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THIS WEEK'S ARTICLES

Bulk Mail can be more expensive than First Class
By: Joe Leonard – Ideal Companies
Here is how most of us think the mailing process will happen. The printer prints 10,000 copies of your camera ready brochure. These are then delivered to the lettershop that stuffs envelopes for bulk mailing. They sort your brochures into zip codes and deliver them to the post office. The post office weighs them and determines the postage. The lettershop pays and sends you the receipt. The post office sends it to other post offices in various cities. Then a local postal carrier delivers them to your prospects. That is the way it is supposed to happen. Unfortunately, what can really happen is often very different.
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Can Your Business Survive the Recovery? 2010’s Negotiation Challenges
By: Jeanette Nyden, J.D. President J. Nyden & Co., Inc, www.JNYDen.com

"Can Your Business Survive the Recovery?” was the title of a newspaper article. It got me thinking, so I designed a simple survey to find out more information. If the recovery is slow, then what challenges might businesses face at the bargaining table?

The 2010 Negotiation Challenges survey asked 5 simple questions. I wanted to take a pulse, so to speak. Not surprisingly, the issues dominating negotiations are still largely financial. Small business owners, executives at midsized companies and many sales professionals answered the survey giving us a great cross sample of perspectives.

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Make Your Logo Work For You!
By: Eye 2 Eye Graphics

First impressions have the ability to quickly make or break a deal. If you dress in “Sunday best” for a first meeting with an important business client, doesn’t it make sense for your logo to always put your best foot forward? A professional logo is the most visible way for current or prospective customers to recognize you, know what you do, and how well you do it. Here are five key concepts to incorporate into a quality, successful logo that reaches your ideal client.

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Bullets Kill PowerPoint Presentations
By: Joe Leonard – Ideal Companies
Too many speakers are using PowerPoint as a subsitute for speaking notes instead of using it as just a tool to support their points. The PowerPoint presentation has become the main event.

Like most entrepreneurs sooner or later you will give a speech or presentation to a group of prospective clients or customers. You spent hours preparing your PowerPoint slides and you gave a terrific presentation. Unfortunately you didn't get any leads or business cards. What went wrong?

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Lawmakers battle over best way to help small businesses
by: Market Watch
Arguing that small businesses continue to face major challenges obtaining credit, Herbert Allison, assistant Treasury Secretary for financial stability, made the case for allocating the funds to small banks to loan to small businesses, based on an Obama administration proposal made earlier this month.

Financial stress can manifest in many ways
by: USA Today
Financial stress for small business owners abounds: mental exhaustion that comes when completing a lengthy bank loan application; uncertainty that rises from discussing outside investors; and anxiety that goes hand-in-hand with asking a friend and business partner to pony up more dough to get the business started.