BusinessAndMarketing

 title: 3 Effective Tactics Every Business Should Implement author:Allyn Cutts source_url:http://www.articlecity.com/articles/business_and_finance/article_4250.shtml date_saved:2007-07-25 12:30:07 category:business_and_finance article: Do you remember your first day as a business owner? You were probably just like the rest of us... pretty darned happy and bit on the proud side. Yeah, back then we thought we could conquer the world. Now we're too busy conquering our own little corner of the world to pay a lot of attention to the rest of the world... unless it's to learn a few tips from successful marketers just like us who have made it big. Tips just like these... that will apply to every market - regardless of the product or service - are a great motivators to try something new. Yeah, you never know when the next idea will be worth a million dollars! 1. Create a Special Offer A special offer is exactly that... an offer that is special. Normally, customers would not be able to p...

 title: 10 Questions: Do You Have What It Takes? author:John Assaraf source_url:http://www.articlecity.com/articles/business_and_finance/article_1036.shtml date_saved:2007-07-25 12:30:06 category:business_and_finance article: Do you have what it takes to be really successful? Have you ever thought about what you must be prepared to endure and do in order to be successful in business or your career? I think I have been asked at least 5,000 times what it really takes to be successful in business, so I jotted down 10 questions you can use to gauge whether you already have what it takes, or if you need to do a little “work” to get there. Many years ago I heard Jim Rohn say that you either pay the price of discipline or the price of regret. Discipline weighs ounces…regret weighs tons! With that said, here are 10 questions to ask yourself:  Are you disciplined?  Do you take rejection personally? What about criticism?  Do you bounce back quickly from making errors or ...

 title: A Guide to Getting a Debt Consolidation Loan UK author:John Mussi source_url:http://www.articlecity.com/articles/business_and_finance/article_2965.shtml date_saved:2007-07-25 12:30:06 category:business_and_finance article: If you're getting in over your head with credit, you might consider getting a debt consolidation loan UK . This loan is designed to pay off at least a portion if not all of your outstanding debts, allowing you to have either reduced payments or in some cases only the single payment of the loan itself to repay.  If you're looking for a debt consolidation loan UK , there are several factors that you might want to consider to find the loan that's right for you. Different banks and lenders may offer different terms for a debt consolidation loan UK , and you want to make sure that you get the best deal for the money that you can. Some of the factors that can affect your chances are your credit rating, the value and type of collateral that you're pu...

 title: A Singles Game of Real Estate author:Dan Auito source_url:http://www.articlecity.com/articles/business_and_finance/article_809.shtml date_saved:2007-07-25 12:30:06 category:business_and_finance article: This discussion leans toward answering questions asked most often by our youthful men and women in there early twenties. They often begin to ask themselves the question, “Should I consider buying a home, condo/town-home or some other type of real estate that I can call my own?” Due to the fact that housing has up to this point always been provided for or lived in on a rented basis we tend to find that our newest contributing members of society find themselves at a loss for the most beneficial and advantageous way to enter this next phase of self-sufficiency. Due to the fact that most of us grow up in either a rented apartment or our parent’s single family home, it stands to reason that most people, when beginning to ask themselves the question of purchasing their own dwellin...

 title:"Bankers' Banks"- The Role of Central Banks in Banking Crises author:Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. source_url:http://www.articlecity.com/articles/business_and_finance/article_42.shtml date_saved:2007-07-25 12:30:05 category:business_and_finance article: Central banks are relatively new inventions. An American President (Andrew Jackson) even cancelled its country's central bank in the nineteenth century because he did not think that it was very important. But things have changed since. Central banks today are the most important feature of the financial systems of most countries of the world.   Central banks are a bizarre hybrids. Some of their functions are identical to the functions of regular, commercial banks. Other functions are unique to the central bank. On certain functions it has an absolute legal monopoly.   Central banks take deposits from other banks and, in certain cases, from foreign governments which deposit their foreign exchange and gold reserves for s...

 title: Back-End Products... The Key To Lasting Profits author:Dan Brown source_url:http://www.articlecity.com/articles/business_and_finance/article_3026.shtml date_saved:2007-07-25 12:30:06 category:business_and_finance article: If you're not trying to sell back-end products to your customers, you're making a big mistake. It is easier to sell to existing customers than it is to sell to new ones who don't trust your business yet.  Below are ten killer strategies you can use to sell your back-end products to your existing customers:  1. When you ship people the first product they bought, insert a flyer or brochure for your back-end product in the package.  2. Give customers a free subscription to a customers only e-zine when they buy your product. You could include your ad for your back-end product in each issue.  3. Send your customers greeting cards on holidays or on their birthday. Include a small advertisement inside the card for your back-end product.  ...

 title:"Bankers' Banks"- The Role of Central Banks in Banking Crises author:Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. source_url:http://www.articlecity.com/articles/business_and_finance/article_42.shtml date_saved:2007-07-25 12:30:05 category:business_and_finance article: Central banks are relatively new inventions. An American President (Andrew Jackson) even cancelled its country's central bank in the nineteenth century because he did not think that it was very important. But things have changed since. Central banks today are the most important feature of the financial systems of most countries of the world.   Central banks are a bizarre hybrids. Some of their functions are identical to the functions of regular, commercial banks. Other functions are unique to the central bank. On certain functions it has an absolute legal monopoly.   Central banks take deposits from other banks and, in certain cases, from foreign governments which deposit their foreign exchange and gold reserves for s...

 title:"Black Monday" and Cyber Santa Tips author:Jim Edwards source_url:http://www.articlecity.com/articles/business_and_finance/article_4687.shtml date_saved:2007-07-25 12:30:07 category:business_and_finance article: When I started writing this column in Fall of 1998, the idea of doing all your holiday shopping online rated quite daring and trendy. Fast-forward to today and online shopping represents a very sizeable share of all retail commerce. In fact, just like the "Black Friday" after Thanksgiving gets many retail stores "into the black" financially, they've coined a name for one of the biggest shopping days online: "Black Monday!" Black Monday or "Cyber Monday"  refers to the Monday after Thanksgiving when everyone goes back to work and does all their shopping online (presumably on their break -- yeah right!) Either they couldn't find what they wanted in a brick-and- mortar store over the weekend or, like me, couldn't...