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Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget

The Small Business Blog

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

The Small Business Blog

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

The Small Business Blog

by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 18, 2007 How long is a string? Even if you need the service or product from your supplier, check others all the time, insurance, telephone, utilities, etc. And I totally agree on not buying brand-new equipment. Q & A: What are successful cost-cutting solutions in small business?

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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 Start-Up Idea – Party Planner | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

The set-up costs for this business are mainly related to computer equipment (including a printer, scanner and digital camera) and software, along with the cost of paying a professional to develop your website. You could sell party supplies internationally but the high shipping rates will probably make this unfeasible.

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Q & A: What does “Fixed Costs” mean and why should they be as low.

The Small Business Blog

by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 25, 2007 I’m answering three questions here, emailed to me during last week, so excuse the long headline. Rental equipment, software (via cloud computing), along with outsourcing of services are all good ways to spend less and make more. I will give examples and will let you fill in the rest for yourself.

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The US Talent Pool: Welcome Back to a Seller’s Market

Energage

At WorkplaceDynamics, we are all about equipping leaders to unleash potential, inspire performance, and deliver business results through the passion of their team members. During times of high demand, as we are seeing right now in the US, the labor market tilts in favor of the ‘suppliers’ – or individual workers.

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