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JANUARY 31, 2010

Learn about how your company structure affects pay. Turbocharge Your Sales » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 7:45 am and is filed under Business Checklists. If possible, get some advice from your accountant regarding the level of pay you plan on taking from the business.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Small Business Crunches Numbers : Small business has fought the health-care bill as too costly. Learn how your small business can capitalize on these unmet needs and find and master your own niche market. Organizations are working to help them size up. « Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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JULY 13, 2010

It might take time, but you will learn a great deal about how to, and how not to, do things! Networking not only allows you to meet potential clients but you will also learn valuable lessons from people who are more experienced in the business world. start-up in business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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MARCH 14, 2010

Learn everything you can about your competition, their products and how they advertise. « Good Business: A Reputation of Integrity Why Your Small Business Needs A SWOT » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 7:00 am and is filed under SME-Blog. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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MARCH 16, 2010

If an area such as accounting is your weakness, rather than wasting time learning the skill it may be more cost-effective and time efficient to outsource the service. Work out if these weaknesses will truly impact your business, and if there are ways to improve in these areas. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You might be surprised how much you can learn about your people and your business! « Top 5 Tips for Finding Investors Top 5 Tips for Hiring New Employees » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under SME-Blog. Be accessible – today’s workers value face time.

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MAY 18, 2010

« Top 5 Ways of Being More Efficient in Business The Centre of Your Small Business » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under Customer Service. If you want to build a business it’s important to learn how to let things go. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

If you are no longer personally growing and learning in your role it can cause your business to stagnate. Have you developed a resistance to adopting new ideas or taking risks? It is possible that you may have been at the helm for too long. Try to surround yourself with people who will challenge your thinking about business matters.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Although he never finished high school, Scudamore loves nothing more than learning. Within his business he has established what he calls a Mentor Board of Advisors, a group of people he turns to for advice and learning. Today they have 95 franchise partners across North America and are in 47 of North America’s top 50 cities.

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MAY 20, 2010

When you begin employing staff you need to quickly learn how to not only manage them, but also how to help them achieve their best. Allow your staff time to come to you with ideas or questions; you’ll learn a lot about your business and might even discover an avenue you’d never thought of taking. « The Customer Is Always Right!

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 7:00 am and is filed under Business Checklists. Not only that, you have someone that is learning the latest and greatest tech practices. « Economics – Small Business Quote of the Week Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake.

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MARCH 23, 2010

« Top 5 Tips for Learning More About Your Customers Budget 2010 – The Saviour for Small Businesses? » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 2:30 am and is filed under Customer Service , SME-Blog. So why shouldn’t I strive to give my customers the same?

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JULY 20, 2010

As I have mentioned previously , I am looking to help small businesses to hold conversations, engage with each other and learn from what is happening in the big business world. Small business owners need to consider ‘online’ an extension of their market place and learn to communicate well within that environment.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

According to the Association for Psychological Science (2006), the unconscious transmission of actions or emotions from one individual to another is possible. If that doesn’t work, think about paying for the training out of your own pocket and then show your boss how effective and productive you are afterwards by using what you learned.

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JULY 27, 2010

For example, if you learn about products that are doing well in other countries then you may be able to adapt them for sale here if no-one else is doing it. » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 7:00 am and is filed under Business Ideas , How to. , a good idea is so important.

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APRIL 27, 2010

I look forward to reading your pitches, and learning more about your small businesses! « Planned European Webserver Outage The Spirit of the Entrepreneur » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under Announcements , SME-Blog. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Lessons from recession will help SMEs’ future roadmap courage and… : Learning lessons from recession important for future upswing SMEs should graduate from growth by default. Plenty of Indianapolis-area companies are for sale. … Addressing the need gap of SMEs’ needing small funding, R. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

" A "smart" goal would say, "Loose 3 pounds a month for a total weight loss of 36 pounds in 2006." Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today! Time Limited - set a date So, a not so "smart" goal would say something like, "Loose weight." Know your "Why."

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AUGUST 28, 2007

The small business health-check questions for this episode are: Do I know what is going on in my business in all areas or have I abdicated some responsibility to staff? « If You Work All Day, You Have No Time To Make Any Money! Small Business Infrastructure For Business Start-Up. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I came across one company from Canada which took SEO optimisation into their own hands and learned through experience and extensive testing a few proven ways to boost Google’s rankings of your website. Encourage other sites to link to yours – this may be a well known strategy but it can’t be reinforced enough. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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FEBRUARY 2, 2008

Now you can learn what went wrong and understand your business better, it will force you to rethink and face facts. You will be amazed what you can learn about the financial dynamic in your small business within one hour, that is often all it takes to get started. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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JUNE 29, 2010

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under How to. « Top 5 Serious Start-Up Mistakes Is Your Networking Fishy Enough? lower overheads. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 7:08 pm and is filed under Comments. You learn to enjoy that and understand that they are doing that because they are hurting – after all we are destroying their business model, which made them all very much money. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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MARCH 30, 2010

« Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget Top 5 Tips for Small Businesses at Easter » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 at 6:30 am and is filed under SME-Blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Cash-flow – compare your cash-flow fore-cast with the actual numbers on a regular basis and learn from it, it’s not about being spot on, but about knowing what happened so you can control it. Mark-up – make sure you review your mark-up on a regular basis to protect your margins. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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JANUARY 21, 2008

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 11:14 am and is filed under Question & Answer. Ann White Said on January 31st, 2008 at 2:58 am Following a proven path, and learning by doing is a better way than trying to figure out how to reinvent the wheel. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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MARCH 2, 2010

« Top 5 Tips for Giving a New Business a Kick Start Top 5 Tips for Writing a Staff Handbook » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 2:30 am and is filed under SME-Blog , bootstrap. Jp14 Said on March 5th, 2010 at 10:36 pm Another common thing is to keep learning.

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JANUARY 13, 2008

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Sunday, January 13th, 2008 at 1:28 pm and is filed under do a SWOT plan , plan cash-flow , plan your business , start-up in business. But saying that, we are still learning and growing. I have learned a lot just from the info posted here! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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APRIL 16, 2008

If you consider the skills potential of parents, if each parent would only contribute one hour on average per week to their learned professions. The truth in my opinion is more the fact that we often block this remote working possibility from our minds, but why? This would be a staggering number of man hours per week.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 6:58 am and is filed under Marketing/PR , Sales , be successful , market and sell. « Small Business Maxim: Have a Passion. People buy from People. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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AUGUST 3, 2010

« Top 5 Tips for Avoiding Employment Lawsuits Pitch of the Week – Waste Notes » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under Entrepreneur , How to. SOHO/SMB/SME/Micro , start-up in business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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APRIL 1, 2008

Skills needed: You will need to be very good at graphic design and it will help if you know how to print T-shirts already, although you could learn. Although this is a competitive market, if you are talented and customer focused enough then you can become successful. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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MARCH 20, 2008

What have I learned yesterday? « Small Business Startup Checklist – Company Structure India Small Business News Round-up – 20/03/2008 » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 9:16 am and is filed under Business Ideas , Start-Up , be successful , start-up in business.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, November 19th, 2007 at 7:57 pm and is filed under Accounting , Small Business / SOHO , WinWeb , do bookkeeping. , « Get Small Business Blogging with WinWeb! Small Business Maxim: Have a Passion. do cost cutting. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

« Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/11/17 WinWeb Launches WinWeb TV – Free Small & Home Business Videos » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 6:08 pm and is filed under plan cash-flow. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

At the same time business failure is far less an issue, as the risk associated with these ventures is very small, with the right mental attitude of the entrepreneur towards failure, the learning effect of a failure can be enormous. Emerging economies like China, India and some others are learning from the U.S. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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MAY 8, 2006

Not all accountants are created equal (how do you choose an accountant) by Jason Holden on May 08, 2006 My first contribution to this blog has resulted from a recent experience had by a new client of my practice with someone who also used the title ‘accountant’. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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