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Do You Convey Value?

Make or Break Moments

Perhaps your suppliers have raised prices. Full disclosure or as Kathleen says “transparency.&# If our customers see we are being up front and honest – they will trust us and remember, people buy from those they like and TRUST.

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How To Make This Recession Work For Your Small Home Business.

The Small Business Blog

If the supplier knows you are ready to buy for the right price they will cut you a deal. Promise to buy from one supplier for better payment terms, like 60 or 90 days. Getting a better price is especially easy to do right now, since suppliers are tripping over themselves to get business. Get better payment terms by negotiation.

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Top 5 Ways of Being More Efficient in Business

The Small Business Blog

Use a specific business calendar to keep a reminder of your schedule. Use WinWeb ’s Online Calendar and Online Document Store to cut down on physical waste. Don’t purchase containers to store more documents and files – throw away as much of your old stuff as possible instead. Be ruthless with your filing.

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10 minute power meeting technique. | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Look at you calendar and write next to each meeting how long it should take and stick too it. Remember this is a rule for internal meetings, for meetings with customers this rule does not apply – within reason of cause. The customer should determine the length of the meeting. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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SME / SMB Have Become Obsolete Acronyms | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Seems to me that a lot more SME are using google services now. do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Apple – a customer support nightmare! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

You guessed it, as soon as I had done that my new computer started having problems, no calendar or address book data anymore,then my email started going and so on – I rebooted and that was that – I could no longer log in. What makes customer service stink isn’t that suppliers make mistakes.

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Work-Life Balance 2.0 and Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

The good news is that hosted network technology allows for complete flexibility in working, by giving organisations and their staff full and instant access to all their company data, email, calendar and contacts from any computer in the world, without the need for Virtual Private Networks to be set up. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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