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OCTOBER 25, 2007

I will give examples and will let you fill in the rest for yourself. Examples are rent, some employee costs, property taxes, telephone, heating and interest/bank expense. Let me give you an obvious example to make my point. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! What are “Fixed Costs&# ?

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For example, if you are an independent financial advisor (IFA) then a good ‘big fish’ for you may be an accountancy firm who has many clients that will have financial and investment needs. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Allowing staff to work flexible hours is an example; at WinWeb.com my staff work from home, with flexibility and consideration for their families needs. For example because I don’t have any authority over them I can only suggest rather than tell them to do something. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Most businesses do not expect small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses to negotiate payment terms, so you have the element of surprise on your side – and it makes you look more professional. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Most businesses do not expect small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses to negotiate payment terms, so you have the element of surprise on your side – and it makes you look more professional. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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APRIL 13, 2010

An ideal example of people in this category are parents, childcare is hugely expensive and allowing people the flexibility to work from home means you can gain the staff others are missing out on! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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OCTOBER 26, 2007

In both cases it is true to say, it does not matter what kind of small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer- or Personal business, like professional, contractors, freelancer, self-employed, sole-trader and virtual assistants, you run. 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. Developing markets are a key example of an opportunity and a threat may be a new competitor in your marketplace. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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APRIL 8, 2008

Consider forming a partnership with websites relating to the local area in order to offer discount coupons for your service (e.g. 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!

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AUGUST 21, 2007

Examples of teams are: Work Teams Sales Teams Customer Service Teams Virtual Teams I would suggest that small business owners need to form teams around their small business and start-up business , like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses, too.

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MARCH 11, 2008

Do not over-charge for your services. Online Examples: Babet Style Consultancy – an example of the services you could offer. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Steve Said on January 26th, 2010 at 3:38 pm I often find that CI is overlooked by small businesses especially regarding restaurants for example. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Say you have a competing restaurant a few blocks away.

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MAY 13, 2008

Categories Announcements Balderdash Business Books Business Checklists Business Ideas Business Quotations Comments Customer Service Guest Blog How to … avoid growing pain be eco-friendly be successful bootstrap choose your office deal with taxes do a reality check do a SWOT plan do bookkeeping. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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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. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Although these sectors will be crowded, at least there is a guaranteed market there for you to fight for a share.

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We have been training a large number of virtual assistants in all aspects of our service offerings for months and we are very confident we can provide a professional and extremely cost-effective service to all our clients. As an example, Bookkeeping will start at £9.85 Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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For Example – Ads in women’s magazines discuss the weight-loss and calorie burn from cross-country skiing. Create Curiosity: Your business advertising is not going sell your product or service. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! You should not make advertisement just everywhere.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

These examples and 40 million more are generated on the MBA Writer web-site by Mike Shor (Humor), he writes: Automatically generate sentences ready for inclusion into your business memos without all of the thinking!! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Say something profound today.

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APRIL 6, 2010

I also think another issue to consider is small business people doing tasks inhouse that they should outsource like their bookkeeping for example. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Focus on the things you are good at and outsource the things that you are not.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

If he or she is stuck in the mindset that the business is too small to aggressively compete with and win customers from larger competitors then it will always suffer from a lack of drive and self-belief. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Stefan Töpfer Said on November 30th, 2008 at 10:27 am Laura, As this example shows you that will not prevent some unscrupulous people to scam others, our name, reputation and business suffers greatly because of this. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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OCTOBER 13, 2007

You need to pay attention to your credit control all the time, if you can’t do that get someone else to do it for you, outsource it to a virtual assistant , for example. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Hope this helps, otherwise get back to me.

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There are unlimited examples om the internet. Andrew Johnson Said on June 18th, 2010 at 9:53 am Interesting thoughts; although as a professional CV writer I believe that one of the most inportant aspects to this service is the one to one personal service. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

I should remind you that when I talk about small business, I mean 1 to 5 people businesses, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer- or Personal business, like professionals, contractors, freelancers, self-employed, sole-traders and virtual assistants. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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For example, “small_business_bookkeeping.jpg” instead of a digital camera’s default “123.jpg” 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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OCTOBER 10, 2007

For example, having to fire people because the economy is in recession is no fun for anyone and quite easy to prevent in most cases. I have seen some good examples, longer working hours fewer working days is one example that has proved working when trying to cope with the recession. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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APRIL 1, 2008

Pay attention to the reason why your customer is buying your product – if it is for a regular event you should make note of this and contact them again prior to the next time it takes place and offer them a discount. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The truth is that charging by the hour is terribly customer unfriendly and is therefor very bad for your small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer- or Personal business, like professional, contractors, freelancer, self-employed, sole-trader and virtual assistants.

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7 Comments » | Trackback | Share This 7 Responses to “ Takeover Disasters &# Chris Burgoyne Said on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:59 am As a real example to this, I worked for a large UK company who purchased a company based on the culture and sales figures. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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AUGUST 30, 2007

Whatever business you run you can get into financial trouble without it being your own doing – a big customer goes bust. Here you could say if the company had enough reserves it would have survived, but an early start-up will not have the resources to survive – there are many more examples where this is also true.

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This is what we often have to get across to our clients when registering a company and it’s great to see this information elsewhere online in an easy-to-understand and -read format with examples that everyone can relate to. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Great post!

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OCTOBER 17, 2007

For example, a purchase of petrol. Categories Announcements Balderdash Business Books Business Checklists Business Ideas Business Quotations Comments Customer Service Guest Blog How to … avoid growing pain be eco-friendly be successful bootstrap choose your office deal with taxes do a reality check do a SWOT plan do bookkeeping.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

You need to make sure you find an accountant/CPA who concentrates on small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer- or Personal business, like professional, contractors, freelancer, self-employed, sole-trader and virtual assistants before you make any appointments.

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Wayne Hancock Said on August 15th, 2009 at 9:38 pm I think one good example of success through passion is Pret a Manger. 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!

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

I could give you many more examples, but you get the picture. There are many more examples. 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!

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MAY 10, 2006

Seems to me that a lot more SME are using google services now. For example, many hedge funds run their entire operation with only ten to twenty employees. Where i think WinWeb really excells is offering services to companies that have needs similar to larger businesses but do not have the transactions to justify using SAP or Oracle.

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This is a question that is very much based on individual circumstance; I, for example, started my first business whilst at university and have been doing so ever since! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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Building a support network community for your small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses is essential to your survival. THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG » Blog Archive » Q & A: Can You Give Me A Cost Example For A Small Home Office?

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