You can use any word-processor to create your business plan, yet the urban sprawl of text that results after your second or third page is enough to render the plan useless. Your business plan is supposed to be a tool that effortlessly tracks the tasks and details of your ...

For some, the thought of writing a business plan is as pleasant as the stomach flu, yet the truth is that a business plan shares more in common with a diary and a to-do list than it does with a college term paper. So, break out that favorite pen ...

Corporations and companies today spend millions of dollars on corporate branding. Why is corporate branding so important that it attracts so many businesses, big and small, to invest much time and money on it? Effective corporate branding can boost the bottom line of your company significantly; it has the ability ...

Ever wonder how Jerry Seinfeld became such a great comedian? First, he made a daily habit of improving his jokes - then using a large wall calendar, he marked off each day with a big red "X" and in his words, "After a few days you'll have a chain. Just keep ...

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Identical twins Amal and Juan graduate with Bachelors degrees and receive the same job offer. Amal passes up the job offer to pursue a Masters degree while Juan takes the job offer and begins working. Two years pass and Amal graduates and begins working. By this time ...

Normally, one turns to the line tool in Excel to manually draw vertical lines on a chart. The issue is that these lines aren't bound to the x-axis, so any change to the chart is usually accompanied by manual line repositioning. Thankfully, there's a "hack" that can eliminate ...

If there's one thing aspiring entrepreneurs we all love, it's free access to great resources like Craigslist. Although Craigslist initially started as an e-mail distribution for social events, it has quickly become a jack of all trades for everything from personal ads to cheap viral marketing for startups (hint ...