2,001 Innovative Ways to Save Your Company Thousands and Reduce Costs: A Complete Guide to Creative Cost Cutting and Profit Boosting, Volumen978,Temas0-910671

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Atlantic Publishing Company, 2007 - 351 páginas

For the small business owner, every dollar you can save by reducing costs goes directly to the bottom line in increased profits. This new book details over 2,000 specific ways that your company can reduce costs today.

This is not a theory book; there is practical advice on thousands of innovative ways to cut costs in every area of your business. Not only is the idea presented, but the pertinent information is provided such as contact information and Web sites for companies, products, or services recommended.

We spent thousands of hours interviewing, e-mailing, and communicating with hundreds of today s most successful small business managers and owners. This book is a compilation of their secrets and proven successful ideas. If you are interested in learning thousands of hints, tricks, and secrets on how to reduce business expenses and increase your profits without increasing sales, then this book is for you.

You will discover over 2,000 practical insider techniques and tips that have been gleaned from successful business operators from around the world and tested in real-life businesses applications. You can put this information in place today to reduce expenses and expand profits.

Easy to read and understand, this step-by-step guide will take the mystery out of how to reduce costs in several critical areas: office, operations, labor, cost of goods sold, advertising, marketing, human resources, insurance, employee benefits, compensation, pension plans, training, accounting, software, Web site, mailing, shipping and receiving, rent, interest and debt, utilities, and hundreds more.

Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president's garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.

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Página 261 - Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Página 209 - Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.
Página 111 - It follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor. Otherwise, education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil. No country can sustain in idleness more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. From these premises the problem springs, "How can labor and education be the most satisfactorily combined?
Página 40 - The 6 holidays most frequently mentioned were New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Página 110 - US companies now check employees' e-mail, Internet, or telephone conversations, or videotape employees at work," which is more than double the 53.3% in 1997 ("Employee Surveillance," 2001, pp. 8-9). Twenty-seven percent have fired employees for misuse of office e-mail or Internet connections and 65% have taken some disciplinary actions.
Página 14 - HR professional with expertise in change management, organizational effectiveness, talent management, employee relations, compensation and benefits, and training and development. For the past 18 years, she has focused on enabling organizations to achieve sustained business growth while embracing change in technology, hospitality, healthcare, and energy industries.
Página 94 - A recent survey discovered that "the majority of employees spend 10 hours or more a month complaining about or listening to others complain about bad bosses, while nearly one third spend 20 or more hours."9 Increase productivity on the production floor by hiring energetic managers and supervisors.
Página 225 - Those who produce goods in countries with a higher standard of living, such as the United States...
Página 110 - Ratings • 30 to 40 percent of Internet use in the workplace is not related to business. — IDC Research • 37 percent of workers say they surf the World Wide Web constantly at work.
Página 24 - Published in 2003, this 456page book shows you "new ways to improve the business impact of your HR function by up to 25 percent," according to the book's description.

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