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How to Write a Business Letter

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Business letter refers to a form of communication used when writing to corporations or any institution that has a formal structure. The letter is commonly made for inquiries or correspondence between companies and external parties, clients or customers. Below are the guidelines that can be used if you want to make an interesting, formal and impressive business letter.
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Business Ethics Do Yours Stack Up

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

Recently around the world we have seen many business leaders and politicians hit the wall for breaching ethical behaviour. As a result many of their businesses have failed and there has been a terrible cost on their respective families and friends.
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3 Most Common Types of Product Liability Insurance Claims

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Product liability insurance is very necessary for all businesses to carry today. There are three types of potential product defects that allow for consumer-backed product liability lawsuits to enter into the court system:
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Greening Your Supply Chain Begins at the Bottom - Underneath It All is Your Pallet

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Most people believe change starts at the top. But when it comes to greening your supply chain, change really starts at the bottom. What's beneath all that change? It starts with your choice of pallets. The one ubiquitous platform that moves nearly everything that moves.
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How To Incorporate Business Ethics Without Sacrificing Bottom Line Profits

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Most people certainly do not enjoy receiving bills in the mail, especially when such invoices are accompanied by harsh and indifferent sounding legalese that sometimes does not even sound as if it was written by a human being. It is no secret that large banks and corporations earn much of their money via the morally questionable use of hidden terms and fees in the fine print that require reading glasses to see, and many such companies do not conduct themselves by a high code of moral ethics. After all, why be nice when you can be rich?
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Have Your Pallet Specs Become Wrecks?

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

It happens in business time after time. The phone rings and a pallet supplier gives you a price that seems too good to be true. You set up a meeting and carefully go over the spec's you require. Wood choice. Moisture content. Nail count and spacing. Stacking requirements. Size and weight specs. All you see are nodding heads. So you decide to give them a try. The first order comes in and everything looks fine, then the next one and maybe even the one after that.
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Tobacco Makes A Very Picky Crop

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

If you love cigars–if you're a true cigar aficionado–you probably wonder, every now and again, what life is like for the hard-working folks who grow the tobacco for your favorite cigars.
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Plastic or Wood Pallets - Which is Greener? Debunking the Environmental Myth of Plastic Pallets

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

For all the green rhetoric being tossed around today by the manufacturers of plastic pallets about their sustainability and recyclable nature, the facts are still the facts. Wooden pallets made from the unusable trims of the lumbering process are greener, cleaner and more environmentally friendly by any measure.
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Is It Legal to Record or Eavesdrop Without Someone’s Consent

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

The California State Legislature has declared that advances in the science and technology have led to the development of new devices and techniques for the purpose of eavesdropping upon private communications and that the invasion of privacy resulting from the continual and increase use of such devices and techniques has created a serious threat to the free exercise of personal liberties and cannot be tolerated in a free and civilized society. The legislature intends to protect the right of privacy of the people of the State of California.
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Business Opportunity Laws And Rules

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Too many offers of guaranteed income or of projected income can be found online these days. When someone is scouring the internet for job announcements or possibly with the intent of starting a business, the number of business opportunities that pop up is growing quite large. These offers are sometimes not in compliance with business opportunity law specifications. How does one know if that advertisement offering easy income or a product that sells itself is in compliance with the local business opportunity law? A look into state law will provide the answers.
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