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How to Survive a Recession, According to a 91-Year-Old Business

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To keep the 76,000-square-foot store running with only 120 employees, down 40% from the prior year, and with 50% fewer staff in the restaurant, they had to find efficiencies like streamlining the restaurant menu. My dad told me: ‘Rick, if you want the restaurant to run well, be in the restaurant.’ Great advice.”

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Competitive Intelligence: Not Just For Big Business | THE SMALL.

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Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP. Steve Said on January 26th, 2010 at 3:38 pm I often find that CI is overlooked by small businesses especially regarding restaurants for example. Say you have a competing restaurant a few blocks away. You ask a question, I answer! Starting a Small Business?

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Ten Small Business Startup Ideas – 2009/09/20 | THE SMALL BUSINESS.

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Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP. A YouTube channel reviewing local restaurants. Small Business Bootstrapping How to start your own small business with no or little money. You ask a question, I answer! OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/01

The Small Business Blog

Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP. The Latest Entrepreneurial Fantasy Is Selling Cupcakes : Move over restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts. Enhance Your Work-Life Balance Have it all your way – family, friends, work and most of all a life! You ask a question, I answer! Starting a Small Business?

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Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? | THE SMALL.

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Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP. I’ve got 26 restaurants within a mile of me, and many are on the same three streets! (in E-Mail me or follow me. You ask a question, I answer! Outsourcing Options For Small Business Focus on your business, timeshare professionals. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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New Hire Overload

Laughing all the Way to Work

As I was going through the manual, I saw chapters on office procedures, confidentiality, health and safety, security and more. The Human Resources Director pointed me to a small office and I was left alone to read what must have been 200 pages.

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New Small Business Startup Idea: Virtual Import/Export Assistant.

The Small Business Blog

Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP. I put together a 10 question survey that I had planned to accost passers by with outside the few foreign wine boutiques as well as restaurant owners. He warned me that Spanish restaurant owners would never pay up front and that I would be forever chasing them for money. (My

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