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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

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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. Systematize, standardize and automate.

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The Evolution of CRM

Productivity Bits

These are generally focused on sales activities, but also encompass other critical business functions such as customer service, marketing and technical support. The traditional viewpoint in industry used to be “here’s what we can make – how can we sell it?” Customer Support. Order Fulfillment.

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Top 5 Biz-to-Biz Sales Tips

The Small Business Blog

Try to learn a bit about the industry that your prospective business customer works in so you don’t look out of your depth. Make sure they know exactly how your products and services can help their business succeed. If they are unhappy with their purchases, work hard to repair the relationship between businesses.

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Small Business world News Round-up - 2009/10/27

The Small Business Blog

Start-ups to save the UK economy says Digby Jones : The former head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Lord Digby Jones, claims that small businesses alone will rescue the struggling UK economy. At the same time over 60 % of all high street purchases are researched online. — ST. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/15

The Small Business Blog

MSMEs may get procurement preference in PUSs soon : Most of the public sector units will have to source at least one-fifth of their purchases from the micro, small and medium enterprises, if the recommendation of a task force headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s top aide is accepted. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake.

The Small Business Blog

I disagree with your view that all businesses owners currently in trouble are ignorant, maybe you need to start talking to some small business owners who are not in the services industry to get the real understanding of the problem. IMO, Mr Sugar has not a clue what he is talking about, he is just helping his Labour pals with some PR.

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Don't charge by the hour! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

So if you work in an industry that charges by the hour and you need more work you know what to do. I mean, I don’t need certification and i’ve only learned to do home staging business right at home with a little help from a book guide I purchased online. One of them i thought of is the legal industry.

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