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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

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Scalability refers to the ability of a business to increase revenue without much increase in costs. But although this doubles your cost in time and ingredients, you don’t need to buy a new oven. But although this doubles your cost in time and ingredients, you don’t need to buy a new oven. Now, you bake twice as many treats.

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Customer Service – The Small Business Advantage!

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Customer service is one of the few great advantages that a small business has over a larger competitor. Although they are unlikely to be able to compete on price, they have the potential to provide a far more personalised and caring customer care experience.

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Should You Encourage Your Team to Pursue Side Hustles?

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Popular side hustle ideas include starting an online store, blogging, and podcasting because each of these outlets are popular with everyday people (consider how nearly 120 million people listen to podcasts each month) and require minimal funds to launch. In some ways, side hustles can work as training crucibles you don’t have to pay for.

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Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget

The Small Business Blog

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. Starting a Small Business? Build your own network!

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What happened to customer service at Sears?

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The entire history of Sears is way beyond the scope of today’s blog post, but a short summary of Sears has its roots dating back to 1886 when the founder, Robert Sears began selling watches in Chicago. Customer service begins with employees who want to be working and doing their best. So what has happened? billion in 2012.

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The Potential Customer just Walked – How Much did it cost you.

Make or Break Moments

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 have often theorized the importance of building relationships with customers and now a recent survey puts dollars to the sense of that theory.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Impact of poor customer service.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. According to The Australian , the company now plans to spend $100 million over the next four years to improve their customer service. Brookes also plans to equip 65 stores with 4,000 touch screen registers.