Category: Business

Brenda Cook’s new book The Entrepreneur’s Family: Seeking Balance, Recovery, and Growth is a groundbreaking look at how an entrepreneur’s passion and drive can have both positive and detrimental effects upon a family. Cook reveals that while the media is full of praise for entrepreneurship and the belief that the entrepreneur can have it all,…

There was a time when setting up paid membership sites on the Internet — where you have a site only people who pay you an ongoing fee can access — was all the rage. Lately it seems this isn’t as popular as it was. Mostly because so many of them fail. In fact, in many…

Social entrepreneurship is a major area of interest in many social and civic organizations and has a significant impact on many areas of society. During the past decade economic resources have become more difficult to acquire and society has continued to exhibit economic and cultural decline. Concurrently, communities are in need of initiatives that will…

Insurance and finance are closely interwoven fields of business, not least because they both involve money. They also often both involve speculation and risk, and often where one goes, the other will follow. Take property investment for example, it involves a large amount of capital out lay, swiftly followed by insurance to protect the capital…

Should we be teaching entrepreneurship to children? When you were a child did you ever have a stand where you sold soft drinks like sodas? Did you ever offer cakes and candy to other students at school in order to make some money? Not everybody is bitten by the entrepreneurial bug when they are kids…

Often times customers have hidden objections that they will not share with a sales person unless they are directly asked a question. These obstacles directly affect our ability to close effectively with minimal negotiations. Discovering and closing on these objections is critical to the sale. The key to this process is to ask High Quality…

What is affiliated market? Affiliated marketing is a way through which individuals can promote a product which you like and earn a commission out of it all. Of us have participated in affiliated marketing in one way or the other. For e.g. when you purchase of a product online there is an affiliated person who…

How active women are in terms of their contribution to the overall social-economic changes of a country can be determined in several ways and by the use of different indexes. Some of the most used indexes are employment of women, their position in political and social decision-making, educational level, and “conquest” of new occupations. Serbia,…