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Archives From Our Guest Columns & Articles Posts Management Styles: Drive-by, Seagulls and Other Pains by Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. How Bad Must the Job Market Get In NC Before The Political Class Gets It? By Thomas E. Vass - BusinessCapitalAdvice.com Leaders that go the Distance By Doug Dickerson - Moment Leadership Services Sustainable Growth: A Formula for Success By Lea A. Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource Inc. Do-It-Yerself Capital: Raising Your Own Capital and Avoiding the Venture Capitalists By Thomas E. Vass, BusinessCapitalAdvice.com I Can’t Get No Satisfaction…Or Can I? By Doug Dickerson - Moment Leadership Services A Debt-Free Business By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Power of a Big Dream By Doug Dickerson - Management Moment Leadership Services Visionaries and Capability: Beyond the Buzz By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Link Between Technology Risk and Political Uncertainty By Thomas E. Vass - BusinessCapitalAdvice.com Leading Like Geese By Doug Dickerson - Moment Leadership Services Business Consulting: The Need for Cross-functional Perspectives to Profitability By Lea A. Strickland Embracing a New Year of Change By Doug Dickerson New Requirements for Raising Business Capital By Susan Hasty - Business Capital Finance Leadership – It’s a Wonderful Life By Doug Dickerson - Moment Leadership Services Better on Time than Late By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Grinch on Leadership By Doug Dickerson Proper Job Search Etiquette Starts During the Holidays By John O'Connor - Career Pro Inc. Are You a Curious Leader? By Doug Dickerson The Accidental Business Structure: Start, Go and Revise By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Helping Newly Laid Off North Carolina Workers With New Business Startup Strategies By Thomas E. Vass, BusinessCapitalAdvice.com Up In Smoke -- The Power of Sacrifice By Doug Dickerson Raleigh Continues to Receive Top National Rankings in 2009 By Sarah M. Place - Place Trade Financial, Inc. Thankful Leaders By Doug Dickerson The 'Real-Feel' Unemployment Numbers By Thomas E. Vass, The Private Capital Market, Inc. Everyday Leaders By Doug Dickerson News Flash! The Latest Scoop On The New And Improved Homebuyer’s Tax Credit Extension… It’s Official…You Win! By Pat Earnhardt - The Mortgage Rewards Team of Hearthstone Mortgage Heroes in our Midst By Doug Dickerson The Connection Between Faith and Job Creation By Thomas E. Vass, President, Regional Innovation Systems, Inc. Are We Communicating? By Doug Dickerson Once Lucrative Commercial Real Estate Industry Faces 50% Job Cuts Nationally By Tara Kreider and Russ Wallace of Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties Desperately Seeking Capital: The Search For The Holy Grail of Business Finance Takes a Twist Towards An Old Source of Funding By Susan Hasty - Carolina Funding Connections Leading Ladies in Leadership By Doug Dickerson Helping Larry Summers Connect the U. S. Jobless Recovery Dots To Global Financial Integration By Thomas E. Vass, Regional Innovation Systems, Inc. Support Pillars and Optical Illusions By Doug Dickerson Pre-Job Loss Financial Planning: Legal and Financial Steps To Take Before You Lose Your Job By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. The Power of Simplicity By Doug Dickerson Mommy, Where Do Jobs Come From? The Real Economic Danger In the N. C. Dell Deal Gone Bad Thomas E. Vass, Regional Innovation Systems, Inc. Raleigh, N. C. Perspective By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Who's Got Your Back? By Doug Dickerson Gitting Yer BOP On Before You Go Out In Public With Yer New Company By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. The Pros and Cons of Cold Hard Honesty at the Exit Interview By John O'Connor - Career Pro of NC, Inc. Industrial Strength Leadership By Doug Dickerson The Truth About Getting Business Financing Today By Thomas Vass and Susan Hasty Making Your Mark By Doug Dickerson The Grim Reaper of Small Business Ownership Shares: Advice on What To Do Before She Shows Up At Your Office By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Champion Level Performance Begins With Using the Right Hiring Metrics By John O'Connor - Career Pro of NC, Inc. The Power of a Grateful Leader By Doug Dickerson Are You Missing Out on the Stimulus Money for First Time Home Buyers? By Pat Earnhardt - The Mortgage Rewards Team of Hearthstone Mortgage Hitting the Reset Button By Doug Dickerson Hovering Around 'The Answer' By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Getting Ready For the Mezz Debt Solution To the Small Business Capital Valley of Death By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Growing to the Top By Doug Dickerson The Long and Winding Road to Success By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Twitter and the Emergence of A New Market: How Twitter is Disrupting Market Exchanges Based Upon Price By Thomas E. Vass & Heather O’Sullivan Canney Four Points of Separation – Evaluating Your Rise as a Leader By Doug Dickerson Coming to Terms: Getting Your Good Idea Funded By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources, Inc. Our Finest Hour – What to Remember When Things Blow Up By Doug Dickerson The Entrepreneurs Self-Employment Benefits Plan By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Can the Government Teach Small Businesses to Do Business? By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Packing Chutes – The Importance of Daily Leadership By Doug Dickerson Leadership Requires Decision-making Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Hall of Fame Leadership By Doug Dickerson Cash: Survival in Tough Economic Times Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Using Business Owned Life Insurance As A Balance Sheet Asset By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Applauding Teamwork By Doug Dickerson Business Plans: Not Fill-in-the-Blank or Academic Exercises By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S.™ Resources Leveling the Playing Field with an Attitude By Doug Dickerson Communication: Making Things Happen as a Business By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Obama-Care: What Becomes of Employee Choice In Self-Funded Group Benefit Plans Under Proposed Health Care Changes? By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Is Yours a ‘Yes” Face? By Doug Dickerson Business — Not Rocket — Science Powers Innovation Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Towards The Creation of the RTP Regional Stock Market Exchange: Avoiding The Permanent Unemployment of a Global Jobless Economic Recovery By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Faces to the Coal – The Work of Inspiring Leadership By Doug Dickerson Think B.I.G.™ (Bold Innovative Growth) Business! By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Helping Unemployed Workers Imagine The Right Business to Start: A Framework For Implementing Good Business Ideas By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Corporate Guards By Doug Dickerson Boing! Bounced Checks and Other Check-Writing Practices By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. IRA and 401k Investing In Corporate Bonds In An Era of Rapid Inflation: What To Do When “Safe” Investments Become More Risky? By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Boulders on Your Path to Recovery By Doug Dickerson Let's Make A Deal: Creating Value for the Investor from Day One F.O.C.U.S. Resource Inc. Business Catastrophe and The Loss of Business Income By Thomas E. Vass - Private Capital Market, Inc. Dealing with Difficult People By Doug Dickerson Old Dogs, New Tricks: The Hard Sell to Investors and Lenders By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource Inc. Self-Funding A Buy-Sell Agreement With Corporate Owned Life Insurance By Thomas E. Vass - Private Capital Market, Inc. Improbable Success during Impossible Times By Doug Dickerson Let's Make A Deal: Creating Value for the Investor from Day One By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource Assisting Employees With Future Nursing Care Costs With A Employee Benefit Savings Plan By Thomas E. Vass - Private Capital Market, Inc. A Gold Medal Leader – Leadership Inspiration from Jesse Owens By Doug Dickerson Business Plans Are Not Academic Exercises By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Capital Market Valley of Death For American Small Manufacturers By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. A Night at The Joe – Leadership Lessons from Yogi Berra By Doug Dickerson Raising Funds: No Plan Required? Think Again By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Liability Issues For Info Tech and Software Companies By Thomas E. Vass - Private Capital Market, Inc. Disappointments from Within, from Without By Doug Dickerson Your Customer the Cow? No, the Golden Goose! By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Hyper Inflation Is Coming: Ideas For Keeping Your Stock Investments Working For You to Meet Future Price Instability By Tom Vass The Kindness Factor By Doug Dickerson The Gospel of Industrial Recruitment Incentives: Shifting the Policy Focus to Small Business Innovation By Thomas Vass - The Private Capital Market What Are Your Employees Saying About Your Business? By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Turning the Circus into Opportunity: Being an agent of change By Doug Dickerson Timelines and Deadlines: Customers and Investors Wait for No One By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. First Your Mortgage & Now Your Credit Cards. What’s Happening And What Can You Do? By Pat Earnhardt - The Mortgage Rewards Team of Alera Financial Crab Basket Syndrome – Climbing Out of the Corporate Trap By Doug Dickerson Online Employee Incentives: Having Fun While Promoting Innovation Networking And Increasing Sales By Thomas E. Vass You Can; But Should You? By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Relationships - The Key to Successful Leadership By Doug Dickerson The Inadvertent Death of Your Company By Thomas E. Vass Timelines and Deadlines: Customers and Investors Wait for No One By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Leadership Perspective – Lessons from Arthur Ashe By Doug Dickerson Using Angel Websites On The Internet To Raise Small Amounts of Capital By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Reworking Retirement - A Dream and Business of Your Own By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. The One Thing – Discovering Your Passion as a Leader By Doug Dickerson Tax Advantaged Corporate Investment Savings Accounts By Thomas Vass - The Private Capital Market Poised for Success: Five Steps to Ready Your Business For 'The Comeback' By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Unexpected Interruptions – What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca? By Doug Dickerson New Moral Hazards For Employers and the Big Four Risks of Hiring By Thomas Vass - The Private Capital Market March Madness – Lessons from The Dean By Doug Dickerson The Heart of Innovation: Leadership By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. How References Can Derail Your Career By John M. O'Connor - Career Pro of NC, Inc. Why You Need To Understand The Money Market In Order To Make Money in Your IRA and 401k By Thomas Vass - The Private Capital Market Beating a Dead Horse – Innovative Leadership to the Rescue By Doug Dickerson Who Sues Ya? Employee’s Rights and Business Employee Liability Issues and Insurance By Thomas E. Vass The Power of an Unlikely Leader By Doug Dickerson Raising Capital In Tough Economic Times: Two New Ideas That May Help You Get Through This American Economic Diaspora By Thomas E. Vass The Leaders Compass – Navigating with Purpose By Doug Dickerson How Employment Law Affects Hiring Decisions By John M. O'Connor - Career Pro of NC, Inc. Becoming a Customer By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Survival for Nonprofits in tough Economic Times Robert Johnson - Triangle Public Strategies, LLC. Corporate Retained Earnings: Your Company’s Emergency Savings Account By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Workplace Attitudes – A Lesson from a Chinese Tattoo Artist By Doug Dickerson Born to Run, Born to Innovate … But Learn to Walk First By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. The Indiana Technology Innovation Super Cluster: Creating Jobs in a Mid-Western Regional Economic Environment By Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Resilient Leadership as Taught by a Giraffe By Doug Dickerson Leadership Forecasting By Doug Dickerson Ooh, Ooh, Pick Me! Pick Me! From ''Me Too'' to Innovation By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources A Hiring Freeze Doesn’t Eliminate All Your Staffing Options By Lauren Coker, Robert Half International What a Hot Air Balloon Teaches Us About Management Doug Dickerson - Management Moment The Unintended Consequences of American University Tech Transfer: Does it Facilitate the Offshoring of American R&D? Thomas E. Vass - The Private Capital Market, Inc. Recognizing the Need to Grow: The Business Expertise AND the Business By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Leadership Principles from Geese Doug Dickerson - Management Moment Business Advocates: The First Customer By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Dual-Career Family - How to Weather a Work-Life Storm By John M. O’Connor - Career Pro of NC, Inc. What Are You Prepared to See in 2009? Doug Dickerson Resilience Training: Corporate Survivor By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources What A Five Hundred Pound Barrel of Bricks Teaches Us About Teamwork Doug Dickerson Customer Satisfaction: Perception of Product and Service Quality By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Pros and Cons of Blogging for Your Career By John M. O’Connor - Career Pro of NC, Inc. Building a Better Business By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Cheat the Holiday Myth: Proper Job Search Etiquette Starts Now By John M. O’Connor - Career Pro Inc. 'Owning' the Business By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. How Big Is Your Business? 20th Century Metrics in the 21st Century By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Nothing to Fear from Change By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Commercialization: Capability, Credibility, Capitalization By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Connecting The Dots… New Help Is Coming For Military Personnel And Their Families In The Triangle Area Of North Carolina By Pat Earnhardt - The Mortgage Rewards Team of Alera Financial How Credible Is Your Organization? Are You a Yahoo? By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. The Heart of Innovation: Leadership By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. The Board Needs Curmudgeons By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. It’s All Theoretical, But the World Is Real By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Finding Resources – Investors, Funding, and the Story to get Them By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Tips for Choosing a Certified Financial Planner Brant Spesshardt - Banyan, Rock and Talent Not Invented Here: A Great Idea By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. New Job Search Rules for New Grads By John M. O'Connor - Career Pro of NC, Inc. A Primer on Mortgage Speak By Pat Earnhardt - The Mortgage Rewards Team of Alera Financial Old Shoes, New Shoes: Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Greatest Bootstrapper Ideas By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Budgets: Tools of Success By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. The Top Ten Small Business Startup Success Secrets By Robert Moment - The Moment Group How Much Will You Need to Retire? By Kent W. Thompson - Sagemark Consulting Any Good Idea Can Get Funded...10 Things To Do To Make That Statement True By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. How to Attract More Customers with White Papers By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Managing Customers for Profit and Long-Term Growth By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. The Inflation Blues By Radon Stancil, CFP® -- Diversified Estate Services, LLC Ways to Increase Revenues Through Outsourcing By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Gatekeeper or Dam? By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. The Top Ten Secrets to Achieving Success By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Keeping Your Best People By Lauren Coker, Robert Half International Are you this decade’s Chickenman of Business? By Tim Moore - Dancing Elephants Achievement Group Everyone Has a Role in Profitable Business Growth By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Careful Planning May Help Non-Citizens Avoid Tax Traps By Kent W. Thompson - Sagemark Consulting The 7 Principles of Mastering the Art of Negotiation By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Any Good Idea Can Get Funded...10 Things To Do To Make That Statement True By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Analyzing the Flows in Your Financial Plan By Kent W. Thompson - Sagemark Consulting 7 Ways to Raise Small Business Startup Money By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Momentum Slowing You Down? By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. The New Credit Scoring System - FICO ’08 By Pat Earnhardt - The Mortgage Rewards Team of Alera Financial Eight Simple Rules for Online Marketing Success By Carolyn Rhinebarger - Strategic Guru Seven Steps to Achieving Small Business Success By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Singles Face Financial Issues Married Couples May Not Brant Spesshardt - Banyan, Rock and Talent Section 529: A Good Plan Just Got Better By Kent W. Thompson - Sagemark Consulting The Façade By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Yours, Mine, and Ours: Estate Planning for Today’s Blended Family By Kent Thompson - Sagemark Consulting Customer Service Tips to Keep Your Customers Satisfied By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Make a Mistake; You Might Learn Something Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Financial Tips for Divorcees By Brant Spesshardt - Banyan, Rock and Talent How to Develop a Marketing Mindset By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Opportunity Knocks: Be Prepared By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources How Safe Is Your Retirement Account? By Radon Stancil, CFP® and Rick Parkes, LUTC - Diversified Estate Services, LLC Six Keys to Creating ''Wow'' Customer Service Experiences By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Time Is a Constant – It Runs One Way By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources It’s Tax Season…Don’t Forget The Newest Tax Benefit Of Homeownership…Private Mortgage Insurance! By Pat Earnhardt - The Mortgage Rewards Team of Alera Financial What Would Momma Think? By Tim Moore - Dancing Elephants Achievement Group Shoot the Corporal By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources How to Turn Customer Service Complaints into Profits By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Learning from Experience – Other People’s Lessons By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. Recession IQ Test By Carolyn Rhinebarger - Strategic Guru Cultivating The Trust Factor in Business Robert Moment - The Moment Group The 'Free Service' Philosophy: Misconceptions about the 'Right' to Misappropriate Service Provider 'Product' By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resource, Inc. How to Grow Your Small Business By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Ten Ways to Get Off the Investment Rollercoaster By Radon Stancil, CFP® and Rick Parkes, LUTC - Diversified Estate Services, LLC A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources How to Write a Business Plan By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Don’t Be Afraid To Buy A Home, Get A Mortgage To Buy Your Home Or Refinance… By Pat Earnhardt - The Mortgage Rewards Team of Alera Financial A Matter of Opinion (Look for the Self-Interest) By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources 8 Steps to Financial Security By Sarah M. Place - Place Trade Financial, Inc. Assessing Your ''Risk Factor'': Guidelines to a good Financial Plan By Radon Stancil, CFP® and Rick Parkes, LUTC - Diversified Estate Services, LLC Seven Realistic Ways to Achieve Your New Year’s Goals By Robert Moment - The Moment Group SOBs (and DOBs) at Work – Role Confusion in Multigenerational Success By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Creating Multiple Streams of Income Online By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Ripple Effects of Take My Advice By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources In a Competitive Business World Customer Service Matters Most By Robert Moment - www.customerservicetrainingskills.com Beat Holiday Stress With a Workout By Michael Whitehurst - Empower Personal Training Lame By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources IRA Year-End Check Up By Radon Stancil, CFP® -- Diversified Estate Services, LLC Marketing on a Shoestring By Cindy Stranad - Articulon Is Customer Service Weakening Your Small Business? By Robert Moment - www.customerservicetrainingskills.com SOBs (and DOBs) at Work – Role Confusion in Multigenerational Success By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Year End Financial Planning: A Checklist By Brant Spesshardt, Banyan, Rock and Talent Seven Tips for Improving Your Internet Customer Service By Robert Moment - www.customerservicetrainingskills.com Old-fashioned Business By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Graceful Exits: Why Interviews with Departing Employees Matter By Lauren Coker - Robert Half International Seven Critical Steps to Establish a Customer Service Culture By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Hand Out or Hand Up By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources How to Discuss Finances with Aging Parents By Radon Stancil, CFP® and Rick Parkes, LUTC - Diversified Estate Services, LLC Leadership: Seven Rules To Live By By Robert Moment - The Moment Group A Nicer Group of People You’d Never Want To Meet By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources October 31st Could Be Scary for your IRA too! By Radon Stancil, CFP® - Diversified Estate Services, LLC Seven Customer Service Tips For Outstanding Customer Retention By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Taking Objective Perspectives on Bad Experiences By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Seven Customer Service Tips to Handle Complaints and Keep Customers Happy By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Five Mistakes That May Shrink Retirement Assets By Radon Stancil, CFP® and Rick Parkes, LUTC - Diversified Estate Services, LLC I’ll Call You Right Back! By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. RESOURCES Should You Let Them Go? Factors to Consider Before Making a Counteroffer By Lauren Coker - Robert Half International 7 Steps to Creating a Successful Small Business Marketing Plan By Robert Moment - The Moment Group It’s the Details that Matter By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Ten Smart Financial Ideas For Everyone: Ways to Ensure a Comfortable Retirement By Radon Stancil, CFP® and Rick Parkes, LUTC - Diversified Estate Services, LLC The Power of Starting a Small Business By Robert Moment - The Moment Group Dancing with the One that Brung Ya By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources What’s Happening In the Housing and Mortgage Markets…How Can It Affect YOU? By Pat Earnhardt - The Mortgage Rewards Team of Alera Financial Get Smart about Identity Theft: Four Easy Steps to protect your self By Radon Stancil, CFP® and Rick Parkes, LUTC - Diversified Estate Services, LLC 7 Costly Small Business Marketing Mistakes to Avoid By Robert Moment, The Moment Group Some Food for Thought By Katy Harris, B.A., NASM-CPT - Empower Personal Training Excuse Me – I’m in My Own World and Dancing By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Ways to Avoid the Probate Nightmare By Radon Stancil, CFP® and Rick Parkes, LUTC - Diversified Estate Services, LLC Slower = Faster By Tim Moore - Dancing Elephants Achievement Group Breaking the Ice and Winning Over the Client ! By Robert Moment, The Moment Group Excuse Me for Interrupting! I'm ''Just'' A Customer By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources The 7 Principles of Business Integrity By Robert Moment, The Moment Group Alienation of Revenues – Deconstructing Your Business via Customer No Service By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Myth of the Numbers Game By Tim Moore, Dancing Elephants Achievement Group Maintaining Fitness On-the-Go By Jessica M. Bottesch, MA, LAT, CSCS - Empower Personal Training What is the best thing to do about spam? By Jim Ray, Neuse River Networks, Inc. Jump Start Your Metabolism and Keep it Running By Matthew Alegre, CSCS - Empower Personal Training Who Is Your Ideal Customer? By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Stressed is Desserts Spelled Backwards By Ronda Michaels, MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS - Empower Personal Training If You Knew Where You Would End Up, The Trip Would Be Easier By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources FICO ‘08 - We Live In A Credit Score Driven World - Get Ready For A Major Change By Pat Earnhardt - The Mortgage Rewards Team of Alera Financial Business Interruptions and Their Impact on Profits By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources No One Can Do It for You By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Making Sense of Saving Dollars and Cents – Evaluating Expenditures in Terms of 'Investment' By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Executive Fitness: Living a Healthy Lifestyle in a Busy World By Barry Bragg - Physique Transformation, Inc. More Branch Offices are Outsourcing IT By: Tim Finnegan, TotalCare IT Solutions Lifestyle or Growth (Exit Opportunity) Businesses – Which Are You? By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Parenting Coordinators: Teach a Man to Fish By Lee Rosen - Rosen Law Firm Building the Business Budget – Making the Connection between Operations and Costs By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources May is National Get Prepared To Buy A Home Month…Do you know how to get prepared? By Pat Earnhardt, The Mortgage Rewards Team of Alera Financial Domestic Violence in NC: An Action Plan for Caring Professionals By Lee Rosen - Rosen Law Firm Is Your Strategy 'Go Real Fast and Turn Left'? By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Current State of Alimony in North Carolina By Lee Rosen, Rosen Law Firm Low Hanging Fruit May Be Rotten for Your Business By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources When A Professional Divorces By Lee Rosen, Rosen Law Firm Organically Grown, Professionally Managed Entrepreneurial Companies By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Civilized Divorce - Part II By Lee Rosen, Rosen Law Firm The Lessons of Family-owned Businesses By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Civilized Divorce - Part I By Lee Rosen, Rosen Law Firm Munchausen Management By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. RESOURCES Offices in 2020: What will they be like? By Tim Finnegan, TotalCare IT Solutions The Three Biggest IT Mistakes Small Businesses Make By Eric Hobbs, President - Technology Associates Tools of Trade: Blogging to Inform By Lee Rosen, Rosen Law Firm Best Practices versus Bad Practices By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Hiring The Right Person For The Job [podcast] By Brooks Savage, Staffing Group (ESG) Super Bowl Sunday Wasn’t Just About Football - It Was Also The Kick-Off of this Spring’s Home Buying Season By Pat Earnhardt, Sr. Loan Officer/Mortgage Consultant, 1st Medallion Mortgage Top 10 Tips for Maximizing Technology Investment By Lee Rosen, Rosen Law Firm Panel Job Search Interviews – Your Risk and Reward By John M. O’Connor, Career Pro of NC, Inc. Writing The Perfect Resume [podcast] By Brooks Savage, The Executive Staffing Group Beware Rapid Growth and Growth through Acquisition (Bigger Doesn’t Mean Better) By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Tools of the Trade: Time Management By Lee Rosen - Rosen Law Firm Tools of the Trade: Web 2.0 Top Ten List By Lee Rosen - Rosen Law Firm Cash Flow Not Flowing? Don't Cut Your Marketing Efforts! By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Good, the Bad, and the SMO By Larrin Devereaux-Marrisett - Chress Price Taker or Price Maker – Cost Matters By Lea Stickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Commercializing Your Business: A Primer By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources 10 ways to use online maps to generate business leads and sales By Larrin Devereaux-Marrisett - Chress 20 Questions: Commercial Lending: Business Borrowing – Risk and Relationships By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources 20 Questions: Raising Capital - Funding Your Business By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S Resources Pitch or Pretence? Being Wary of 'Open Forums' By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Kamikaze Sales - Beginning with a Lie By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources How To Make a Great First Impression On Your Job Interview [podcast] By Brooks Savage - Executive Staffing Group Be Careful What You Say and Where By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Three Keys to Small Business Success By Janis Pettit - SmarTrack What To Do With Problem Vendors By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Honing Your Focus with the Practice of Yoga By Cyndi Bulka - Moving Mantra Yoga Six Maximizing Profit Centers Many Business Owners Miss By Janis Pettit - SmarTrack Creating the 'Story of Your Business': Take your cues from a good book By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources What’s that light mean? By Jerry Gala - Apex AutoWorks FAQs of Haircare By Larry Dunlap, Haircolorxperts The Cost of a Consultant's Time - Nickels and Dimes By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Hook, Line, or Sinker, PR Isn’t a Strategy By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources 3 Key Steps to Gaining Employee Support For Organizational Change By Bea Fields, Five Star Leader Coaching and Training You Are Successful, So Why Do I Have to Pay By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Pulling Double-Duty Takes a Toll on IT workers – and Your Company By Tim Finnegan, Alphanumeric Systems To Compete You Have To Enter The Race By Lea Strickland - F.O.C.U.S. Resources Keep Halitosis Away Dr. Tarun Agarwal, Dental Arts Changing from a Reactive to a Proactive stance in business By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Maximizing Marketing ROI By Cindy Stranad, Articulon Be Careful When Selecting Vendors By Lea Strickland, CMA F.O.C.U.S. Resources Why Bother With Strategic Planning? Jim Deyo, Business Advisor Online Preventing Cavities through Diet and Dental Care Dr. Tarun Agarwal, Dental Arts Angel, Angel, Wherefore Art Thou, Angel? By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Procrastination is a Waste of Time By Janice Russell, Minding Your Matters Organizing Consultants Ready to Raise Businesses or Children - Common Threads By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Danger, Danger, Will Robinson.... Taking Precautions When Making Referrals By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources High-Tech Measuring Sticks for Marketers By Peter Nyberg, ingage Tough Lessons Learned When A Deal Goes Sour By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources An Economy In Transition … … But, To Where? 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By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Choices and Decisions: The Heartbeat of our Lives and Our World By Anita Hermesch, CAREacter-based Success Grants – Don’t Take the Process for Granted By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources It’s Crunch Time for SEP IRAs too! By Sarah M. Place, Place Trade Financial It's Crunch Time … The Roth IRA Alternative By Sarah M. Place, Place Trade Financial It's Crunch Time... A Traditional IRA Primer By Sarah M. Place, Place Trade Financial It's Crunch Time … Do you know what you are doing with your IRA? By Sarah M. Place, Place Trade Financial Pennywise, IP (Intellectual Property) Foolish By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Keeping Playdates Bite free! By Jennifer Shryock, Family Paws Canine behavior consulting services Where Is My Cash Flow? By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Are you Good, or Are You Lucky? 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By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Coaching as a Leadership Tool to Increase Productivity By Janis Pettit, SmarTrack After The Holidays (And Other Bad Job Search Advice) By John M. O'Connor, Career Pro Inc. All Business Plans Not Created Equal By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources From the e-Mailbox: Late Paying Customers By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Caterpillar or Butterfly? By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources How Are Products Developed? By John Kim, Insight Product Development The Business Cold By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Cash Management - Not Paying the Bills By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Understanding & Working With Executive Recruiters By John M. O'Connor, Career Pro Inc. How to Get a Reporter to Read Your E-mail By Daniel Pearson, Porchfire Communications Sound Byte Mentality – How’s Your Sound Byte? By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Military to Civilian Career Change Strategies By John M. O'Connor, Career Pro Inc. 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Backyard and Over-the-Fence 'Consultants' and 'Experts' By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Outlooks on Search Engine Optimization By Daniel Pearson, Porchfire Communications Service Providers and Intellectual Property By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Understanding the Business Implications of Worker Misclassification By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Organizational Health Check-Up Quiz By Nancy Deswik, Learning and Development, Inc. Essential Guidelines for Beginning Investors By Ron Pate, Key Business Institute Just Because You Can, Doesn't Mean You Should By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Employer & Employee Tips For The National Guard and Reserve; Examining USERRA Law (Part II) By John M. O'Connor, Career Pro Inc. Employer & Employee Tips For The National Guard and Reserve; Examining USERRA Law (Part I) By John M. O'Connor, Career Pro Inc. 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By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Own the Business of Your Career – Branding & Marketing By John M. O'Connor, Career Pro Inc. Trends in Taxation - Sales and Use Taxes By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources The New Entrepreneur By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Networking – A Lifetime Career Tactic By John M. O'Connor, Career Pro Inc. How Will Check 21 Impact Your Business? By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Ten Reasons Businesses Fail (To Reach their Full Potential) By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Basics of Employment Contracts And Factors To Consider During Your Career Transition By John M. O'Connor, Career Pro Inc. Ten Things To Consider When Launching Your Business – Part II. Detailing the Points By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources Ten Things To Consider When Launching Your Business By Lea Strickland, F.O.C.U.S. Resources The Negotiating Game -- Gain the advantage! By John M. O'Connor, Career Pro Inc. Questions & Answers – Career Issues By John M. 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