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| The Tale of the Trip |
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One of the things that makes business travel appealing is the fact that your company covers your expenses with your expense account. Since you are on bona fide business for the sake of your business, being reimbursed for the costs of the trip is routine in the business world. Now we don’t want |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| The Wear and Tear of the Road |
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There is very much a difference between business travel that may last a day or two or even a week compared to the life some business people must go through who travel continuously for weeks or months on end. But it is a necessity of some areas of business that professionals representing that bus |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Tipping as a Business Strategy |
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Tipping is an odd practice primarily because it is common and expected in some professions and not at all in others. As adults, we become accustomed to tipping in the normal day in day out activity of our business and private lives.
But when it comes to tipping on a business trips, its best t |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Traveling Safe for Business |
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One of thing that you notice when you travel with a seasoned business traveler is that they have habits worked out after dozens of business trips to make sure they don’t have trouble on the road. Learning to be safe in this world has to become second nature for all of us. When you learn to driv |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Travel to Foreign Shores |
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International business travel is rapidly becoming common to work out deals and to organize international partnerships. The economy is becoming more global as the world becomes “flat” due to increased communications and the rise of the economies around the world. No longer are businesses deals a |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| (Published: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:59:24 -0500) |
| Walking in New York |
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Business travel can be enjoyable and a productive activity. The steps you take to assure your meetings are a success are the same you will do back at your home office. But they are made more complex by the act of “taking your show on the road”. But sometimes the challenges of business travel i |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Where You Sit DOES Make a Difference |
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When you are booking a business trip, there are a lot of important decisions to be made. Obviously, the important issue is your business objectives and that everything you need so the business you will do when you arrive comes off well. So you will spend the majority of your efforts on those pr |
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| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Your Business Trip and Your Diet |
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Business travel can be a productive, enjoyable and even exciting experience. The time you spend doing business in other locations expands your business reach and scope and broadens you as a person as well. Getting skilled at business travel is a solid business goal because there are skills rela |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Your First Business Trip |
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The odd thing about business travel is to some extent, it is a mixture of what you know the very strange. The business you are going out to do you know how to do. Whether it discussing a new business project, developing a software product or attending a seminar or conference, the business part |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| A Corporate Travel Policy that Works |
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It is a myth that employees who travel on business resent the corporate travel policy. The truth is that employees like to know what is expected of them and how to comply with a corporate policy as long as that policy is fair and gives them the ability to do what they need to do on the road. So |
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| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Are Travel Agents Obsolete? |
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It seems you cannot watch television for more than an hour without seeing an advertisement with William Shatner talking about Travelocity or that silly gnome talking about Orbitz. These travel web sites have been very successful at facilitating travelers to book their own airline and hotel reser |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Battling Travel Anxiety |
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The classic anxiety story about travel involves being on the road for a while only to suddenly remember that you forgot to turn off the oven. While that is a domestic story, there is just as much or more anxiety that can go into getting on the road for a business purpose as there is for private |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Business Travel on Short Notice |
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In any travel situation, the further in advance you can plan your trip, the better you will do on all of your accommodations. But in the world of business, it often occurs that you have to get to a destination immediately and the ability to move swiftly is critical to the success of the business |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Business Trips Don’t Have to be All Business |
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It’s important to know your objectives on a business trip and to set out with those goals in mind and to accomplish them. But along the way, something rather amazing happens when you travel on business. You may get to go to some pretty amazing places and get chances to see things you would have |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Controlling Business Travel Costs |
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Sometimes when we are traveling on business, it is easy to let costs get out of control. But if you are working from a per diem or have other constraints on your travel budget, you should learn some cost cutting methods that you can put into effect that won’t make your life miserable on the road |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| (Published: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:59:24 -0500) |
| Flying Into Danger |
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It’s not something we like to talk about but bad things happen to good people, even good business people who are just out on the road to pursue the prosperity of their company. But in some cases, there may be some real travel threats on your route to your business destination. This is especiall |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Insider Tips for Business Travel |
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As with any area of specialization, there are business travelers who always seem to know what they are doing and those who constantly seem to be in a state of crisis. The business traveler who has been at it a while figures out some insider information that not many travelers know. These little |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Is Now a Good Time to Panic? |
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The unfortunate thing about business travel is that, unless you are able to fly by private jet, you will have to use public transportation to travel any significant distance at all. That means you are going to have to deal with airports, security procedures, crowds of “non business” travelers ar |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Light on Your Feet |
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Its one thing to show up at your business meeting prepared mentally for the meeting and with all of your business needs at your fingertips. If that was all business travel entailed, that would be challenge enough. But to carry off a successful business trip, you have to think about your persona |
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| Moving Through Airport Security Quickly |
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Ever since homeland security has become such an issue, moving through airport security has become more difficult. As a seasoned business traveler, this part of your business trip requires some savvy preparation and your knowledge of the system so you can sail through security at the airport as q |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Never Completely Out of Touch |
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The problem with business travel, to put it bluntly, is that you are not in your office. If you are a manager or a project leader, your need to stay in touch with your team and what is going on at all times is crucial. It would seem that this need is at cross-purposes with the idea of business |
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| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| Staying Healthy on the Road |
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You can tell an experienced business traveler from one who is new to the experience. It is easy for someone new to business travel to participate in excesses on the road. As business traveler, you are an adult and you are trusted by your company to conduct yourself in a businesslike fashion du |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| (Published: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:59:24 -0500) |
| Take the Family With You |
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Business travel can be rewarding, interesting, profitable and broadening for the business traveler. But there are some downsides to the life on the road especially if you must travel for business often. Besides the occasional airport delay or layover and the ever present issue of how weather af |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| The Airplane as Your Office |
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Business travel very often involves long hours in flight to the city where your work will be done. For most business people, this is lost productivity time that can be torture if you cannot get work done in flight. How often have you said to yourself or to a coworker, “That’s all right, I will |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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| The Nightmare of Jet Lag |
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Business travel is tiring even for relatively short trips. The work of moving through airports, dealing with delays, handing your baggage, finding transportation at your destination city and getting to the meeting are a much greater stress than you ordinarily go through doing business at home. |
| Author: Keries |
| Directory: Business - Business Travel |
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