As a business owner, you already know how important it is for your customers to feel safe about doing business with you. After all, if a customer even suspects he may not receive everything he was promised, then chances are he’s taking his business elsewhere. So to prevent that you offer guarantees, secure payment methods, prompt customer service, and more. You do whatever it takes to show each customer that you are sincere and trustworthy.
Protect Your Company From Employee Fraud
Fraud occurs because a person believes they will not be caught. Opportunity seeded by poor internal controls generates the inspiration. Couple this with financial need and inadequate penalties and your deep
pockets become fair game. Is your business at risk?
Stop Thief! Protect Your Creative Work
Picture this: while surfing the web you come across one of your articles with somebody else’s name on it – and you can’t do a thing do about it.
The Sincerest Form of Flattery … And How to Protect Yourself From It
I received an email the other day from an online friend alerting me to the fact that someone had copied one of the pages of my website and was using it, virtually verbatim, at theirs. It was my first personal experience of copyright infringement. How flattering, I thought! I imagine though that when it happens a few more times it will begin feeling decidedly less flattering and decidedly more irritating.
How to Market and Protect Your New Ideas
The intellectual property transfer market is now estimated to be worth over $100 billion. If you have a new idea, a patent or an invention, you may be able to license it or sell it for millions of dollars.
Many Fortune 500 companies are now making their intellectual property available for sale or licensing at new online intellectual-property exchanges. These companies are trying to maximize their return on research and development investment and generate a new source of revenue by licensing their unused and underutilized inventions to others.
Protect Your Company from Activists
If you are an executive inside a U.S. corporation of any significant size, then you have better keep an eye on the ongoing battle between Exxon Mobil and Greenpeace.
The Unthinkable: Protect Your Business
You have worked very hard to get your business where it is today. Many hours have gone into finding the right mix of products and/or services, marketing and finding customers, building relationships and so much more. What would happen to your business if you should fall ill or worse yet, the unthinkable, you pass away? Protect yourself, your business and your family by putting a few processes in place.
Simple Ways to Protect Your Creative Work
Being productive and creative gives importance and meaning to the lives of many people. In some cases, it may also provide them with a means to earn a living. Unfortunately, other people feel that it is easier to just steal someone else’s work. How can a creative individual protect their work from thieves?
Protect Your Time Investment
If you’re tired of feeling tired, take heart. While we can’t add more hours in our day (that’s actually a blessing!) we can get much smarter about using the time we have. You are probably already familiar with the popular concepts of time management that encourage you to determine your values and set priorities. These are helpful ideas and the right place to start. But after you’ve learned these tools, you’ll probably discover an age old wisdom when it comes to practicing them.
How To Protect Your Files >From Robots
Optimising website pages for the search engines without running into trouble at the very least causes most of us webmasters to keep our brain cells finely honed, and at worst induces massive migraines!
One of the most common challenges for us all is how to present “clean”, relevant and original content to a wide range of visitors.