From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO’s often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebooks and PDA’s in hand. The hairsplitting distinction made by the ILO between “child work” and “child labor” conveniently targets impoverished countries while letting its budget contributors – the developed ones – off-the-hook.
Reports regarding child labor surface periodically. Children crawling in mines, faces ashen, body deformed. The agile fingers of famished infants weaving soccer balls for their more privileged …

There are 4 color personality types. Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. In a nutshell knowing what the different color personalities people have means you’ll understand people better then they understand themselves. At this point this tells you nothing. No worries it didn’t mean anything to me when I first heard about personality colors. But man I wish I knew about this years ago, it would have saved me a ton of aggravation.
Everybody has a color type. And with that color type we act in a certain way. Certain things are …

Even though I’m pretty happy with how 2009 turned out, there are still some things I wish I had done differently. Here are 5 things I aim to change for 2010
1. Didn’t take time out for me. I admit it, I have the typical entrepreneur bug. I spent way too much time working on my business and not nearly enough time on me. In 2010, I plan to take more breaks and schedule in some “me-time.”

1.  Team Up
No one knows your market like you!  What are the main characteristics of your target audience?  Find someone else out there who isn’t a competitor, but who reaches the same class of customers that you do.  Team up with them to do joint promotions!
We all know that two is better than one.  The dramatic end results will be an effective and cost-cutting advertising venture the nets both of you a nice profit.
I once dealt with a veterinarian who promoted a local dog groomer… who in turn promoted the …

Do you have all the business you could possibly want or need? If you’re like me, you’re still growing your business. Marketing is an ongoing item on my agenda, and I’m always looking for new ways to market my services. Where do you begin the process of attracting more business? How do you get the ball rolling in the direction you want your business to be heading? Well, it’s really simple. Start planting seeds! If you can start your garden growing this spring, why not start your business growing too?
You …