Small business advice: how to start a catering business

How to start your own catering business, with start up tips, advice and planning help. Everyone needs to eat and, with busy work schedules and over-committed lives, most people don’t have time to worry about day-to-day menu planning, let alone preparing food for a party. More and more working women are calling on caterers to [...]

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Small business tips: understanding the importance of public relations

Why public relations is important, and how to use them to your advantage. For any business, public relations is key. A business is not a business if it doesn’t have customers, and it will not have any if public relations did not exist. There are several ways to further your connections and strengthen your public [...]

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Business negotiating skills: Successful listening

Listening is an integral part of the negotiation process. This article describes some listening strategies. You may have stumbled onto the situation by accident, or it may have been a well-orchestrated plan, but here you are, sitting across the negotiating table from your customer/vendor/boss/employee/parent/child/fill-in-the-blank…and he opens his mouth to speak. What do you do? You [...]

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Business skills: how to define team member roles for a project

Projects benefit from a well thought-out team selection process. This article helps simplify that process by analyzing typical team member roles. Large-scale projects benefit from the care that is taken in building effective project teams. The mix of team members can easily make or break a project. As in any team sport, if the members [...]

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Business skills: How body language can affect negotiations

Learn effective ways of enhancing non-verbal communication to make a better impression on the job with clients, co-workers, and supervisors. Many professional employees feel that once they have learned good verbal communication skills, they will make a positive impression on those they work with on the job, including clients, co-workers, and supervisors. But that is [...]

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Teamwork in business: how to resolve conflicts

Adopt a teamwork oriented approach in business to resolve conflicts. In the business world, conflict is inevitable. Whether it’s haggling over prices or determining a timeline, people are bound to disagree. That’s why companies value employees who are team players. In fact, teamwork is one of the top three qualities, after knowledge of the job [...]

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