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20 Questions with Michael Kane

Michael Kane, president of UEi, discusses travel, management style, economics and product innovation.

8 Ways To Close More Sales

Consider taking this checklist or one like it into your next weekly sales meeting and applying it against pending sales. If you do this consistently, chances are good you’ll be moving more sales from the pending column to the signed column.

Take Action to Correct Bad Financial Statements, part 2

7 ways to fix financial statements that are wrong.

Crisis Management: Are You Prepared?

Crises have the potential to threaten public safety, increase financial expenditure, damage reputation, and impact sustainability. It is critical for management in the early hours and days of a crisis to strategically and expertly take proper decisive action.

Healthcare Reform: Readers’ Questions Answered

Changes coming this fall but recipients won't be taxes on benefits. Readers raise questions about the healthcare reform and we answer.

Give Your Bedside Manner a Check-Up

Companies with a positive bedside manner create a positive customer experience. Here are four steps to creating such a manner.

7 Strategies that Build Your Negotiating Power

Creating a win-win outcome is only possible if you continually accumulate a counter-balancing “negotiating power” throughout the sales cycle.

Connect With Your Local Market

A CAREFULLY CRAFTED PUBLIC RELATIONS PROGRAM PROVIDES TOOLS TO CUT THROUGH THE CLUTTER, RELATE WITH YOUR PUBLIC, AND BUILD CREDIBILITY.

7 Dead Giveaways That Your Financial Statements are Wrong

Your financial statements are your scorecards. If they are not accurate, you might make the wrong business decision based on incorrect information. Here are seven things that clearly tell you that your financial statements are wrong.

Is It Time For a Business Coach?

Business coaches can help to improve leadership skills, keep you moving toward goals, and provide objective advice on handling personal and business problems.

How Health Reform Threatens Small Business Health Plans

The problems facing small businesses due to healthcare reform are two-fold.

Personal Finance: Understanding and Improving Your Credit Score

Your credit score can be the key to home ownership, an auto loan, consumer credit, and even employment. How much do you know about this three-digit number that holds so much power over you?

20 Questions with Drew Timm

Drew Timm, owner of Sun Services Air Conditioning-Heating Inc. in Fountain Hills, Ariz., discusses muscle cars, meeting customers in hot tubs and lessons learned from owning a small business.

Inside Job: Effectively Organizing Truck Supplies

Investing time, training, and resources in a fleetstocking- and-organization program can save money and improve customer service.

20 Questions with Tom Flick

Tom Flick, former Rose Bowl Champion, Pac 10 Conference Player of the Year, and successful NFL quarterback, discusses leadership, vision, relationships, passion and other qualities business owners and managers should possess.

Connecting With Customers Every Chance You Get

The ability to connect with customers with a customized message makes using fleet design as a marketing tool a must-do activity within your organization

7 Tips on Leading the Design Process

Think of your vehicles as billboards on wheels. They say a lot about your company. Shouldn't you be leading the process that decides what they will say and how they will say it?

True Colors

Schultheis Bros. stands out with time-tested yellow-and-red fleet.

6 Ways to Proactively Raise Cash

Making calls to past-due customers, former customers, and happy customers helps to keep the cash flowing.

Managing Fleet Liability Risk

Your fleet is an indispensable part of your business. Literally, it is your means to reach customers. It also represents a significant liability risk. These are ways to manage the risk.