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While I m not suggesting that you befriend your competitors, it is important that you are cognizant of your competitors business ventures and methods. It is important to realize that while monitoring your competitors is essential, it could easily become an obsession. Therefore, it is crucial that you strike a balance when incorporating it into your business plan. There are several ways to conduct successful stealth competitive intelligence operations. While it is fanciful to imagine yourself as a secret agent or spy, none of these techniques are difficult, hidden or secretive. In fact, most of them are tools or services available to all businesses. Ego Searches What are ego searches. Ego searches are keywords or keyword phrase searches for a specific brand, product, or company name. Ego searches are a great way to monitor mentions of a competing...

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You find a company that is earning more economically than other companies with the same GAAP numbers. So, the P E ratio tends to exaggerate how expensive the business is. This is kind of like finding a business with excess cash. While it s true that a business can have too much cash from an efficiency point of view, finding more cash on the balance sheet than you expected is always a good thing, right. The point in each case is that the headline numbers EPS, P E, etc. sometimes lie - and an inordinate number of bargains are found where such lies exist simply, because others aren t looking there it s a less conspicuous bargain . Wouldn t it mean the company wasn t reinvesting in P E. Some businesses have a very strong relationship between the value of the assets in the business and earnings. Others have almost no correlation between the two. For an...

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According to a recent survey on health concerns, women fear breast cancer most. Despite the fears expressed in the survey, conducted by the International Communications Research of Media for the Society of Women s Health Research in 2005, lung cancer is actually the leading cancer killer of women. Lung cancer takes the lives of approximately 68,000 women each year. While smoking is the biggest risk factor for lung cancer, there is growing evidence that points to gender differences in the risk of developing lung cancer and the implications for treating the disease in men and women. For example, while the number of men diagnosed with lung cancer has been going down, the number of women has risen 60 percent since 1990. In addition, women who are nonsmokers are 2.5 times more likely to develop lung cancer than men who are nonsmokers. Scientific...

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