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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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These examples have one thing in common: From start to finish, these business people and their teams thrilled their customers. Or in sales-speak, they optimized their customers’ experience. Here’s an example: “Hi, I’m Jenny. According to the Echo 2012 Global Customer Service Barometer , only 7 percent of U.S.

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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

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For example, suppose you own Emma’s Pet Treats. Revisiting our example of Emma’s Dog Treats, pet health and happiness should be key in her values media. For instance, a pet food supplier would be a candidate for Emma to avoid as she may one day expand into pet foods. Maybe you bake dog biscuits for a local pet boutique.

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Turbocharge Your Sales

The Small Business Blog

The recent downturn has made companies think twice about who they are dealing with and has made them potentially more likely to switch suppliers. Don’t give up on your bottom 80% The rule of thumb has generally been that top 20% of your customers generate 80% of your revenues. It also sets a great example with the sales team.

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Takeover Disasters | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

7 Comments » | Trackback | Share This 7 Responses to “ Takeover Disasters &# Chris Burgoyne Said on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:59 am As a real example to this, I worked for a large UK company who purchased a company based on the culture and sales figures. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. My del.icio.us

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The worst business start-up mistakes | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

This applies to all aspects of your business – for example you could save around a thousand dollars by purchasing a very cheap computer for the office. It is also generally a big mistake to think that you can save money by under-investing in technology. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Q & A: I'm a Sole-Trader, how can I do my Accounts DIY ( Do-It.

The Small Business Blog

Accounting Software Strengths Easy to use by non accountants requiring no previous accounting knowledge and is basically a list of sales and a list of purchases on preset excel spreadsheets. For example, a purchase of petrol. One of the best ones is to realise that in double-entry terminology, Credit = From and Debit = To.

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Don't charge by the hour! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

If you are charging £18 per hour as an example and you are doing 100 hours of work. For your customers and you will be ideally to increase sales. I mean, I don’t need certification and i’ve only learned to do home staging business right at home with a little help from a book guide I purchased online.

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