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by Stefan Töpfer on May 19, 2010 While we all hope to make our customers 100% happy all of the time, and this must of course be what we strive for, there will be occasions where a customer is less than happy with the service you have provided. If you want to build a business it’s important to learn how to let things go.

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It is difficult to say but in small business we can learn a lot abut the importance of public relations through this story. WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Digistar Solutions » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under Customer Service , Development , How to.

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Handbook topics include Linking Time Management To Results, Linking Customer Service To Results, and others. Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today! She trains, consults, and publishes handbooks that contain phrases for discussing performance.

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JUNE 20, 2010

Try to learn a bit about the industry that your prospective business customer works in so you don’t look out of your depth. It may seem obvious, but periodically asking a customer about how you or your service/product can help make their work-flow easier builds relationships. Number 3 is also especially relevant.

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ezCater’s simple-to-use platform provides a network of over 100,000 restaurants nationwide, business-grade reliability, food spend management tools, and 24/7 support from their highly trained customer service team. Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live. And it’s efficient?

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Improved customer service, which translates to customer retention. Regular email no longer cuts through and many employees are still reluctant to speak up. Learn more about the Engagement Journey , and where your organization currently sits on this maturity curve. Decreased absenteeism.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 11:14 am and is filed under Question & Answer. The fact that there are plenty of highly profitable companies, with for instance bad customer service, does not mean they are not loosing customers. Thanks for your good points.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 7:47 am and is filed under Business Checklists. We may send you a confirmation email to check you are a real person We are sorry but any violation of the above rules will mean an automatic removal of your comment. « Getting Fired Up!

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Learn about how your company structure affects pay. Turbocharge Your Sales » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 7:45 am and is filed under Business Checklists. If possible, get some advice from your accountant regarding the level of pay you plan on taking from the business.

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JULY 13, 2010

It might take time, but you will learn a great deal about how to, and how not to, do things! Networking not only allows you to meet potential clients but you will also learn valuable lessons from people who are more experienced in the business world. start-up in business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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MARCH 14, 2010

Learn everything you can about your competition, their products and how they advertise. « Good Business: A Reputation of Integrity Why Your Small Business Needs A SWOT » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 7:00 am and is filed under SME-Blog. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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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. We may send you a confirmation email to check you are a real person We are sorry but any violation of the above rules will mean an automatic removal of your comment.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

If you are no longer personally growing and learning in your role it can cause your business to stagnate. We may send you a confirmation email to check you are a real person We are sorry but any violation of the above rules will mean an automatic removal of your comment. It is possible that you may have been at the helm for too long.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Although he never finished high school, Scudamore loves nothing more than learning. Within his business he has established what he calls a Mentor Board of Advisors, a group of people he turns to for advice and learning. Today they have 95 franchise partners across North America and are in 47 of North America’s top 50 cities.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You might be surprised how much you can learn about your people and your business! « Top 5 Tips for Finding Investors Top 5 Tips for Hiring New Employees » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under SME-Blog. Be accessible – today’s workers value face time.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 7:00 am and is filed under Business Checklists. Not only that, you have someone that is learning the latest and greatest tech practices. « Economics – Small Business Quote of the Week Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake.

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MAY 20, 2010

When you begin employing staff you need to quickly learn how to not only manage them, but also how to help them achieve their best. Allow your staff time to come to you with ideas or questions; you’ll learn a lot about your business and might even discover an avenue you’d never thought of taking. « The Customer Is Always Right!

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JULY 20, 2010

As I have mentioned previously , I am looking to help small businesses to hold conversations, engage with each other and learn from what is happening in the big business world. Online presence brings more traffic (eventually customers) to your business. start-up in business , use online IT. It will help strengthen their business.

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JULY 27, 2010

For example, if you learn about products that are doing well in other countries then you may be able to adapt them for sale here if no-one else is doing it. » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 7:00 am and is filed under Business Ideas , How to. , a good idea is so important.

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APRIL 27, 2010

I look forward to reading your pitches, and learning more about your small businesses! « Planned European Webserver Outage The Spirit of the Entrepreneur » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under Announcements , SME-Blog. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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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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MARCH 20, 2008

What have I learned yesterday? Quality, customer service and a niche market, what could possibly go wrong. We may send you a confirmation email to check you are a real person We are sorry but any violation of the above rules will mean an automatic removal of your comment. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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AUGUST 15, 2007

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. Mark-up – make sure you review your mark-up on a regular basis to protect your margins. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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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. Another tip I have is to learn to say ‘no’ Too many people especially in this economic downturn are too afraid to say no to tasks or turn down work if they are a freelancer. Outsource and delegate!

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JANUARY 13, 2008

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Sunday, January 13th, 2008 at 1:28 pm and is filed under do a SWOT plan , plan cash-flow , plan your business , start-up in business. But saying that, we are still learning and growing. I have learned a lot just from the info posted here! Sponsors Advertise Here?

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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. Encourage other sites to link to yours – this may be a well known strategy but it can’t be reinforced enough. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 7:08 pm and is filed under Comments. You learn to enjoy that and understand that they are doing that because they are hurting – after all we are destroying their business model, which made them all very much money. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 6:58 am and is filed under Marketing/PR , Sales , be successful , market and sell. We may send you a confirmation email to check you are a real person We are sorry but any violation of the above rules will mean an automatic removal of your comment.

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APRIL 16, 2008

If you consider the skills potential of parents, if each parent would only contribute one hour on average per week to their learned professions. We may send you a confirmation email to check you are a real person We are sorry but any violation of the above rules will mean an automatic removal of your comment. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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JUNE 29, 2010

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 at 7:30 am and is filed under How to. We may send you a confirmation email to check you are a real person We are sorry but any violation of the above rules will mean an automatic removal of your comment. lower overheads. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

At the same time business failure is far less an issue, as the risk associated with these ventures is very small, with the right mental attitude of the entrepreneur towards failure, the learning effect of a failure can be enormous. Emerging economies like China, India and some others are learning from the U.S. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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MARCH 2, 2010

« Top 5 Tips for Giving a New Business a Kick Start Top 5 Tips for Writing a Staff Handbook » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 2:30 am and is filed under SME-Blog , bootstrap. Jp14 Said on March 5th, 2010 at 10:36 pm Another common thing is to keep learning.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, November 19th, 2007 at 7:57 pm and is filed under Accounting , Small Business / SOHO , WinWeb , do bookkeeping. , « Get Small Business Blogging with WinWeb! Small Business Maxim: Have a Passion. do cost cutting. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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APRIL 1, 2008

Although this is a competitive market, if you are talented and customer focused enough then you can become successful. Skills needed: You will need to be very good at graphic design and it will help if you know how to print T-shirts already, although you could learn. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I used the migration assistant to move all files across to my new computer and at first all seemed fine. You guessed it, as soon as I had done that my new computer started having problems, no calendar or address book data anymore,then my email started going and so on – I rebooted and that was that – I could no longer log in.

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OCTOBER 11, 2007

Clever Marketing by Kitchen Table Business by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 11, 2007 Shirley Jaffrey wrote me an email today, telling me her story how she started her business on a kitchen table and is now supplying the stars. A lot can be learned here and if you have similar stories, why not tell us about them?

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