Make or Break Moments

JANUARY 7, 2010

Posted by Deborah Chaddock Brown on January 7, 2010 under Connecting Moments , Customer Moments , making a difference | Read the First Comment What is the cost of a lost customer? I learned today from CustServ that the cost of lost customers equals 338.5 How much is that costing you? BILLION a year !

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Workplace Insight

JULY 13, 2023

The decline in UK productivity since the Great Recession of 2008/2009 has been a matter of concern for business leaders, policymakers, and economists alike. Most industries have large inefficiencies which represent a major opportunity and the potential for productivity gains is enormous.

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Make or Break Moments

JANUARY 19, 2010

But the budget just can’t handle the cost and my waistline can’t afford the calories. I have to confess. I don’t like Starbucks coffee – too acidic, but I do love their frappuccinos. So here is my midmorning gift to you.

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Make or Break Moments

JUNE 4, 2010

The cost? at Name Cheap to buy my name, it just cost me the time it took to put it together. A great way to make it easy to be found on the Internet is to have a landing page that people can visit that will showcase all of your web activity. It was almost free. I set up a Wordpress.com blog and with the exception of the $9.95

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Make or Break Moments

JUNE 24, 2010

Do you say something like – it is the economy or cost of living or do you actually take them on as partners and let them know how the price increase affects them and why you’ve come to the decision. Perhaps a local vendor you used went out of business and now you have shipping costs you never had before.

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Make or Break Moments

MARCH 15, 2010

Then our costs rose and the economy took a turn for the worse. Our service cost us more to provide and soon fewer people could afford it. ’s new book Peaks and Valleys. We provided a great service at a good price-the best in out industry.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 10, 2009

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Outsourcing Options For Small Business Focus on your business, timeshare professionals.

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Make or Break Moments

JULY 9, 2010

Big main frame machines that took up an entire room in a company, cost millions of dollars and required special cooling so they didn’t over heat. is celebrating their 35th year in business. Maybe that doesn’t seem like a lot of years for some businesses but they are a computer company.

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Make or Break Moments

AUGUST 25, 2010

I recognize that larger companies probably feel that an automated system that often separates the calls according to type and then attempts to provide answers without ever hearing a human is cost saving, but what does it do to the customer relationship?

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? E-Mail me or follow me. Build your own network! Starting a Small Business?

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 8, 2010

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Small Business Bootstrapping How to start your own small business with no or little money.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 20, 2010

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? You need to convince them that you can help cut costs or beat the competition.

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Make or Break Moments

JULY 19, 2010

I thought I would prefer someone from the United States and Canada but I soon learned that they were the highest cost and not all had experience. However, I kept thinking, how can they get experience if someone doesn’t hire them so I didn’t eliminate all without experience on oDesk… at first.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 24, 2010

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? E-Mail me or follow me. Benefits of Online Software for Small Business. Build your own network!

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 13, 2010

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? How to be successful and eco-friendly. Making your small business carbon neutral.

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Loosely Speaking

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Prepare now for when business picks up again Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 12:54 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives Here’s a list of things to do now, if you are in a work slowdown, so that when things pick up again you’ll be ready!

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 29, 2008

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? The overall cost will vary from £3,000 to £9,000. You ask a question, I answer!

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Loosely Speaking

JANUARY 16, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Calling all Northern Arizona Virtual Assistants: Is there anyone out there? Friday, January 16, 2009 at 10:54 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant Northern Arizona Virtual Assistants unite! Happy New Year! to join us at our monthly meetups.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 30, 2010

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? How to be successful by focusing on your core business. Build your own network!

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Patrick Johnson Said on November 14th, 2009 at 9:43 pm I completely agree with Sugar.

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Loosely Speaking

APRIL 18, 2009

My affinity for baseball and trucks go way back… Sandlot baseball was my first sport and keeping up with all the neighborhood guys was great training for giving birth years later to three athletic sons. ktcosmos Comment // April 18th, 2009 // 7:30 pm And that is exactly the sort of input I am needing. Thank you for writing!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

  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.  Both hourly consulting and training classes are partially leveraged because the business owner spends time teaching, consulting, and supervising. Training classes.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? He consults, trains and provides a mobile coffee service too. Build your own network!

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Q & A: What does “Fixed Costs” mean and why should they be as low as possible in a Small Business?

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Get Organized!

JUNE 4, 2009

Organizing Tips | Organizing Products | Organizing Services Thursday, June 4, 2009 Get Organized: Taking the *Errr!* Depends on the cost. I'm an org freak in training (have the drive, just need to channel it to be able to do it right) At Saturday, July 11, 2009 , Carmen said. At Monday, July 13, 2009 , Shane said.

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The Small Business Blog

JULY 27, 2006

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Also, when you buy such a system the up front costs can be expensive. E-Mail me or follow me.

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On The Job

MAY 18, 2009

Instead of focusing on what a candidate can generate in revenue, many focus on salary, promotability, and cost of hire. I understand that companies may want to train their new hires the co. May 18, 2009 11:55 AM Anita said. May 18, 2009 11:58 AM Anonymous said. Its difficult to replace experience with youth.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 8, 2006

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? What is Small Business Infrastructure? How to be successful by focusing on your core business.

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Andrea Kalli

MARCH 22, 2010

Keeping these clients is always more cost effective than obtaining new members. Best Buys for 2010: Software, Webware, and Other Digitools – I almost met my 2009 financial goals. Using membership retention and strategies to keep current members engaged is important. Here are some membership retention and strategies for success.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? rob Said on July 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 am Good tips to work life balance and small business.

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 11, 2010

Keeping these clients is always more cost effective than obtaining new members. Best Buys for 2010: Software, Webware, and Other Digitools – I almost met my 2009 financial goals. Using membership retention and strategies to keep current members engaged is important. Here are some membership retention and strategies for success.

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The Marq

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

In an About.com article titled, Fighting Employee Turnover Costs , Darrell Zahorsky explains variances in these costs. I won’t regurgitate what he’s already explained, except that the cost depends on a multitude of factors and can vary from 50% to 200% of an employee’s annual salary. TheMarq.com.

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Service Untitled

MARCH 15, 2010

In 2009, JD Power & Associates, a global marketing information service which measures customer satisfaction based on millions of consumers annually, rated Jet Blue &# Highest in Customer Satisfaction&# among low-cost carriers in North America. Jet Blue delivers service differently than most low-cost carriers.

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Success

JULY 2, 2022

For some heroes, their knee-jerk reactions have cost them their lives. However, these groups have been trained to deal with physical danger and high-risk situations, and camaraderie is an inherent part of the job. Unfortunately, the first person may not always be the most successful.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JULY 1, 2011

We also offer users regular webinar training sessions with live product demos. Pamela that is great, so how can people get started and what is the cost? Our team participated in Blog Action Day 2009 , which was focused on how small businesses could affect climate change. For small businesses, this is an important need.

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Success

MARCH 11, 2022

A client recently said, “Our business has been so good for the past five years that we haven’t felt a need to do any sales training , but things are different now and we need help!” Bradley, it is very easy to simply focus on apparent price rather than actual cost. This article was published in February 2009 and has been updated.

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Service Untitled

MARCH 16, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives First Contact Resolution Douglas March 16, 2009 Behind the Scenes , Customer Service Experience , Little Things, Big Differences 2 Comments First contact resolution is one of the most important things in customer service.

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