Links of Interests
Marketing
- Acting Skills Workshop
- Are You a Pain Hunter
- Become A Thought Leader
- Becoming A Go-To Person
- Breaking Through the Isolation
- Building Networks to Help You Meet Your Goal
- Don't Solve the Problem
- Four Marketing Secrets to Make Networking A Thing of the Past
- Getting Paid What You're Worth: Lessons from a Lawn Mower Boy
- Grading Your Presentations
- Has the Time Come to Publish Your Book?
- How to Get Prospects to Take Action
- Independent Actuaries Network in Canada
- Know Your Value
- Maverick Selling: To Build a Better Client Base, Try Counter intuitive Sales Techniques
- Networking Answers from "The Independent Consultant
- New Clients
- Overcoming Fear of Sales Calls
- Overcoming Fears of Top Executives
- Rejection Reality Check
- Seven Secrets of Successful Business Leaders Who Speak Well
- Six Keys to Improving Your Proposal Close Ratio
- Solution in Search of a Problem
- "Stand out from the crowd through articles in Magazines"
- The Introvert's Guide to Marketing Your Business-An Interview with Nancy Ancowitz
- The Killer Engagement Bio
- The Main Reason You're Not Closing
- The Real Value of Publishing a Book
- The Seven Marketing Secrets You Need to Become a Sales Maker
- Thought Leading ROI
- Vertical Power: The Secret to Accelerating Your Business Growth
- Your business development checklist for success
- Your Service Selling Pipeline
Legal
- Engagement Letters to Help You Run Your Practice Well
- Intellectual Property and Patents
- LLC or Operating Agreement
- Malpractice Claims
- Managing & Insuring Professional Liability Risks
- Negotiating and reviewing the Consulting Agreement
- Planning to Compete with Your Current Employer? Plan Carefully!
- Small Firms Big Challenges: Managing Litigation Risk
- The virtual firm-teaming up with a peer
- Thinking About Minority Ownership in a Business
- Understanding Your Claims-Made Professional Liability Insurance Policy
- Using Contractors to create a project team
Continuing Education
- Distance Learning
- Does the SOA Need a CPD Requirement?
- Increase Your Value With the CERA Credential
- Introduction to Research Methods for Actuaries
- Options for Actuaries
- Promoting You! SCF Workshop
- Starting Your Own Business Seminar
Independent Actuary Profiles
- Barbara Lautzenheiser
- Dan Cassidy
- Entrepreneur Spotlight: Bill & Tad's Excellent Adventure
- Expanding the Boundaries of the Profession: A Profile of J. Bradley Murray
- Geraldine Kaye: Doing Well by Doing Good
- Mike Miele
- Moving into the Third Age
- Shiraz Jetha
Professional
- Accounting for the Implicit Rate Subsidy in OPEB Plans
- ASOP 41-The Do's and Dont's of Effective Actuarial Communications
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM): A New Reality for Business Enterprise
- How to Communicate with the SOA-A Report from the Board of Governors
- Its fun to be an expert
- Lessons Learned as a Personal Actuary
- New defined benefit plans in Canada
- Peer Review
- Surviving the Benefits Planning Earthquake
- The Personal Actuary
- There Really Are New Defined Benefit Plans
- When Not To Take An Assignment
Technology
- Are You Viewing Your IT Network as a "Utility?" If Not, You're Asking to be Left Behind
- Can Osama See Your Data?
- Is Web Conferencing Right for You?
- Microsoft Vista: The Next Windows
- Return of the Thin Client
- Stuck in Traffic on the Information Superhighway?
- What's All This Talk about VoIP?
- Understanding-and protecting Yourself from-Viruses and Spyware
- Would Your Prefer to be a Konqueror or an Explorer?
General Business
- 8 Tips to Establish Professional Boundaries
- Actuary as Entrepreneur-Raising Capital
- Are You Dependent on a Few Clients
- Band of Angels
- Billing Systems for Small Firms
- Book Reviews
- Coaching for the Independent Actuary
- Does Your Practice Need a Change?
- Don't go it alone... why you need a board of Advisors
- Eight Tips for Getting Organized in 2008
- Eight Tips for Social Business Conversations
- E-mail Sabotage: Killing the Brand Softly
- In Business as in Mountain Climbing: You Can't Prepare Too Much
- In Search of the Entrepreneurial Actuary
- Intimate Leadership: The Power within Business Couples
- Vocal Pace and Tone Can Make or Break Your Presentation!
- Project Management Basics: Increase the Success Rate of Your Projects
- Running a Meeting: 10 Rookie Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- The Angry Client: Your Practice's Best Friend
- The Success Secret Most of Us Miss
- Web Site Essentials: Too Often Forgotten!
- When Size Matters, Team Up
- Working as a Self-Employed Actuary