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In the Internet, there is power; one just has to know how to find it. The Church of Scientology has had a lot of opponents before, but never one as nebulous, as chaotic, and as difficult to deal with as Anonymous – the collective hive mind of the Internet itself. There have been ways to spread bad news before and update loved ones at an international level, but Facebook and Twitter have become ways to get news up

A lot of business owners prefer sole entrepreneurship as the legal designation for their venture. Why? Because it presents the least hassle when registering your business with the government. However, designating your business as a sole entrepreneurship bounds it to some severe limitations. For one, angel investors and venture capitalists are less likely to invest in your company, as they have no formal shares or c

Every business has a competitor. It doesn’t matter if its service is as obscure as writing up a visual impact muscle building review for clients or as open as Coca-Cola’s work. If a business exists, then it has a competitor that wants to take its customers away. In the spirit of competition, the two might be cordial but efficient in their rivalry apart from the occasional jab – think Marvel Comics and

Perception, they say, is reality. What people see, what people believe is what becomes real to them. In a manner of speaking, reality is defined by what they know, and what they know is defined by what they perceive. This is something that many people in marketing and advertising understand, because part of their job is to control the general public’s and target market’s perception of the products on of

The reason why most companies fail is because they don’t make their sales forecasts achievable. They expect things to go ahead as planned, and just hope to hit only a few minor bumps on the road. Some would even dismiss having an alternative plan to survive a big problem that they might encounter in the future. They think only negative minded people should think of making plan Bs or adjusting a sales forecast

They say that for a government to run smoothly, it needs a good manager. In the situation of most countries today – particularly in Europe – this might be true. With a country like Greece that just underwent a bailout, and Portugal and Italy on the brink of bankruptcy, many people think that more businessmen should enter politics. They have good managerial skills and know the meaning of fiscal discipline. They

As part of the answer to Greece’s financial crisis, Lucas Papademos has recently become prime minister. In the fall-out of continuing scandal in Italy, Mario Monti is expected to replace the scandalous Silvio Berlusconi. Besides taking over seats that have received a lot of recent negative attention, both men have been labeled “technocrats” by the press. But just what is a technocrat? In a politic

There are many business people who are constantly trying to balance price and product features to find the ideal balance that will be attractive to people. That ideal, of course, is a competitive price without compromising on aspects of the product that potential buyers would be drawn to – like packaging, or the effectiveness of the product itself. That can be difficult to do, since the businesses want profit and

Maybe it’s because I worked in retail and the food industry for so long, but I have a habit of being nice to the people serving me. I know what it’s like to stand there for long hours, your feet and back aching, your whole hope centered on going home at the end of the day – and then someone in a suit comes in and treats you like trash. I have to tell you, when I worked at a popular restaurant in Vegas, th

In a world of constant change, we must continually adapt ourselves to survive. This means being aware of climate, sensing the direction of flow and moving with it. Factors that were once crucial to success in business can become irrelevant very quickly. The most important thing in business has always been to be up- to- date with current public demand. This is part of the reason why social networking is has so quick