For the first time in many years, Star Trek Fans will no longer be able to explore those new frontiers where no man has gone before. Thank heavens for reruns, videos and DVD’s! One reason for the success of this TV series is because the storyline appealed to the human desire to explore the unknown. [...]
Poker players are always trying to find new and exciting ways to challenge their skills. This constant drive for excitement is one of the reasons why there are so many different varieties of poker; players keep altering the game to keep it new. One of the most recent trends in the poker world is [...]
Techniques and styles among the best of the best vary from one sales champion to the next. If you study sales at all, you’ll find that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of best ways. However, there are constants in our world. I once sat in on a conversation between two of [...]
Every passing minute.
When I first heard this line, in the movie Vanilla Sky, it struck a powerful chord in me. Sure, it’s a sentiment I’d heard countless times before, that at any given moment you could set changes in motion that would alter the course of your life. But something about the phrasing. [...]
With the pound fetching a little less than a Euro at Travelex, one would think there would be lots of great ski deals to be had in ski resorts this ski season as potential skiers stay at home to avoid the credit crunch. First figures just now publicized show that ski areas are 81 % [...]
Videos on the Internet are a tremendous instrument to promote your businesses services. Of course there are lots of other types of marketing methods around from editorial writing to blogging, from public relations to RSS. But nothing says “cool, connection, & creativity” like an Internet video.
Increasingly firms of different sizes are producing professional videos about [...]
Bankruptcy derives its meaning from the Italian word “banca rotta”, which means broken bench. Broken bench represents the ancient Italian custom of breaking a businessman’s trading bench if he did not pay his debts. Over the centuries, the law has been framed to protect the interests of both creditors as well as debtors as a [...]
I recently read that Malcolm Gladwell wrote most of his book Blink while away from his desk. He wrote at coffee shops, restaurants, and other public places.
I’ve only done a little of this myself, but I’ve always found it a valuable practice. If I feel stuck in a creative rut, working in a public place [...]
In his spring Budget the Chancellor Gordon Brown announced swinging measures to tackle the use of Trusts being used to avoid Inheritance Tax. The immediate reaction amongst the financial and legal fraternity amounted to panic and confusion. Within ten days of the budget speech the estimates of the numbers of people that could be hit [...]
Business trips were one of the most dreaded things that a businessman or a person working in a company had to deal with earlier due to the travel bookings, reservations etc. But all that is a thing of the past as business travel credit cards have made traveling easy and convenient and also give [...]