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Holiday Season, Holiday Gift and New Year's Advice for Your Business
Want to learn how to manage holiday stress, pick up business holiday party tips or find out how to properly address business Christmas cards? This collection of business articles on the holiday season and New Year's has this and more, including holiday gift advice and New Year's resolutions to help you and your business have the best year ever.
Christmas and Business
Christmas shapes the business year and for many businesses, determines whether they're going to end up in the black or the red. This Christmas business collection has articles on everything you need for your business to make the most of the Christmas season, from how to increase sales through articles about Christmas business traditions.
How to Reduce Stress Over Christmas
Do you find the Christmas holiday season stressful? This article shows you how using some basic time management strategies can considerably reduce your holiday stress and make the Christmas season more enjoyable.
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Shape up your speech, increase your success, or learn how to organize your office or start a business with one of these free online courses from Susan Ward, About Small Business Canada guide.
Year End Checklist for Small Businesses
We all know how important business planning is, but it’s easy to put off in the press of daily events. This year end checklist will inspire you to get to it and make your business planning easier.
Top 10 New Year's Resolutions
Ten resolutions to help you not only increase your business's success in the coming year, but enjoy your success more by keeping work-life balance in mind while you're goal setting.
Ring in Your Happiest, Most Successful New Year
A collection of ideas and advice from the Guides in About.com's Business and Finance and Jobs and Careers channels that will help you achieve your dreams and New Year's resolutions.
8 Financial New Year's Resolutions for Small Business Owners
Small business owners face many financial management challenges as they operate their businesses. It's the beginning of a New Year and most small business owners are making their New Year's Resolutions about their businesses. Here's what you should promise to do about your finance operations this coming year!
Make Your Year End Review a Morale Booster
If you’re feeling stressed about your business and don’t feel that you’re getting anywhere, taking stock and reviewing your accomplishments can be a great morale booster. These year end review tips from Tana Woodward will help you see what you've truly achieved.
Goal Setting: Your Guide to Setting Goals
Goal setting is one of the fastest routes to achievement. Yet many of us find setting goals and achieving them a difficult task. Use this goal setting guide to learn how to set goals, how to actually achieve the goals you set and how to use goal setting as a tool to push you to accomplish what you want to achieve.
Achieve More With SMART Goal Setting
Setting goals isn't a complicated process but you need to set the right kind of goals. These goal setting techniques for setting smart goals from Kelley Robertson will help you hit your targets and achieve more.
Setting Goals Is Just The First Step to Achievement
Do you have trouble actually accomplishing the goals you set?Learn how to set specific goals that are designed to help you succeed and make it easy for you to evaluate your success. The secret is in the goal setting formula.
Increase Christmas Sales by Gifting Your Customers
The competition for Christmas shopping dollars is fierce, so small retailers really have to go the extra mile to bring in Christmas sales. Here are five ideas for gifting your customers that will help increase Christmas sales and possibly increase customer loyalty, too.
Business Christmas Card Dos and Don’ts
Not only are Christmas cards a tradition, but sending a business Christmas card lets your clients and/or customers know that they are important to you. Here are the ins and outs of choosing and sending business Christmas cards, including what kinds of cards to send and how to properly address business Christmas cards.
Christmas Cards For Business
Mark McGregor explains why you should send your clients and customers a business Christmas card - and why you should include a business card with your Christmas card as well.
Company Christmas Party Ideas
Looking for company Christmas party ideas? Make your company Christmas party an event that staff want to attend rather than avoid with these ideas for hosting a successful company Christmas party.
Create Your Own Christmas Window Display
An attractive Christmas window display can be a real customer draw, luring customers into your store who might not have stopped otherwise – customers who are in a festive, spending mood. Use these five Christmas window display tips to create your own Christmas window display.
How to Have a Happy Holiday
Are you the sort of person who finds it hard not to make or take calls during Christmas dinner? If so, you need these ten tongue-in-cheek rules for "Type A" people to ensure harmony in your household over the holiday season.
Credit Card Fraud Behavior Tip-Offs
Credit card fraud tends to increase over the holiday season. One way that your business can help prevent credit card fraud is by ensuring that all your staff are aware of these suspicious behaviors that may indicate someone’s about to try paying for a purchase with a counterfeit or stolen credit card.
Explode Your Sales With an Internet Marketing Campaign
Successful holiday season Internet marketing campaigns are within the reach of any business, no matter what your budget. By following these basic marketing plan steps and committing to the follow-through, you can create a cost effective marketing campaign with a substantial return on investment.
Social Host Liability and Your Holiday Business Party
Having a business party over the holiday season? If your guests drink and then injure themselves or others, you could be held responsible. Here's an outline of your potential liability as a business party host, in light of two Canadian social host liability cases.
Top Business Gift Baskets
Gift baskets are an ideal way to say "thank you" - and these business and corporate gift baskets will make your clients and/or employees think of you fondly long after the basket is empty.
Top Client Gifts
Giving business gifts to your clients lets them know that their patronage is important to you, and helps cement your business relationship - if you get the right gift. Impress them with these business gift ideas.
Top Business Gifts
These business gifts are probably intended for your own business use - unless you really really want to impress one of your staff or associates. See which of these business gifts is on your wishlist.
10 Ways to Increase eBay Holiday Sales
There’s no difference now between eBay’s holiday season and offline retailers’ in terms of sales – November and December are the hottest months of the year. Pump up your eBay holiday sales with these tips to make the holidays your hottest eBay sales season too.
11 Ways to Sell Online Well and Cash in on the Holiday Sales Boom
Just being online is no guarantee of selling online. To make an investment in e-commerce pay off, your small business has to capitalize on the holiday spending season and make as many holiday sales as possible. Learn how to sell online well and boost your revenues this holiday season with these tips from SAP Canada.