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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. Checklist – A list of items or tasks to be completed, typically used as a quick reference to ensure nothing is missed.

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The Contractor Test; Do You Pass?

Tips From T. Marie

Behavioral control refers to facts that show whether there is a right to direct or control how the virtual assistant does the work. Financial control refers to facts that show whether or not the client has the right to control the economic aspects of the worker’s job. Those three areas are: Behavioral. Type of Relationship. Behavioral.

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How Working From Home Can Work For You

The Small Business Blog

While your competitors have to pay out for expensive office space that they don’t need as clients dry up, your business can continue to thrive. An ideal example of people in this category are parents, childcare is hugely expensive and allowing people the flexibility to work from home means you can gain the staff others are missing out on!

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Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake.

The Small Business Blog

Let me spell it out for anyone who really has not got the picture, businesses go bust because: The banks will not lend money to them; Even if they lend the money it is so expensive that it takes any profit out of the deal; They run out of savings. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Small Business Bootstrapping Techniques | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Small Business Bootstrapping Techniques by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 01, 2007 I often refer to “ bootstrapping “, when I talk about small business, you may very well be asking “ What the hell is bootstrapping?&# In common business lingo, bootstrapping means using your personal funds in order to finance the business.

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Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

It’s expensive to develop your own resources so it makes sense to share. It’s good for you and good for your customers who don’t have to pay excessive costs. You can work in the same industry, refer clients to other organisations if there is an overflow and share resources. Think of the motor industry.

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Women In The Workplace

The Small Business Blog

VB, Stefan Sandra Mitchell Said on April 21st, 2010 at 5:21 pm Many women have seized the opportunity that you refer to Stefan, they’ve started their own (small) businesses to provide services to the small business sector. Thanks for your comments, hope to see you here again. The rise of the mumtrepreneur is testimony to this.

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