The Small Business Blog

MARCH 14, 2010

Try to focus on the benefits of what your product can do for the buyer, rather than its features. Learn everything you can about your competition, their products and how they advertise. Web development as well can be pretty expensive. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

These hidden costs involve the recruiting, hiring and training of employees and can have a significant effect on the financial health and bottom line of a company. In general, these employees are secure in their positions, and are more likely to train faster, stay longer, and be more productive. The Result.

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The Small Business Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2009

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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Small Business CEO

JANUARY 25, 2010

Maybe you look at maximizing revenue per full-time employee, increasing first call resolution in your contact center or IT expense as a percent of revenue. Your customers, whether they are consumers or businesses, rarely measure you against others in your industry. So you benchmark your company against others in your industry.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

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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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 15, 2010

We all start our own businesses because we have passion and drive, this can easily become lost in the day to day monotony of paperwork and tedious tasks, yet employing full or part-time staff can be expensive and risky. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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APRIL 27, 2011

Have a reliable way to understand the expenses and assets that your business has.    In addition, a strong financial process will ensure that you have the ability to know if you are profitable and which services/products to continue or stop.  Service or Product Line. 1 - Financial Management.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

This allows you to “tag&# expenses to products, departments, services or projects – giving you the opportunity to analyze the true cost of a department or any project. This will enable you to see exactly where your money is going and you can evaluate if your projects or products make you any money.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 8, 2008

The costs will vary greatly depending on your needs – machines that make neon signs for a bar will be more expensive than if you are making wooden estate agent signs. The rest of your expenses will be related to promoting your website. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name.

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The Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2006

Whatever method you use to record your income & expenses at the moment, instead simply enter the details on a form on the Payments & Receipts pages of ‘Cashbook’ to record any money paid into or out of your business. You will then have a record of all your income & expenses shown with monthly totals.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

It’s like they took the Office suite and eliminated everything that drives me nuts about MS products. We work through a reseller network to deliver outsourced help desk and pc management services to small and mid sized businesses. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Even if you need the service or product from your supplier, check others all the time, insurance, telephone, utilities, etc. It gives a good looking front end to the business but you can not succeed on that alone because eventualy the client/customer will see through it when it’s time to deliver. Get better payment terms.

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The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 29, 2009

One of the greatest advantages of being a small business is the ease in which you can quickly implement new technology into the way you work, whereas any change for a large company is a lengthy and expensive process. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

In fact, I believe working from home significantly increases productivity so, if anything, small businesses can benefit from allowing their staff to work flexibly; by giving a little you will get back a whole lot more. Not only is my wife employed by a firm that gave her plenty of maternity leave, they also offered help with expenses.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2007

A good side effect here is that you will have to look at your expenses and cost again, and may be able to make a judgement if that was good or bad money spent – you know what I mean – the hindsight thing. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name.

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The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 13, 2010

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. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. Think of the motor industry. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 19, 2008

However, the initial process of incorporation can be lengthy and expensive. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. The owners of a corporation are its shareholders and their only liability is their investment in company stock. If you enter your URL, your name will become a link to the URL.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 2, 2010

If a start-up funds the development of their company through internal cash flow and are cautious with expenses, the company can grow with low-risk to all those involved. All of these actions will increase awareness of your product. they would rather have someone come to them in person and explain the product.

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The Small Business Blog

JULY 20, 2010

People often say to me that their small business doesn’t have a website as it’s too complicated, takes up too much time or is too expensive. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. Leave a Reply I would love to hear from you, please let me know what your take on my blog post is.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 1, 2008

The set-up cost for this business is one of the more expensive ones due to all the equipment that will be required. If you have the computer hardware and software already your costs will be significantly lower, but you will need to invest in a T-shirt screening machine to manufacture your product. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Fixed costs are operating cost that are incurred when providing necessities for doing business and have no relation to the volume of production and sales. Examples are rent, some employee costs, property taxes, telephone, heating and interest/bank expense. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2007

So it’s quite different from the sole trader, much more expensive to set up and run. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. There are many more differences, too numerous to mention here. Leave a Reply I would love to hear from you, please let me know what your take on my blog post is.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 21, 2008

Legislation or consumer attitudes towards products and advertising can be vastly different. Maintaining a brand can be expensive in marketing terms so you may wish to drop some entirely. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 12, 2010

This penalises small businesses, which can ill-afford to pay out for expensive legal advice. HMRC – and any other government department – should ideally operate a free information service, which provides free written and binding advice to the public as well as to businesses. Thanks or all your comments guys.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 10, 2006

throw out any random letters and chances are it means a new product, technology, industry trend, market segment. This by definition makes any software products that are implemented and ran at the customer's premises a poor choice – a potential maintenance nightmare.

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The Small Business Blog

JULY 27, 2006

You need to look on your books as your very own window on the health and well being of your business. Also, when you buy such a system the up front costs can be expensive. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. So, now you know why you need to keep books, but how do you go about it.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

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. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 31, 2006

This might sound like a shocking statement, since "Enterprise Software" typically means the world of SAP and Oracle, and the traditional heavyweight, expensive, pay-huge-license-fees-upfront, then try-to-implement-forever model that does not work anymore. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name.

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Then it is going to be more expensive, therefore, fixed pricing will be more ideal. For your customers and you will be ideally to increase sales. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. Then you need to consider implications of time. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 29, 2006

Another downside, if you make more profits than you draw out, you are still taxed on all the profit irrespective of whether you have taken the money, and with a 40% tax band this can be expensive. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I love Apple products – while it is true you need to be good at Unix to get the serious stuff sorted – they usually work fine. 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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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

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. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. Great post.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 8, 2006

Price may be driven down by some; however, we refuse to compromise on fees as they are set a realistic middle of the road, not the cheapest nor the most expensive rate. Please enter your real name, not your company, product or services name. You Get What You Pay For – this certainly hold true today.

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