The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 20, 2010

Google Alerts are also a great source of information by providing email updates of the latest relevant Google results (news, web etc.) Steve Said on January 26th, 2010 at 3:38 pm I often find that CI is overlooked by small businesses especially regarding restaurants for example. based on your choice of query or topic.

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The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 13, 2010

For example, one of these mentors runs one of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?’s Here are a few examples: • An employee conducts him/herself inappropriately with your competitor – wouldn’t you rather a friendly call from your competitor to inform you so you can nip it in the bud? This example shows that competitors do not have to be ruthless rivals.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 11, 2008

Marketing Techniques: Become a regular contributor at local online forums, mailing lists and chat rooms about health and beauty to spread awareness of your services. Online Examples: Babet Style Consultancy – an example of the services you could offer. Overall, the absolute maximum it should cost you is £2000.

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

It’s relatively inexpensive and can be very effective is used the correct way (and there are many examples of companies misusing social media!). My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 20, 2010

Allowing staff to work flexible hours is an example; at WinWeb.com my staff work from home, with flexibility and consideration for their families needs. For example because I don’t have any authority over them I can only suggest rather than tell them to do something. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

JULY 2, 2010

For example, if you are an independent financial advisor (IFA) then a good ‘big fish’ for you may be an accountancy firm who has many clients that will have financial and investment needs. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 8, 2008

My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Consider forming a partnership with websites relating to the local area in order to offer discount coupons for your service (e.g. 10% off on orders over £50). Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2007

I will give examples and will let you fill in the rest for yourself. Examples are rent, some employee costs, property taxes, telephone, heating and interest/bank expense. Let me give you an obvious example to make my point. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 16, 2010

Developing markets are a key example of an opportunity and a threat may be a new competitor in your marketplace. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank External opportunities and threats are key when considering how to move your small business forward.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 13, 2008

My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Notes: Make sure that the work you are going to undertake is set out in a contract between you and the client, specifying any requests or conditions that are critical to the event. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 10, 2009

As an example, Bookkeeping will start at £9.85 My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank These services will be available in the following regions, the UK, Ireland, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but may vary from region to region.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 24, 2007

These examples and 40 million more are generated on the MBA Writer web-site by Mike Shor (Humor), he writes: Automatically generate sentences ready for inclusion into your business memos without all of the thinking!! My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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The Small Business Blog

JULY 27, 2010

For example, if you learn about products that are doing well in other countries then you may be able to adapt them for sale here if no-one else is doing it. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 20, 2008

There are unlimited examples om the internet. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Notes: It seems obvious, but do not deliver the finished product until you receive payment. Take extra care with regards to packaging if you need to physically ship the product to them.

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The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 29, 2009

This applies to all aspects of your business – for example you could save around a thousand dollars by purchasing a very cheap computer for the office. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 30, 2007

Anyway here are the small business health check questions you need to ask yourself: What do I need the money for? Here you could say if the company had enough reserves it would have survived, but an early start-up will not have the resources to survive – there are many more examples where this is also true.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2007

You need to pay attention to your credit control all the time, if you can’t do that get someone else to do it for you, outsource it to a virtual assistant , for example. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Hope this helps, otherwise get back to me.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Stefan Töpfer Said on November 30th, 2008 at 10:27 am Laura, As this example shows you that will not prevent some unscrupulous people to scam others, our name, reputation and business suffers greatly because of this. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2007

For example, having to fire people because the economy is in recession is no fun for anyone and quite easy to prevent in most cases. I have seen some good examples, longer working hours fewer working days is one example that has proved working when trying to cope with the recession. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 10, 2006

Seems to me that a lot more SME are using google services now. For example, many hedge funds run their entire operation with only ten to twenty employees. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 1, 2008

My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Pay attention to the reason why your customer is buying your product – if it is for a regular event you should make note of this and contact them again prior to the next time it takes place and offer them a discount.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2007

Industries like fast food, for example, have turnover of well over 100%. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. I keep my senior engineer pay high, since he is hard to replace. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

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! My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 21, 2008

7 Comments » | Trackback | Share This 7 Responses to “ Takeover Disasters &# Chris Burgoyne Said on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:59 am As a real example to this, I worked for a large UK company who purchased a company based on the culture and sales figures. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 21, 2007

Examples of teams are: Work Teams Sales Teams Customer Service Teams Virtual Teams I would suggest that small business owners need to form teams around their small business and start-up business , like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses, too. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2007

This is what we often have to get across to our clients when registering a company and it’s great to see this information elsewhere online in an easy-to-understand and -read format with examples that everyone can relate to. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

If you are charging £18 per hour as an example and you are doing 100 hours of work. At this point, i cannot really think of any example. Anyone knows of any other examples that people really need to charge by the clock? My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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OCTOBER 17, 2007

Monthly profit and loss account also includes a financial health check based upon an automated tax forecast to enable businesses to monitor their financial performance. For example, a purchase of petrol. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Revolutionary eh!

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Allwork

AUGUST 28, 2023

So this is why companies WL Gore, Hare Electronics, others, Google, famously provide some amount of the work week to pursuing out of the box innovative possibilities that stimulates people. A company like Automatic, for example, the company behind WordPress employees basically hire and fire new staff.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Wayne Hancock Said on August 15th, 2009 at 9:38 pm I think one good example of success through passion is Pret a Manger. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank There is no way to build your business without passion. Passion will help you if nothing else can help.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

This is a question that is very much based on individual circumstance; I, for example, started my first business whilst at university and have been doing so ever since! My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

For example, we need dating agencies and web-sites to find partners, because we are too busy to find a partner in what used to be a “normal way&# , and in this sense we have to be thankful for the service dating agencies and web-sites provide. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

For example, if all you need is a place to store contact information and keep your calendar, that is much different than a system that can prompt you for different types of follow up, keep templates, etc. For example, techno-phobes shouldn't force themselves to use a computerized calendar if they are more comfortable with a paper planner.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Shaun Lawrence Said on November 11th, 2009 at 2:25 am Those are good examples of questions. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Clients need to ask questions. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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On The Job

JULY 2, 2015

While data and statistics are changing the way companies like Google and Amazon do business, they also are impacting industries from manufacturing to health care. Your suppliers? Is the only knowledge you have of data is how to spell it? If so, you better wise up – fast.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 8, 2006

While technology allows to make certain things less expensive and often even provider a better product for less money – see WinWeb OnlineOffice as an example – services like accounting are knowledge based and as such not easily provided cheaper. You Get What You Pay For – this certainly hold true today.

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APRIL 6, 2010

I also think another issue to consider is small business people doing tasks inhouse that they should outsource like their bookkeeping for example. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Focus on the things you are good at and outsource the things that you are not.

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