Specialty Archives

Lately I’ve seen a nonprofit organization raising money in an unusual way: by selling stuff on eBay.  It’s not like a Goodwill or a thrift store — rather, donors simply give the organization valuables or other items to auction off on eBay, and the organization gets the proceeds from the auctions.
It’s a great idea.  Money is [...]

I hate to say it, but ecommerce is quickly becoming the main mode of shopping for many people.  With gas prices they way they were in the last year or two of the Bush administration, the cost of shipping items to your home was starting to seem not so bad after all, when compared with [...]

Sometimes it feels that a business often grows in stages just like a kid.  It starts out small and then grows up.  In the case of our little film company, that growth has taken over thirty years to where it is time to move out on our own and get our own building.
But that [...]

I once worked with a good team of people at an office. This was where I saw how teamwork is supposed to work. It’s also where I learned about what it takes to be a great team captain. That’s because I was best friends with the leader of our team. She let me in on [...]

At the last preschool I worked in, our director had some very interesting past experience: She used to run a small preschool program out of her home.
It was just a part-day preschool program, meaning that she didn’t have to worry about providing breakfast or lunch, or putting kids down for a nap.  She literally just had [...]

I don’t know about you, but it seems that every week, I get an invitation to a seminar that is happening in my city.  Most of these seminars want you to buy something, but the odd one still does give you valuable information.
Last week we went to a seminar about starting your first online [...]

I think that actual, tangible employee rewards are terrific!  From an employee’s point of view, they really motivate you to do things you might not otherwise do.  I’m a teacher, and I certainly don’t believe you should receive rewards for classroom performance, (as this is so influenced by the section you’re assigned and the level [...]

Too often, I think business owners and hiring managers view employees as expendable, not really all that important or necessary to their business.  But the truth is, your employees represent your business.  In many cases, they are the only representatives  of your business that your clients will come into contact with, so it definitely behooves you [...]

I wanted to get life insurance information.  I knew that there were several different kinds of life insurance that I could get.  They were term life insurance.  Term life insurance is a life insurance that is good for only a certain amount of time, for example 20 years.  At the end of twenty years, if [...]

When you work from home, your home office is important because it has such an impact on the quality of your work and even your life.  Here are a few things I think a good home office needs:

A door you can close.  If you live with other people or even with pets, you can never [...]