14th July 2010
Family portraits and pictures are certainly one of the nicest gifts that you can give to a friend or relative. They all enjoy seeing photographs of the kids as they grow, or a vacation photo of the entire bunch of you in front of the World's Largest Ball ...
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05th July 2010
If Joe Biden can call a shop owner a smart ass, then I can call everyone who sends regular old paper birthday party invitations, engagement announcements, and family photos, a bunch of…well, I'm not that crass.
OK. I'm just kidding. Name calling isn'...
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16th June 2010
Wedding announcements are commonplace. With over 2 millions engagements each year, you can imagine how many announcements are mailed out each year. I would guess probably 200 million or more individual announcements…and they probably all look about the ...
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04th June 2010
Free photo magnets are not terribly difficult to find on the internet. Many companies offer one measly magnet, or maybe two if you are lucky. Others require that you buy other products and "then" they throw in the free photo magnet. Still others market th...
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19th January 2010
I have a friend that owns a small manufacturing business. He employs just over 100 people. Like most other businesses today, he is doing his best to keep it afloat during the poor economy. Unfortunately for him, there are not many ways to reduce his opera...
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19th January 2010
One way to help keep your business afloat during these troubled economic times is to ensure that you are not paying to much for your telecom services. It is entirely possible to save hundreds…even thousands of dollars a month, depending upon the size of...
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14th January 2010
Finding ways to reduce business operating costs is not easy in today's economy. You can count the number of businesses that are having financial trouble by looking at the many CEOs and business owners who are standing on window ledges outside their buildi...
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14th January 2010
If you have a competent, knowledgeable and skilled employee with plenty of spare time, you have someone who might be able to save a lot of money for your business. This could be happen in one of two ways.
One: Fire the guy. If he has lots of spare time...
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12th January 2010
The economy isn't being kind to most businesses today. Owners yearn for some control, but it is tough to acquire. It is simply out of their hands. Still, corners must be cut to keep the business afloat, so the ensuing lay-offs come about, as well as reduc...
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06th January 2010
Telecom Expense Management is the process in which a team of experts comb through a company's telecom expenditure to find waste and unnecessary redundancy. Simply put, they eliminate wasteful spending and put it back into your business.
Obviously they ...
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06th January 2010
If you are looking for a way to impress your boss and perhaps get that new corner office with the great view, then perhaps this article can help you. Today's economy is putting pressure on all companies. Costs are going up and revenues are dropping. Someh...
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06th January 2010
A good friend of mine owns/runs a manufacturing business. He does quite well, but he works at it. Every penny he has is due to his own hard work. The last year or so has been hard on him, though. Not physically, but emotionally. Before the current recessi...
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01st December 2009
It has been a long time since we experienced an economy like the one we are mired in today. Some of the younger companies may have never been through the "rough times" that some of the older businesses have dealt with. Regardless, I can't think of an indu...
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01st December 2009
Getting right to the point, Wireless Expense Management can reduce wasteful spending within your business, and boost your bottom line.
The economy is in the tank and your company is probably suffering to some degree. What are you doing to tighten your ...
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01st December 2009
I was doing some contract work for a friend who owns a manufacturing plant, but when the bottom fell out of the economy he had to put me on "permanent vacation," as he put it. That is when I realized that the economy was truly experiencing a troublesome t...
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