http://nickyatesaustralia.com.au The travelling adventures of Nicholas Yates Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:44:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the most memorable Nick Yates travel adventures was to the Saharan sand dunes which extend into eastern Morocco.  One has to put effort into finding the desert as Hollywood actively portrays it, and this corner of Morocco obliges the traveler with dunes up to a hundred feet in ... http://nickyatesaustralia.com.au/into-the-saharan-dunes-in-morocco/ The tropical Central American country of Costa Rica boasts reasonable prices and a location scant hours away by air from major U.S. cities.  It also has friendly inhabitants, beaches on two oceans, vast rainforests and impressive volcanoes. It's long been a Mecca for environmentalists, who revel in the generous amount of ... http://nickyatesaustralia.com.au/costa-rica-in-brief/ Author: Nick Yates All that heat your office computers put out in the course of enabling your company to stay connected daily with the marketplace -- suppose it could be captured and channeled in useful ways? The next approach to providing efficient cooling for increasingly powerful IT hardware systems may be a ... http://nickyatesaustralia.com.au/computers-as-environmental-allies/ The rise in energy prices has added not only to families' transportation costs but to those of businesses as well.  High energy prices have also diverted extra dollars away from non-energy consumer spending. Happily for both businesses and consumers the recent energy price increases have, as might be expected in a ... http://nickyatesaustralia.com.au/energy-costs-fuel-innovation-by-nick-yates-of-australia/ As your business grows your enterprise resource planning (ERP) software may face growing capacity problems. Where to go from there?  There are robust software options on the market designed for small, mid-sized and large companies -- Microsoft's Dynamics AX and Infor, to name two in the mid-sized range.  The Fortune 500 crowd ... http://nickyatesaustralia.com.au/nick-yates-on-erp-system-conversions/ Author: Dave Miller You've got a great idea for a business - you know it will be successful - if you can just get the money to make it happen. You know that the best way to present your project to lenders is with a business plan. Lenders have money to lend ... http://nickyatesaustralia.com.au/secrets-of-a-great-business-plan/ Author: Dave Kauppi I must admit that I have had a bias against my clients selling their businesses to private equity firms until I discovered that there are some situations where it might be the best exit strategy. Our firm represents business sellers primarily in the information technology and healthcare industries. ... http://nickyatesaustralia.com.au/private-equity-may-be-your-best-business-exit-strategy/ By Robert Flowers Wealth is a mindset. Something that one is going to need in order to become prosperous. In other words, there is no wealth with a poverty mindset. One will remain in poverty. The experiences of starting a business is good, it is an idea. However, if one's mind ... http://nickyatesaustralia.com.au/your-mindset-your-business/ By Pam Lawhorne I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason... even bad things. You've heard the old saying "What doesn't kill you will only make you stronger." Well that statement couldn't ring more true. When I do seminars or training, even after I go through my entire ... http://nickyatesaustralia.com.au/are-you-ready-for-success/ Author: Sean Mcalister Entrepreneurship is often difficult and tricky, as many new ventures fail. Entrepreneurs usually have strong beliefs about a market opportunity and organize their resources effectively to accomplish an outcome that changes existing interactions. Entrepreneurship creates jobs and drives the US economy. Entrepreneurs exemplify the American dream working without ... http://nickyatesaustralia.com.au/the-entrepreneur/