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How to Survive a Recession, According to a 91-Year-Old Business

Success

The key to staying in business and being profitable, Hustead notes, requires regularly monitoring your overhead, labor, inventory expenses and revenue: “If you run out of money and go broke, you’re out of business.” As a result, he began monitoring the company’s finances on a weekly basis. What can’t we control?

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Hearing the Message

Office Dynamics

And I finally heard the message when Joan shared her post with us about taking time to take care of her health and well-being. What example am I setting for our teenage daughter about pursuing dreams at a fairly expensive price? The message wasn’t just about self-care. To me the message was, Pay Attention!

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Top 5 Tips on Building a 6 Month Cash Reserve

The Small Business Blog

Add up all your monthly expenses so you can estimate how much money you will have left each month. The best tip from my point of view would be to avoid unnecessary expenses. Then try and remove or refinance the most expensive lending. Start getting into the habit of saving each week right now, at the beginning of the year.

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Small Business News World Round-up – 2009/12/08

The Small Business Blog

Senate bill won’t change small biz premiums: The Congressional Budget Office predicts the Senate health care reform bill would provide better, but more expensive, coverage in the individual insurance market, while having little impact on premiums for employer-based coverage. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Benchmarking Customer Expectations - What’s the Right Yardstick?

Small Business CEO

Maybe you look at maximizing revenue per full-time employee, increasing first call resolution in your contact center or IT expense as a percent of revenue. Your customers, whether they are consumers or businesses, rarely measure you against others in your industry. So you benchmark your company against others in your industry.

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Work Frustrations and Meaningful Work

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Surely, as executive assistants we may feel this way when we have to do all the boring stuff - filing, expenses, travel, calendaring, and phones. As an executive assistant, I knew I wasn't curing cancer or inventing anything, but that customer service role and making a difference in one executive's life was meaningful for me.

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An Open Letter To Our Prime Minister, David Cameron

The Small Business Blog

Thanks to the sacrifices made by many these banks now enjoy plentiful profits and bonuses – a stark contrast to those whom have financed their survival. Project and Order Financing: Banks need to be made to provide the needed finance for SME’s in order to fulfill contracts and orders. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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