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How To Make This Recession Work For Your Small Home Business.

The Small Business Blog

If the supplier knows you are ready to buy for the right price they will cut you a deal. Promise to buy from one supplier for better payment terms, like 60 or 90 days. Thank you very much for your comment – if you try any of my tips and learn something new come back and tell us about it!

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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. If they are unhappy with their purchases, work hard to repair the relationship between businesses. If only more people would learn the value in such information. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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What's Your Business Personality? | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

It is difficult to say but in small business we can learn a lot abut the importance of public relations through this story. I, for one, have encountered a rude, curt or abrupt salesperson and gone out of my way to not purchase something from them. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Nice sharing.

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Small Business Checklist: Business Costing | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Buying – keep control of your spending, make one person sign off on all purchases, ideally that person should be you. Cash-flow – compare your cash-flow fore-cast with the actual numbers on a regular basis and learn from it, it’s not about being spot on, but about knowing what happened so you can control it.

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New Small Business Startup Idea: Virtual Import/Export Assistant.

The Small Business Blog

So now I had my supplier with whom by this stage I had built up a good base for a trustworthy supplier by way of emails. They had even agreed to offer me a free case with a certain number purchased – a good incentive I had aimed to pass onto my prospective customers. Get your suppliers to advertise in it!

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

The Small Business Blog

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. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Anyway, that’s how I charge my clients through my real estate investor.

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Apple – a customer support nightmare! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

BST: Kathrine also did not get one of the supervisors to call me – so I guess Apple has decided to ignore me – lesson learned. I told them if I wanted a PowerBook I would have purchased one. What makes customer service stink isn’t that suppliers make mistakes. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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