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Surviving a Relocation on a Shoestring

Getting ready to move to a new city? Start a business? Risk a new career?

Nearly always, your first consideration will be, “Can I afford to make this move?” You count up for savings. How long can you live before you lose your house or go on welfare? Can you afford the cost of living in Los Angeles or Boston? Can you find a job in one of those charming low-cost, low-employment towns?

Entrepreneurial Corporate Cultures

Ever wish your people would accept more personal responsibility in the workplace, and make decisions on their own without having to come to you for every answer? You’re not alone. Business owners and managers often tell me, “I just wish my people would be more independent. I wish they didn’t feel the need to gain my approval for every little detail before taking action.” I understand their frustration. This type of dependence on leadership impairs speed and agility within the organization, and usually the person who suffers the most is the customer. While the employee is busy trying to find out what they can or should do, the customer’s needs go unmet. And dissatisfied customers will hurt any organization.

Outsourcing Your IT Workload

Have you been considering outsourcing some of your IT workload? If you decide to, you’ll join the ranks of Oracle, Cisco, and IBM, all of whom have outsourced projects and large-scale initiatives to programmers and systems architects around the world.

Before you choose your outsourcing firm, there are a number of things you should consider. Time is money, sure, but if you spend a little time deciding if outsourcing is right for you then you could end up saving your company a lot of money.

Closing More Sales – The New Age of Autoresponder Use

When Internet marketing was in its infancy, we all marveled at the ability of autoresponders to deliver information to our customers with lightning speed. Without any effort on our part, information was distributed to prospects at the click of a button. Then came “smart” autoresponders that could personalize emails and send repeated messages. Nothing could be better, right? My, how times have changed!

Opera CTO Q & A

As many of you will know, Opera is ranked as the third most popular web browser in the world and is an excellent alternative when you’re after a quick browser that still supports W3C standards such as cascading style sheets. In this virtual interview I talked with Hakon Wium Lie, Chief Technical Officer for Opera. In this article Hakon talks about the Opera browser, where it stands in relation to W3C standards, the Opera evelopment team and more.

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