Four Tech Tips to Make Your Life Simpler - The world of technology moves quickly. Following are four products that will help simplify your tech life: Have an iPhone? Download the magicJack application to make free local and long distance calls in North America. Check out StumbleUpon, a search engine that lets you save the cool photos, videos and stories you find online. You can also ...
- COMMERCIAL AUTO VS. PERSONAL AUTO - Many business owners can be intimidated by the word “commercial” when it comes to an automobile policy. I know many business owners who are individual owners and prefer to have their auto policy on a personal auto plan rather than a commercial auto plan. In most cases they have never even tried to shop a commercial auto policy. Typically if the ...
- How to Create a Healthy Company Culture - The old way of running a business meant not questioning the rules. Employers built a drone workforce that got the job done, but they did very little to evolve a company in terms of efficiency or creativity - and ultimately profit. My, how things have changed. More companies are now realizing the value of creating a corporate culture that re...
- 7 Things Highly Productive People Do - From Inc. Want to be more productive and regain your focus? Ilya Pozin offers seven tips from Tony Wong, a project management black belt, including work backward from goals to milestones to tasks; break work down into small, specific chunks; do one thing at a time; be militant about eliminating distractions; schedule your email use; and work in 60- to 90-...
How Can a Win Win Commercial Real Estate Deal Save Time & Money? As we all know, Time is money. Time is something that can easily be wasted in Commercial Real Estate Transactions. "Win-Win" deals can often save time over "win lose scenarios". Let's look at a few examples. Win Win Transaction - Broker A diligently researches an investment property for his client. They have det...
Winter Celebrations Hark Back to Ancient Times Like it or not, winter officially arrives on December 21. The date, known as “winter solstice” or “midwinter” is the shortest day and longest night of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere, the sun is at the most southern point in the sky during the solstice. While the date is still recognized, it doesn't hold the same significance ...
Team Up With Others to Win More Customers Have you thought about teaming up with another business to do a joint marketing promotion or share marketing resources? Joint venture (JV) marketing is a great way to stretch your marketing budget and raise your business profile. Marketing joint ventures can range from co-sponsoring ads or events to jointly promoting product launches or bartering produ...
The Benefits of Hiring a Commercial Real Estate Team When selling a commercial property, owners might want to consider whether a commercial real estate team is the best way to go. The practice of real estate sales can be exercised in a variety of ways. The most common approach is to hire a single agent and have him or her represent the sale of a property. However, there are a growing number ...
What is Sustainability and How Does it Effect My Bottom-Line? :by Alfred Brice June 29, 2011 Alfred R. Brice, AIA, NCARB, LEED BD+C Principal at Brice Architecture + Design 1762 Heavens Peak, San Antonio, TX 78258 Office: 210.270.2256 Cell: 210.373.2656 alfredbrice@hotmail.com How do we define sustainability? – Some have called it an environmental issue, but sustainabili...
Be Unreasonable, by Paul Lemberg Be Unreasonable is a call to business owners to think bigger. Instead of getting trapped in the narrow constraints of what has gone before and what your competitors are doing, the book urges entrepreneurs to think “unreasonable” thoughts and act on them to produce a big leap for their businesses. What are some of Lemberg’s “unreasonable” ideas? Don’t...