January 2010
19 posts
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Is Your Business Idea A Good Idea?
This is the big one. This is the question that you just can’t ignore if you’re going to invest in your own business. Unfortunately, you can’t answer it, no-one can. I was watching a bit of TV last night and there were a couple of Irish entrepreneurs selling genuine Irish dirt, bits of earth, in a nice bag to the American market. They were selling tons of the stuff. Can you...
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Wake Up Call: Parents Walking Out Through Lack of...
UK parents are leaving work due to the lack of flexible working opportunities available to them, according to a new survey for Family Friendly Working. The cost of childcare is also forcing parents to stay at home. The survey reveals that just over a third (34.6%) of parents who had left work after having children had done so because of lack of flexible work opportunities. Three in 10 (30.7%)...
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Can't see the home business wood for the scamming...
I have several ‘google alerts’ set up (if you don’t know what these are…uh…google it) that keep me abreast of every aspect of what could be called ‘the flexible world’. As part of that daily research I have an alert that brings me all the ‘home business’ news from around the world, from newspaper articles to blogs, and quite frankly I’m...
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HR departments fail to bridge the gap between...
The majority of businesses claim to have a flexible working policy but 61% of employees never or hardly ever work from home. According to a poll of 1,200 small and medium-sized businesses, over half (55%) do not see how remote working could increase employee productivity, for example, by allowing staff to utilise more of their day or by enabling greater opportunity to concentrate on...
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Caregivers and Flexible Work
One of the groups of people often overlooked when shouting the benefits of flexible work, on both sides of the pond, are home/family carers. These selfless people help and care for old and sick loved-ones, at no cost to society, and often miss out on working a full time job. Over 2.6 million caregivers will benefit from the right to request flexible working in the UK alone, with a further 50...
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6 Steps To A Flexible Work Policy
The lightbulb has finally gone off in your head and you can now see clearly the benefits of flexible work, but what do you do about it? Here are six steps to help guide you through the successful implementation of a flexible work policy at your worksite. Step 1: Review Organizational Policy See if your organization has written policies on compressed workweeks or flextime. If so, read them. If...
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Telecommuting Saves The World
Been surfing the telecommuting web and came across Telecommuting Could Speed Economic Recovery by undress4success.com where it’s written that Business Week reported that, based on interviews with a number of esteemed economists, the lack of worker mobility was significantly stifling our economic recovery. It turns out that mobility in the workforce is essential to prosperity but with the...
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Using RSS to Explode Your Business Leads – Part 2
Following on from Using RSS to Explode Your Business Leads – Part 1 the real fun begins when we introduce ping.fm into the mix: http://www.youtube.com/v/lY3jUyg3iJo If you need any further info or questions answered then please ask in the comments. Related Business Leads Articles … Important Ways To Boost Business Sales Leads For Your Business … In order to survive in the business...
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Using RSS to Explode Your Business Leads - Part 1
Another quick video of a technique that has brought hmp many of its members - this one’s twitterfeed and this is a brief explanation on how I am using RSS to explode business leads. http://www.youtube.com/v/NIhYuLUiw1c&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b”,”allowfullscreen”:”true””...
A technique to spread your business message
If you spend hours writing a blog post, that will hopefully bring some traffic to your site and ramp up your authority, then it’s a good idea to spread your business message as far as you can and get the maximum exposure. Below is a very quick technique I use to get my posts on 5 or 6 different sites straight away. Related Spread Your Business Message Articles … SIMPLE TOOLS THAT...
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Why you'll never get 'that' flexible job on a job...
From the title you may suspect that I’ve shot myself in the foot here. Yes hmp has a job board but not the type I’m talking about. I was reading Seth Godin’s blog post Career fairs… and how they are the last resort for companies and job-seekers alike, and I realised that the giant job boards on the internet are just the same. A company needs to fill some drone position...
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Home Business v's Home Job
Image by Kaptain Kobold via Flickr You have to make a change - you know this. Kid number 4 has come along or the commute is killing you, whatever, you want to work from home but what the hell do you do about it. There are 2 broad camps, as inferred by the title - start a home business or work from home on someone else’s business. Now for some of you the choice is simple, that little...
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A Flexible Workplace is a Happier, Healthier...
Image via Wikipedia Annie Toro is the Associate Executive Director for Public Interest Government Relations, American Psychological Association. This blog originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Years of psychological research provide a strong foundation for flexible work arrangements, demonstrating the benefit to employees’ physical and mental health, as well as their family life. To...
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Telephone Interview Secrets
Telephone interviews are becoming increasingly popular as a means of narrowing down candidates for a more traditional face to face interview. In the ultra competitive society we now live, a job advertisement can attract hundreds of resumes from candidates with similar set of skills and backgrounds. The recruitment process is all about finding the one perfect candidate among the basket full of...
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Win a Professional Resume & Cover Letter
Our friends at redstarresume.com have kindly offered to write a free professional resume and cover letter to the winner of our twitter based competition this month. I won’t repeat the deal as you’ll find it all on the hiremyparents contest page - so give it a go and thanks again to redstarresume.comCheck out our blog about flexible working for parents
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What is Residual Income?
A very quick post today because I was going to write about residual income and during my research I came across Tina Adams’ blog. Residual Income: What It Is and How to Create It is a great blog post by Tina that gives details of what residual income is and her other blog posts go deeper into how to get it. Residual Income has got a bit of a bad rap over recent years with certain unsavoury...
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Exclusive Business Opportunity At...
hiremyparents is now advertising positions on it’s job board for eCommerce Advisors for winweb.com, an international software provider for small and SOHO businesses. This is a great opportunity to start your own business with support from a large organisation - current positions are for the UK only but USA positions will arrive soon on hiremyparents. Get your free membership to hiremyparents...
Winter weather promoting flexible working...
Image via Wikipedia Yes - once again the blue moon has risen and the UK has been brought to a halt by a bit of snow. Schools have closed and parents everywhere have to stay at home and send those ‘sorry I’ve got children’ emails to their boss. By the way, get it while you can - I’m writing this post and its snowball time for me. In turn those bosses and business owners are...
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2010 - The year for flexible work?
Image via Wikipedia All of a sudden it seems the world has gone flexible work mad. The South Korean government has outlined plans to increase labour market participation among women, the Aussies have just thrown up their hands and given some of the most pro-flex legislation I’ve come across - probably a bit too ‘pro’ in my view, I’ll get to that in a future post - and...