Open from American Express® Can Help Your Business Do So Much!

OPEN’s services are built for the needs, pressures and budgets of businesses like yours.  With your American Express® Business Card, you have access to useful management tools, smart financing options, rewards and a dedicated team ready to provide the same level of service you provide to your customers every day.

Making Your Company’s Business Plan into a Game Plan for Success

A business plan is like a brochure – all sales pitch and no hard reality. Your business plan may create investor support, but be careful not to believe your own advertising. And it isn’t specific enough. A game plan is like an instruction manual of how to meet the company objectives.

This Year, Give The Gift of Travel—Sure Beats a Sweater

Join the new TrAAvel Perks® Program and receive two airline companion certificates valued at over $600. Plus, earn 2,500 AAdvantage® miles and get VIP savings on everything from hotels and rental cars to dining and golf tee times, and much more!

Five Keys to Relationship Selling

The problem most people face is they make the sales process too complicated. By so doing, they place barriers between themselves and their prospects. The prospective buyer can almost see dollar signs floating out of the business person’s eyes. Once this is sensed, the sale dies.

Technology-based Financial Tools for Small Business

Companies must continue to innovate and improve their efficiency. Today, a wealth of technology-based tools can help companies enhance competitiveness by streamlining operations and reducing costs.

Three Unique Technology Solutions to Help Your Business Grow, and They’re Free!

If you have considered starting a web site or updating your existing company, but feel overwhelmed by the process then you may want to consider Microsoft Office Live. Microsoft Office Live provides companies with a free domain name and registration, a free hosted web site, company branded e-mail accounts, and more.

Integrating Finances into a Second Marriage

Before you hire the band or interview the photographer, it is essential that you review your legal and estate plans. Discuss such things as beneficiaries, wills, life insurance policies, and retirement accounts, make a checklist, and complete them as quickly as possible after the legal event has been completed. Consider discussing your wishes with your children. They may be more accepting of your new marriage if they know you have made provisions for how your prior assets will be distributed in the event of your death.

Discover the Path to Perfect Harmony

Set amidst lush surroundings on the edge of the magnificent Florida Everglades, the new Red Door Lifestyle Spa at the Hyatt Regency Bonaventure offers eWomen a refuge to a destination oasis designed to revive the spirit and pamper the body.

Survive and Thrive—Conquer the Paper & E-mail Traffic Jam

Did you know that the average professional loses an hour a day due to disorganization? That might explain why so many of us feel that there are not enough hours in the day, or why we are working longer hours.

The Other Travel Revolution: Women!

At InteleTravel.com we talk about one revolution in travel, The Intelligent Travel Revolution: our unique system that lets you become a home-based, Independent Travel Agent. But there’s another revolution brewing.

Reaching the $1 Million Mark

Growth requires thinking big, then executing like crazy. Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent persistence. But that 10 percent is critical, otherwise the 90 percent is lost, aimless, and unproductive. According to Alvin Toffler, “You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing the small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” Growth comes from pursuing a worthwhile plan with measurable rigor.

10 Common Myths Women Have About Planning for Retirement

Traditionally, most women relied upon their marriage partner to be secure in their retirement years. In fact, more often than not, their spouse not only made the money, but managed it for their retirement. In other words, “security” was defined as having “a man”. Sure, this “plan” works for some women, but more and more, it’s not guaranteed.