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Why Everyone Wants Small Businesses as Customers

Small Business Labs

.   This fact was highlighted in a letter sent to the management team of Office Depot by the Hedge Fund Starboard.  They recently bought 13% of Office Depot's stock and are pushing the company to restructure. Google, eBay and Intuit are good examples.  and global economy. as target markets.

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12 Business Productivity Tools They Can Not Live Without.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Rather than a To Do pile, this is a special kind of parking system for action-oriented papers, serving as a reminder system to tickle your brain while giving you confidence that you won't forget about worrisome, detailed or important issues requiring action. You can find it here: Office Max/Office Depot.

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Small Business world News Round-up - 2009/10/27

The Small Business Blog

Some 75 per cent of SMEs say the economy will see an upturn in 2010, with 61 per cent confident about their business prospects for the coming year and 35 per cent predicting an improvement by January 2010, according to BT’s 2009 Business Pulse report. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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