Ronald C. Manalastas
I am an online business writer, MBA. I joined Associated Content to share my knowledge, experience, and thoughts, to stretch my writing and learning perspective, and to make friends in a broad, happy, and collaborative community of professionals.
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Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and the Future of HealthcareThe future of healthcare relates to how more successful outcomes in patient care can be assured in less time and money by using technology-based solutions like the electronic medical records.
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What Will Happen to Apple Without Steve JobsWhen people say, "Apple is Steve Jobs, and Steve Jobs is Apple," the statement dramatizes the extraordinary importance of a person who catapulted Apple into a phenomenal branding success.
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How to Ensure Customer Satisfaction in Business-to-business (B2B) Selling RelationshipIt may be difficult to develop the capacity to satisfy B2B customers. But once a B2B sales practitioner gets the discipline, relationship with the customer improves and repeat business comes in succession.
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The Biggest Problems Facing Small Businesses TodayAs recession lingers, small businesses continue to suffer common critical problems -- poor sales, increased business costs, poor cash flow, lack of capacity to hire and retain quality employees, and poor supplier relations.
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How to Define Your Target MarketAll sustainable business grows from a good product serving a correctly defined market. Without this vital link, business is headed to failure.
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How to Avoid Cash Flow Problems for a Small BusinessOnce the cash flow position of a small business deteriorates to the point that it can no longer meet current obligations, the situation raises bad signs of business failure.
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How to Be a Manager that Gets Things DoneAs a manager, the only way to get things done is through people, and to do this, you have to perform the dual role of a manager and a leader. There is no other option.
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Why Ideas Rejected by Big Corporations May Profit Small EntrepreneursMany small business owners, relying on vision, intuition, specialized knowledge, courage, adaptability, and industry, have greatly profited from ideas rejected by big business counterparts -- a case of entrepreneurial spirit creating the big difference.
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How to Compose a Professional Business MemoCrafting a professional business memo is an exercise of perfection. It demands clear understanding of the memo's purpose, audience, and structure, and a style that gets the message across. When necessary, it engages the audience to desired action.
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How to Succeed in Business by Embracing ChangeAwareness, desire, learning, and action are four core elements that must be practiced consistently for change to seep in and energize the business organization in addressing key opportunities and threats. Without change, everything stops.
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External Factors in Business Affecting SuccessThere are five (5) key external factors to consider in driving any business to outstanding success -- political, economic, social, technological, and competitive forces. You need to direct every ounce of internal strength on these elements.
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Common Errors Made by Small Business OwnersJust about 5% of small business start-ups manage to survive in the first three (3) years of operations, and many of the 5% could have even floundered during the initial stages. There are 10 reasons why this happens.
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Business Success Ideas from a Religious PerspectiveMore and more organizations continue to thrive as high-performing enterprises because the owners have been able to fuse business and spirituality in the way they conduct things. It's easier done, than what we originally thought of.
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Sample Sales Distributorship ProposalA good sales distributorship proposal presents in clear and compelling manner not only the sales interest of the proponent, but also the proven capacity to promote and sell the products or services of the principal to an appreciable growth.
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Top Strategies for Business Survival During a RecessionRecession is a business killer. Several thousands small, medium, and big businesses have been hit and have already closed. It is therefore wise to be guided by success-proven survival strategies.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Businesses Close During RecessionJob loss, shrinkage of purchasing power, reduced consumer spending, rising costs, tight credit, price-cutting, and limited investments are inescapable realities of recession. How well you navigate through these barriers can make or break your business.
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Top 10 Personal Qualities for Success in Self-EmploymentThe attributes that you need to succeed in self-employment, being an entrepreneur in its real sense, are all within you. It is just a matter of practicing self-awareness and having a resolute mind to internalize these traits.
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The Fastest Growing Retail Businesses in the United StatesThe retail industry continues to be a vital cog in America's consumer-based economy. Despite the hard times, many high-performing retailers have ignored recessional pains and managed to impressively grow.
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Managed Services: A Key to Small and Medium Business SuccessThe fusion of telecommunications and information technology has dramatically improved the competitiveness of small and medium businesses. They can now outsource important business processes with appreciable gains in efficiency and productivity.
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The Value of Specialization in BusinessKnowing, understanding, and focusing on your core competencies or unique capabilities in serving specific customer needs generates appreciable efficiency and sustainable competitive advantage. Do it now, lest recessional difficulties bring you down.
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Why Children Inherit Parental ErrorThe fragmentation of the family as a basic social unit continues to cause family dysfunctions that blur the perception, thinking, and behavior of children about what their parents are doing. The situation needs to be corrected.
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How to Write a Restaurant Business PlanFor any proposed or existing restaurant venture, you need to complete an intelligently-crafted business plan that serves its purpose. The plan can be done by you or a contracted professional writer. The key point is: you must have it to guide you.
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How to Switch Role from Employee to Business OwnerMoving from employee to business owner represents a major career switch that can bring about critical changes in the way you lead your life. It is best to know the odds before making any irreversible error.
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How to Avoid Conflicts in Part-time and Regular WorkConflicts of time and interest are dominant deterrents in having multiple sources of income. Any money-making activity other than regular work potentially competes with your employer. Care and discretion are essential.
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How to Survive Recession as an Event PlannerAs an event planner, you can always think big while being a small company. Big payoffs come from organized, creative, and market-driven project development and management.
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Is Your Past Controlling Your Life?The past represents compelling lessons from positive and negative experiences that we have gone through. It can empower us to manage the reality of the present and the prospect of the future.
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Remodeling Projects that Will Increase the Value of Your HomeExpanded kitchen, luxury bathroom, new family room, added specialty room, and green environment are the most popular remodeling projects that can heighten the value of your home. It is a great idea to remodel your home now.
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Assessing the Value of EducationEducation embodies continuous learning. It is an enabling medium that equalizes people's opportunities for improved quality of life. Education is deliberately sought, shared, and applied for the greater good.
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Why Businesses FailBusinessess flounder, and suffer abject failure, because of two fundamental reasons: poor quality of thinking and poor quality of decision-making. All other reasons are just derivative causes of inferior thoughts and actions.
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How to Make Fast and Clean Money TodaySimple and practical ideas abound for making money. These ideas are all in the mind. Re-energize your mind and you will see the bounty within you. -
What About Today and Tomorrow?If you have indestructible spirituality, you possess that enduring conviction that you are fulfilled and saved today. Tomorrow is just a happy reunion with your Almighty Creator.
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The Importance of Superior Thinking and Decision-making in Business SuccessTo succeed in business today is not as intimidating as we generally perceive it to be. The power of the human mind remains to be solution to the problems we have created.
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Are Emotions Critical to Our Financial Health?Emotions can make or break financial fortunes. How we view things around us and thoughts and feelings about situations are essential to strong financial health. -
How to Improve Your Quality of LifeIf you find happiness in who you are, the people you keep company with, the environment where you move about, and your accomplishments, you may have a good quality of life.
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Top 10 Qualities and Skills Employers SeekDifferent employers have different skill set requirements for their employees. It is wise to know which skill set has universal application across companies and industries.
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The Quality of Philippine Labor RanksThe Philippine socio-economic condition accentuates a 30% poverty rate. But the Philippines had found an antidote against the problem -- her resilient and productive community of labor heroes. -
How to Improve Your Net ProfitProfit is the reward for doing good business. And good business is all about profit with honor -- meeting your revenue and expense targets while remaining fully compliant with laws and regulations.
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How to Start a Business from Humble RootsGoing into business is predominantly a test of character, rather than a test of capital. Consider this success formula: Small Business Success = Motivation + Knowledge + SMART Objectives + Interconnection + Contentment.
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Starting a Second Career After RetirementRetirement is ensuring that your new second career is at least as refreshing, exciting, and fulfilling as your first career. It cannot be worse because you no longer have the luxury of time. Retirement is the summation of your past and present. -
What Motivates a Person to WorkWorking is predicated on what a person needs: to address some physiological, security, love, sense of belonging, recognition, or self-fulfillment issue in life. Knowing where you are enables you to identify the real force that motivates you to work.
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Is America Losing Her Freedom?The American dream is not entirely lost. To get back in the pursuit of that dream, America simply needs to wake up and rethink. America has all what it takes to secure a fulfilling and sustainable future.
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How Early Reading and Writing Skills Build the Future of Your ChildrenPurposeful reading and writing, at an early age, builds vast accumulation of knowledge. It is a critical parental duty to be dedicatedly involved in the early development of their children, reading and writing being the foundation of all human learning.
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How to Gain from a Business DegreeIn hard and turbulent times, business degree holders have the advantage in facing the challenges. They possess the technical and intuitive knowledge to manage the central engine of change and transformation --- the business enterprise.
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HOW to BUILD a GREAT MANAGEMENT TEAMNo business organization can grow and survive without a management team that can formulate winning strategies and actions consistently contributive to the predictable accomplishment of the company's objectives, mission, and vision. -
HOW to BECOME a GOOD SALESPERSONNever before has the attribute of "being a good sales person" assumed so much importance than today. It simply takes preparation + discipline + discernment + communication to have the competitive capacity in selling anything of value.
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How to Become a Successful PersonSuccess is anywhere in what we think, what we do, and what we share for humanity's sake. Despite the great odds that work against success, it is always people-friendly. Seek it and you will have it.
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10 Things I Love About the World We Live InLife is a bounty that every one must cherish. It becomes unpleasant only when we entertain negative thoughts that limit our capacity to enjoy it. If we frown upon life and go against its divine design for humanity's benefits, it becomes unbearable. -
How Firing Some Customers Can Lead to Greater RevenueThe highpoint of competitive capacity is not in being able to please every customer, but in being able to choose and retain customers that can give the desired financial returns so that the company can continue to deliver superior value. -
What to Do when You Hate Your JobWhen you begin hating your job, you start being burdened by a heavy counterproductive feeling. You need to adopt winning problem-solving and decision-making techniques, lest you ruin your next job move, if not your career.
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Ten Things I Love About the World We Live inThe world is a bounty, very rich in providential blessings. We are gifted with a body, mind, heart, and spirit for us to maximize our capacity to think, act, relate, and learn for God's glory and humanity's gain.
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The Importance of FailureFailure is poor performance or inability to achieve an intended purpose. It is creates frustration, doubt, fear, and fixation. But, in reality, it is the beginning of success, the impetus to winning a lifetime glory.
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How to Guard Your Business Against FailureAny business can snap out anytime for a variety of reasons. Deficient management knowledge and lack of preparation have been found to be the core causes of business failure. It is wise to know more before a business killer hits you.
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Why Businesses Should Never Stop ChangingBusiness is a system that has to undergo endless internal renewal because it contends with diverse, complex, dynamic, and disruptive external factors, including competitive considerations. To survive, a business must be change-compliant.
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Winning Employee Retention TechniquesThe best ways to retain employees are those that uphold their value and dignity as human beings, in a manner that supports their dreams, as well as their relationship and learning needs. -
When to Make Job TransfersThe thought of quitting a job nowadays is a critical career option. Harsh socio-economic realities demand that it be carefully and objectively evaluated before an irrevocable decision is made.
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Qualities of a Successful ManagerSuccessful management in today's fast changing and disruptive world is the fusion of professionalism and leadership. It is the dominion of people with the vision, capacity, courage, and discipline to assume the role and take the heat of the challenge it poses.
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The DNA of Managing ChangeChange is a business imperative. An organization cannot sport winning strategic capacity if it is not receptive to change. There is greater danger in being fixated to the status quo than to move forward with new ideas. -
The Adverse Impact of a Growing Socio-Economic DivideAs the gap between the rich and the poor widens, it downgrades the poor to being ultra poor, and this typical poverty escalation is the root of society's miseries all over the world. -
What is the Most Important Problem that Senior Citizens Face TodayThe problems of senior citizens today are practically a function of the quality, quantity , and relationships in life that they had during their prime and period of economic activity.
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What to Do When the Future of Your Business is UnclearA business deeply grounded on a well-thought strategic plan has the capacity to face the challenge of the future. -
How to Write a Mission StatementA mission statement describes what the business of a company is, and why it exists. It tells how the company's business purpose can be achieved. -
Work: A Fact of LifeWork is inherently in man's life. Humanity could not have progressed to its contemporary status had man not worked in the consistent exercise of his capacity to think, act, relate and learn.