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Budget 2010 – The Saviour for Small Businesses?

The Small Business Blog

Budget 2010 – The Saviour for Small Businesses? by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 24, 2010 Today, Alistair Darling revealed the budget for the coming year. In truth, there is little new money in this budget for SME’s, and little of real substance to help those that are struggling. billion one-off growth package”. Not policy.

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Good Customer Service Can Go A Long Way | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Good Customer Service Can Go A Long Way by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 24, 2010 For a small business, customer retention can prove as profitable as sourcing new customers. In fact, retaining current customers can be more cost-effective as no outgoings are necessary to market and sell to them. So, listen to them.

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Rocky tax season could lead to slow refunds for employees

BMT Office Administration

There’s a reason the IRS rolled out some new tools and beefed up some old tools on its website this filing season—it’s still bogged down with last year’s returns! The likely effect will be delayed tax refunds for taxpayers who file even minimally complex returns. 2021 Form 1040 tax filing stats so far. For the week ending Feb.

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Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget

The Small Business Blog

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? If you have additional tips, please share them in the comments section.

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How We Pulled Off a Huge Event Through Outsourcing

Productivityist

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. File exchange: Dropbox, WeTransfer. This saved me the trouble of checking Dropbox regularly and uploading files one by one.). Review: Google Docs.

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

The Small Business Blog

Buying the best insurance for your Business : It’s important to pay close attention to the kind of insurance you buy for your small business; otherwise you could face a shock when you file a claim. As always this list is not exhaustive, but I hope it will give you a little overview. — ST.

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Good Business: A Reputation of Integrity

The Small Business Blog

In an age of corporate scandals, suspicious customers, and budgets with very little breathing room, there is simply no substitute for being an ethical company. When doing business, I think most of us would consider strong ethics and integrity to be top of the list of qualities we seek out in business partners.

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