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Get The Most Out Of Your PowerPoint Presentations
Anybody with basic computer knowledge can put together something that looks like a presentation. But then, what type of results are you expecting from your PowerPoint Presentations? Outsourcing to a professional can WOW! your audience and provide a much better ROI.
Is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) worth the investment?
With all the hype about SEO, some people may wonder if SEO is worth the investment. To answer this question, the first thing you need to know is whether or not you are getting GOOD SEO.
Only 15% of Eligible Companies Take Advantage of SR&ED!
Canada's Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit program provides generous incentives for companies which conduct scientific research and development. Interestingly, very few companies know of its existence or how to claim.
Telecom Savings TV News Report
This short TV clip demonstrates how a telecom consulting company can reduce business telecom expenses from 20 to 58%.
eTraining: Anytime, Anywhere
This case history examines how a pharmaceutical company used eTraining in a innovative way to reduce travel costs, reduce training costs, and speed a product to market.
Managing Cellular Costs: Minimizing Roaming Charges
How to Cost Effectively Double Your Client Base
Imagine having access to a marketing strategy so powerful, it could add tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to your bottom line overnight... but few people ever do it because it seems too simple!
Cut Costs and Improve Customer Service via "Self-Serve" Applications
A customer inquires about her account, or wants to make a change to the service she is receiving. She calls the company's customer service number, spends several minutes going through voice prompts, entering and re-entering account information. Why not empower the customer to make the changes herself?
Expense Management Outsourcing
How to improve your chances of success when utilizing external expertise. The most successful programs begin internally before the external companies are contacted.
Be a Business?
Wondering if you should set up your business as a business? A business is an activity having a reasonable expectation of making a profit. If you are engaged in activities designed to earn money, then you are a business. You do not have to be registered to be a business: you just have to be doing the things that businesses do.
Employee Turnover Cost Calculator
How would reducing employee turnover positively impact your bottom line? Use this calculator to easily determine turnover costs.
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The 28 Day Bad Debt Booklet
This booklet was prepared for the payday loans industry to enhance their collections process; however this is valuable information for any organization with bad debt to collect. How well you collect your money will depend on the efficiency of your company's collections policies and strategies.
Corporate Property Owners and Rental Property Managers Save Big Dollars
This case study examines how property managers reduced expenses and increased ROI by the effective use of video.
How to Move Slow Selling Condominium Properties
This case study outlines how video programs can be used as a cost effective tool to sell condominiums to buyers out of town and overseas.
Corporate Property Owners and Rental Property Managers Save Big Dollars
This case study examines how property managers reduced expenses and increased ROI by the effective use of video.
Everybody Loves a Freebie
As an accountant fulfilling your responsibilities to your clients, why not give added value to them by introducing them to the advantages of branding their companies, products or services with this cost effective strategy.
Tips for Keeping Costs Low When Purchasing Brand Name Items and Promotional Products
When budgets are stretched to the limit, allocating money for branding may be low on the list. Here is a cost effective branding tip that won't break the bank.
Cost effective ways to operate your business while minimizing financial risk
Your business is a unique asset that will change over time. In fact, it can be both an asset and a liability in regards to financial security. There are risks and opportunities to consider with each stage of business development. What are the cost effective ways to operate your business with minimal financial risk?
Why Hire a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Specialist/Company?
While most of us have heard about SEO and how it can benefit your online business, many do not understand that poor or sloppy SEO can do more harm than good.
Search Engine Optimization - How fast can you Expect Results?
To answer this question, you need some facts about SEO and how it works. A poor site with no quality content will do poorly no matter how much SEO you try to cram into it. However a good, quality site can begin to show results within days or weeks of a professional SEO makeover.
What SEO Can and Cannot Do
You know that Search Engine Optimization is important to your online business. In fact, you hear it almost everywhere these days. But do you really understand what SEO is and how it works for you?
Why Search Engine Friendly Web Design Matter
SEO is not just about the words that go on the web page; it's also about the design itself. Every little aspect of the website, all the way down to the code that makes it up can be search engine optimized.
Bookkeeper fraud is more prevalent than we think. With these 7 tips you can significantly reduce the chances of your company becoming a victim.
5 Cheque Tips For Safeguarding Your Business
Follow these tips to lower your business risk when it come to issuing and reviewing business cheques.
Save Money by Using A Payroll Service
Payroll record keeping is crucial and many business owners often botch their records. A payroll service can save you time and lower your risk.
Financing Your Business with Government Assistance
You might need outside financing for a number of reasons; Expansion, Marketing, Working Capital. The Government of Canada may have a program to help provide funding to your business.
Do You Know Your Credit Health
If your business plans to use some type of loan or credit cards or procurement card, it's important to know your credit rating.
The Productivity Paradox
Despite a multitude of innovative management techniques, investment in technology and an increase in communications speed, employees are not really any more produvtive than before. Read how technology and waste affect the allocation of time.
Time Study- Sales Representatives
How can your sales staff increase their selling time? This study profiles how sales representatives spend their time based on studies from a variety of industries.
Time Study- Independent Consultants
Where does all the time go? How does your time management skills compare to others? Are you maximizing your productive time?
Time Study- Credit Managers
How do Credit Managers spend their time? Is your productive time maximized? How does your time management skills compare to other Credit Managers?
The Top Time Wasters
What are the biggest time wasters? Time management- what is outside of your control and what things, with your control, get in the way of productivity?
Best Tips on Finding Staff
There are many different strategies for finding new employees. From advertising in newspapers to using recruiters, this article will cover some pros, cons and tips of some of the most common alternatives.
The End Of Time Management
For the business professionals, time is the scarcest commodity, but time management will never solve the problem. Success is not about doing more, it's about achieving more.
Leveraging Time: How to avoid being Busy and Broke
You have heard it many times. Time is your scarcest resource! Time is your most perishable resource! Before you can take advantage of leveraging other resources and assets, you first have to learn how to leverage your time more effectively.
The Busy Man is Never Wise, And The Wise Man Is Never Busy
If you are too busy in your work, you don't have time to learn new ideas, discover new truths or to create a winning strategy or idea! Growing a successful business requires you to walk down un-trodden paths.
How to Figure Out Where You Should Spend Marketing Dollars, Even When You Don't Spend Money On Marketing!
Don't rely on referrals and networking to sustain your stream of new prospects. Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth Books says "Lead Generation is a nonstop endeavor.
From POTS to VOIP: A Powerful New Weapon
If you have not heard of VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol, you must be living in a cave. Telco's and Cable companies are battling it out with the CRTC over who can do what, and to whom with VOIP.
How To Save Your Company Thousands of Dollars Today!
If you follow these steps, you will immediately discover several key areas where you can achieve significant cost reductions, better cash flow and higher profits.
The 5 Not-So-Simple Steps To Process Improvement.
Frankly, There are more than 5 steps to process improvement. These 5 not-so-simple steps are the foundation of how improvement materializes.
The Key To Profits
To achieve greater profits you must concentrate your efforts on the smallest number of activities that will produce the largest amount of revenue.
Why Should You Look at Your Business From A Systems & Processes Point of View?
Processes are how the work gets done in your business; how products get manufactured; how customer service operates. Inefficiency translates into higher costs and lower profit.
When "We've Always Done It This Way" Won't Cut it Anymore
It's a phenomenon that exists in businesses of all sizes. Some call it red tape and it's what sets apart a mediocre business from a great business.
Process Improvement- 5 Things to Consider
Many process improvement projects fail before they begin. Before you start to look at process improvement, consider these 5 points to ensure your success. .
Online, Real Time Address Management Should Be Part of Your Business Processes
Your business processes, especially those which are customer facing such as CRM, provide opportunities to cross-sell, up-sell and ensure the highest levels of customer service. Realize operational efficiencies.
Protect Your Computers and Electrical Equipment, Extend Their Life, Reduce Business Risk
Constant fluctuations in power supply can result in loss of data, computer freeze-ups and failure. Downtime due to technology can have a serious affect on your time and your business opportunities.
Cyber Crime is Still Spreading
About 38% of survey respondents reported a computer virus infection and 34% reported a Spyware infection. Learn what you can do to protect your business.
Have You Been Having Problems Opening Attachments In Your Email?
Have you seen this error messages "Windows cannot open this File". Don't feel bad, many people have the same problem. Users of older versions of office need a patch to view the new Office 2007 files.
Energy Savings- Will Turning My PC Off At Night Save Energy?
We are all interested in reducing energy costs and conserving energy. Many organizations struggle with whether PC's should be turned off at night.
One Button Data Backup Solutions That Work
We often find ourselves wondering about the computer back at the office, the one with all our business data on it. Is it safe? When was the last time I Backed Up?
Gain Control Over Data In Multiple Locations
As we moved to the electronic office, we thought the proliferation of multiple copies of information would go away. Instead each department maintains their own databases of information, each with their own version and slightly different from the master version (if such a version exists).
Web Enable Legacy Applications
When we browse the Internet, we take for granted the graphic-rich environment we see on our screen. However, many companies are using systems developed in the 80s and 90s that display information on "Green Screens".