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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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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

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It actually started showing up around, I think, 2006, 2007, somewhere like that. It’s about 80 robotics companies all in one building with all of the equipment that you would need to build robotics companies or robots. And we got financing from venture capitalists, and it was sort of a Y combinator kind of vibe.

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Q & A: What are successful cost-cutting solutions in small.

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by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 18, 2007 How long is a string? 7 Comments » | Trackback | Share This 7 Responses to “ Q & A: What are successful cost-cutting solutions in small business? &# Liz Said on October 21st, 2007 at 3:03 pm Hi Stefan This is a great list. And I totally agree on not buying brand-new equipment.

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

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A company which takes your dead electronic equipment and smashes it until it becomes modern art! A website teaching readers about the day-to-day training requirements for various sports. Improvisational comedy confidence-building exercises. A premium hotline providing legal advice. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Finance: An assistant with a head for numbers may be able to move into finance in an accounting or a tax firm. They each took the initiative to get appropriate training and education to better equip them in the areas they were interested in. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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Why Your Small Business Needs A SWOT

The Small Business Blog

By recognising these opportunities and threats you will be better equipped to deal with them: forewarned is forearmed! Developing markets are a key example of an opportunity and a threat may be a new competitor in your marketplace. There are many SWOT analysis tools out there, I would, of course, recommend the one from WinWeb!

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Small Business Bootstrapping Techniques | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

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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?&# Said on October 12th, 2007 at 7:05 am [.] Said on October 14th, 2007 at 8:36 am [.]

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