How To Boost Your Bottom Line With Two Little Words
I hate to sound like one of those cheesy get-rich-quick commercials, but this week I am going to let you in on a little secret that is so powerful that it will immediately change the way you do business.In fact, this little secret is so powerful that you will be amazed at its immediate effect on you, your employees, and your bottom line. This little secret is guaranteed to improve your relationship with current customers and if used wisely, can get you lots of new customers without spending a dime on marketing or advertising.Do want to know what this little secret is?

You Never Get A Second Chance To Make A First Impression
There is no easy way to define exactly what editors, publishers, PR managers, non-profit directors, advertising executives, and other industry professionals want from writers. There are no written guidelines, standard requirements, or official specifications that apply to writing jobs across the board... Every employer has special expectations and each writing position demands different skills. In an attempt to gather helpful hints for writers seeking to land a job in one of the many career fields mentioned in my previous article Finding Your Niche at - Why You Should Charge Extra For First Time Residential Cleaning
When starting a new residential cleaning account you'll need to explain to your new customer why you charge more for the "first time" cleaning. A first time cleaning of a new residential cleaning account is more like a "spring-cleaning" and needs extra staff time to remove extra soil and build-up. Your staff may spend anywhere from 4 to 8 times longer to clean a first time residential account than an existing client's home.Why the extra time? A customer who has never had their home professionally cleaned is likely to have soil build-up throughout the house. Or, if you're ta

Cellular Retailers Must Greet Customers within 30 Seconds - Study
A simple hello can go a long way in wireless retail, but a recent J.D. Power and Associates customer satisfaction study makes a startling case for the conventional in-store greeting. The study found that overall customer satisfaction declines considerably if customers’ wait time (the time before customers are greeted upon entry) exceeds 30 seconds.This finding is particularly poignant since the average wait time among wireless retail stores is about five minutes. According to the study, customers who are approached within 30 seconds of entering the store provide a satisfactio

Preparing For A Job Interview: Techniques You May Not Have Thought Of
Preparing for a job interview is an area that job searchers typically don’t do well. In my experience as a recruiter, I have dealt with many people who work really hard to make it to the interview stage and then get lazy.Trying to wing it during an interview – just showing up and expecting to think of answers off the top of your head – is no way to prepare for a job interview.Properly preparing for a job interview is what sets successful job searchers apart from less successful ones.Certainly success in a job interview has little correlation to your ability to a

Hurricanes and Corporate Branding
No businessman takes joy in making money on other people's misfortune such as a devastating hurricane during the 2005 Atlantic tropical hurricane season. However, a smart business or corporate image program which specializes in branding can actually make the most of it by putting their marketing efforts toward helping the local community that was devastated or destroyed by the damage.Most corporations that help people and those companies who help the community in their time of need are not often forgotten. It is the right thing to do from a business standpoint and from a mo