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April 2011 - Keeping up with key business / technology issues in the news is difficult.  Let Jefric Consulting help you.

Click here to view the April edition of our monthly Small Business Technology Newsletter.

http://www.jefric.com/news/201104.JefricConsultingNewsletter.html

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A foreign national may apply for lawful permanent residence status (green card), and seek a waiver of the job offer and labor certification requirements, by establishing that his or her admission to permanent residence would be in the National Interest.

There is no regulatory or statutory standard as to what will qualify an alien for a National Interest Waiver. The USCIS considers each…

As a professional certified life coach for teens, I spend numerous hours helping them deal with their present and prepare them for their future.  Most of them are motivated about their future, yet extremely overwhelmed and concerned about their present.  Here are a few secrets they share with me,…

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March 2011 - Keeping up with key business / technology issues in the news is difficult.  Let Jefric Consulting help you.

Click here to view the March edition of our monthly Small Business Technology Newsletter.

http://www.jefric.com/news/201103.JefricConsultingNewsletter.html

All newsletters can be found here.…

Your JBN profile can be a valuable marketing tool if utilized properly. However, without leveraging what your profile has to offer, your profile will exist in a vacuum which will only be accessible to other members of the JBN network. Using already existing social networks that already have a substantial following (such as LinkedIn and Twitter) can significantly increase the exposure that your JBN profile receives by making it more visible.

Let's talk Twitter. Every single activity…

Businesses always seem to be giving away products and services in order to entice people into wanting to buy from them. Many offers are made through social media. The initial offer is free but what is the cost after that? Read More »

Most companies I know spend a large portion of their budgets on driving new business  through the front door.  Far fewer spend even a fraction as much in a directed effort to avoid having those precious customers walk out the back door.  The prevailing assumption is that by providing pretty good service and having largely satisfied customers, the back door is covered as…

It's been reported that more than 50% of small businesses do notperform a regularly scheduled back of their office computers and of those thatdo, 85% never test their backups to insure that they will work when they needthem.

Backups are a critical part of running…

A recent study shows that over 75%of business owners DO NOT effectively utilize bookkeeping as a business tool.The majority of businesses use bookkeeping solely as a way to track historicaldata. This is what we refer to as “Reactive Bookkeeping”.…

I want to make my group "Health & Wellness" informative for all JBN members.

Please take a moment and join my group.

I will write every week on topics that I think are of interest to you. Please give me your feedback, ask questions and make suggestions so that I can be a real resource to you in the coming year.

Best in health,

Yaakov

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Let's get organized and focused in 2011. Ace of Sales is a contact management system specifically designed for independent sales & marketing professionals. It was developed by sales guru Jeffrey Gitomer, author of many books on how to close more sales. I invite everyone to take a 30-day trial of the web-based software. Go to http://www.AceofSales.com then go to Sign-Up, and type in Marc30 into the Promo Code.…

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

-Frank Outlaw, Actor

Sometimes people confuse coaches with traditional consultants. Unconsciously, people ask coaches to give advice. The role of a coach is…

The Tired Speech: Someone is giving their “One Minute” speech, and you can tell from the first 3 words, and the Sigh (was it theirs or yours?) that this won’t be interesting. Why: It’s not what they’re saying, but how they’re saying it. It’s the TONE of their voice (sounds like their being punished) and the expression on their face (they were just given a wedgie). They have done this a million…

November 2010 - Keeping up with key business / technology issues in the news is difficult. Let Jefric Consulting help you.

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Do you have field employees? Does your staff spend (a significant amount of) time out of the office during the day, only to rush back at the end of the day to wrap up their "normal" work, accumulating a significant expense (in overtime, and more) for your business? If you answered yes, you are not alone.…

Is your business email branded to your domain, “@mycompany.com” or does it end in “gmail.com”, “aol.com”, “yahoo.com” or something else? When your email is sitting in the Inbox of a client or vendor, do you want them to think of your business or the phone / cable company?

Are you able to easily share documents and collaborate with people inside and outside your organization? Is web conferencing something that can help improve productivity, save time and money across your…