Fresh off of the results Hurricane Irene and the Colorado and Virginia earthquakes, the question for every business owner is: Would you survive a disaster to your business?
Are you prepared for a disaster?
In business parlance it’s called business continuity. Can you continue in business if you’re struck with a disaster?
What most people may not realize is that there are two results to every disaster that hits a business:
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Apple has been granted a new patent for it’s iWork Numbers application. You might want to take a look at it.
It relates to when you want to copy data into a new chart that the new data is associated with the old data into a new data set.
That’s business.
Startup entrepreneurs have to learn that one of the first things that needs to be learned is market research and marketing. As Jack Canfield said, “10 percent of your efforts is in writing a book, the other 90 percent is marketing it.”
That’s the same for ANY startup business.
So what’s an entrepreneur to do?
Here’s a great infographic about online marketing. Enjoy learning the basics, or returning to the basics, as we all need once in a while.
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Do you have a Mac and want to make some money? Do you have skills or talents that are underutilized? Are you just itching to do something more with your life?
I’m putting on a FREE Hour Seminar for those that have Macs that are considering starting their own business. From your “idea” to your “Grand Opening” I will walk you through the necessary steps to get started. I will cover:
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i.Business magazine selects Kevin Cullis’s article “10 Steps to a Mac paperless business” (preview of the article) as this month’s “Featured Monthly Article – Tips and Tricks” in their August 2011 newsletter.
You can see i.Business magazine newsletter here.
Thanks i.Business, I’m honored.
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Startup entrepreneurs solve problems and get paid for their solutions. But when analyzing a problem, ensure you have the right solution based on the data you collect.
During WWII, Allied bomber losses were high, so high that the British Air Ministry undertook a rigorous analysis in hopes of finding a solution. Their engineers set out to examine every bomber they could, gathering data on each bullet hole. After analyzing the results, engineers decided to reinforce the areas that had the highest concentrations of holes with armor plating.
It didn’t work.
Perplexed, the engineers assumed that the extra plating had made the planes too heavy, and that the difficulty in handling the planes was offsetting the protection of the armor plating.
Enter Abraham Wald.
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Categories: 8 Operations, Challenge, Change, Information, Process, Tools Tags: Abraham Wald, Quality Assurance, Statistical Process Control, Statistics, Survivorship Bias, W. Edwards Deming, World War II
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The one thing that most Mac users are not aware of about Apple’s MobileMe (formerly .Mac services) is some of the capabilities to connect with others, such as using iChat to do Instant Messaging (IM), and audio and video chatting and recording. The technology was better than all others because it uses Apple’s technology. But as with anything, people are not aware of it’s capability and how it mostly works with Macs.
Apple has announced that it is improving things from MobileMe to iCloud. As Apple transitions from MobileMe to the iCloud you’ll see differences with your various Mac, iPhone, and iPad workflows as they are defined by Apple. There are NO indications about using iChat services in the iCloud, But in the mean time, you still have work to do and you can’t stop because of Apple’s changes, right?
So, what’s a Mac user to do when connecting with Windows users?
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