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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

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But they are time-consuming and expensive. These media help you build your brand’s reputation as an industry expert. For instance, a pet food supplier would be a candidate for Emma to avoid as she may one day expand into pet foods. Your business’ customer service and general responsiveness are critical to your brand.

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Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? | THE SMALL.

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Not surprisingly this group includes mentors within his own industry, but what is unique about Scudamore is that some of these mentors run the businesses he competes against every day. Working in tandem with your competitors has benefits in addition to getting a good beat to what’s happening in your industry.

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

The Small Business Blog

SME / SMB Have Become Obsolete Acronyms by Zoli Erdos on May 10, 2006 Software Industry analysts seem to have a fun time coming up with three-letter combinations. throw out any random letters and chances are it means a new product, technology, industry trend, market segment.

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Women In The Workplace

The Small Business Blog

Technology is making it better and easier but the mindset in industry and business at large has still a long way to go. Not only is my wife employed by a firm that gave her plenty of maternity leave, they also offered help with expenses. Mitch Said on April 23rd, 2010 at 3:21 pm I think this is interesting. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Small Business Start-Up Idea – T-Shirt Design | THE SMALL BUSINESS.

The Small Business Blog

The set-up cost for this business is one of the more expensive ones due to all the equipment that will be required. Marketing Techniques: Join newsgroups and discussion forums for special interest groups that you think might be interested in custom T-shirts (e.g. Notes: Customer retention is the key to success in this industry.

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Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake.

The Small Business Blog

Let me spell it out for anyone who really has not got the picture, businesses go bust because: The banks will not lend money to them; Even if they lend the money it is so expensive that it takes any profit out of the deal; They run out of savings. Just imagine saying we are no longer in a recession, when we just had the numbers.

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

The Small Business Blog

This might sound like a shocking statement, since "Enterprise Software" typically means the world of SAP and Oracle, and the traditional heavyweight, expensive, pay-huge-license-fees-upfront, then try-to-implement-forever model that does not work anymore. We advertised on television and radio and print. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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