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Bill Collier and include my website address: www.collierbiz.com.

Look for Bill's featured monthly column in the St. Louis Small Business Monthly.

Recession-Busting Advice

• Make Lemonade ... and Sell It!
• Engage Your Employees in the Come-Back

Business/General

• Bill Collier's Small Business Truisms
• Business Lessons from a Bride
• How to Run an Effective Meeting
• Create a Company Procedures Manual
• Business 101 for Authors and Writers
• Obtaining a Business Loan
• Track Your Numbers Manually
• Your Database: A Valuable Business Asset
• Best Practices - Beg, Borrow (but not steal) Good Ideas
• Common-Sense Policies and Procedures

Business Planning and Growth

• Grow to the Next Plateau
• Your Business' "One Thing" - Another Lesson from the movie City Slickers
• Annual Business Planning Tips
• Maybe You Need a Loan
• 10 Resolutions to Make Next Year Your Best Ever
• Calculate your Cash Flow using a simple spreadsheet

Leadership

• Transparency and Leadership: Avoid Emily Litella Syndrome

Employees/Company Culture

• Employee Incentive Plans for a High-Turnover Environment
• Creating a "High-Retention" Culture
• Talking about Values is Good Business
• Why & How to Implement Employee Reward & Recognition Programs
• No Sweat Compensation Planning
• The Bonus Trap
• How to Create Job Descriptions & Performance Reviews
• It's Free!
• Delegate Your Way to Success - Part 1 of 3
• Delegate Your Way to Success - Part 2 of 3
• Delegate Your Way to Success - Part 3 of 3
• Bring Values to Life in Your Business
• 12 Bogus Reasons Not to do an ESOP (and 7 Good Ones)
  by Corey Rosen, Executive Director of the NCEO

Marketing & Sales

• Is Price Everything?
• Cut Through the Holiday Marketing Clutter

Customer Service

• Customer Service: Skill or Chance?
• Turn Goof-ups into Gold
• Turn Goof-ups into Gold - The Sequel
• Stop Pouring the Wrong Coffee

Personal/Wealth

• Check Your Net Worth
• Your "One Thing" - A Lesson from the movie City Slickers
• Your Business: Think "Long-Term Net Worth"
• It's What You Keep - Part 1 of 2
• It's What You Keep - Part 2 of 2

Bill's Webinars (Web-based Seminars)

• Put Your Business to Work ... for You (Conducted for AT&T Small Biz in May 2008 and archived on their site)
• Finding Success in Today's Economy (Conducted for AT&T Small Biz in September 2008 and archived on their site)

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