Have you ever…

* Hired somebody just to fill a spot and ended up with a string of bad hires?

* Brought somebody on just because they wanted the job and you didn’t have the time or the patience to go through the whole screening process?

* Been guilty of over-delegating – and then you wonder why no one seems to do anything right?

* Been guilty of under-delegating – and ended up doing the exact same tasks you hired somebody else to do for you?

* Hey, maybe this is you… you don’t have a team at all! You think you can’t afford one, or that you’re not big enough to warrant one, or you know you need one but you don’t know where to start! Read more

"Pay-per-click search advertising (with Google AdWords, Yahoo Search , MSN Ad Center, or Ask.com) has been one of the fastest growing marketing channels.

"Yet, since paid search has only been around for a few years most search marketers are frankly still winging it when it comes to optimizing how much they bid to pay on a clickthrough from each keyword," says Akin Arikan, Senior Manager, Internet Marketing Solutions Group of Unica Corporation in his article "Search Bid Management Done Right." Read more

Many owners are jumping on the bandwagon to take back their time and personal lives.

Calling in a professional - whether it's a or a company or individual specializing in a particular function such as accounting - can save a small business owner precious time, effort, and money if it's done correctly.

In order to make the right contracting decisions, Howard Tiano, managing editor of www.outsourceouttakes.com recommends that small business owners know the difference between outsourcing and outtasking. Read more

You're confident that your offers a product or service of higher quality at a better price than your competitors. But how do you get that message to the masses when you're just one of hundreds or thousands competing for the same customer?

Michele Schermerhorn, President of Online Business Institute offers these on-target suggestions in her article ""The 7 Commandments of Marketing" on www.virtualaccuracy.com, to make your business stand out from the crowd.

In brief, they are: Read more

"XYZ Widgets, hold on please," the listless voice on the phone repeats for the hundredth time today. Is this what your prospective clients hear when they call for information about your product?

Doing business in the virtual world, many of us will never meet our clients face to face. As a result, the voice that represents your company on the phone becomes the "face" of your business.

Clients greeted with an energetic, positive attitude will have a different perception about your businesses than they would if greeted by a frazzled, negative or bored individual or worse, placed directly on hold. Read more

Are you sick and tired of not having any control over your time? If you have been trying to find a way out of the 8 to 5 work routine in the office, you might want to look into the areas of online business. More….

How better to support the ecological global "greening" effort than to utilize the services of a professional that needs no SUV to commute?

Businesses choosing to hire vs. traditional employees are helping to reduce the negative environmental effects of greenhouse gases by eliminating the need for those professionals to commute. Read more