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Small Business News World Round-up – 2009/12/08

The Small Business Blog

Small Business News World Round-up – 2009/12/08 by Stefan Töpfer on Dec 08, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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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.  Assuming a 5-day work week, there are about 250 working days in a year, not including about 10 holidays. Estimate the numbers of days you were off, and divide by 250.

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Monty Python Officeland

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 29 July, 2009 Monty Python Officeland One of my former bosses said working with me was like being in a Monty Python movie. He wrote in one sentence that he had " expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." July 30, 2009 Patricia Robb said.

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

The Small Business Blog

Examples are rent, some employee costs, property taxes, telephone, heating and interest/bank expense. Should that not be the case, then you have “variable costs&# of $1 per call, which means you are out of the office, working or enjoying life while it is quiet, for example during holiday season. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Do you like what you do?

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 5 December, 2009 Do you like what you do? If you know what works best for you and if your job is 80/20 on what you like then you can put up with the small stuff like filing and filling out expense forms. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. How true that is!

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Increase customer loyalty by improving your brand

Service Untitled

There are a lot of successful businesses that are not the largest or the least expensive in what they sell. In 2009, Hyundai surprised the industry with their Assurance Gas Lock program promising to subsidize rising gas prices for their customers. So what makes customer loyalty? There was more.

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What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

Laughing all the Way to Work

It was expensive,but when I brought it home I had to do all the work to get it up and running. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. ► 2009 (58) ► December (5) Office Confidential: Just for fun to start your Ne. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S.