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Starting a business requires adequate capital. However, many entrepreneurs are finding that capital alone is not a guarantee for success. Some businesses start out with millions in the coffers, yet end up in the dumps.

To survive and thrive in today's competitive environment, it is not just what you know. You also need to be competent. You must stand out from the crowd - be memorable, impressive, credible, trusted and liked.

The real public relations geniuses might be managers. You know, managers who pursue their objectives by reaching, persuading and moving those outside audiences whose behavior most affect their organizations, to actions those managers desire.

One of the most common refrains I hear from people is, "I can’t create information products…I’m not an expert!" Yet what is expertise? Many organizations have tried to pin down the exact criteria that make an expert.

We live in a post-industrial age where information is the coin of the realm. Knowledge is the most valuable asset that a business owns. For most businesses, that knowledge exists primarily in the heads of the people who work there.

Answers are often before our very eyes or in front of our noses - particularly if we read the American Heritage Dictionary!Explore with me how some of the multitude of definitions for the word "leader" actually serve as a performance...

Doing deals with sellers is why you went into lease purchasing. Again, using organization and time management is very important here.We find the biggest problem beginners have is that they spend too much time going out to look at property.

As we have mentioned in other articles, having a trigger to start your day is very important. One of the major problems with people running businesses from their home is starting the work day.

In a previous article, we wrote why we believe that Lease Purchasing is the perfect home-based business, here we want to briefly touch on some of the actual aspects of operating such a business, the pluses and minuses and why Lease Purchasing...

When you own a business, you may find yourself in situations that may be a little tricky to handle. Dealing with customers who steal is one of them. A few years back we were faced with the problem of how to handle our free water cups.