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On-line Checks on Customers

Online service lets businesses search public records in 35 states to assess the creditworthiness of customers.  Read story

Financials? What Financials?

A quick quote from a CFO about the importance of open-book management at his copper mine and why.  Read story

Amortization

Related Terms: Accounting Methods ; Read story

Zero Zero Hour

The year 2000 bug will affect your computers no matter how small your business is. A look at some methods for testing your systems and the costs you can expe...  Read story

Job Shop

A job shop is a type of manufacturing process in which small batches of a variety of custom products are made. In the job shop process flow, most of the p...  Read story

All About Investments

Two resource guides providing ideas on investment opportunities.  Read story

Book Value

Reviews of two business books -- one featuring the business wisdom of Elizabeth I and one with tips on organizing your life. Also, why the book publishing in...  Read story

Accounts Receivable

Related Terms: Cash Management Accounts receiv...  Read story

Book Value: So You Say People Are Your Most Important Asset

According to some recent books, thinking of people as just another asset is a mistake. Plus: What Tim Keyes of Aim Technologies reads.  Read story

Innocents Abroad

With the dollar's recent decline, export opportunities are palpably greater today than at any other time in the past decade. Yet many U.S. companies -- i...  Read story

Plan for Profitable Pricing

Authors of 'The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing' offer some advice about pricing.  Read story

Network: March 1991

Network resources.  Read story

Investor Presentations

Related Terms: Business Plan Investor presentation...  Read story

Book Review: Key Management Models

Key Management Models by Steven ten Have, Wouter ten Have and Frans Stevens with Marcel van der Elst and Fiona Pol-Coyne
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In this Issue

Why Inc. is a great magazine and you should buy 100 more copies.  Read story

Assets

Related Terms: Liabilities Assets are anything of valu...  Read story

Costs

Costs are the necessary expenditures that must be made in order to run a business. Every factor of production has an associated cost. The cost of labor, f...  Read story

Business Made Easy

A review of resource books which include management tips on starting a small business.  Read story

Book Review: The New PR Toolkit

The New PR Toolkit by Deirdre Breakenridge and Thomas J. DeLoughry Financial Times Prentice Hall 240 pages $24.9...  Read story

Warming Up to Cold Calls

Motivating oneself to do cold calling work by realizing the dollar amount of each visit.  Read story

Collision Course

A primer on how train wrecks of the past paved the way for safe data transfer today.  Read story

Joel Spolsky’s Favorite Project-Management Books

Mistake 1: Hire the best! Spolsky, Joel: Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Tal...  Read story

Organizational Life Cycle

Related Terms: Business Cycles ; Read story

Hard Knocks

Compensation mistakes and resources on compensation strategies.  Read story

Search: And a One, And a Two, and a Three

Where to find links to lists, heartfelt advice on how to sound honest, attention-getting insights, and more.  Read story

600 Marketing Strategies for All Situations

Winning Marketing Strategies by Barry Feig. Prentice Hall, 1999, 382 pages, $49.95. When a particular product...  Read story

The Lessons of Great Blunders

When Giants Stumble by Robert Sobel. Prentice Hall, 349 pages, $26. The infamous cases of the Edsel, Coca-Cola's change in formula...  Read story

Goodwill

Related Terms: Business Appraisers Goo...  Read story

Group Think

A look at how groupware allows small-company employees to work simultaneously, saving both time and money.  Read story

Reality Check

Use these tips to ensure your business idea will float before you sink a boatload of cash into it.  Read story

Selected Resources for Customer Satisfaction and CRM

Books Customer Chemistry: How to Keep the Customers You Want - and Say "Good-Bye" to the Ones You Don't , by Susan Greco a...  Read story

Getting Paid

How to make collecting bills as much a part of daily business as making sales.  Read story

Balance Sheet

Related Terms: Annual Report A balance sheet is a...  Read story

How to Finance Anything

A comprehensive guide to financing a start-up or rapidly growing small business in the '90s.  Read story

The Inc. Network

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Straight to the Source

Reviews of eight new business books -- five on leadership secrets from historical figures, one chronicling the story of the first computer, and two delineati...  Read story

Warming Up to Cold Calls

In February 1992, Susan Greco wrote the following review in Inc. magazine: When Read story

Accounts Payable

Related Terms: Cash Management Accounts payabl...  Read story

Financial Statements

Related Terms: Annual Report ; Read story

Bored With the Board

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

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