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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

Success

But they are time-consuming and expensive. For instance, a pet food supplier would be a candidate for Emma to avoid as she may one day expand into pet foods. Standard Operating Procedures and automated processes such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software serve critical roles for scalability of enterprise generally.

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

Service Untitled

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Employees are concerned with customer losses, layoffs, employee turnovers, and the extra work that has resulted from under-staffing. From the top senior levels, management is obligated to show they care about employees.

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Let Go A Little and Help Your Business

The Small Business Blog

We all start our own businesses because we have passion and drive, this can easily become lost in the day to day monotony of paperwork and tedious tasks, yet employing full or part-time staff can be expensive and risky. Outsourcing offers the perfect balance, to help you regain balance! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Reducing Overheads Can Save A Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Shop around : Make sure you are getting the best deals from all you suppliers- right down to your electricity, broadband and gas bills. If your business has an inventory make sure you source the best suppliers at the right price, and don’t be afraid to haggle ! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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How Working From Home Can Work For You

The Small Business Blog

While your competitors have to pay out for expensive office space that they don’t need as clients dry up, your business can continue to thrive. 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!

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Top 5 Basic Advertising Tips

The Small Business Blog

Web development as well can be pretty expensive. We have found that speaking to our clients and having a relationship with them instead of just delivering a service helps a lot and have already had numerous recommendations. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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