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Cut Back Your Cost Of Living

Productivity Bits

Credit Cards. Firstly, check out those credit cards sitting in your purse or wallet. So, whether you have an excellent credit history or not, you could probably benefit from changing your credit card. Suppliers usually give additional discounts for direct bank payments as this saves them money.

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Eight reasons why assistants should use a travel management company

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It is quite common now to have help with travel arrangements as most companies do employ an outside supplier to book flights, hotels and car hire. The travel agency should have a 24 hour emergency helpline which means if anything goes wrong your colleague can contact them to find out information and get an idea of when they can get home.

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Bank of America Announces New Program to Help Spur Small Business Lending Nationwide

Small Business CEO

To access the capital, nonprofit lenders participating in these federal loan programs must set aside loan loss reserves at levels of up to 15 percent of the capital provided by the agencies. Bank of America also made a $10 billion pledge to increase its spending with small, medium-sized and diverse suppliers over the next five years.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/17

The Small Business Blog

Proposed City Cut in Small Business Aid Stirs Backlash : Agencies that help small businesses say they need more assistance, not less, in hard times. WinWeb’s UK Customers Can Save With MasterCard Business Savings : The credit card organisation MasterCard and Winweb have joined forces and bring a 10% saving to all WinWeb customers.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/15

The Small Business Blog

RBI draws flank from panel : The carte blanche given to private and foreign banks by the Reserve Bank of India to charge interest rates on credit cards at their whims and fancy has come in for severe criticism by the parliamentary standing committee on finance. — ST. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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