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No need to be bored. Follow TGtbT.com's advice and you'll be so busy, you'll never be bored again. Guaranteed.

Bored People Quit

The main reason people suddenly quit: boredom.

A few easy ways to detect boredom in your employees:

Changes in your employees’ daily routines, such as reduced productivity.
Finding yourself asking an employee “Are you bored?”
A person will tell you they’re bored, either directly or through subtle ways.

There are ways to prevent boredom, fortunately:

Have your employees focus on projects that interest them.
Let your people experiment and find out what really excites them.
Don’t constantly dump dull, tedious tasks on them.
Limit interruptions.
Try to spread around meetings, phone calls, etc.
Keep your people in the loop.

Read more on this topic from Paul Rands.

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If it can happen to Buffalo Exchange… it can happen to you. (more…)

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Trust me. If you are despairing of your back room, someone else has it worse. Here’s a shot I took of one back room. Scariest thing about this shot?

They knew I was coming.

Your back room isn't this bad, is it? says Kate Holmes of TGtbT.com

There, now don’t you feel better?

Things COULD be worse.

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HowToConsign.com promotes consignment, resale, and thrift shopsI just love it when an “old pro” gets it into her mind to have her say here on the blog. So imagine my delight when

Irene Mylan, owner of Clothes Circuit in Dallas, writes to us from her vacation home about something she’s been mulling over: (more…)

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Learning some basic tricks about being the best resale shopkeeperConcluding our series on The Internet: It’s free, but do you get FULL VALUE? with the top 3 (more…)

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