The Small Business Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

Learn how to use publishing software and create eye-catching promotional material. This is the best way to expect a higher return on investment on your advertising budget. Test the whole thing: Large corporations have a huge advertising budget to play and experiment. Small businesses can not afford that.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Make it easy for your customers, according their definition of easy. They will order more, and will continue to do business with you as they learn to rely on you as a data source. If you manage an internal support organization like Information Technology, Human Resources or Finance, re-visit your internal benchmarks.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 15, 2007

Budget – create a budget and put it in your cash-flow. Cash-flow – compare your cash-flow fore-cast with the actual numbers on a regular basis and learn from it, it’s not about being spot on, but about knowing what happened so you can control it. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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FEBRUARY 2, 2008

Now you can learn what went wrong and understand your business better, it will force you to rethink and face facts. You will be amazed what you can learn about the financial dynamic in your small business within one hour, that is often all it takes to get started. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 21, 2008

The fact that there are plenty of highly profitable companies, with for instance bad customer service, does not mean they are not loosing customers. With my focus on micro business, it is imperative to get customer service right since it is often the main differentiator to bigger and/or cheaper competition.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 16, 2010

If an area such as accounting is your weakness, rather than wasting time learning the skill it may be more cost-effective and time efficient to outsource the service. I have a book coming out this summer, Branding Basics for Small Business: How to Create an Irresistible Brand on Any Budget that addresses this and more.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 30, 2010

« Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget Top 5 Tips for Small Businesses at Easter » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 at 6:30 am and is filed under SME-Blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Entrepreneurs benefit from mentors : Starting a new business involves a steep learning curve, but thanks to a local mentoring program, owners of fledgling Sask atoon businesses can call on the experience of established entrepreneurs. has improved in the wake of the economic revival, says a survey by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I came across one company from Canada which took SEO optimisation into their own hands and learned through experience and extensive testing a few proven ways to boost Google’s rankings of your website. It doesn’t have to be fancy or high-budget. Install the “Add This” button on each web page so visitors can bookmark your site easily.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Kerry Said on May 23rd, 2008 at 7:17 pm I agree that it might make sense to ‘bootstrap’ when you’re just starting out, but doesn’t it also make sense to consider whether you have access to good financing opportunities? But, I have learned from each and every one of them. Really great ! Great post.

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MAY 8, 2006

I’m sure what some people don’t understand is that you rarely find a quality accountant for a budget price. Rodolfo Jardinel Said on July 2nd, 2010 at 10:51 am This is the first time I visited the site and found out that most of the blogs here are interesting and very useful to people wants to learn more about accountancy issues.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In the process, he learned a lot about what the community needed and the role which digital ignorance played, and made it his business to understand the problems, know what resources were available and find solutions. From lead generation to business & finance fundamentals, no topic is too big or small to be tackled.

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