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Pretty Witty and insightful article regarding business planning in general, though its specific to the restaurant business (fish restaurants in particular), the experiences / learnings are more broadly applicable to any business. Doug NY Times September 30, 2009, 4:09 pm My So-Called Business Plan (Enter Laughing) By Bruce Buschel Do I have a business plan? [...]
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Why You Need a Business Plan COLLEEN DEBAISE Adapted from the upcoming book THE WALL STREET JOURNAL COMPLETE SMALL BUSINESS GUIDEBOOK (Three Rivers Press, Dec. 29, 2009). Your written plan describes your business, outlines your goals and serves as a road map for future activities— everything from handling unforeseen complications to repaying borrowed money. It’s [...]
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Grade: Inspiration (A); Entertainment (A); Practical Application (B) Brian Golter was the speaker today at Job Connections. Brian talked about the dreams you have as you’re growing up, and 1) what happens to stop you from achieving those dreams; 2) how you can get back to those dreams / and the impact they can have [...]
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RSS feeds are great, they’re an invention of Walt Feigenson’s (just kidding). But, I first heard about them from Walt. I started using them, in conjunction with Google Reader / Gmail. I setup job search agents at various ‘job boards’, company websites, create an RSS feed (not all sites allow you to do this, orange [...]
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Good blog about downloading your contacts from Linkedin to Excel? Why do this? Helps manage all your contacts from a signle place, file, since all of your contacts are not going to be in one place, ie, Linkedin (some), Outlook (others), gmail (even more others), scrapped from emails you’ve read, or jobs you’ve applied to. [...]
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You can go to your site administration, click on the appearance section, select themes, and you can select a custom ‘landing’ page for your page that will really jazz up its appearance. This templates can also be somewhat modified. Doug
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Did you know that you can post a blog entry from your email? You go into myblog, enable this feature. WordPress randomly generates a “TO” email address. You write your entry and click the send button. Doug
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