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Spotlight on assistant resources: PA Life

Practically Perfect PA

PA Life magazine is published six times a year and includes a mixture of lifestyle features, updates on suppliers, industry news and articles on how to improve professional skills. Invitations to special ‘limited attendance’ lunches at top restaurants with the Editor of PA Life. Folks, let me introduce you to PA Life.

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Competitive Intelligence: Not Just For Big Business | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

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. Say you have a competing restaurant a few blocks away. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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

The Small Business Blog

But remember you are working with small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer- or Personal business, like professional, contractors, freelancer, self-employed, sole-trader and virtual assistants , you need to keep the price low for them. Get your suppliers to advertise in it!

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Ten Small Business Startup Ideas – 2009/09/20 | THE SMALL BUSINESS.

The Small Business Blog

A YouTube channel reviewing local restaurants. A café for aspiring filmmakers to congregate and show their work to receive feedback. A clothes-sharing website for high-value items such as shoes. An impartial advice line for people purchasing consumer electronics. Keep other people’s elderly relatives company for a small fee.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/01

The Small Business Blog

The Latest Entrepreneurial Fantasy Is Selling Cupcakes : Move over restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts. Stimulus cash runs out for loan s: The stimulus cash that helped boost small business lending this year just ran out. A new fantasy seems to have taken hold for people who long to own their own business: the cupcakery.

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Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

I’ve got 26 restaurants within a mile of me, and many are on the same three streets! (in Tim Read Said on January 26th, 2010 at 12:32 am Collaboration is obviously better than conflict – look at how estate agents set up near each other. in Crystal Palace, London, UK if you’re wondering!). Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Entrepreneurship live and kicking! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Raphael Dobbin is not going to help me loose any weight soon with his idea of a West African restaurant, but he was going to offer me free fruit as a dessert option for healthier living. Emmanual Opanuga is opening a shoe store chain , focusing on customer care while understanding the price pressures in this business.

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