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Reducing Overheads Can Save A Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

The term ‘business overhead’ refers to the general cost of running a business; this can include carrying an inventory, supplies, staff and premises. Shop around : Make sure you are getting the best deals from all you suppliers- right down to your electricity, broadband and gas bills. lower overheads. 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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Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

« Top 5 Tips on Building a 6 Month Cash Reserve Competitive Intelligence: Not Just For Big Business » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 3:38 pm and is filed under Small Business / SOHO. It’s expensive to develop your own resources so it makes sense to share.

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Women In The Workplace

The Small Business Blog

« Top 5 Tips for Better Marketing The Zen of Social Media Marketing » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 11:39 am and is filed under SME-Blog , Work/Life Balance. Not only is my wife employed by a firm that gave her plenty of maternity leave, they also offered help with expenses.

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Small Business Bootstrapping Techniques | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Small Business Bootstrapping Techniques by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 01, 2007 I often refer to “ bootstrapping “, when I talk about small business, you may very well be asking “ What the hell is bootstrapping?&# One blog I follow written by the CEO of a startup refers to being scrappy. Great post.

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

The Small Business Blog

It used to collectively refer to companies too small to be attractive for the major Enterprise Software providers – and of course the same held true vice versa: I assume most readers of this blog are in small businesses, and for you the rule has been that "enterprise software" is too expensive.

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

The Small Business Blog

Simply because the needs of a $100M company, which SAP and Oracle consider a "small" business are not even comparable to a 6-10 person company – traditionally referred to as SOHO , while recently a new term is popping up: VSB – very small business, the absolute "S" part of SMB. We spent a crap-load of money.

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