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Book Review: Duct Tape Marketing by John Jantsch | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

John’s book is full of those moments, when he talks about &# A Solution to THE Small Business Problem “, marketing. His book fills any bootstrappers heart with joy as he takes you step-by-step to developing your own marketing plan. Any if you’re thinking about marketing, you should consider this book.

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Top 5 Tips for Hands-On Leadership | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Keep stakeholders (customers, staff, suppliers etc.) Let me know when your book is out I could write a review. Even if you have brilliant staff, standards will inevitably start to slip if you are not around to keep an eye on things. informed and create regular dialogue with each of these interest groups. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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Top 5 Tips for Writing a Staff Handbook

The Small Business Blog

Review the handbook at regular intervals to examine whether it needs updating. Make sure you include a disclaimer stating that the handbook is not a legal document. Every employee must receive a copy and should sign to state they have read it in full. If you have additional tips, please share them in the comments section.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/17

The Small Business Blog

Restructuring – a word used by BIG Business to lower cost, fire employees and squeeze suppliers. The proposed moratorium would last until the General Election, which is expected to take place in May. . ‘Restructuring’ or Cost-Cutting For Small Business Enterprise With WinWeb OnlineOffice. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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Top 5 Basic Advertising Tips

The Small Business Blog

Frank Said on March 21st, 2010 at 9:58 pm Another tip is to align your advertising activity with your public relations activity and if you can, negotiate a review of your product or editorial alongside your advertise campaign. Sponsors Advertise Here? Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

2007 100
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Small Business Checklist: Business Process Outsourcing | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

This will allow you to stay in close touch with your supplier, and get real time up-dates and feed-back – there are other benefits too. If it becomes a distraction, deal with it immediately, if need be change supplier. Anything else could and probably should be outsourced ( see: outsourcing options for small business ).

2007 100
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Is Your Networking Fishy Enough?

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There is a great book by Andy Bounds called “The Jelly Effect&# , where he suggests that businesses should approach networking a bit like going fishing. One of the main reasons can be that, although they go out and network with many new businesses, they fail to define how they will network and who they want to network with.