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» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 7:47 am and is filed under Business Checklists. « Getting Fired Up! SEO Tips That the Experts Don’t Always Tell You! You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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Learn about how your company structure affects pay. Turbocharge Your Sales » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 7:45 am and is filed under Business Checklists. If possible, get some advice from your accountant regarding the level of pay you plan on taking from the business.

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JUNE 6, 2010

Learn how to use publishing software and create eye-catching promotional material. » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 7:00 am and is filed under Business Checklists. Build an identity for your business online by using ready-made stylish templates. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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JULY 13, 2010

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. start-up in business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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MARCH 14, 2010

Learn everything you can about your competition, their products and how they advertise. « Good Business: A Reputation of Integrity Why Your Small Business Needs A SWOT » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 7:00 am and is filed under SME-Blog. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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MARCH 16, 2010

If an area such as accounting is your weakness, rather than wasting time learning the skill it may be more cost-effective and time efficient to outsource the service. Work out if these weaknesses will truly impact your business, and if there are ways to improve in these areas. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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MAY 18, 2010

« Top 5 Ways of Being More Efficient in Business The Centre of Your Small Business » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under Customer Service. If you want to build a business it’s important to learn how to let things go. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

If you are no longer personally growing and learning in your role it can cause your business to stagnate. Have you developed a resistance to adopting new ideas or taking risks? It is possible that you may have been at the helm for too long. Try to surround yourself with people who will challenge your thinking about business matters.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You might be surprised how much you can learn about your people and your business! « Top 5 Tips for Finding Investors Top 5 Tips for Hiring New Employees » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under SME-Blog. Be accessible – today’s workers value face time.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Although he never finished high school, Scudamore loves nothing more than learning. Within his business he has established what he calls a Mentor Board of Advisors, a group of people he turns to for advice and learning. Today they have 95 franchise partners across North America and are in 47 of North America’s top 50 cities.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 7:00 am and is filed under Business Checklists. Not only that, you have someone that is learning the latest and greatest tech practices. « Economics – Small Business Quote of the Week Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake.

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MAY 20, 2010

When you begin employing staff you need to quickly learn how to not only manage them, but also how to help them achieve their best. Allow your staff time to come to you with ideas or questions; you’ll learn a lot about your business and might even discover an avenue you’d never thought of taking. « The Customer Is Always Right!

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MARCH 23, 2010

« Top 5 Tips for Learning More About Your Customers Budget 2010 – The Saviour for Small Businesses? » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 2:30 am and is filed under Customer Service , SME-Blog. So why shouldn’t I strive to give my customers the same?

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JULY 20, 2010

As I have mentioned previously , I am looking to help small businesses to hold conversations, engage with each other and learn from what is happening in the big business world. Small business owners need to consider ‘online’ an extension of their market place and learn to communicate well within that environment.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Learn how your small business can capitalize on these unmet needs and find and master your own niche market. Ideas – Small Business Quote of the Week » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 8:00 am and is filed under SME News Round-up. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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JULY 27, 2010

For example, if you learn about products that are doing well in other countries then you may be able to adapt them for sale here if no-one else is doing it. » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 7:00 am and is filed under Business Ideas , How to. , a good idea is so important.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Top 5 Tips for Finding Investors » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 8:30 am and is filed under Business Quotations , SME-Blog. « Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!) You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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APRIL 27, 2010

I look forward to reading your pitches, and learning more about your small businesses! « Planned European Webserver Outage The Spirit of the Entrepreneur » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under Announcements , SME-Blog. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Lessons from recession will help SMEs’ future roadmap courage and… : Learning lessons from recession important for future upswing SMEs should graduate from growth by default. Plenty of Indianapolis-area companies are for sale. … Addressing the need gap of SMEs’ needing small funding, R. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Small Business Checklist: Business Costing by Stefan Töpfer on Aug 15, 2007 Do you know what your overheads and variable costs are in your business – have every worried about that? If you have then you must keep up-dating your costing every few month, as they will change as the business grow and changes. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 20, 2007 Many worries in a small business are centered about sales and the need to earn money in order to pay for over-heads like rent, wages and so on. Stefan Töpfer Said on November 24th, 2007 at 9:24 am Craig, I do that still wrong and always have to stop myself. -AC Benefits, Not Features is what sells!

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

New Small Business Startup Idea: Virtual Import/Export Assistant by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 13, 2007 You may speak more languages and have market segment knowledge about a certain product or service. So now I had my supplier with whom by this stage I had built up a good base for a trustworthy supplier by way of emails.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I came across one company from Canada which took SEO optimisation into their own hands and learned through experience and extensive testing a few proven ways to boost Google’s rankings of your website. Encourage other sites to link to yours – this may be a well known strategy but it can’t be reinforced enough. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 19, 2007 WinWeb has just updated their OnlineOffice accounting module , to include cost centre functionality. » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, November 19th, 2007 at 7:57 pm and is filed under Accounting , Small Business / SOHO , WinWeb , do bookkeeping. , do cost cutting.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2007

by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 07, 2007 A few years ago I decided to change over to Apple computers from Windows based computers and up until now it seemed the right decision. I used the migration assistant to move all files across to my new computer and at first all seemed fine. UPDATE Nov 8, 2007 – 19.38

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FEBRUARY 2, 2008

Now you can learn what went wrong and understand your business better, it will force you to rethink and face facts. You will be amazed what you can learn about the financial dynamic in your small business within one hour, that is often all it takes to get started. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 7:08 pm and is filed under Comments. You learn to enjoy that and understand that they are doing that because they are hurting – after all we are destroying their business model, which made them all very much money. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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AUGUST 28, 2007

Small Business Failure – Reason: Management Control by Stefan Töpfer on Aug 28, 2007 The typical scenario is you work hard all week , have no live and at the end of it all little money to show for it. « If You Work All Day, You Have No Time To Make Any Money! Small Business Infrastructure For Business Start-Up.

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MARCH 30, 2010

« Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget Top 5 Tips for Small Businesses at Easter » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 at 6:30 am and is filed under SME-Blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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MARCH 2, 2010

« Top 5 Tips for Giving a New Business a Kick Start Top 5 Tips for Writing a Staff Handbook » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 2:30 am and is filed under SME-Blog , bootstrap. Jp14 Said on March 5th, 2010 at 10:36 pm Another common thing is to keep learning.

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» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 11:14 am and is filed under Question & Answer. Ann White Said on January 31st, 2008 at 2:58 am Following a proven path, and learning by doing is a better way than trying to figure out how to reinvent the wheel. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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JANUARY 13, 2008

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Sunday, January 13th, 2008 at 1:28 pm and is filed under do a SWOT plan , plan cash-flow , plan your business , start-up in business. But saying that, we are still learning and growing. I have learned a lot just from the info posted here! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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APRIL 16, 2008

If you consider the skills potential of parents, if each parent would only contribute one hour on average per week to their learned professions. The truth in my opinion is more the fact that we often block this remote working possibility from our minds, but why? This would be a staggering number of man hours per week.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

« Top 5 Tips for Avoiding Employment Lawsuits Pitch of the Week – Waste Notes » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under Entrepreneur , How to. SOHO/SMB/SME/Micro , start-up in business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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APRIL 1, 2008

Skills needed: You will need to be very good at graphic design and it will help if you know how to print T-shirts already, although you could learn. Although this is a competitive market, if you are talented and customer focused enough then you can become successful. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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and Small Business by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 02, 2007 In the past twenty years the term “ work-life balance &# has come to symbolize the problem many face with increasing work pressures and the neglect of family, friends and their hobbies. Shama Hyder Said on October 3rd, 2007 at 6:02 pm This is absolutely great Stefan.

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MARCH 20, 2008

What have I learned yesterday? « Small Business Startup Checklist – Company Structure India Small Business News Round-up – 20/03/2008 » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 9:16 am and is filed under Business Ideas , Start-Up , be successful , start-up in business.

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