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Efficient, Effective Meetings
Introduction Most professionals report spending between 15% and 30% of their time in meetings. How about yourself - do you know the inside of the conference rooms better than you know your office? And of the time that you spend in the meetings, how much of it is really valuable to you, and how much does it cost? Consider a typical status meeting consisting of one Vice President who earns $100,000 per year, and six Directors who earn $75,000. If the meeting runs for one hour, it costs the company about $1500 in fully loaded personnel costs. If the group meets once per week, the status meeting costs the company $75,000 per year - or the cost of one Director’s salary.Kinds of Meetings Think for a mo

mers in the Yellow Pages? (By the way, you could do this same experiment with most TV or radio advertising as well.) Think about it. Switch the names around. Most businesses have a terribly difficult time differentiating themselves from one another in a very crowded market place.

For the consumer who is doing "research" and is in search of a carpet cleaner, for example, there is almost no useful information currently available in any

Medical Billing - Common On The Job Problems
If you're thinking of becoming a medical biller for a medical billing company, there are some things that you might want to know about some common problems before you decide to take the job. This is a very stressful career choice and if you don't know what you're getting yourself into, you could end up regretting it for the rest of your life. What follows are just some of the common problems and there are a lot more.One of the biggest problems you're going to run into as a medical biller is patient complaints. You have to understand something. These people are usually very poor and need to have their medical bills paid by the carrier. When things don't go right and they're not reimbursed for their prescription or whatever right away, t

If your community is like most, when you open the Yellow Pages to your industry’s section, you find the following:

• Anywhere from five to 70 pages of ads (depending on the number of companies doing your kind of business)

• The front part of the section is filled with full page or even two full page ads

• If there is a graphic in the ad, it is either a picture of the business owner or store front or logo

• If there is any sort of a “headline” on the ad, it is either the name of the company or a generalized but totally meaningless statement such as "no job too big . . . or too small" (sometimes there’s even a wasteful heading that says something like “need a plumber?” No, I was just looking in the P-L-U-M-B-E-R section because I need a C-H-I-R-O-P-R-A-C-T-O-R.)

• There is generally a long list of types of jobs that the company handles such as (in the case of a lawn service) mowing, mulching, fertilizer, leaf removal, trimming, edging, pruning, seeding, snow plowing, hauling

• There is one, or at most two, ways of contacting the company for information, usually in the form of a “free estimate” as the only offer being made in the ad Now, looking at those ads, imagine taking the name of the company out of a particular ad and simply pasting it into one of the other ads in the same section of the book. If you switched the names of the companies all around, would it make any difference? In other words, is there any real difference at all between the ads?

If you were the consumer in need of goods or services provided by your company, how could you go about differentiating one business from the next based upon their Yellow Page advertising? Can you begin to see now that there is almost no useful information for consumers in the Yellow Pages? (By the way, you could do this same experiment with most TV or radio advertising as well.) Think about it. Switch the names around. Most businesses have a terribly difficult time differentiating themselves from one another in a very crowded market place.

For the consumer who is doing "research" and is in search of a carpet cleaner, for example, there is almost no useful information currently available in any m

Do You Want To Have Fun Marketing: Try This!
Want to market your business in a fun and easy way? Try these promos.Publicize your business by putting it on pencils, bookmarks, pens, magnets, caps, tee shirts and hundreds of other products which will help get the word out about your new business. These promos are very effective. Give them to your friends, doctor, dentist, child's teacher or whomever you come in contact with during your daily travels.The Lillian Vernon catalog (1.800.545.5426 or email: www.lillianvernon.com) has 40 personalized pencils for $9.98. Need more? 40 extra pencils cost $7.98. Buy five sets get one free.You can buy a package of three white tee shirts at Wal-Mart for $7.98 and hand stencil the name of your business with logo on the shirt or buy some

s any sort of a “headline” on the ad, it is either the name of the company or a generalized but totally meaningless statement such as "no job too big . . . or too small" (sometimes there’s even a wasteful heading that says something like “need a plumber?” No, I was just looking in the P-L-U-M-B-E-R section because I need a C-H-I-R-O-P-R-A-C-T-O-R.)

For the consumer who is doing "research" and is in search of a carpet cleaner, for example, there is almost no useful information currently available in any

Push Into the White Space
The world is changing quickly with big rewards for innovators and creators of new value.When your system says ‘no’, ‘cannot’ or ‘won’t do it’, that’s a clue to open up for new possibilities and new approaches that add new value.Change ‘cannot’ into ‘How can we?’ Transform ‘no’ into ‘Let’s find a yes.’ Convert ‘won’t do it’ into ‘How should we make this happen?’It took days to communicate by mail, so fax machines crossed the divide. But fax machines were bound to a physical location. Now e-mail bridges the gap.Mothers can’t work and be close to their children? Day care in the workplace solved the problem.Computers were too bulky to carry? Laptops became notebooks then personal digital assistants.The United

he case of a lawn service) mowing, mulching, fertilizer, leaf removal, trimming, edging, pruning, seeding, snow plowing, hauling

For the consumer who is doing "research" and is in search of a carpet cleaner, for example, there is almost no useful information currently available in any

Job Search Tools You Must Have
Before you begin your job search, you should assemble the right tools.Below is the complete and ideal package of job search tools. If you have the funds for the full meal equipment deal, here's the equipment and supplies you'll need:* A computer – it doesn't have to be fast* Word Processing Software - Microsoft Word is the most universally accepted* Spreadsheet Software - To better track your job search activities* A printer – ink jet is fine, laser is better* An Internet connection - high speed is best (you want to find a job fast, don't you?)* Good, heavy stationary - for your resume ( 25 pound bond paper is best)* Good, heavy envelopes – don't put your expensive looking resume i

ection of the book. If you switched the names of the companies all around, would it make any difference? In other words, is there any real difference at all between the ads?

For the consumer who is doing "research" and is in search of a carpet cleaner, for example, there is almost no useful information currently available in any

Confined Space Safety Policy - The 9 Policy Headings
A Confined Space Safety Policy can be divided into 9 sections.This article briefly describes the nine parts of a comprehensive yet efficient confined space safety program.1 - Purpose - The confined space safety policy states the requirements for the identification and safe entry into both permit required and non-permit required confined spaces. The policy applies to areas of the workplace not designed for continuous occupancy and containing recognized serious safety or health hazards.2 - Reference - OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1463 - Scope - Applicable to all of the business's employees, visitors and contractors.4 - Administration - Variable, but generally

For the consumer who is doing "research" and is in search of a carpet cleaner, for example, there is almost no useful information currently available in any media typically used by carpet cleaners. Does size of an ad matter? Maybe. But carpet cleaners can continue to beat each other’s brains in buying larger ads, more pages and more color. This is nothing but shouting louder. In marketing, “shouting louder” means spending more money. (How about the most useless thing I’ve seen in years? Lawyers buying two yellow pages, side by side, with exactly the same text and photos on both pages! What - they couldn’t think of anything different to say on the second page?)

There are vast possibilities for you here. People do not pick up the Yellow Pages just to generally thumb through the book. When they go there, they are looking they have a specific need or want that they are trying to get help with. If no one else is giving them any useful information in the Yellow Pages, then your ad, no matter how small or how far back in the section, can make it drop dead easy for the consumer, because virtually no one thinks “outside the box” with their Yellow Page advertising. You can vastly increase the number of inquiries to your company by providing real access to useful information that no one else is giving them.

My law firm has been very successful in developing and implementing a method of advertising in the Yellow Pages that can used by any business. (In fact, I “stole” it from another type of business.) This method not only does not require me or another staff person to respond "live" to the request for information, it also gets free information in the form of books, reports and audio CD’s into the hands of callers long before they have an opportunity to get in to see another attorney for an in person "free" consultation.

Our Yellow Page advertising says nothing about us or our law firm! Instead, we

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