a "basic" EHR. This figure is twice what it was in 2008 depicting an increase in the adoption rates by almost 50% as far as office based physicians are concerned and this trend is observed in almost all health provider settings such as various hospitals and private practices. The survey also shows that 79% of intended applicants are in the process of preparation to apply for adoption in the year 2011 or in 2012. ]]></description>
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<title>So Ya Wanna Become a Consultant? Here's What Ya Gotta Do</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:52:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What's a consultant? You ought to know at least that much before you become one, right? As the story goes - actually, there are several stories - being more than 50 miles from home has been said to qualify someone as a consultant. For others it's merely that they're "between jobs." But what's actually required for you to become a consultant in the true sense of that word is having a particular expertise that others are willing to pay for. I did not say that no one else would possess that same expertise because as a consultant you will almost always have competition from other individuals and from consulting firms.]]></description>
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<title>Wipe It Good!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:45:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone in foodservice has heard the term, "Clean as you go." Well, cleaning as you go is not so simple. Operators not only need to follow many FDA regulatory requirements but also must create a "culture of clean." Unfortunately, there is a perception of clean and that is where the problems start. Looking clean and actually meeting the requirements of clean may mean two different things.]]></description>
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<title>Coaching for Coaches</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:26:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Coaching is an art - not an act. That's why it's critical to find your own coaching style. One of the best ways to do that is to be coached yourself - so that you get insight into how it's done, what you like, what you don't, and how you want to set yourself apart from the others out there.]]></description>
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<title>Increase Cash Flow: Strategies For Here And Now</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:00:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The fact that many organizations have been and still are struggling cannot be ignored. The only thing they know for sure is that the future is uncertain. One truth that they can "take to the bank" is that "Cash Is King". It is the only safety net that can be relied on when business is lackluster at best. Here are some strategic opportunities that every CEO, CFO and business owner should have on their radar.]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Governance Training: What You Should Know</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:31:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Individuals who manage companies that don't belong to them might not always make the right moves. This is not what the shareholders want, and a set of rules will help in applying the brakes from time to time.]]></description>
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<title>Do Planes Have Horns?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:08:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the not so distant past, my niece's four-year old son, Hollis, was getting on a plane. Hollis is a frequent traveler. As usual, the energetic four-year old ran down the gangway in excitement. He just about ran into the captain's legs at the entrance to the plane. As he looked up at the uniformed woman, Hollis asked, "Do planes have horns?"]]></description>
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<title>You Don't Need More Traffic to Grow Your Coaching Business</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:57:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[That's right - you don't need more traffic. Here's an example - let's say you have 500 visitors a month and you are making $100 a month. If you increased traffic by 10 times, you would have 5000 visitors a month - and only making $1000 a month.]]></description>
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<title>Do's and Dont's in Cultural Awareness Training</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:00:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I get the dilemma nearly every cultural awareness training: Would you give me some Do's & Dont's on this specific region? This can be a really valid question also as an obvious one from somebody being employed in an international setting. We'd like simple and short solutions and solutions to the issues we encounter.]]></description>
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<title>Top 3 Reasons to Hire Business Consulting Services</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:26:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this stiff competition, it requires extra efforts to allure more customers towards your business. The use of different strategies and tactics are helping businesses to make a better plan of action for higher growth and expansion opportunities. Are you having troubles in choosing the right business strategy? In such a case, a good business consultant will be of your help.]]></description>
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<title>What Is IT Governance?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:22:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IT governance is a process to ensure the strategic alignment of IT initiatives with business objectives. The goal is to achieve maximum business value through the development and maintenance of an effective IT control model.]]></description>
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<title>5 Surefire Businesses That Will Make You Super Rich This Year</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:19:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[2012 has come along with its incidental hopes and large numbers of people, around the world, are optimistic in making it big before the last quarter of the year. It is my best speculation to assume you are one of the positive fellows. But, if I may ask, what chance is at your disposal to break even (or make it big) in this magnificent 2012?]]></description>
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<title>Do You Need A Business Consultant?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:00:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[All too often, business owners, managers, or supervisors find themselves in a position where growth has slowed, stopped, or reversed. Though these are pressing reasons to consider finding the outside help of a business consultant, they aren't the only reasons. This article will cover reasons you may need a business consultant, the affordability of a consultant, and what to look for in a consultant and their firm.]]></description>
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<title>Aim For Your Greater Goal With Clarity</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:00:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Clarity in your business and personal goals is absolutely critical, and you must start with the end in mind. Most successful entrepreneurs have intense clarity of purpose. If you don't strive to fulfill your greater purpose by focusing on what really matters, and avoiding the things that take you away from your greater aim, then without realizing it, you miss out on great opportunities.]]></description>
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<title>An Interpersonal Perspective on Coaching</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:20:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Interpersonal skills are really valuable to almost every profession, especially when our work revolves around what others want and need. This article includes my take on how to make the most of your coach-client relationship, and how to develop the interpersonal skills that might be lacking.]]></description>
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<title>Polish Off Your Purpose for Coaching</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:23:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Thinking about becoming a professional coach? Have you thought about why you want to do this? I believe that what makes people unique is also the key to their success. This article invites you to ask yourself...what do I need to do, obtain or accomplish that would help me be all I'm met to be?]]></description>
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<title>Are You Holding It Correctly?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:37:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is time for the "moment of truth." In past articles, we discussed how to handle food when received, storing food properly, cooking to perfection and food safety and HACCP requirements. Now, it's time to show off the products. Not so fast. Before displaying food, operators must understand applicable food codes.]]></description>
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<title>Managing Asbestos Based Materials</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:59:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For the buildings that were built in the 50s, asbestos may have been among the main materials used in construction. Today a large number of them are being used for commercial purposes and employ scores of people.]]></description>
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<title>Take Technology Audit Services to Make Your Business Efficient</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:19:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The business sector is facing stiff competition not only on the local but also on the global platform. They need to make their IT infrastructure strong to facilitate better collaboration, store confidential information securely as well as spread transparency within the organization. To cope with the competition, there are different types of software that are used to streamline the business operations.]]></description>
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<title>Digital Coaching - How Consultants, Trainers and Coaches Can Increase Revenue With Less Stress</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:02:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Discover the one strategy that consultants, trainers, coaches, authors and trainers can implement today to generate more revenue, reduce workload stress and gain personal freedom. Continue reading to learn the secrets to delivering your expertise to thousands.]]></description>
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<title>Using A Safety Consultant To Your Advantage</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:26:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Safety Consultants and Safety Engineers are the most important assets in keeping safe environments for people to be in. Although there are all kinds of consultants, its function can be defined as a professional who helps companies identify and manage risks at all levels of the organization.]]></description>
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<title>A Coach's Greatest Assets</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:19:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Coaches are a dime a dozen. So, how do you stand out? What makes you, YOU? If you are wondering what specifically "it" is that you have to offer as a coach, browse your background (skills, education, life experiences and learnings) to identify "it." If you are looking OUT there to find it, you are ignoring what's INSIDE that's already your own.]]></description>
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<title>Choosing a Human Resources Company For Employee Group Benefits Program</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:04:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are a wide variety of insurance products available nowadays. So employers and individuals require a team of qualified and experienced benefit consultants who can help and advise them in designing the perfect benefit package. ]]></description>
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<title>Save Time and Money by Taking Help From Web Consultants</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:59:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most cost-effective methods to create a connection with the target market is by developing a website. A website showcases the business vision, its objectives and products and services on a global level. Therefore, it is essential to have a fully functional website that can engage the visitors for a longer time and encourage them to return back on their next visit.]]></description>
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<title>Don't Hire a Rural Health Consultant Until You've Read This Article</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:28:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you the owner of an existing certified rural health clinic? Or, are you looking to start a new certified rural health clinic? If you answered "yes" to either question don't hire a rural health consultant until you've read this article!]]></description>
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<title>Brand Reputation Linked to Integration of ISO9000 Management Systems</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:56:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The reputation of any company's "brand" is directly linked to its ability to effectively integrate the quality" management system (ISO9001:2008); "environment" management system (ISO14001:2004) and "health & safety" management system (OHSAS18001:2007). By doing so, any company can ensure the reputation of its "brand" in their market place by minimizing quality, environmental and health & safety risks while consistently delivering products or services that meet customer requirements & exceed their expectations.]]></description>
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<title>What Does It Take To Ensure Great Quality Management?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6969061</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:29:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The quality management that you have in place at your business has a direct link to the successful of your business. Your business will become known for having either great or poor quality in the products and services that you provide. A business that gets the poor quality reputation is doomed for failure as customers will try them once and will not return to make another purchase.]]></description>
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<title>Quality Management That Proves To Be Effective</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6969057</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:29:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every business in operation must have a certain level of quality management in place if they want to maintain their customer base. They must make sure that the items they provide to their customers are high in quality and competitive in price so that they will not lose business to their competition. This is where having a well thought out quality management system in place comes in handy.]]></description>
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<title>Business Consultants: How to Use Your Personal Brand to Win Business</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:32:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Personal branding is a key tool in how we market ourselves and our services if we work as business consultants or interim managers. So what is personal branding and how do you use it to win business?]]></description>
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<title>Help Us, Help You</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6959606</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:03:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do not go another day overwhelmed with so much work without Outsourcing to a Virtual Assistant (VA). Research in your area and find a VA that has many years of experience and excellent skills. From correspondence to your own personal assistant, your VA will help you run your business smoothly.]]></description>
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<title>How Business Forecasting Can Improve Your Profits</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6956734</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:22:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This article provides tips on how to use business forecasting to improve business profits. Only through planning will a business owner or manager have a deep understanding of all aspects of the business - - cash, sales and expenses. Once a forecast process is in place the organization will be able to improve results through better management.]]></description>
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<title>Informal Inspection by the Boss?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6956486</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:57:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Picture this situation: A small company consisting of about 8 people. They are busy with interim services (finding and placing candidates within companies; a sort of Temp agency). All this in the country Belgium. Most of them work from home. There is not really one office, and most communication is done by phone, e-mail and Skype.]]></description>
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<title>Journey to Being an Entrepreneur - Part 6</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6953661</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:32:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You ever found yourself so overwhelmed that you feel like there is not enough time in the day to complete your tasks? Stephen Covey, author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", states, "the only way to be effective in your business is to be effective within yourself". Read below on steps in being effective and putting first things first.]]></description>
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<title>Have A Great Time Excelling On The Job and In Sports</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6948673</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:02:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Interpreting the statistics meaning forces me to come to the conclusion it's difficult for them to have a great time because instead of excelling they reached a plateau which causes static thinking, worry, stress, or tiredness. One way to break anhedonia is by applying the following peak performance structure to improve your mindset, mood, and motivation.]]></description>
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<title>Keys To Success: Passion</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:36:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Throughout my business experience I have found that passion is a key ingredient to small business success. After all, if you don't have passion about your product, service, company, and most importantly, yourself, it makes it that much harder to achieve personal and small business success. In my personal business coaching practice I have observed that the clients who have the most passion also have the greatest degree of success.]]></description>
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<title>Local Area Network Setup (LAN)</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:04:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Local Area Network (LAN) is an internal network connection which interconnects and makes it enable to share multiple PCs, Printing Devices and Internet together within a limited area with the help of a device called Switch/Hub. As an office and its work details with various departments are constantly shared, a mutually connecting solution will be required inside the office for sharing, transferring and thereby communicating the works.]]></description>
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<title>The Perfect Testimonial</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:34:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At some point, you've probably asked a client for a testimonial that (you hoped) would wax eloquent about the great work you did. But getting a client testimonial is a hit or miss proposition: Sometimes, the client provides exactly the enthusiastic stamp of approval you want. Other times, it's less than useful. The problem is-we don't always do such a great job of guiding our clients in writing testimonials.]]></description>
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<title>The One Service Every Consultant Should Offer</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:26:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I was once asked if there is one service every consultant should offer. I didn't hesitate with my answer. No matter how different your practice is from that of other consultants, the one service you should offer to clients is a diagnostic assessment. You might refer to your service as a strategic assessment, gap analysis, business process evaluation, or even an initial consultation. Whatever you choose to call it, the service is a relatively short, systematic project to evaluate a specific area of client concern and offer objective advice. The emphasis is on short, systematic, and objective.]]></description>
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<title>The Worst Thing About Best Practices</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:26:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's tough to pinpoint when copying some other company's tactics morphed into adopting "best practices," but somewhere along the line it did. The notion that an organization can transplant the ideas of another has become so widespread that it's no wonder so many banks, supermarkets, airlines, retailers, and professional firms look remarkably alike.]]></description>
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<title>All Consultants Are Not Created Equal</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:11:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every year, thousands of corporations and organizations enlist the services of either an individual consultant, team of consultants, or a consulting firm, to address items that their leadership envisions need addressing professionally, by an impartial eye. Unfortunately, however, nearly anyone can represent himself as some sort of consultant, either in a specific area, or in a variety of areas, and while some of these individuals are excellent, and provide a fabulous, valuable service, others use consulting as a rouse to sell some sort of product or service. Major areas that consultants are called in regarding include, but are not limited...]]></description>
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<title>IT Project Management - Securing the Success of Your Organisation's IT Services</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6944203</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6944203</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:53:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With an increasing need for high-quality IT services, business managers are turning to IT Project Management specialists to assist with the implementation of effective information technology solutions. Increased business performance is just one reason why expert project management is an essential service for today's business world.]]></description>
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<title>Mel McGee - Mum in a Million</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/5755819</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/5755819</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:46:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mel McGee had a small daughter and a husband serving with the army in Iraq. As a sales trainer in a corporate job she was out of the home for 60 hours a week, returning to an overtired toddler. "I took the minimum maternity leave, went straight back to full time work but I wasn't happy," she recalls.]]></description>
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<title>A Consulting Case Study in Startup Timing and Technology</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6946430</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6946430</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:04:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The other day, I was looking through a number of business plans which had been forwarded to me at our think tank. Luckily, and retirement I have quite a bit of time to read through all these, and so sometimes I will sit in Starbucks and go through a stack of them.]]></description>
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<title>Increasing Annual Profits by Understanding Lifetime Customer Value</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6933182</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6933182</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:00:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that acquiring new customers isn't always the most effective way to increase your profits? Find out what low cost ways you can boost your business without going broke.]]></description>
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<title>Providing Aligned Mission Services When Value, Quality, Innovation and Uniqueness Matter</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6934850</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6934850</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:33:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A business has taken an important first step when they've decided to align their services to their mission. Providing mission based services has proven to save resources and time while exceeding customers' expectations. AND by focusing on the mission, we improve collaboration with our customers while maximizing our opportunities for product and service innovation and uniqueness. Do your clients deserve value and will the rewards for providing this to them be worth the struggle?]]></description>
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<title>Use Business Consulting Firms to Advance in Your Industry</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6936128</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6936128</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:50:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Opening a new business in today's competitive market is challenging. Get the help of a small business consultant to ensure your success. Learn about business consulting firms and what they can do for your fledgling business.]]></description>
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<title>IT Consulting Firm: Finding and Working With One That Best Suits Your Company</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6940137</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6940137</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:42:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Finding an IT consulting firm that best suits your company can seem like a daunting task as the right one can boost productivity, efficiency, and success of a business. Here are some helpful tips for finding and working with an IT consulting firm that will enhance your company.]]></description>
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<title>Serial Spenders and SBA Funded Entrepreneurs</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6941203</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6941203</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:18:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One thing which has always concerned me as a consultant is when I help startup companies and I watch their CEOs make very unfortunate financial business decisions. It seems as if whenever they run into a problem, they just continually throw money at it. It also seems that every salesman from every type of outsourced vendor company comes in and promises they will solve all their problems.]]></description>
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<title>Write Effective Sales/Marketing Copy Using Features, Advantages And Benefits As Your Guide</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6905550</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:42:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are three words that are almost a magical formula for writing effective sales material. The words are features, advantages, and benefits. Using these words as a guide when writing sales material will help build a desire to own the product or service in prospects. This is a marketing 101 article. For some it is an important refresher. It is a must for people new to marketing.]]></description>
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<title>Consulting Case Study - Planning a Grand Opening for a Automated Truck Wash</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:31:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[They say in business if you wait until everything is perfect, you'll never achieve your objectives, because it's impossible to have all the details in place in such a complex world. In other words, you'll never start if you wait until everything is perfect, and then you will miss the opportunity. Now then, I do tend to believe in those words of wisdom, and I was never one to criticize perfection or not attempt to seek it, but rather I understand how elusive it can be, and how irrelevant it is much of the time.]]></description>
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<title>How Executive Consulting Creates Effective Leaders</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:22:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Businesses always claim that their most important asset is their people. Employees, their level of engagement, their skills, and their enthusiasm help elevate a company above its competitors. Yet in spite of that, companies are often hesitant to invest in their employees.]]></description>
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<title>The Top 3 Reasons Why Clients Don't Buy Your Services</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:39:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Handling a consulting sales opportunity is like juggling five balls at once: You've got to forge a strong relationship with the client, work through the client's issue, conjure up a solution, draft a proposal, and sell the project. When you are working on so many things simultaneously, it's easy to lose track of the three reasons why clients won't buy from you.]]></description>
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<title>The International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:18:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The main goal of any energy efficiency project is to achieve the building or structure's full potential in energy savings and water efficiency. The success of such a project must be gauged in accurate and quantifiable terms as this may serve as proof to the success and effectiveness of the modifications, additions and all other actions performed to achieve the energy efficiency goals of a particular project. This piece of information is extremely vital to the project's key stakeholders, including owners, contractors, consultants, service companies and investors.]]></description>
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<title>Effective Leadership Seminars: Ensuring Objectives Are Achieved</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:28:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although there are plenty of reports in the media about the high rate of unemployment, companies are finding that when it comes to skilled leaders, there is actually a shortage in the workforce. Those leaders with a proven track record of success could be out the door tomorrow for a high paying new opportunity, and plenty more are baby boomers inching closer to retirement. As a result, companies would be wise to invest in processes that will identify future leaders among their existing workforce, and train them to assume those roles down the road.]]></description>
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<title>I Want to Buy You Lunch and Pick Your Brain: Six Ways to Answer Without Sounding Like a Jerk</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:32:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you're an expert, people want to learn from you, and if they can, they want it for free. They'll say, "I want to pick your brain. Let me buy you lunch." Worst case, they'll take you to a fast food restaurant and buy you a $5 meal and get thousands worth of advice. Best case, they'll take you to a great restaurant, spend $100 and get thousands worth of advice. While it's great to meet new people, here's how can you say, "No, I won't have lunch with you just so you can get an hour of free consulting" without sounding like a jerk.]]></description>
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<title>Coaching Your Clients Credibly</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:57:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The role of a coach can be risky and complex. How do you coach well? Where do you begin? How should you focus your time? What if the client doesn't like you? There are various questions that can flood your mind as you embark upon the coaching journey. This article breaks the coaching basics down to help you build an effective coaching relationship with your client.]]></description>
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