Business and Finance Guide

Posted on Thursday, 1st December 2011 by Jana Sanders

As any business owner can tell you entrepreneurship is never a sure thing. In fact, the most common reason people give for not starting their own business is that it’s “too risky.” Risk of great financial loss, risk of loss of relationships, and risk of instability and failure are just a few potential entrepreneurial dangers that come to mind. And those are the risks in good times! In an economy like we’re experiencing today, many people have the misconception that the risk of starting a business is multiplied many times over.

Did I say misconception? That’s right. I don’t think it’s riskier to start a business in this economy. In fact, I think it’s the perfect time. Don’t believe it? Let’s explore the

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Posted on Wednesday, 30th November 2011 by Mark Chambers

Now that you have created high quality content that will offer value to your readers, how to get them to engage with your blog posts by commenting on what they think about your content? Comments are a great means to learn more about your readers.

Readers who read your blog posts and comment on them often provide valuable insights. This will help you to understand their thought process, needs, wants and challenges. This will also help you to create and deliver more value driven content that solves the purpose of your target audience. Delivering valuable content can help you to win the trust and credibility of your prospects. Winning their trust and credibility can help you to convert your prospects into paying customers. Read more…

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Posted on Tuesday, 29th November 2011 by Charlotte W

Swiss power and automation technologies firm ABB is in talks about performing a consultancy and technical advisory role for the construction of a 2,000km transmission line linking the 2.75GW HidroAys?n project set for southern Chile with the country’s capital Santiago, senior technical specialist John Grahan of ABB Brazil told BNamericas.

“We are interested in the HidroAys?n project. We imagine that for the project, HDVC [transmission technology] would be the most obvious candidate for the transmission system. We are talking to the customers, and are involved in the technical aspects,” Grahan said.

Transmission is perhaps the most controversial part of the HidroAys?n project, which envisages the construction of five dams across the Baker and Pascua rivers in southern region XI.

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Posted on Sunday, 27th November 2011 by Mark Chambers

3 days from now Black Friday marks the official start of the holiday shopping season.  If you enjoy reading a good business book, Small Business Trends has got your hookup.

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Posted on Thursday, 24th November 2011 by Jana Sanders

Die-hard shoppers scribbled lists, scoured advertisements and formed attack plans.

Just think of what it took to keep the chaos controlled so that could be possible.

First, the scope. As the clock struck midnight Friday at Kohl’s, a worker’s hand tally counter clicking as fast as possible to keep up, ended up with an estimated 1,930 people streaming into the department store in the opening minutes.

Twenty minutes in, aisles didn’t matter as shoppers crisscrossed their own shortcuts. Soon, the scampering turned into two solid lines snaking from the front registers around the store and overlapping in the back.

The only telltale signs of the herd were the once neatly placed items left either askew, on the floor or ditched in odd places and a banner in the toy section partially pulled down.

That’s just one store.

Pulling off a production as big as Black Friday and this year’s Black Thursday Night takes weeks and months of preparation. The sale

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