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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

Success

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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Ultimate travel itinerary

Practically Perfect PA

The airline emergency and customer service numbers. Choosing a supplier for your office is not easy, particuarly when it comes to business travel. Assistants have to navigate their corporate travel policy while ensuring their Executives have a smooth business trip while relying on suppliers to make that happen.

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How Telecommuting Beats the Recession

Productivity Bits

T he global economy has experienced several recessions since the industrial revolution, however, the current recession is unique in many respects. Previous recessions affected traditional industry and resulted in large populations finding themselves out of work and with no hope of future employment. Copyright © 2011 Productivity Bits.

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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?” Photo Courtesy Of Hayley Vallejo.

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Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor

The Small Business Blog

Look for someone with expertise in your industry so they will already know the relevant issues. 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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Social marketing 101: respond to your customers about social issues too

Service Untitled

At first Northface ignored the comments on their Facebook page, but as irrefutable evidence of Allied Feather and Down being one of their suppliers who support the foie gras industry, Northface needed to address the issue. Customer service and the impact of social media There is absolutely no getting away from social media.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/03

The Small Business Blog

Business cuts back on training and hours in bid to hang onto staff : A new survey by the Australian Industry Group has revealed that a third of companies are planning to cut their training budgets in the next 12 months, as entrepreneurs fight… India Inc’s business confidence surges, says CII : The business confidence of India Inc.

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