http://www.abenetis.com Articles about Business Management, Security and Marketing en-us Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-60.html Every business needs profits, therefore here are some tips about how small businesses could improve the way they work and how to save some extra money. <b>Mail</b> Only send very important documents by first class mail. Everything else should be send with second class mail, if it could not be send electronically. Find out if there are special discounted prices for standard mailings, where only small changes are made to the documents you send out. If you send documents electronically use en ... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-59.html As this book is public domain and in our view a very important one, we decided to publish it here as well. This Article contains the complete book. <b>About Claude C. Hopkins</b> Claude C. Hopkins (1866-1932) was one of the great advertising pioneers, he believed advertising existed only to sell something and should be measurable and justify the results that it produced. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_C._Hopkins">Read more at Wikipedia</a> <b>Table of Content</b> 1. <a ... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-58.html If you want to close your Accounting Books faster, you could do a "Fast Close". A "Fast Close" is just a lean Procedure by which you streamline your Closing. It takes out the hassles and usually you save time, which you could better invest in other things. So here is a brief procedure about what you need to do for a Fast Close: <b>List all Closing Tasks</b> First of all, you need to know what you have to do. So it is important to write down everything you normally do to close your book ... Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-56.html As you probabily know there is a lot of web-based Software available for free on the Web. This Open Source Software could be used by you without any payments. That's a great advantage these days. When using Open-Source Software on a Webserver, remember that everyone could get the hand on the source code and could try to break your System. However, there are some small things you could do to make it harder to crack your System. The following list is not complete, so you might search for add ... Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-50.html All around you find discussions and articles about Leadership. But what is it? Is it a new style of supervision? In my opinion, it's nothing new. As most things in the world change, so Leadership is changing as well. Below you find topics related to a cooperative style of supervision, which I found is also the up-to-date style of Leadership. Good Leadership consists of: <b>Ability to avoid much control</b> If you control to much, it will bother your employees. There is no way to gain 1 ... Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-30.html The following list of rules, assists you to use the Internet and Emails a bit more safer. As you apply these rule into your daily work, you will have less problems with Pishing-Mails, Viruses and so on. <br><br> <u>Emails:</u> <ul> <li> Send confidential information only by encrypted email (Attachments have to be encrypted, too. Most Email-Programs don't let you encrypt attachments, so you have to do this separate). Use programs such as PGP or GPG to encrypt your emails and attachments. <li ... Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-27.html A business is only able to grow as fast as the internal organisation is able to process higher volumes of sales. But how to get an optimal internal organisation? Well, you will need to adapt your internal organisation over and over again. It's a never ending story. However, a Company/Employee Handbook could assist you to achieve the best internal business organisation. This brings up the question, What has to be included in a Company/Employee Handbook? Everything what has influence to you ... Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-26.html Maybe you have already heard that in some ways immaterial values are important for business management. But you might not found how to bring them into your Management Processes or into your Reporting Packages. However, first of all we should clearly stat, what immaterial values are? Well, this includes the balance sheet information about intangible assets, but is going far behind it. It's about information which don't have a monetary value as well. As we all know, decisions are mostly based ... Fri, 06 May 2005 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-25.html Today the sources of information seem to be endless. Magazines, books, journals, memos, emails, web sites and a lot more, provide us with more data than any person could handle. Furthermore, information is presented to us while attending to meetings and other events. Information overload is a very real concern for today's business people, but also for all others. We must possess skills that allow us to process huge amounts of data. Consider the following method as one option to bring your i ... Wed, 04 May 2005 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-24.html Do you actually know the qualifications of your employees? Do you know how long your employees work daily? Have you visited your employees at there workplace shortly? If you have answered all three questions with "No", it's not a good sign. Well, the more employees you have, the less you can know the qualifications of all, but at least you should know the names of your employees. Why should you visit your employees at their workplace? Quite simply, at his workplace your employee is usually th ... Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-22.html With this base draft you could start your own personal or business knowledge management system. At the beginning it is less importantly that the solution fulfills all requirements, but it must be able to grow with your needs. There probably will not be the ideal solution, like in many areas of life. An advantage of small selfknitted solutions is, that they only cause extremely few costs, but still could have a considerable effect. The best way to start, is to split your business into units: S ... Tue, 05 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-21.html This article is about the most important basic ingredients necessary to manage a small business. However, they are also necessary to manage very big businesses as well. As all entrepreneurs know there is just one thing everyone needs to do, but most don't like it very much. It's the solid foundation of a business controlling system, your accounting/bookkeeping. Being able to control your business requires an up-to-date accounting. However, sometimes rough pictures about your business situatio ... Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-20.html Assistance in good and in bad times - some enterprises are in a crisis without knowing it. Often it is only noted that something must happen, when customers move away, loans are cancelled, suppliers threaten the business with stop of delivery and when more and more pressure is put on the business. (You find a detailed article about signs of a crisis <a href="encyclopedia-article-18.html">here</a>.) It doesn't have to come that far. To recognize the development of business crises early, it req ... Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-18.html 1. Introduction 2. Reasons for business crises 3. Signs of crisis (crises / alarm signals) 4. Measures in the crisis 5. Actions to prevent crisis 6. Summary / Conclusion <b>1. Introduction</b> Nowadays you often hear that the number of the insolvencies is rising. Which reasons ever led to insolvency, it nevertheless, destroys workplaces and values which the companies have built. Added to the destruction of values and workplaces, personal tragedies of the present owners and employees ... Thu, 06 May 2004 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-17.html <font color="#990033"><b>Simple and effective Business Management</b></font> In every enterprise there are, at every time, one or more bottlenecks, which have influence to the commercial situation. <u>Bottleneck-oriented business management has the purpose to early track the bottlenecks and to remove them</u>, to allow an optimum of commercial development. To know at any time, what a business lacks of and to be able to add the missing things, is today a determining competition advantage. Bott ... Wed, 21 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.abenetis.com/encyclopedia-article-15.html Most of you would say, that this might not be the most important problem small businesses have to solve during their business operation. Well, that might be true, but on the other hand, if your business has an early-warning-system, than it could assist you in operating your business and keeps you focused on solving the bottlenecks you are actually facing. But first of all, in case of Early-Warning-Systems it is necessary to define what a small business is. A small business is usually a busine ...