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A Single Mother Struggling to Budget Weighs the Balance Between Just Surviving and Really Living

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Right after the workshop, I purchased Egyptian cotton sheets and a duvet cover. I have a Roth IRA and bonds; I refinanced my mortgage when the rates were low; I try to never carry credit debt; and I still drive a car I bought in 2006. Another example: A few years ago, I signed up for a meditation workshop.

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Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget

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Many equipment manufacturers offer free training to companies that purchase their products. Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 29, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Don’t overlook the usefulness of this.

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Top 5 Ways of Being More Efficient in Business

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Don’t purchase containers to store more documents and files – throw away as much of your old stuff as possible instead. Top 5 Ways of Being More Efficient in Business by Stefan Töpfer on May 17, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Top 5 Biz-to-Biz Sales Tips

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If they are unhappy with their purchases, work hard to repair the relationship between businesses. Make sure they know exactly how your products and services can help their business succeed. You need to convince them that you can help cut costs or beat the competition. Keep following-up over a period of time. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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

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An impartial advice line for people purchasing consumer electronics. 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. A YouTube channel reviewing local restaurants. Keep other people’s elderly relatives company for a small fee.

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Turbocharge Your Sales

The Small Business Blog

As business owners we always strive to make it as easy as possible for our customers to purchase our products or services and another way to further increase sales may be to consider extending credit to customers. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. This can not only increase sales but also build customer loyalty.

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Top 5 Website Design Tips

The Small Business Blog

Ideally about 3-5 clicks to purchase. And don’t get me started on those sites that make you play hide-and-seek when you try to obtain information. rich Said on November 27th, 2009 at 12:06 am also try to make it easy for customers to find your products. if a big site, include a search box. And keep the number of clicks to target (eg.

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