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Budget 2010 – The Saviour for Small Businesses?

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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

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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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Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget

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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? Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Good Business: A Reputation of Integrity

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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. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Reputation is extremely valuable in 21st century business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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

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Darling pledges help for SMEs : The Chancellor announced proposals to help small businesses in his pre-Budget report.Alistair Darling committed £500 million for a capital growth fund to support small businesses and an extension to the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! — ST.

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Q&A: What do you think the key factors are for small business.

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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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Small Business Checklist: Business Costing | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

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Budget – create a budget and put it in your cash-flow. 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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