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Should You Encourage Your Team to Pursue Side Hustles?

Success

That middle manager has to learn a whole new set of skills to: Successfully market their company Make the products Sell the products to customers Adjust to customer feedback Handle customer service needs. Even soft skills are inevitably learned on a side hustle. Increased Employee Happiness.

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Introduction to Procedures: Usage, Terminology, and Tips for Getting Started

All Things Admin

Ultimately, well-defined procedures save you and your team members time, provide clarity, and ensure consistency, compliance, and customer service across the board. Policy – A rule or guideline set by your company that all employees are expected to follow. Everything is right there in your procedures manual!

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Grow Your Business With These Eight Processes Every Business Should Have

Stephanie LH Calahan

Have a reliable way to understand the expenses and assets that your business has.    Co-mingling is when your personal and business finances are mixed--either through a bank account or credit card.    An employee policy manual and job descriptions are a great place to start. 1 - Financial Management.

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Takeover Disasters | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Here are some of the biggest mistakes made by companies during takeovers: Inadequate due diligence – You need to have done extensive research into the finances, existing contracts and liabilities of the company you are buying in order to avoid lawsuits, extra expenditure or loss of sales. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Small Business Bootstrapping Techniques | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

High profit home business Said on April 20th, 2008 at 9:12 pm Bootstrapping is great also because with success does not come huge expenses that can’t be endured with the ups and downs that come with any industry. he sold policies out of the trunk of his car for many years. The choice to remain low cost is a smart one. Great post.

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Apple – a customer support nightmare! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

That is worrying, since it could indicate a serious shift in Apples customer care policy and/or capacity. It’s universally almost impossible to get a company to pre-ship a replacement for an expensive product. What makes customer service stink isn’t that suppliers make mistakes.

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Small Business News World Round-up – 2009/12/08

The Small Business Blog

Senate bill won’t change small biz premiums: The Congressional Budget Office predicts the Senate health care reform bill would provide better, but more expensive, coverage in the individual insurance market, while having little impact on premiums for employer-based coverage. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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