Archive for April, 2010

100 FREE Tools to Supercharge Your Business

The gurus at Inc.com have released a library of tools and templates for your business. With forms, job description templates, interactive worksheets, spreadsheets, and contracts, including 100 tools from DocStoc, you will find a business owner’s candy store of professional documents. Business areas covered include: Start-up, Running a Business, Money and Finance, Leadership and Managing, Sales [...]

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Bellevue WA Based JF Designs Co. Completes New Web Site Design and Hosting Solution for TYNET Inc.

JF Designs was excited to be selected to design the web site for Seattle area TYNET Inc. (www.tynetinc.com). The project encompassed a new design to promote its computer printer and typewriter repair service. JF Designs created a total package solution for TYNET Inc. that included search engine optimization, web design and implementation and they are also providing the server technology for hosting the completed site.

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Brand Identity

CLIENT: Pro-Fit Carry Systems SERVICES PROVIDED: Art Direction, Graphic Design, Typesetting PROJECT DETAILS: JF Designs created a strong branding identity to promote a new consumer product line that will be featured nationally in retail stores.

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5 Business Lessons Learned from Undercover Boss

It was one of this year’s reality show standouts, beloved by viewers for the dose of schadenfreude they’d get by seeing executives fail at attempting the basics that make their companies tick. Undercover Boss took CEOs (such as 7-Eleven’s Joe DePinto, above) out of their corner offices and planted them as entry-level grunts in their own business. What ensued needn’t just be couch-potato fuel, though: We’ve compiled some notes so you can avoid these CEOs’ mistakes.

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How to Network: 5 Tips for Shy People

Dale Carnegie literally wrote the book on networking in 1936. How to Win Friends and Influence People demystified the process of making friends out of strangers and inspired legions of business coaches to carry on Carnegie’s message.

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