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Tips: Selecting the Best Home Office Space
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amichalek writes "From Home Business Magazine:
There's nothing quite like waking up to a warm breakfast, leisurely reading the morning paper, and then strolling down the hallway to your home office, cup of coffee in hand. The advantages of setting up a home office...
...are plentiful, among those are having low overhead expenses, a minuscule commute, the ability to completely customize your work environment, and substantial tax write-offs.
These perks are enticing, however an improperly designed home office can let in distractions and cause other productivity problems for your business. Read the article for some suggestions on how to avoid these issues and create the most efficient workspace possible.
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Home Based Business
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Tips: 7 Ways Email Can End Your Business Relationships Before They Start
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DGiolitto writes "Too often, people forget they're anonymous in the internet world. Your friends and colleagues might know you as being a tireless worker, a great friend and loving parent, but I don't know that. To me, you're just a font. You're a font in an email, or in a forum post. If you give me access to your website, then you're whatever impression the website creates. But largely, you're anonymous. So if you want to establish trust in your internet business dealings, make it your goal to paint a professional image via email. "
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Tips: Publishing Articles on your Website - How Should They be Formatted?
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amichalek writes "A question from the Unit of 1 Yahoo Group discussion forum:
When posting articles on your own website, what is the general rule of thumb on the best way to format them?
Should they be in PDF, Flash, or something else?
What do other people do with articles?
Andrea Michalek responded with:
My advice is if you're putting articles on your website, you should have them accessible in plain old HTML. If you want to offer a PDF version for nicely formatted printing, that's great, but at a minimum, the article should be in HTML."
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Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 @ 09:51 PM EST
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Tips: How to Increase Home Office Productivity
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amichalek writes "by
Rachel Goldstein
owner of Allfreelancework.com
- 1000s of freelance jobs
Working
at home is not always as easy as people with "normal" jobs might think.
There are hundreds of distractions home workers must struggle against.
Whether it's your screaming kids and telemarketers or just the constant
hunger pains from knowing the refrigerator is just behind you. Only
the most diligent worker will get any work done at all."
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Home Based Business
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Posted on Saturday, February 12, 2005 @ 05:25 PM EST
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Tips: Setting your Hourly Rates
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amichalek writes " by Rachel Goldstein
owner
of Allfreelancework.com
- 1000s of freelance jobs
Determining
how much to charge for your services is often one of the biggest challenges
for a new freelancer. If you are a new freelancer, you have probably searched
the Internet trying to look for average rates of professionals in your
field. Don't even bother. I will let you in on a secret - now that the
Internet is here; there aren't any "average" rates because demographics
are too widespread. With this in mind, I will show you how to figure out
what your rates should be by using a formula. "
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Getting Started
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Posted on Friday, November 12, 2004 @ 04:50 PM EST
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Tips: Excel Tip - Using Pivot Tables
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amichalek writes "Businesses large and small routinely amass large amounts of data into Excel spreadsheets. That's fine, but once you've got all that data, how can you better understand it and massage it?
Here's one way: Take advantage of the "PivotTable" functionality built into Microsoft Excel, included in all versions of Microsoft Office.
With PivotTables, you can quickly turn rows of data, such as sales information or inventory figures, into summary reports. Once you have the summary, you can then change the format to create other reports or summaries.
Read the tutorial here."
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Technology
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Posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 @ 12:33 PM EDT
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Tips: 10 Ways Entrepreneurs Shoot Themselves In The Foot
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cfranz writes "Entrepreneurs and their businesses have a tendency to ambush
themselves when they aren't looking. This affects how much
revenue they can generate, how fast their business rises,
and even if they survive after the first few years. If you
feel there is a possibility you are getting in your way to
success, review these elements to see if any of these items
might apply.
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Lessons Learned
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Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2004 @ 04:25 PM EDT
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Tips: To Win in Negotiations, Learn How to Taper Concessions
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amichalek writes "
by Roger Dawson
In extended negotiations over price, be careful that you don't
set up a pattern in the way that you make concessions. Let's say
that you're selling a used car and you've gone into the negotiation
with a price of $15,000, but you would go as low as $14,000. So,
you have a negotiating range of $1,000.
The way in which you give away that $1,000 is very critical. There
are several mistakes that you should avoid:"
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Leadership and Strategy
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Tips: To Be a More Powerful Negotiator Never Say Yes to the First Offer
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amichalek writes "by Roger Dawson
Power Negotiators know that you should never say Yes to the
first offer (or counter-offer) because it automatically triggers
two thoughts in the other person's mind."
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Leadership and Strategy
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Posted on Sunday, February 23, 2003 @ 12:00 AM EST
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Tips: To Get a Better Deal, Learn How to Use the Vise Gambit
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amichalek writes "by Roger Dawson
The Vise is a very effective negotiating Gambit and what it
will do for you will amaze you. The Vise Gambit is the simple
little expression: "You'll have to do better than that."
Here's how Power Negotiators use it: Let's say that you own a
small steel company that sells steel products in bulk. You are
calling on a fabricating plant where the buyer has listened to
your proposal and your pricing structure. You ignored his insistence
that he's happy with his present supplier and did a good job of
building desire for your product. Finally, the other person says
to you, "I'm really happy with our present vendor, but I
guess it wouldn't do any harm to have a backup supplier to keep
them on their toes. I'll take one carload if you can get the price
down to $1.22 per pound."
You respond with the Vise Gambit by calmly saying, "I'm sorry
you'll have to do better than that."
An experienced negotiator will automatically respond with the
Counter Gambit, which is, "Exactly how much better than that
do I have to do?" trying to pin you down to a specific. However,
it will amaze you how often inexperienced negotiators will concede
a big chunk of their negotiating range simply because you did
that."
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Posted on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 @ 12:00 AM EST
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