The Small Business Blog

MARCH 28, 2010

Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 29, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. « Budget 2010 – The Saviour for Small Businesses? Many equipment manufacturers offer free training to companies that purchase their products.

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BMT Office Administration

MARCH 16, 2022

The cause, of course, is the pandemic, plus comically tragic underfunding for well over a decade. Remind them that text messages or emails purporting come from the IRS are scams. The IRS doesn’t communicate with taxpayers via text or email. Peoples’ patience is running thin. 2021 Form 1040 tax filing stats so far.

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Page Personnel

JULY 27, 2022

Build brand awareness One of the most important aspects of the role is to create awareness of your brand, in ways that are often aimed at specific target audiences comprised of interested parties and potential customers. They may also need to manage the marketing budgets and be aware of all market trends.

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Page Personnel

JULY 27, 2022

Build brand awareness One of the most important aspects of the role is to create awareness of your brand, in ways that are often aimed at specific target audiences comprised of interested parties and potential customers. They may also need to manage the marketing budgets and be aware of all market trends.

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Customers Rock!

MAY 5, 2011

It is not a social media book (more on that in The Story below), but social media is woven throughout the book (as it should be woven throughout a company’s marketing and customer service strategies). It is also not a customer service book (but that is an important tenet). But customer service is not enough.

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Eco-Office Gals

DECEMBER 23, 2012

The end of 2012 is looming on the horizon, which means it’s once again time to buy new calendars, reset the budget, and start thinking about your business strategy for the coming year. Of course, it is also an opportunity to go green by reducing wasteful packaging and using recycled materials. Customer service.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 15, 2013

One of our virtual assistants is a 40+ year-old multilingual, experienced marketing and SEO specialist with a good understanding of sales and customer service. We ended up hiring him for several jobs and staying in constant contact over the course of several weeks. egotiation via email & phone ?

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Success

MARCH 15, 2023

I received an email from a prospective client who said her company really wanted to hire me to speak to its sales staff. Of course, I agreed to speak with him—he was “the authority,” after all. It might lack the budget for training customer service reps to use the new software. Here’s a common example.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 22, 2023

. ––– THE LEADER ASSISTANT PODCAST IS PRESENTED BY EZCATER ezCater is the nation’s most trusted provider of corporate food solutions — the best way for companies to order food for daily employee lunches, meetings, and events of any size or budget. Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live.

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Energage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Such behaviors often go against the grain of what’s taught in most formal MBA courses and the instinct executives develop as they climb the organizational ladder. Many look to formal training, investing large budgets and hundreds of people-hours into instructor-led classes. And this takes some sustained commitment.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 30, 2010

Only allow yourself a certain amount of time for tasks that can become time consuming, such as reading and responding to email. There will, of course, be times when deadlines need to be met or work just has to be done that will make even the most well organized small business owner feel that they are not managing their time effectively.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 16, 2010

There are many SWOT analysis tools out there, I would, of course, recommend the one from WinWeb! « Top 5 Basic Advertising Tips Top 5 Tips for Learning More About Your Customers » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under SME-Blog , do a SWOT plan.

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Success

JUNE 20, 2023

Perhaps your goal that day is to spend time with your family or enjoy a day on the golf course.) So read the books and articles, listen to the audio and take the courses. Limit how often you check and answer emails. You set aside two different times during the day to answer email: once at the start, the second at the end.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 15, 2023

––– THE LEADER ASSISTANT PODCAST IS PRESENTED BY EZCATER ezCater is the nation’s most trusted provider of corporate food solutions — the best way for companies to order food for daily employee lunches, meetings, and events of any size or budget. Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live.

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The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 22, 2008

Most notably because of exchange rate risk which makes it hard to budget. Defend your prices in terms of value for money to your customers and then get them to do it for you to potential new customers. Extend your value for money by keeping your customers informed I use an email newsletter to great effect.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 31, 2006

Of course several Open Source packages are available completely free, which is a perfect solution for the cost problem, but frankly most of these packages are by geeks for geeks; i.e. you really have to be quite IT-savy to implement, integrate, upgrade them, and as we stated most small businesses simply do not have that type of resource.

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Jen Lawrence

MARCH 25, 2019

Access to email means your boss can find you wherever, whenever. Customers and colleagues are using social media for business at alarming rates. I was always on-call, responding to emails within moments of receiving them and handling tasks quickly because I didn’t want to be a bottleneck in productivity. Sustainable.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Of course we wouldn’t want our business to fail, SME or multinational, we want our business to grow but running a business also means you are ready for the possibilities of failing. Sigang McGough Said on March 23rd, 2010 at 2:25 pm A convincing argument for starting a business even when on a budget. Really great ! Great post.

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Jen Lawrence

MARCH 25, 2019

Access to email means your boss can find you wherever, whenever. Customers and colleagues are using social media for business at alarming rates. I was always on-call, responding to emails within moments of receiving them and handling tasks quickly because I didn’t want to be a bottleneck in productivity. Sustainable.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

He buys courses in how to use social media because he thinks clients must like him. It didn’t work at all as described and I emailed him to ask “did you actually use this or are you just selling it for the affiliate income?&# ‘Course, it’s a big ol’ internet and YMMV Chris Garrett´s last blog.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

She is also a national speaker focused on elevating customer service and has a multi-year partnership with the NBA as proud NBA sponsors of the Orlando Magic. Now, with a multi-six figure business, three high-demand online courses available globally, and workshops all over the world, she wants to teach others how to do the same.

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