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Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget

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Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 29, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. « Budget 2010 – The Saviour for Small Businesses? Many equipment manufacturers offer free training to companies that purchase their products.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Employee engagement is a force.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Let’s face it; the more positive employee engagement, the more positive customer service, and the more company success. The last few years have been a time for slashed training budgets. Great thoughts!

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Why Your Small Business Needs A SWOT

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There are many SWOT analysis tools out there, I would, of course, recommend the one from WinWeb! « Top 5 Basic Advertising Tips Top 5 Tips for Learning More About Your Customers » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under SME-Blog , do a SWOT plan.

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Don't Underestimate The Importance Of Time Management

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There will, of course, be times when deadlines need to be met or work just has to be done that will make even the most well organized small business owner feel that they are not managing their time effectively. Remember, there are only 24 hours in a day, so let other people help you. Bear in mind that your time is money!

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Micro Business, Recession and Exporting. | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Most notably because of exchange rate risk which makes it hard to budget. Keep overheads to a minimum, review and change your suppliers if there not giving you the best value for money and service. Defend your prices in terms of value for money to your customers and then get them to do it for you to potential new customers.

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SaaS for Very Small Businesses – Show Me the Money | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Of course several Open Source packages are available completely free, which is a perfect solution for the cost problem, but frankly most of these packages are by geeks for geeks; i.e. you really have to be quite IT-savy to implement, integrate, upgrade them, and as we stated most small businesses simply do not have that type of resource.

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Small Business Bootstrapping Techniques | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Of course we wouldn’t want our business to fail, SME or multinational, we want our business to grow but running a business also means you are ready for the possibilities of failing. Sigang McGough Said on March 23rd, 2010 at 2:25 pm A convincing argument for starting a business even when on a budget. Really great ! Great post.

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