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Michael Harrison - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Michael Harrison is an author, publisher and business consultant who, following a successful corporate career now specialises in helping business owners and individuals to realise and release the full potential of their situation.
He has led business turn arounds, helped many business owners to improve their businesses and advised and supported individuals to embark on new directions in their careers.
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- Practical Weight Loss Tips That Work
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] From knowing nothing about diet or food generally it was possible to progressively lose 2 stones in a little over 12 months and keep it off. Anyone can do it once they decide. The compliments are great and being comfortable in your clothes is a revelation.
- Here Are Five Must Do Topics For Any Job Application
[Business:Careers-Employment] You will need to focus. A good way to do this is make yourself write down what you do and have done in a gut busting 200 words. It's difficult but when you have done it fleshing it out is easy.
- Do You Enjoy the Challenge of Creating the Link in Your Cover Letters?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Your cover letter must make sure the resume gets read. This is like any other letter in format but there is one absolutely vital section that must be right. Creating this section can be an enjoyable challenge.
- A Good Cover Letter is Vital for Getting Your Resume Read
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] When you are applying for a job in response to an advertisement you must pick out the key skills and experience that are required for the position and clearly demonstrate how you match them. In order to attract the most suitable applicants job advertisements are very carefully thought out and worded.
- Resume or Curriculum Vitae, Start Now to Get Ahead of Your Competitors
[Business:Careers-Employment] That was at a time when we did not have personal computers and word processing capability. So my first resume was hand written and a neighbour kindly typed it up for me. Things are so different now. We can draught out a resume, edit it and change it at will to suit a particular situation or job application and develop and update the resume as we progress through our career.
- My First Resume
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] What do we mostly do when faced with such a task? Buy a book. Armed with this new friend the resume took the whole of one weekend to complete. On completion the application was sent off. Out of 64 applicants I was one of ten to be called for interview. This went well and the final short list of three included me. At this point my application failed. Trying to move to a more commercial role there were other candidates better suited.
- How About Writing Your Own Blog?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Many times I have explained why on or off line writing is important in business. Writing your own blog is just the way to get past the blockage so many face at the thought of having to write anything. Plus, many don't realise you can make money with blogs if you know a number of easy to set up features.
- Resume' Writing for Career Change
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Success in any occupation requires skills and experience. So, if you're going to change job or career you will need to develop and acquire the skills that go with Resume' writing for your career change.
- Here's a Way to Freedom & Success as You Work From Home With ebay
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Auctions] In the UK it's estimated each household contains around 3,500 worth of unwanted items that could be sold on ebay. Since I started actively disposing of our surplus stuff that is roughly what my sales are, and I'm still thinking of things that have got possibilities.
- There's a Personal Lesson in This Failure
[Business:Strategic-Planning] If your business strategy is not sound you may get away with it so long as some of your assumptions are correct. Once external conditions change your business strategy may lead to failure.
- Are Entrepreneurship and Leadership the Same?
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Successful entrepreneurs often end up leading the organisation they have built. A good example being Richard Branson. In my experience good leaders tend to be dissatisfied once their goals have been achieved. They need a new challenge to stimulate them. Winston Churchill was a brilliant war time leader but not so successful as peace time Prime Minister.
- Ideas For How To Start A Business
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] These examples prove that provided there is a demand, initiative and good sense will work as you develop your business. This must be so as a recent survey in the UK has revealed only 27.7% of small business owners possess a degree and 12.7% of entrepreneurs possess no formal qualifications.
- How to Blog For Cash
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Let's get the jargon out of the way first. Blog is short for weblog - a web log is your own online diary that you can update daily or at any frequency you choose.
- How to be Successful in Social and Business Networking
[Business:Networking] Whether you are networking socially or for business reasons you will develop similar skills that you can transfer into either situation. Follow one or two basic principles and you will get comfortable as you gain experience of how to be successful in social and business networking.
- Free Manual Tells You How to Create a Profitable Affiliate Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] But you won't do it by just reading this article. So, as with much on the Internet where do you get top quality easy to follow information that will take you through the processes of setting up a sound affiliate business?
- Learn How You Can Avoid Procrastination and Grow Your Career
[Business:Careers-Employment] As for the fear factor! Change is stimulating. Finding the next appropriate position is a challenge. Getting the interview is a tester and winning the offer is rewarding.
- Here Is A Way To Secure Cash Flow Control
[Business:Fundraising] Do we take on more events, buy an additional trailer and more buggies plus pay the staff more as they move to full time employment?
- Now It's Your Time To Enjoy Financial Freedom
[Home-Based-Business] Which business is right for you? Do you have a real idea of what you want your business to be or are you just seeking a business working from home as an escape from employment? A vital question which needs a positive response.
- Are You Ready to Discover How the Baby Boomer Generation Have IT All?
[Home-and-Family:Baby-Boomer] No doubt some of the early retirees will be able to benefit. But guess who the real beneficiaries will be? Do you get the drift?
It will be the baby boomers.
- Make Your Knowledge Sell - Join the Ever Growing Band of Professional High Income Consultants
[Business:Solo-Professionals] When I started consulting I structured my work so that I was always in my office on Friday. I used to joke with my wife that the 5 seconds home journey as I walked down the hall was less tiring than the usual Friday journey home.
- Here is a Way for Managers to Discover Leadership
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] Management and leadership are a continuum along which we progress in our careers if we aspire to the top jobs. You could argue that good managers make good leaders. I would disagree.
- Free Report Tells You How to Avoid Being Unhappy at Work
[Business:Careers-Employment] The UK national average of those dissatisfied by their job was 64%. Before I established my consultancy at age 50 I had experienced many employment difficulties including being 'downsized' twice and we all have experience of having to work with/for people we do not like or respect.
- You are Guaranteed To Win and Keep More Customers Without the Missing Link
[Business:Customer-Service] I had thought how easy to have a customer database recording such small things as last date of last visit, Christian names, newspaper taken, any special requirements etc? If this was in place the visit could be made much more personal and the experience enhanced to an even higher level.
- How These Famous Entrepreneurs Can Teach and Inspire Us
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] The event was in aid of a children's charity and raised in excess of £400,000.
It was created and hosted by Andrew Reynolds, from the UK, another self made millionaire, who has developed his 'Cash on Demand System' over the last 10 years netting a cool £30,000,000 in the process.
- Knowledge IS Power - Information Is King
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] If you are interested in starting a business online you can use your knowledge and skill.
- It's the Content that Counts
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Recently the importance of content was made clear from another direction. My father was a design oriented engineer, as was I in the early part of the employed section of my life.
- Leaders Need Passion
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] No matter what you are engaged in, corporate activity, entrepreneurial activities, consulting or your own business in some form you will need passion to achieve success.
- A Lesson From the Logman
[Business:Customer-Service] Those who know my interests know how I love to study business situations. Today from an un-expected source there was a great example of good customer relations and business practice.
With the holiday coming I had ordered a delivery of logs for our hearth.
- Are You Leadership Material?
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] An ability to plan and decide how to get there. Will power to see the mission through to completion while harnessing the talents of the people in the business to achieve the objectives.
- Getting to Yes Now Became Easier
[Business:Negotiation] At times the power of persuasion has eluded me. I'm not a natural persuader, a good negotiator yes. In negotiation you develop strategy and options and work to a plan but with persuasion it seems you require verbal speed and mental flexibility which does not suit my somewhat logical mind.
New things interest me. New technology, new products and new techniques, anything that helps to improve my skill level. Some scientific facts have recently been established that come into the art of persuasion.
Getting to yes using these facts can be easier.
- It's the Results that Count
[Business:Team-Building] Listen to the views of others; let them influence you by taking their views into account. Don't interrupt, no matter how keen on the result you are. If you can build some of these attributes into the way you operate you will get better results and after all 'it's the results that count'.
- Use Amazon to Generate Cash
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Some of the books I have sold have fetched very good prices. My record so far is £42 for a specialist book.
- How Rapid Technology Changes Can Harm Us
[Computers-and-Technology] How technology is changing the way we have to work.
I have very close friend who is facing the ravages wrought from the effects of new technology. This friend found a market and went right out on a limb to start a business that became very successful. For a period of time.
- Network - Use the Grapevine
[Business:Networking] When faced with redundancy or the need/desire to change career or job most automatically think of their CV and job applications. There is an alternative
- How to Write Articles to Harness the Power of the Internet
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] I have got so that I can write an article in about 30 minutes. That article will then serve a number of purposes the most important being to drive traffic to my web site or carry an affiliate link for online sales. It can do both.
- It's the Freedom that Counts
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Why be your own boss? I came to the conclusion that it's the freedom that counts.
- How To Beat Office Politics
[Business:Workplace-Communication] Would you believe it? In The Times of London on a management and business page there was a write up with photograph of a chap who coaches people in how to succeed at office politics. I only glanced at the article but it stayed with me.
- Select The Right Auction Site and You Should Widen Your Market
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Auctions] When I registered with eBay I intentionally registered with eBay.com. I reasoned that the dollar is a universal currency and the eBay market is a worldwide market. In the six weeks I have been trading I have sold to France, Sweden, USA a number of times, Canada and Australia all in Dollars.
- Am I Becoming an eBay Bore?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Auctions] Be careful not to become a bore. I have discovered the joy of selling on eBay. I may be coming an eBay bore but where else can you do business with no cost to yourself and for the business to be self-financing from the start?
- Short of Cash? Make Money Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Auctions] eBay! I registered my account in 2002 and started selling in August 2006. I was interested - as usual, but couldn't be bothered. I have become an international trader in the space of 6 weeks. Items have gone to the USA, France, Sweden and of course into the UK.
- Get Paid for Doing What You Like Doing
[Business:Careers-Employment] Ask any overworked executive if they ever dream of having their own business and it's likely they will say "Oh yes! all of the time". The majority of those who make the leap claim they wish they had done it sooner.
- If You Can't Measure It You Will Never Manage It!
[Business:Management] I was absentmindedly looking at my web site statistics when the thought from my consultant days struck. 'If you can't measure it you can't manage it'.
- Are These The 6 Rules for Business Success?
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] The highly successful Pineapple Dance Studios in London has been transformed from a privately owned dance studio to a to a Publicly Owned Corporation quoted on the London Stock Exchange.
- The Online Business Opportunity Era is Inspirational
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Those of you who have been reading my articles and newsletter for a while will have gleaned from the odd comment that I won't see 60 again.
It was great this last weekend to come across four inspiring stories in the national press. All of the persons involved are over 50, three women and one man, all have spotted a sound business idea and turned it into an online business!
- Retirement Planning - It's Never too Late
[Home-and-Family:Retirement] With a bit of retirement planning employed or in your own business you can grab the opportunity.
- Working From Home Doesn't Suit Everyone, It Suits Me Just Fine
[Home-Based-Business] For all of those who face the daily commuting ordeal be it by train, bus or car the prospect of working from home must seem like bliss.
It does not suit every one. Fortunately it suits me fine. Having successfully climbed the corporate ladder I lost interest in the politics and having to toe the corporate line.
- Sleep Deprivation Could Ruin Your Life
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] What are the issues that can cause sleeping problems. Alcohol and drugs are NOT the answer.
End insomnia and sleep problems and you will find success.
- Avoid Burnout - Eat Healthily
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Healthy eating, sound sleeping, relaxation and regular exercise must be worked at if we are to be happy with ourselves. If you are sick and tired of having to work from the same few recipes it does not have be like that.
- It's the Marketing that Counts
[Business:Marketing] Whether you are CEO of a multinational or a one person business, without a marketing strategy, your products and services will not reach any one.
- Free Information on Affiliate Marketing - Start Making Money as an Affiliate
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Affiliate marketing has to be the easy answer for those people who wish to start their own business.
What many people do not realise is the massive potential. The Internet is still in it's infancy with online companies growing at a fantastic rate.
- Make Money OnLine
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Does this sound familiar? I became interested in the prospect of trying to make money online and Internet marketing around five years ago and have yet to make any real money.
- How To Get Free Promotion for Your Business
[Business:Marketing] In this series about promoting your business I am setting out many tips you can use to establish your presence. You will have heard me talk about being observant and even in the context of promoting a business I recently experienced something new.
- Tips for Starting a Small Business
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Small business start-up need not cost the earth and you can approach it from a number of directions.
- How to Use Your Career Training as a High Income Consultant
[Business:Consulting] Look at your career training, work and business experience. That is a basis for consulting, training and product creation.
- Here's How To Make Money Writing Articles in 30 Minutes
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Maybe you already have a web site. Did you know you can grow your site traffic simply by writing and submitting articles. Yes you can get free traffic to your website. Since I started submitting articles 7 weeks ago my website traffic has increased 63% At this rate it will have doubled within 3 months!
- Are You Confused By Search Engine Marketing?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] For the first time, to my knowledge, there's a search marketing book written specifically for small business owners.
The Small Business Guide to Search Engine Marketing teaches you proven techniques to drive targeted visitors to your site.
- Submit Articles - Make Money With Articles
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] We were shown how to do business online and the basis was about re-sale rights products. We were granted the rights to 25 products as part of the deal. I really saw the great potential opportunities. It really blew me away.
If only I had known what I now know. 'You've heard that before'.
- Baby Boomers - The 'Have It All Generation'
[Home-and-Family:Baby-Boomer] As a former technocrat who became a business man I am fascinated by what facts tell us. In relation to the baby boomer generation some surveys have revealed interesting facts on their entrepreneurial aspirations.
- Do You Have A Survival Strategy?
[Business:Strategic-Planning] Was he too busy working "in his business" rather than "on it"? Small businesses often suffer from the owner not looking at strategy.
- Advertising Questions Answered
[Business:Advertising] If we accept that every business must have a mailing list. That list is a means of communicating with the customer, verbally or in writing. Failure to communicate could mean losing the most valuable asset of the business, so your potential customers are just as important.
- Effective Communication is a 50-50 Deal
[Relationships:Communication] When chatting with friends I was recently reminded how important it is to be sure that we remember to be effective in our efforts to communicate. It is so easy to assume that others know what you know and spout off thinking they are on the same wavelength. This happens all the time and sadly very few are prepared to reveal their ignorance and get clarification.
- It's Not The Age It's The Energy
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] After years of "ageism" it seems as if the corporates are at long last realising that the older employee may still have something to offer. It just amazes me they have to think about it.
- Nothing Beats Working From Home
[Home-Based-Business] Working from home - do you have what it takes?
According to a recent Harris poll, 72% of American households are thinking about starting a small business, home based.
- Real Leaders are Ordinary People With Extraordinary Determination
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] To differentiate leaders from managers is to be able to think in such terms as;
Do the right thing, not do things right - effectiveness not efficiency.
- FREE - Publicity for Your Business
[Business:Advertising] A full page ad in an industry journal can cost almost $6.000. But there is a way to use the same publications to promote your business free of charge.
- Face Reality - Forced Career Change Will Happen During Your Working Life
[Business:Careers-Employment] Most of us enter the world of work as employed and soon start to wish that we could change career or be our own boss. It is probably true that after a while a large percentage start dreaming they could work from home or start a home based business, few actually do something about it. They continue dreaming. These days this is in explicable because it is possible to change career no matter what your age or profession.
- Back To Square One!
[Business:Management] It's amazing what you see, what it means, and what you learn. Recently I came across two short articles in the same journal on facing pages and they said so much about why people fail in business and yet, do people ever learn?
- Career Change
[Business:Careers-Employment] Career change - Ignore it at your peril or seize the opportunity All around us we constantly see the changes which are affecting us. Economically power is shifting and the consequences are massive.
- Nothing Ventured - Nothing Gained!
[Business:Careers-Employment] One thing is for sure if you keep doing what you did you will keep getting what you got. When I started my consultancy business I was struck by the reaction of people who knew me and knew my experiences and background.
- Think Like, Act Like and Be An Entrepreneur
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] To succeed in your business you will need to think and act as an entrepreneur. A great thing about running your own business is that it makes you think as an entrepreneur and because your thinking develops in this way; looking for opportunities and working out how to use them becomes second nature. As a result you see opportunities you would have previously over looked.
- How to Plan for Business
[Business:Strategic-Planning] There are some situations where a group of colleagues feel they can stage a 'management buyout' or break away to form a competitive business. They will need to be working as a team and truly understand their objectives and circumstances so that they can create a comprehensive business plan.
- Cash Flow Control - Essential For Survival
[Business:Management] Strong cash flow control is a key pert of effective business management. When your business is in difficulty or growing strongly good cash management is vital.
- My Own Business
[Home-Based-Business] There are many benefits when you take the plunge and start your own business.
- Not Fulfilled? Create Your Own Business
[Home-Based-Business] Why Create Your Own Business?
The attractiveness of creating an independent business and the motivating forces for doing so should be positive, but why you may ask is it so attractive to start your own business?
- Do You Really Want Your Own Business?
[Home-Based-Business] The ideal of being your own boss is very attractive and casually asked most people would say, "yes to be my own boss would be great." However, it needs to go farther than being the ideal. Having your own business is super. But what is it that you are really setting out to achieve?
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