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DECEMBER 7, 2009

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 Small Firms are growing but still need support to sustain a full recovery : More than half of businesses have resisted the worst of the recession by innovating, creating new products and services, according to a new survey by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and ICM. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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JUNE 8, 2010

However, a recent survey revealed that only a third of businesses recognised this. do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Business conditions and confidence jump again : The optimism of Australian businesses finally appears to be matched by actually business conditions, according to a new survey from National Australian Bank 2009 funding drought rolls on : For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Canadian small businesses report card : Ninety eight per cent of small business owners gave their companies a passing grade in a recent TD Canada Trust Small Business Survey, which asked 1002 small business owners with fewer than 20 employees to score their performance during the past year. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

So now I had my supplier with whom by this stage I had built up a good base for a trustworthy supplier by way of emails. They had even agreed to offer me a free case with a certain number purchased – a good incentive I had aimed to pass onto my prospective customers. Get your suppliers to advertise in it!

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MAY 31, 2006

Small Business Trends published a survey on “ Selling to Small Businesses ”, which supports the increasing importance of SEM: “ A full 73% of vendors attract small business customers through search engine results” Joe has another excellent article worth reading ; especially the last two bulletpoints are relevant to our discussion here.

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OCTOBER 11, 2007

Carl from Paid Surveys Said on October 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 am This is a truly inspiring story. do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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