Orlando, Florida is an extremely popular destination for business travel. It has world class facilities for meetings and conventions as well as being a popular destination for families. This is a bonus for business people who travel away from home often and enjoy the opportunities to bring their families with them. Orlando is the perfect location for a "business mini-vacation."The Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau, Inc. (CVB)...more
Many companies whose securities were traded on stock exchange have committed crimes related to accounting frauds, providing false information about their securities or other violations of the law. The need of stock exchange regulation originated in 1929 as a result of its big crash. To prevent it from happening again in the future and to regulate this area of the national economy, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was founded.To achieve...more
Author: Graham WilliamsInternet shopping has reached unprecedented quotes over the last years, and despite the conditions of the actual world financial crisis that made the online orders register a corresponding decrease, things still look very bright for the Internet.From this point of view, people who promote a service or product as part of an Internet business have lots of things to do before they can see the money roll in.E-retailing remains a profitable Internet business, but heavy marketing support makes the difference between losing money or making profit. The steps to running a retail Internet business cover the creation of web sites, online catalogs, constant market monitoring and permanent optimization of the web pages. In order to be profitable the Internet business should appear on the first Google search page.The Internet business that appears as a first search result has the most real chances to make money. Therefore, the big competition between the various companies activating online is to achieve an advantageous position in the search engines and a good page rank.Such results are possible only through a permanent work on the web pages with analysis of the web visits...more
When you are an owner, manager, or business executive, you've got a job that carries with it a lot of stress and responsibility. You need to worry about holding people accountable for their work, making sure that your company is staying ahead of the competition, and pleasing both your current and potential clients with reports of your success. This...more
Writing well is great business. These days in the online world or offline we are all writing more and aiming to engage our readers quickly with strong and direct messages that have real meaning. To write well is to position yourself powerfully and gives you a decisive edge over your competitors and gives your customers and clients the message you...more
Any and all writing is creative in it's own way with exactly the same aim regardless of its creative level. Our aim when we write something is to convey our thoughts to somebody else and that at the very least requires us to use our imaginations and to think with empathy. Clear thinking is always very hard work but without a process and a plan to map or think out what the message you want to convey is you will fail to reach your reader.William Stronk had 10 rules for aggressive and direct writing1.All good writing is good for the same reasons[ All bad writing is bad in its own particular way}2.Vigorous writing is CONCISE which means a sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences,for exactly the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. Make every word tell.3.WORDS are the only tools we have as writers so use them wisely and remember somebody out there is listening.4.SHORT words are best and the OLD words, when they are SHORT, are the best of all;5.Grammar matters6.Good writing needs a plan so map out what you want to say to your reader on scrap and read it to yourself.7.Great writing is...more
The good thing about watching a movie that is based in a true story is that it is so real; you can expect that it is a good movie. The ones that I like are stories about sports like "Coach Carter", "Grid Iron Gang", and "A League of Their Own." Those...more
Author: Eric PowersWriting a startup business plan that works is not as hard as it may seem at first. You may hear dire statistics about the low rate of business plan acceptance by investors and lenders, but you must keep in mind that many fail to...more
There is a reason why best practices are so commonly used in organizations they work because they have been tested by organizations and teams over and over again. So here are some best practices that upper management may want to consider:1. Own the...more
Author: Eric PowersWriting a startup business plan from scratch means doing a lot of needless work. Why not get a head start by jumping off from the work of experienced business plan consultants? Using a business plan template is a sure way is a sure...more
1. Employee Buy In. Design and implement employee buy-in programs that help your team understand the value of CRM. Most employees do not care of change of any sort let alone when the change is about to track their every move. But when employees...more
Author: Jai Prakash SrivastavaThe consumers always look for special offers and discount when making purchases. There are a lot of companies that offer plastic gift cards to the customers. The gift card is used by the customers in the form of a gift...more