May 17, 2012

The best business school for an MBA full or part time, distance or executive

The best business school for a MBA is one that meet your personal needs.

There are several rankings about the best businesses schools to study a MBA (Master Business Administration) however, beyond these rankings you have a certain needs and it is best to establish our own ranking based on those preferences.

Business Week magazine has a tool that allows us to compare between different business schools in the various systems as potential full-time (full time), part time, executive or distance.

The factors of comparison is the GMAT score, tuition among others.

A MBA is very expensive and involve two years of  full time of studies. You should add to the price of tuition, living costs and board,  the cost of money that you do not make these two years.

For that reason, various programs of prestigious universities like Harvard, MIT, Wharton, Kellogg, Cornell, Columbia among others show a series of statistics about how you improve your business opportunities after study a MBA.

Finally, study an MBA is a personal decision and there are many examples of successful people that never studied an MBA as Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft who left the university to found their empire computer.

You can access to this tool of Comparison Business School (MBA) at Business Week website by clicking here on this link

9 tips for run a successful and productive meeting

There are statistics about how companies lose valuable hours of work with completely unproductive meetings. Many times people go to them and do not know what purpose they serve.

At 43 Folders website give us 9 tips for running a productive meeting. In summary these tips are:

1. Circulate an agenda

2. Have a theme

3. Set (and honor) times for beginning, ending, and breaks

4. No electronic grazing. Period. 

5. Schedule guests

6. Be a referee and employ a time-keeper 

7. Stay on target

8. Follow up

9. Be consistent

About the four tip said:

4. No electronic grazing. Period. – Laptops closed. Phones off. Blackberries left back in the cube. You’re either at the meeting or you’re not at the meeting, and few things are more distracting or disruptive than the guy who has to check his damned email every five minutes. Schedule breaks for people to fiddle with their toys, but fearlessly enforce a no grazing rule once the meeting’s back in session. Emergency call to take or make? They have to leave the room. No exceptions. If you’re too busy to be at the meeting everyone else has made firewalled time for, just leave.

Photo via Sxc

You can read all of the 9 tips in 43 Folders website by clicking here in this link

7 tips to have Sales Success and make more money with your business

Learn secrets or tips to sell is one of the most important aspects for success. Always we are selling something … sometimes ourselves. For instance, we are selling ourselves as good professionals to get the best job possible.

At Aspire Now website gives us Seven Keys to Sales Success. In summary they said:

1. Work your plan – double your manager’s goals for you, or double your sales figures.

2. Deliver what you promise.

3. Offer what you can deliver today.

4. Build relationships, not orders. Build 4×4 relationships.

5. Use your network. Keep people informed.

6. Keep some in reserve.

7. Spend time wisely. Time is our biggest resource — and our smallest. Use it well and make the sell.”

About the first tip they said:

“1. Have a planned quota or goal to achieve? Now double it. Set your goal as double or triple whatever your boss told you to sell. People tend to miss their own goals – on average, they only hit about 80% of the goal. Therefore, your goal needs to be higher than your manager’s goal for you. If you are in business for yourself, take your sales goal that you know you need to sell to make money, and triple it. Strive for that goal, rather than the break-even goal. You’re in business to make money, not lose it, right?”

You can read the full article from Aspire Now by clicking here in this link

Photo via Sxc

A tip to get a job … seek informal appointments with potential prospects for new jobs

Almost always one is thinking of changing jobs, either to earn more money or seeking a better work environment to boost his career. Here are some tips to achieve this.

This article is based on ideas put forward in a blog in English in the New York Times.

Basically what the author recommends is to seek informal appointments with potential prospects for new jobs. Ie if I work in a bank “A” and I want to find work in the Bank “B” what I do is to seek an appointment informally with the person I could hire in this second bank.

The central idea of the informal interview is not the search for a new job but the approach to a reunion is trying to learn new things.

In the informal interview there is no pressure from the potential boss, the interview will be more relaxed and will give you at the scene of a potential work .

The truth is that the worst that can happen is that you know a new person and thus see increased their social network, which is important to develop business ideas or yourself.

You can read the article quoted at New York Time website by clicking here in this link

What Kind of Boss are you … You Are A Good Or A Bad Boss

If you are not working well suddenly is because your boss is not the best. Or maybe, if you are the boss … how do you qualify?

Many times the performance of the employees of a company decreases because they have a bad boss who brings that workers are not motivated.

In an article in the New York Times made the following suggested questions:

  • 1. Have you ever publicly criticized an employee?
  • 2. Do you take credit for your employees’ work?
  • 3. Do your employees fear you?
  • 4. Do you expect employees to do what you tell them without question?
  • 5. Do you believe employees should know what to do without you telling them or providing guidelines?
  • 6. Are you a yeller?
  • 7. Do you demean employees as a form of punishment?
  • 8. Do you play favorites?
  • 9. Do you hate delegating?
  • 10. Do you check everyone’s work?

The more you answer “yes” is more likely you’re a bad jefe.

You can read the full article from the New York Times by clicking here

Sales Strategy: making money and teaching values

Larry Kay is an example as how you can make money without forget the principles.

Larry made a DVD and CD with videos, music and audio where he teach values to children of preschool age through the care of pets.

His success was huge. Larry Kay won an award for that effort and as a result has initiated a campaign to increase sales of their products such as stuffed animals in the picture.

I have taken this new from  Los Angeles Times who realizes the Larry Kay´s success and obviously it get free advertising.

This is a great business idea with an impeccable marketing strategy. Larry use ecommerce tactics for make money online, finance, money tips and more.

You can read the note about Larry in Los Angeles Times by clicking on this link here

25 Home-Based Business Ideas by CBS News and All Business

All Business is an usual collaborator of CBS News for small business topics.

They have made a list of the Top 25 Home-Based Business Ideas to make at home. I hope that you can find in these ideas the inspiration for the perfect business that you are seeking to achieve your financial freedom.

I personally believe that every business idea can be successful if it is executed correctly. You should to learn about finance, money tips, how to make money online, ecommerce and any source of make money.

Passion in business is not everything. You must be prepared and trained if you want to succeed.

You can read the list of  these 25 Top Home-Based Business Ideas by clicking on this link here

You will find there ideas as to be Personal Trainer or Yoga Instructor, Web Design, Wedding Planner among others.

The Best Business Plans for a new start up business, 25 new business ideas

Always is interesting to read about business plans because you can learn about money tips, how to make money, finance and more.

Cnn Money made a contest and selected the betters 25 business plans, each one is also a business idea for make money. A business plan is only the project or map of a potential success.

Nobody knows if these 25 business plan that won this contest will be the key for a successful business but for some reason they won  so I recommend you to visit the Cnn Money website and learn more about these entusiastic business ideas.

I invite you to visit the information about this contest by clicking here on this link

MBA Ranking focused in Small Business or the develop of a new start up

There are many rankings of business schools that you should read if you want to study a  Master Business Administration (MBA) program.

In this interesting link you can see a ranking of business schools entirely different. Business Schools are focused on real-world small-business know-how, developing new business. Obviously, some times you will start to working in your own business and maybe it will be a small business that with your work will be a big business, however in the process you should to learn about finance, money tips, ecommerce and more.

You can acces to this ranking by  clicking here on this link.

Excellent business idea, direct sales to a specific market

This company specializes exclusively in the Lawyer´s market , they sell a range of specific products for that market. There are a lot of lawyers and they have a lot of money also.

So this specialization is a good business idea for make money online with a ecommerce strategy. Don’t forget to be part of  Better Business Bureau (BBB) for project trust to your potential costumers.

If you want to visit the website of this company click here on this link. may be you can learn some money tips to make money online.