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Advice from A-Z, Self-syndicated column by Azriela Jaffe
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A) ENTREPRENEURIAL COUPLES - JOINT PARTNERS

A1) When working together can dull your marriage - and what to do about it.
A2) When working together is a long term dream you aspire to.
A3) When one spouse works for the other - a positive example of making it work.
A4) Assessing your propensity as a couple to thrive as joint partners - a quiz.
A5) Advantages of hiring a husband and wife business partnership
A6) Bringing a spouse into the business after his or her retirement
A7) Convincing a spouse to join you in your business
A8) Help! My spouse is not performing up to expectations
A9) Getting separation at work from your spouse and working partner
A10) We love working together but we hate our business.
A11) My boyfriend wants to partner, and I said no!
A12) Help! My artist-husband is destroying our business!
A13) A couple that flies together, stays together.
A14) Oops – I Forgot To Tell My Husband/Partner That I Wouldn’t Be In Today.
A15) Taking Off my Business Manager Hat and Just Being her Husband.
A16) My Husband and I are Opposites in Every way. Can We Still Work Together?
A17) Moving the Business out of the Home was the Best Thing for this Business and Marriage.
A18) Husband does the “grunt” work for his wife with no complaint.
A19) From Laid off to Working for my wife.
A20) Wife’s Self Employment Leads Her Husband To an Undiscovered Talent
A21) Should my wife and I open up a restaurant?
A22) Help! I’m Having Too Much Fun to Get Any Work Done
A23) This couple got off to a rough start.
A24) Is My Husband Detail-Oriented or a Compulsive Nut?
A25) The Pressures on a Marriage of Frequent Travelling
A26) I’m Looking for a Manager Since my Spouse Won’t Do It
A27) Should I Get a Job Just to Chase the Bill Collectors Away?
A28) Developing Your “Own Thing” When you Work with a Spouse
A29) Love of Motorcycles Brings this Couple Together in Business
A30) What Kind of Home Business Should my Spouse and I do?
A31) My Spouse and Business Partner Won’t Put our Agreements in Writing
A32) Employees leaving because of couple fighting
A33) My husband thinks he’s always right
A34) My wife is flirting with one of our employees
A35) Husband Procrastinates Joining His Wife’s Firm
A36) Do Lenders Worry about Loaning Money to Couple Owned Businesses?
A37) Husband and Wife are Partners, Even Though They Run Separate Businesses
A38) Some Men Have Trouble Viewing Wives as Business Partners
A39) Switching out of Business Mode
A40) Sharing office when differing needs for clutter and cleanliness
A41) My Husband And Business Partner Treats Me Like Dirt
A42) Help! My Sex Life Has Dried Up Since Working With My Husband
A43) How do I convince my Husband to Let me Work for Him?
A44) Laughter is a Survival Tool When you Work with Your Spouse
A45) Cash Flow Volatility Is Too Difficult to Handle Anymore
A46) I work With My Husband All Day but I’m Lonely
A47) Financial Trouble Strains Couple in Business Together
A48) Can it Work When One of us Is the Boss?
A49) Should A Husband and Wife Work for the Same Employer?
A50) Finding Mission First, the Right Business Second
A51) Wife Running things at Home Frees Entrepreneur’s Time
A52) Disarming a Fight Before it Happens
A53) Artist Credits His Wife for His Business Success
A54) Help! I share my office with a slob - my spouse!
A55) When Employees Get Dragged Into Co-owner conflict
A56) Spouse with cold feet
A57) Husband doesnt want to be accountable to his wife
A58) 24/7 is killing our marriage
A59) spouse won’t put anything in writing
A60) steppingoutwhen time

B) ENTREPRENEURIAL COUPLES - ALL TYPES

B1) Calming your spouse down when the money isn’t flowing in from your business.
B2) The eight traits of entrepreneurial couples who thrive.
B3) How likely are you to thrive as an entrepreneurial couple - a quiz.
B4) He said, she said - when couples see the same incident entirely differently.
B5) How internet addiction can endanger your marriage.
B6) Recovering from a fight with your spouse - a romantic gesture.
B7) Praising the unsung hero - your spouse behind the scenes.
B8) Keeping the romance alive in your marriage - spontaneity.
B9) Adjusting to a work at home spouse returning to work outside of the home.
B10) Shouldering your spouse’s responsibilities once in awhile, to increase empathy.
B11) How to handle it when your spouse is unsupportive to your business.
B12) Why can’t you be different? Some techniques for conflict resolution.
B13) Accepting and forgiving a spouse’s business mistakes.
B14) Supporting an Artistic Spouse’s Entrepreneurial Dreams
B15) How to offer business advice to a struggling entrepreneurial spouse
B16) The ten fastest ways to divorce when you are growing a business
B17) Help! My spouse is taking me for granted.
B18) Deciding when the time is right to quit a day job - when a spouse is frightened about it.
B19) Spouse is threatened by network marketing business success
B20) Spouse’s role in a family business.
B21) Signs ahead of time that partnering with your spouse is a BAD idea
B22) How to get employees to accept your spouse in the business
B23) The rights of a non-working spouse in vetoing a business decision
B24) Taking a sabbath -- a quiz for couples to communicate their needs
B25) Spouse is angry about the demands of the business, and jealous of success
B26) Behind anger is usually fear.
B27) Help! I am married to an addictive overspender
B28) Developing a romantic marriage - when cash and time are scarce
B29) Tell your spouse in advance when your business is unravelling.
B30) It hurts me that my spouse seems disinterested in what I am doing in my business.
B31) When defensiveness makes it difficult to recognize love from our spouse.
B32) I offer my help to my entrepreneurial spouse, but he rejects it.
B33) She complains that I’m married to the business.
B34) Help! My husband has gone off the deep end with Y2k!
B35) Coping with the financial anxieties of dual entrepreneurship.
B36) The Secret to a Happy Wife.
B37) Help! My husband’s temper is chasing away my customers.
B38) The phrase, “It’s no big deal if you. . . may offend your work-at-home spouse
B39) A CEO needs to complain to someone besides his spouse.
B40) Sometimes withholding information from your spouse may be a good idea.
B41) I lost my business because of a devasating divorce.
B42) I don’t think I’m good enough for my husband’s colleagues.
B43) It’s Not Easy When your Spouse Critiques your Work.
B44) Entrepreneurial Obsession can Destroy a Marriage.
B45) There Was Some Wisdom in “Fifties” Marriages.
B46) Sometimes we Fight for Contact.
B47) Surviving the Stress of a Downsizing on a Marriage.
B48) Grumpy Husbands Set the Tone in the House.
B49) Love Doesn’t Always Look Like Love, But it Still Is.
B50) When your spouse does your business bookkeeping.
B51) Should I Lie to My Spouse About the Expenses of my Business?
B52) My Wife is all Talk, No Action
B53) Appreciating Differences Without Trying to Change Them
B54) Expand your notion of dating
B55) fighting over the computer
B56) I feel like an entrepreneurial widow
B57) Is it Enabling, or Love, to Help Your Spouse?
B58) How Do I Prevent My Husband From Feeling Like a Failure?
B59) Help! How do I Get my Husband to Stop Working?
B60) Starting a Business and A Marriage at the Same Time
B61) Sharing Household Chores When You Both Work from Home
B62) Marrying Someone in the Same Profession Increases Intimacy
B63) My Lover Left me Because of Business Disaster
B64) How Much Closeness or Seperation Do You Need?
B65) My husband is a grump - what do I do?
B66) Wife comes to husband’s rescue as his pilot car
B67) I keep trying to bring romance into our marriage, but I give up
B68) Financial Disaster Leads to Pointing the Finger
B69) My Husband is Threatened by the Money I Make
B70) My Boyfriend is Moving Out Because of Workaholism
B71) My Husband Doesn’t Take My Business As Seriously As His
B72) Giving Up Your Business to Relocate with a Spouse
B73) My Husband is Upset Because I Make More Money than Him
B74) My Boyfriend Complains I’m Not Home to Cook for Him!
B75) Husband Takes it Personally When His Wife Wants to Work
B76) My Husband Is Afraid of Me Earning My Own Money
B77) Extended Family Has Misperceptions about the Joys of Dual Entrepreneurship
B78) Why Won’t my Wife Advertise my Products?
B79) Death of Husband Spurs Decision to Take Business Full-Time
B80) How Can I Get my Girlfriend To Stop Moping and Ruining My Mood?
B81) Financial Stress Can Bring you Closer Together
B82) My Unemployed Husband’s Negativity is Driving me Nuts!
B83) Does a Wife Need Her Husband’s Permission to Succeed?
B84) Not Paying Taxes Can Wreck a Marriage
B85) Check Your Negative Beliefs at the Door
B86) Work at Home Professional Not an Errand Girl
B87) Same Industry, Differing Opinions on Approach
B88)I Lied To My Spouse About A Purchase -- Should I tell Her?
B89) Handling Constant Petty Anger in a Marriage
B90) How Do I Convince my Wife to Work Her Business?
B91) Some Workaholic Men are Driven by Their Wives
B92) Help! My husband is a pushover
B93) My husband is too honest on his taxes!
B94) Don’t you dare call her sweetie!
B95) My Spouse is angry with my boss over overtime
B96) My spouse doesn’t approve of my boss’ morals
B97) How can I get this guy to multitask better?
B98) I’m Hurt that My Husband Doesn’t Want my Professional Advice
B99) What to Do When You Don’t Trust Your Spouse’s Business Sense
B100) Should I Postpone Starting my Own Business Until Hubby’s Catches On?
B101) If a Client Came On To You, Would You Tell your Spouse?
B102) Follow up - Don’t you dare call her babe!
B103) If I Understood More About Business, Would my Boyfriend Confide More in Me?
B104) Is working part time bad for a marriage?
B105) Power of hugs
B106) money and control
B107) husbandwon’t get job
B108) workaholic won’t change

C) SUCCEEDING IN BUSINESS

C1) Knowing the difference between a deadend and a detour in your business.
C2) Attaining peace of mind as an entrepreneur.
C3) The parallels between discipline for exercising, and discipline for growing your business.
C4) Help! I’m an artist, not a business person.
C5) Help! The business isn’t fun anymore.
C6) How one phone call can change everything in your business - the good and bad news.
C7) The need for patience when growing a business.
C8) Asking for personal help from your business community.
C9) When do you quit, or push on, when your business is faltering?
C10) Scheduling over 6 months - drawing the line between flexibility and planning.
C11) Treat yourself to a luxury, instead of always putting the business first.
C12) Taking, or not taking vacations.
C13) Using your time well; accepting the inevitable time pressures of an entrepreneur.
C14) Feeling safe when you are scared to death.
C15) A mind control technique for increasing resilience.
C16) Seeing the blessings in adversity.
C17) Building your business part-time, while employed in a day job.
C18) You’ll have more free time, and other myths about working from home.
C19) The power to decide to change your attitude to a positive one.
C20) Handling practical and emotional issues of returning to corporate work.
C21) When is it time to hire professional help for your relationship conflicts?
C22) Should I sell the business or get a loan?
C23) What it takes to be a successful entrepreneur - the paradoxes.
C24) How self-employment can expand or restrict your social network
C25) Developing self-discipline as a home-based professional
C26) When relocation kills your business.
C27) Help your employees to feel more autonomous.
C28) Independence in moderation is a good thing.
C29) The power of networking - focusing on serving others will come back to you.
C30) Hanging in there when you are exhausted.
C31) Return on investment - a quiz that measures your emotional satisfaction.
C32) Selling the business - the emotional issues involved.
C33) Sharpen your intuition by increasing your knowledge.
C34) Creating an environment conducive to business success.
C35) Leaving the security of a paid job behind.
C36) The shoemaker has no shoes - when you neglect yourself for your business.
C37) When a business owner must renovate his business or himself.
C38) Do I have what it takes to succeed in a home-based business?
C39) When is enough enough? When a business owner considers closing the business.
C40) Following your soul’s longing, even when it defies logic.
C41) Your worth as a man isn’t defined by your salary.
C42) Hating and loving your work at the same time.
C43) I lost everything, including my business, in a devastating divorce.
C44) Setting business goals that are congruent with who you are.
C45) You could be in trouble if your dog bites your salesman.
C46) Ten Commandments for improving your business and personal relationships.
C47) A look inside the day of a self-employed housecleaner.
C48) Orient your employees to the bigger picture.
C49) Discipline required for being successfully self-employed at home.
C50) Time Management Tricks for the Work-at-Home Entrepreneur
C51) Creating your own luck.
C52) Solo professional is an oxymoron.
C53) If you don’t follow your dream, it may haunt you.
C54) Disabilities Doesn’t Stop This Entrepreneur, It Started Him!
C55) Honorable Behavior when you Hire a Consultant.
C56) Make the Most of Where you Are Right Now in Your Career.
C57) Success is all in how you define it.
C58) Dealing with interruptions from adults when working from home
C59) What happens to your business if you suddenly become disabled.
C60) Being a Virtual Employee Has its Hazards.
C61) The Comraderie of Colleagues is a Treasured Gift.
C62) Accepting Your Limits is Not Giving Up, It’s Smart Business Behavior.
C63) Dealing with a Computer Virus.
C64) Keeping A Business Or Job Loss In Perspective.
C65) Learning How to Market your Business When it Doesn’t Come Naturally.
C66) Running a Business that Relies on Employees can be Stressful at Times.
C67) From Business Bankruptcy To Business Consultant.
C68) Do I REALLY need a Business Plan?
C69) Converting a Hobby to a Business Takes Time and Patience.
C70) Should I buy a business with my severance pay?
C71) I’m so Lonely Working from Home, Should I Get a Job?
C72) Our Needs and Opinions Make it Hard to be Supportive at Times.
C73) Systematizing Multiple Business Through a Mission Statement.
C74) A man’s perspective on workaholism.
C75) How do I Motivate Myself when I’m the Boss?
C76) The value of becoming a business mentor.
C77) Recovering from a technological disaster.
C78) Health Issues Lead to Search for Virtual Work
C79) Leaving My Security Blanket Has Got me Scared
C80) Getting Fired Gave him the Redirection He Needed
C81) Success is When Someone Can Do Your Work Better than You Can
C82) Responding Creatively instead of Reacting Instinctively
C83) Generosity Comes Back to You Most of the Time
C84) Don’t Know a Hard-Drive from a Floppy?
C85) Our Love/Hate relationship to Technology
C86) Don’t Quit Your Day Job Right After Someone You Love Dies
C87) Networking Reaches Further than You Realize
C88) Can I make a living with seashells?
C89) Giving it all up, and then getting it all back
C90) Doing Your Homework When Setting Out in a New Business
C91) Depression Inspires Entrepreneurial Career Helping the Disabled
C92) Success Is Finding Someone Who Does Your Job Better than You Do
C93) Self-Care is Not Selfish for Busy Entrepreneurs and Parents
C94) I’m a Disorganized Mess - can I still Succeed?
C95) I’m not being taken seriously because I don’t earn any money
C96) Baby Steps When Just Starting Out in Business
C97) Protecting Yourself From Losing Everything In A Failing Business
C98) What Would You Do if Business Volume Was Not in Your Control?
C99) Quiz - Are You Running a Business or is it Running You?
C100) Start with What you Know
C101) The Challenges of Running a Seasonal Business
C102) Integrating Volunteer Work with Your Business Activities
C103) Consciously growing your company more slowly
C104) Building a Niche Business Within a Niche
C105) Friends and Family Can Make All The Difference in a Start-Up
C106) Sabotaging Yourself When You Start Becoming Successful
C107) Can You Look at Yourself in the Mirror?
C108) “Goofing off” can be Exactly What You Need to Do
C109) How do I Get the Business Training I Need?
C110) How Can I Make Myself Do the Boring Stuff?
C111) Caution: Automatic Pilot Can Put Your Company to Sleep
C112) Am I Diversified or Too Spread Out?
C113) Is a Shy Entrepreneur an Oxymoron?
C114) I’m feeling Demotivated. Should I push through it?
C115) “Doing Nothing” for Awhile Leads to New Career
C116) Agonizing over whether or not to take the risk
C117) Do Women Often Block Their Own Success?
C118) I’m OverWorking -- How do I Slow Down?
C119) Maturity and Progress is Measured by Your Decision-Making
C120) Have we Lost the Art of “Stick-tuitive-ness?”
C121) FireFighting Makes this Entrepreneur a Better Business Man
C122) Knowing What You Want is Half the Battle
C123) Going with the Flow Will Often Lead You to Success
C124) Legitimate Home Office Deductions
C125) Expect Obstacles and They Won’t Knock You Over as Easily
C126) Keeping Your Worries in Perspective
C127) Coping with the Stress of a Seasonal Business
C128) Stemming the Panic When You Fear Losing it All
C129) Changing Your “Have to’s to Get-to’s”
C130) Pausing is Key to Avoiding Emotional or Physical Hangover
C131) When Is it the Right Time to Start a New Business?
C132) What are the Payoffs for Not Succeeding?
C133) Is Self Employment the Solution to a Search for Passion?
C134) Turn a Hobby Into a Business that Pays For Itself
C135) A Company Name can Steer the Direction of a Company
C136) Cancer Survivor Builds a Thriving Franchise System
C137) Everyone Takes Risks In Their Own Way
C138) Should I Take a Job with my Client?
C139) Resolving Conflict with a Furious, Stubborn Ex-Friend
C140) Check Your Negative Beliefs at the Door
C141) God-given Talent Can Earn you a Livelihood
C142) Starting a Business All Over Again in a New Community
C143) Creating a Meaningful Life
C144) When Should I Hire my First Employee?
C145) Should I Hire Someone if I’m Going to Train them All the Time?
C146) Can Independent Contractors Be Held to Non-Compete Agreements?
C147) A Long-Term View and Due Diligence Will Pay Off
C148) Whom Are you Depriving Because of Your Fear?
C149) SCORE can help you score with your business
C150) Entrepreneurship Means Never Taking Eyes off the Details
C151) Working More can be Kiss of Death Instead of Life
C152) Breaking Into a New Community as a Business Owner
C153) How to Respond When You Experience a Business Disappointment
C154) Turning Down Work so that Better Comes Along
C155) Beware When Bringing in Outside Advisors
C156) man in untraditional field
C157) You’re Not Too Old to Change Careers -- Unless you Think You are
C158) Should I invest More Money?
C159) Even if you can multitask, you might not want to
C160) I’m failing school, should I continue?
C161) Using competitors phone number
C162) independent contractor vs employee
C163) Creating a financially balanced life
C164) Is bad luck or good a real thing?
C165) how can I change my bad luck to good?

D) FAMILY ISSUES FOR THE ENTREPRENEUR

D1) Setting up house rules when you have a homebased business.
D2) When and how to involve your children in your business.
D3) Coping with the guilt of putting your babies in daycare to work in your business.
D4) The limits of problem solving skills when your spouse or family are hurting.
D5) The importance of ritual for anchoring your family.
D6) Working with a baby at home - the myths and realities.
D7) Leaving your work troubles behind when you walk in the front door.
D8) Deciding when family comes first.
D9) A stay at home dad doesn’t guarantee a clean house.
D10) When a teenager complains about the sacrifices required.
D11) When a stay at home dad is a partner in his wife’s business.
D12) The advantages of working from home with a newborn.
D13) Creating a Family Plan, not just a business plan ( with sidebar)
D14) When desperate measures to save your business can endanger your marriage and family.
D15) Staying connected with family while travelling on business.
D16) Switching roles - dad is primary caregiver for children
D17) Transitioning from part-time to full-time when kids start school.
D18) In defense of working mothers.
D19) Working at home when the kids are home for the summertime.
D20) Why do my kids keep interrupting me while I am working?
D21) Seeking the help of a family business consulting firm.
D22) Selling the family business.
D23) Teenager interferes with professional image for a home-based business.
D24) The grass looks greener at home, after looking for a job.
D25) When the work-at-home spouse becomes overloaded.
D26) Don’t let a Negative family mood distract you from your work.
D27) Should I get a part-time job? I’m tired of not earning enough money.
D28) Confessions of a workaholic parent.
D29) A 14 year old entrepreneur who will inspire you.
D30) Sometimes the business dies when you do.
D31) When Family Pain Sparks Entrepreneurial Hunger
D32) You Can Make a lot of Money and be a Good Parent, Too.
D33) The shorter work day of the work-at-home parent is a myth.
D34) How do I find work-at-home that isn’t a scam?
D35) My family is ill and my work isn’t getting done.
D36) Best and worst of both worlds - part-time mom and part-time career woman.
D37) Nursing issues for working women.
D38) Entrepreneurship Can Turn Around Our Troubled Youth.
D39) My spouse and family no longer believe in me because of past business failures.
D40) Help! My two year old is destroying my home office.
D41) Some families may be better off not working together.
D42) Working Women Have More In Common Than It May Appear
D43) An Exchange Student Teaches Us About Love and Business
D44) A Working Mom is Often a Better Mother – Just Ask her Kids.
D45) The importance of family rituals
D46) Starting a Business to Keep his Dad Alive.
D47) Adjusting Your Business and Marriage to a New Baby.
D48) Single Parent is Afraid to Walk Away From Difficult Client
D49) I’m a work-at-home parent and my baby won’t sleep.
D50) This Entrepreneur Aims to Reduce Violence in our Schools
D51) Entrepreneur gives up professional golf to take over family business
D52) Quitting the Family Business to start a business of your own
D53) Hiring a Relative for the Summer
D54) Postponing An Entrepreneurial Dream Until the Right Time for Your Family
D55) A Family Business Almost Destroys a Family
D56) Work at Home Burn Out
D57) Selling a Family Business When the Writing is On the Wall
D58) Help! I’m Going to Work for My Future Mother-in-Law
D59) Mother/Daughter Team Hold a Big Vision
D60) Bringing Twins Into the World Means Delegation for This Business Owner
D61) Teenage Hobby becomes Thriving Business
D62) Grown-up Regrets Teenage Rebellion
D63) Family Fears and Prejudices Slow this Entrepreneur Down
D64) Should I Postpone having a baby?
D65) nursing moms
D66) My husband is an Ineffective Babysitter
D67) Working Moms Can’t Have, or Be, Everything
D68) Sometimes a Teenager Needs You More than They Want to Admit
D69) Lawyer turned full-time mom
D70) Work-at Home Job Makes it Hard to Be With Family
D71) Are Men Working from Home Better Fathers?
D72) Should I Borrow money from my father in law?
D73) Successful Career Woman trades City life for Home-Based Business
D74) It’s Not Fair That I Always Have Snow Duty!
D75) Balancing Work and Family is a Family Affair
D76) The Price on a Marriage and Family of Rapid Company Growth
D77) Cancelling Business to Attend the School Play
D78) Bringing new baby into the family - your business!
D79) Family Business Can Heal Tumultous Family Relationships
D80) Stay at Home Mom Feels Guilt at Her Resentment
D81) Encouraging Your Children’s Creative Spirit
D82) When Husband and Wives Have Different Notions of a Productive Workspace
D83) Mom Sets Out to Turn Teens On to Technology
D84) Transition Out of Family Business Can Be a Rough Ride
D85) I caught My Daughter Stealing from me
D86) How do I Encourage my Daughter to be Entrepreneurial?
D87) Help! My Mom Calls Me Too Much During The Day
D88) My Mother Can't Forgive Me For A Business Disaster
D89) My Mother Likes to Run my Life. Should I Partner with Her?
D90) Staying No to Volunteerism
D91) Mother Sacrifices Key Role in Family Business
D92) Children Help Reluctant Sales Caller to Get on the Stick
D93) What is the Legacy You are Leaving your Children?
D94) Rules for Entering the Family Business
D95) Working from Home Provides Temporary Solution to Caring for Disabled Child
D96) Entrepreneur Builds Family Friendly Business
D97) Transitioning from Husband’s Helpmate and Mom to Gainfully Employed
D98) Hiring a Housekeeper Cheaper than Divorce
D99) Committing to Balancing Work and Family Requires Short Term Sacrifice
D100) Are we Raising Our Children to be Service-Oriented?
D101) Help! My life Revolves Around the School Bus
D102) The Gift of a Talented Child
D103) Hiring My Teenage Son’s Friends
D104) When Your Family Is an Informal Board of Advisors
D105) We Employ Working Parents And We’re Proud of It!
D106) When the Entrepreneurial Parent Switches Roles with the Corporate Spouse
D107) Kids provide motivation to stick with the business
D108) Are You an Integrator or Segregator?
D109) Why Work from Home if I Hire a Babysitter?
D110) My baby hates the babysitter, should I quit my job?
D111) Role modelling
D112) what kids really want
D113) When can’t pay for college
D114) working for the sake of the kids
D115) can I force a teenager to work?
D116) family influence on budding entrepreneurship
D117) homework and industriousness
D118) garden for kids
D119) When motherhood the driving force to hang in there

E) BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS

E1) A business partnership that works - an example from a restaurant business.
E2) Begin with the end in mind when joining with a business partner.
E3) Formalizing business partnership agreements.
E4) Partner creates financial disaster - ways to protect yourself.
E5) Help! I think my spouse is having an affair with his business partner.
E6) When a silent partnership can work - and when it doesn’t.
E7) A partnership agreement won’t completely protect you from an unethical partner.
E8) Managing differences and incompatibilities in your partnership.
E9) My business partner won’t give me the benefit of the doubt.
E10) When your business partnership is suffering with the flu.
E11) Will a business partnership destroy my friendship?
E12) Asking your business partners for a raise for your wife is awkward.
E13) Sharing a vision with your business partner.
E14) Do I need a written agreement with my business partnership?
E15) My business partner’s spouse is a control freak.
E16) A Subtle Warning Not To Go Into Business With Someone.
E17) When a Business Partner is a Bit too “Touchy-Feely”
E18) My Wife’s Business Partner Isn’t Doing Her Share And I’m Paying For It
E19) A Business Partnership That Isn’t Really A Partnership At All.
E20) How do I tell my business partner/ friend that I want out?
E21) Two Sisters Join Together to make a Dream Come True.
E22) Processing Too Much in a Business Partnership can Destroy Productivity.
E23) Unrequited Love for a Business Partner.
E24) Buddy System Helps Reduce Isolation
E25) Ending an Unprofitable Partnership
E26) A Three-Way Partnership With a Spouse and a Friend is Tricky Business
E27) Company is Sold to Two Dedicated Employees
E28) Keeping Your Partner Informed
E29) Many Business Partnerships End Prematurely
E30) Help! My Business Partner is Turning into a Lazy Bum!
E31) Business Partners May Not Have Incompatible Needs
E32) Business partner makes me a better person
E33) Should I go Into Partnership with my Daughters?
E34) What you Say May Not be as Critical as How you Say it!
E35) Leaving the Partnership for the sake of the Partnership
E36) Lecturing a Business Partner Usually Backfires
E37) Valuing the Business When a Partnership Breaks Up
E38) Partner Wants a Raise But We Can’t Afford One
E39) Competitors Join Together for a Noble Cause
E40) When Searching for a Partner, Follow your Gut
E41) I’m Jittery About Partnership after Going Solo So Long
E42) I’m Attracted to my Business Partner and It’s Getting in the Way
E43) Being Right is Often Impossible to Prove
E44) Should I partner with my wife or another professional?
E45) Compensation for a partner going on maternity leave

F) SALES AND CUSTOMER SERVICE ISSUES FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS

F1) Unselfishly serving the customer, employee, or family member.
F2) Meeting your client’s standards, and how to respond when you don’t.
F3) Responding to an angry customer, and giving them more than they asked for.
F4) How one employee who offers superior customer service can alter the business image.
F5) Meeting customer and family demands - no matter what.
F6) Be intentional about the image you project to your customers.
F7) Be careful of making assumptions.
F8) Deliver work-related criticism gently.
F9) Say thank you to a business owner -- it will make their day.
F10) Service with a smile - a company that does it right.
F11) The customer isn’t always the one paying the bills.
F12) Stop Being A Business Owner – Rent To Your Customers Instead
F13) Empowering Your Employees to Handle Customer Problems
F14) Developing Rejection Calluses
F15) Going Beyond Your Job Description to Wow the Customer
F16) Cold Calling is often the last thing you want to do, not the first.
F17) Co-piloting with the customer.
F18) When Technology Destroys Service Instead Of Enhancing It
F19) He Didn’t Make A Sale, But He Earned My Respect.
F20) The Power of Sending a Thank-You Note.
F21) An Artist Has a Hard Time with Rejection in Sales
F22) Focusing on your niche is the key to business success.
F23) I’m afraid to raise my prices.
F24) Take Responsibility when you have a disgruntled customer.
F25) When You Have To Turn A Customer Down, Here’s How Not To Do It
F26) Don’t Make Assumptions About What Your Community Needs
F27) Responding with Love to a Difficult Customer
F28) A “No-Show” Doesn’t Have to Mean “No Good”
F29) Stepping in Another’s Shoes to Rid Yourself of Anger
F30) Not Listening to Your Customers Will Cost You
F31) Crawling into a Hole Won’t Help Your Sales
F32) To Overcome Your Fear of Rejection, Shift from Impressing to Serving
F33) How Do I Get Clients When I’m Just Starting Out?
F34) Breaking Through the Paralysis of Fear
F35) This Entrepreneur Switched from Lowest Price to Highest Service
F36) Help! Sales terrifies me!
F37) Don’t Underestimate the Buying Power of a Teenager
F38) Becoming Worthy of Being Paid
F39) Making it in an Industry Tarnished by Crooks
F40) Your Market Might be Bigger or Different than You Imagine
F41) Starting Out as a New Generalist Can Backfire On You
F42) Allow Your Employees To Be Angels In Disguise
F43) Caution: Your Customer Service Reps Might be Driving the Company
F44) Internet Businesses May Put Personal Contact on the Endangered List
F45) Following a Sales Script Can be Ineffective
F46) Diffusing an Irrational Customer
F47) Some Business Owners Are Guided by Their Conscience
F48) Would Sales Be Easier for Me if I Loved my Business?
F49) Company Intentionally Turns Away Business to Improve Customer Service
F50) Warm Market May be the Last Place you Want to Start
F51) “We can Do Anything” still Has it’s Limits
F52) Paralysis in Business Has Killed my Self Esteem
F53) Running Away from Rejection Fear Only Makes it Stronger
F54) Hiring Someone to Help You Get to the Sales Work
F55) Dealing with Fear and Procrastination
F56) The Secret to Measuring Outstanding Sales Performance
F57) Closing Even Five Minutes Early Leaves a Bad Taste with Customer
F58) Excellent Customer Service for Someone Who Isn’t Even a Customer!
F59) Treat Business Owners With Respect
F60) Entrepreneur loves to Wow the Customer
F61) Artist gives away her work for free
F62) Be a Shining Example Amongst Your Rude Competitors
F63) The Death of Common Courtesy
F64) Don’t Sweat the Small stuff with bad service
F65) Nice is the Ticket to Making Sales
F66) When Lying to Make a Sale Doesn’t Sit Right
F67) What Happens When Your Customers Get Skittish?
F68) Help! I ignored my Clients for Awhile, But for a Good Reason!
F69) Competing when Price is All that Seems to matter
F70) Executives Who Don’t Give Salespeople Closure
F71) I am Uncomfortable Bragging About Myself
F72) Grateful Client Rescues Consultant in Trouble
F73) Will Turning Away Work Kill my Business?
F74) Friendship destroyed in business misunderstanding
F75) How Can I Become an Outstanding Salesman?
F76) When the Customers Come and You Can’t Deliver
F77) Secrets to Handling an Angry Customer’s Objection
F78) Why Would a Busy Contractor Want to Use a Referral Service?
F79) Being fully present for your customers
F80) Trade Shows - Big Headache or Lucrative Business?
F81) Getting to Know Your Customers Better
F82) Letting go of Fury when a Customer Doesn’t Pay
F83) Creating customer evangelists
F84) Penny wise, Pound Foolish
F85) Service a commitment or a goal?
F86) Choosing the best spokesperson
F87) Sometimes it’s better to forgo the sale
F88) One employee can turn off a customer
F89) How concerned are you REALLY about customer service?
F90) Careful what you say in front of your customers
F91) return policy
F92) readers sound off on return policy
F93) to what extent do you honor a mistake?
F94) lifetime guarantee
F95) Salesman deals with conscience
F96) Quick temper of employee can chase away customer
F97) customer service advice from a banker
F98) Sales advice from a Pro
F99) what goes around, comes around
F100) future customer

G) WORKPLACE ISSUES

G1- I don’t fit in with the office clique
G2- Sharpening Your Interviewing Skills After Years of Employment
G3- The challenge of changing careers
G4 - increasing productivity may have something to do with what employees sit on
G5- “Temp to Perm” Doesn’t Just Mean Secretaries Anymore
G6- My Boss doesn’t Speak to Me
G7 - When does dating become sexual harrassment?
G8 - The Day my Employer Burned Down
G9 - A Simple Way to Say, “I Appreciate You”
G10 - When Does a Small Business Need Human Resource Policies and Procedures?
G11 -Witnessing the way that you communicate with co-workers
G12 - Small Businesses Can Have a Recruiting Edge
G13 - I Feel Terrible About Having to Fire Someone
G14 - Letting Someone Go When They are Having Personal Problems
G15) Help! My Husband’s Boss is Making Us All Miserable
G16) How Could a Prospective Employee Be so Rude?
G17) Finding New work after relocation
G18) Male Co-Workers Won’t Give me Respect
G19) Everyone Complains to me About my Boss
G20) Negative Impact on Morale When Policies Change Too Frequently
G21) A Personal Note to An Employee can Go a Long Way
G22) The Business Owner I Work For Has No Principles
G23) Workforce flexibility can Backfire
G24) I’ve Made a Bad Impression on my Boss - How do I change it?
G25) Making the Most of a Bad Job
G26) Don’t Miss Out on Commending an Exceptional Employee
G27) New Employer Lays me Off - Can They Do That?
G28) Is it a Good or Bad Idea to Hire a Married Couple?
G29) Catch Yourself Doing Something Right!
G30) Getting Beyond a String of Job Failures
G31) Beware Being Promoted Out of Your Competence
G32) Help! The People I Work With are So Negative!
G33) Serendipity May Solve Your Unemployment Problems
G34) Getting Along at Work With Someone You Don’t Like
G35) Hiring People with Disabilities Can be a Win/Win
G36) Are “no spouse” policies illegal or adviseable?
G37) Has Freedom of Expression Gone Too Far?
G38) Are You Working With a Brat?
G39) When is Lying on a Resume okay?
G40) Should I Hide a bad Year on my Resume?
G41) What You Need to Know About Employee Surveys
G42) Conducting an Ethical Culture Audit Before You Accept a Job
G43) Hire with the Long Term in Mind
G44) An Employer Speaks Out Against Lazy Job Seekers
G45) When is It Time to Form an Advisory Board?
G46) Get a Job after Failed Entrepreneurship
G47) WhistleBlower Learns that Positive Communication Pays Off
G48) A Supervisor’s Mood is Contagious
G49) You Might not have to Do the Dirty Deed of Termination
G50) Job Seeking Advice for Late in Life Career Changer
G51) That Dreaded Interview Question - What are Your Weaknesses?
G52) Exit Interviews - Valuable, but Be Careful
G53) Can Your Co-Worker Influence You to Get Divorced?
G54) Creating Loyalty in Your Employees
G55) When is Creating a Harmful Product Okay?
G56) Recruitment bonuses are risky
G57) Dealing with alcoholism in ones background
G58) Does Harassment Following Workplace Romances Violate Civil Rights Laws?
G59) Paralells between divorce and employee turnover
G60) Reducing office gossip
G61) Don’t delegate termination because of fear
G62) express appreciation
G63) trapped in job I hate
G64) Beware of change just for change sake
G65) self motivated for success
G66) Manager’s coldness can be misinterpreted
G67) Forecasting what’s ahead
G68) debate about christmas party
G69) My supervisor never listens to me
G70) Is worker shortage a myth?
G71) I have to help someone I hate
G72) depression intereferes with work
G73) Do I disclose that I was fired?
G74) Coworker thinks I’m after her

Last update: 5/10/04