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4 Ways to Identify Your Ideal Client and Prime Your Business for Growth

Success

These are bread-and-butter accounts that help you meet basic expenses and smooth out the times when business is slow. It’s an ongoing process of constantly sharpening your internal operations, knowing what kinds of clients you are best suited to handle, and steadily upgrading your client base. Photo by Rido/Shutterstock.

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How Big Corporations Are Cutting Their Energy Usage

Eco-Office Gals

Businesses need all kinds of resources in order to thrive and one of their best ones are the interns that they recruit. In 2008, they created a program that is called the Climate Corps. Oh, and that interns can be more than people who get coffee and do filing. This is where the EDF comes in. They literally can be world changers.

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Takeover Disasters | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Takeover Disasters by Stefan Töpfer on Apr 22, 2008 The process of taking over another company can be a very exciting time for you and your business, but it can very quickly turn into an unpleasant experience with serious lasting consequences. Maintaining a brand can be expensive in marketing terms so you may wish to drop some entirely.

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Small Business Start-Up Idea – T-Shirt Design | THE SMALL BUSINESS.

The Small Business Blog

Small Business Start-Up Idea – T-Shirt Design by Stefan Töpfer on Apr 02, 2008 There is always a great demand for custom-made T-shirts, ranging from sports teams in need of new kit to event organisers wanting promotional shirts to give away. Working at Home on the Internet Said on April 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm [.]

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10 Changes You Might See Coming to Your Workplace

On The Job

While I thought about writing an uplifting, inspirational post today -- the last day of 2008 -- the truth is that I'm very much a realist at heart. Outside business consultants can be expensive, so the powers that be brought in Miss Miller's 5th grade class to give book reports on "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

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Do You Know Your Lifestyle Ratios?

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Revenue, net income, total expenses, and payroll costs are just a few of the items that you may be monitoring on your profit and loss statement.  She is the former Treasurer for the International Virtual Assistants Association serving on their Board of Directors for the term 2005-2008.

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Don't Let Empty Pockets Hold You Back!

The Small Business Blog

If a start-up funds the development of their company through internal cash flow and are cautious with expenses, the company can grow with low-risk to all those involved. Bootstrapping is to start a business without external help or capital; I believe this is the best possible way to start a small business. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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