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Top 5 Tips for Learning More About Your Customers

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Top 5 Tips for Learning More About Your Customers by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 22, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Try to figure out exactly what it is that you want to know about your customer base.

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Top 5 Biz-to-Biz Sales Tips

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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 only more people would learn the value in such information. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Listen carefully to what your B2B clients require. Number 3 is also especially relevant.

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Top 5 Sales Tips for Small Business

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Learn from the experience and then move on to your next potential customer. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Plan your sales targets in advance and track progress throughout the year. This helps you to continuously evaluate your sales performance. Don’t obsess over missed sales opportunities. Give incentives to staff for making sales.

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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. Nobody really learns anything real about business, only about life… VB, Stefan Issa Crea Said on May 15th, 2010 at 3:33 am Is this the same thing as personal branding? Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Top 5 Tips for Hiring New Employees

The Small Business Blog

That said, I’m a firm believer that a bit of ‘gut feeling’ on the right person goes a long way – I’ve hired many people over the years and sometimes the candidate who is ‘technically’ the best, doesn’t always fit in to the organisation – that’s just something you learn over time though.

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Top Five Tips for Paying Yourself

The Small Business Blog

Learn about how your company structure affects pay. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Top 5 Tips for Paying Yourself by Stefan Töpfer on Feb 01, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Research the going rate for CEOs in your industry.

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Finding Your Feet In The Business World

The Small Business Blog

It might take time, but you will learn a great deal about how to, and how not to, do things! Networking not only allows you to meet potential clients but you will also learn valuable lessons from people who are more experienced in the business world. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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