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Do You Have A Vision?

My husband, Wesley, and I are in the planning stages of a coffee house and ministry. I've planned many businesses before; but have always known in my heart it wasn't where I was supposed to be. In fact, the convenience of having an income stopped me from facing my fears of actually going forward with business plans. Some times punching the time card of an employer is easier than pursuing your own heart's desire. Many times I have designed an art studio, but I threw the plans away and pursued ot… Continue

Added by Colleen Crawford on November 21, 2009 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

Giving without Spending from Vantivepoint

Have you ever wanted to donate to your favorite charity or to a good cause but just didn't have the money? Here is a way you can give back every month to your favorite Group, Charity or Non-Profit without missing a dime. The "Giving without Spending" program pays a portion of your monthly phone bill to the organization of your choosing as long as they qualify every month. We do this through aggressive Affinity programs. Working with major telecommunications carriers and large groups, we are abl… Continue

Added by Stan Duncan on October 28, 2009 at 12:33pm — No Comments

Networking Event Wednesday October 21st

The Business Alliance is having a networking event at the Club LeConte at 11:50am until 1pm on Wednesday October 21st. All EOK members are invited. Lunch will be served and is $10 (payable by credit card at the club). You MUST call by October 20th to RSVP (865-523-0405). Please tell the receptionist that you would like to attend the Business Alliance Luncheon on October 21st and let her know how many will be in your party so that we'll know how many lunches to provide. Guest Speaker will… Continue

Added by Marc Lighter on October 12, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Knoxville Health Insurance: Options for Entrepreneurs

Are you an entrepreneur without health insurance coverage? Own a small business but can’t afford to provide health benefits for yourself much less for your valuable workforce? Maybe you’re just squeaking by each month as you “bite the bullet” and write out a check for a ridiculously large amount to the insurance company? Do you run a successful/profitable small business but just don’t have the time to figure out this whole health insurance problem? Perhaps you’ve always dreamed of being an entre… Continue

Added by Nick Smith on August 25, 2009 at 2:44pm — No Comments

What is Business Intelligence? The understandable answer.

Selling Business Intelligence software is like selling a heater to an Eskimo, when he thinks it's a refrigerator. (Yes, we know Eskimos are now called Inuits, but that's not the point.) Ask 100 Business Intelligence (BI) experts for an explanation and you will receive as many different answers. Think of Microsoft's "Surfin' CEO" TV commercial. Who understands that?

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Added by Frank Podlaha on August 3, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Business Lead

VirtuallyKnoxville.com is seeking a business leader/partner to help develop a new vision for our site. For details contact me at VirtuallyKnoxville@yahoo.com or Kevin@VirtuallyKnoxville.com (if I can get my incoming mail working again). This is an equity type agreement. I truly believe you will like the vision and scope, as well as scalability of this project. I look forward to hearing from the right person. Much more to share.. Thanks, Kevin Continue

Added by Kevin Crisp on July 22, 2009 at 2:47pm — No Comments

Sales Management Training, Quick Ideas

WWW.YourSalesManagementGuru.com A quick read with excellent resources, free video's on Hiring, Training and Planning for Profit. Continue

Added by Acumen Management Group on May 1, 2009 at 7:16am — No Comments

Subscribe to Our Quarterly Newsletter: "Woolf Prints - The East Tennessee Tax and Business Bulletin"

Our law firm (Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpetner, PLLC) publishes a quarterly newsletter called "Woolf Prints - The East Tennessee Tax and Business Bulletin." You can view the archives and subcribe to receive a free copy of the newsletter here: http://www.wmbac.com/woolfprints/woolfprint_archive.html The subscription is confidential and you will ONLY receive a quarterly email with the newsletter itself. We do not use this email list to distribute any other communications. Our newsle… Continue

Added by W. Michael Baisley on March 31, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Earn money while ending poverty and living to your full potential?

Okay, so here's an interesting business model for you entrepreneurs to dissect: http://karmayoga.hubhub.org/opportunity.php It's basically a multi-tiered humanitarian affiliate program, and I'm all about it. 40% of profits go to good works like digging wells in Africa for clean water and so on. Products are Fair Trade type stuff (Ethiopian coffee, etc.), as well as self-development products that help you clarify your life's passions and… Continue

Added by David Morgan on March 9, 2009 at 2:12am — No Comments

Masters of Self-Sabotage

When we don’t move forward in our personal or business life it is more than likely because of self-sabotage - often very subtle. My term for this subtle sabotage is "fuzzy focus." You can click here to get to my blog post about how we sabotage our work. Continue

Added by Sue Painter on December 20, 2008 at 11:37pm — No Comments

Biggest Biz Challenge for 2009

Hey Gang! We're looking at "Content" for our Small Biz Training Podcasts/Webinars for 2009. So... What's your three Biggest Challenges you foresee for your biz in 2009? We'd like to address these challenges and help pick them OFF one by one, during the first quarter of the year. Email me here or post. We'll pick the best topics and make sure we get EOK members the info needed to win-out in 2009 (regardless of the so-called "lousy" economy!). Happy TG! -- "DrScot" Sr. Mktg. Consultant Continue

Added by Scot T. Chrisman, M.D. on November 25, 2008 at 5:14pm — 5 Comments

Timely Topics from The Profitability Channel

Here's some great business "how to" videos from The Profitability Channel. Best of all, all the content is FREE from Nov. 19th through Nov. 23rd!

Examples include:

* How to compensate employees
* Inc or LLC?
* Easy Ways to Manage Cash
* Estate Planning for business owners
* Short term benchmarks

All 283 programs full of substantive information are available for free until Nov. 23rd and include powerpoints to go along with the video.

These are

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Added by Lisa Starbuck on November 19, 2008 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Online Collaboration Tools

For most of my projects I need to work with a geographically challenged team. On my most recent project I have team members in Corbin, KY; Atlanta, GA; Knoxville, TN; and Seattle, WA. In order to stay on the same page, I use a gamut of technologies. Here is a short list with a quick description.

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Added by Leonard Knight on June 24, 2008 at 1:21pm — No Comments

Customer is the company

Jake Nickell (left) and Jeffrey Kalmikoff I just read a cool article in Inc. Magazine about two business college dropouts who are changing the way we'll do business on the web. The company is Threadles T-Shirts and they...you guesse… Continue

Added by Leonard Knight on May 30, 2008 at 11:20am — 1 Comment

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