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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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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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Reducing Overheads Can Save A Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

The term ‘business overhead’ refers to the general cost of running a business; this can include carrying an inventory, supplies, staff and premises. I see many businesses making this mistake), shop around for phone services or use voip instead and so on. But if these overheads can be reduced, small business success can be made easier.

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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?&# One blog I follow written by the CEO of a startup refers to being scrappy. than bootstrapping is for you.

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SME / SMB Have Become Obsolete Acronyms | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

It used to collectively refer to companies too small to be attractive for the major Enterprise Software providers – and of course the same held true vice versa: I assume most readers of this blog are in small businesses, and for you the rule has been that "enterprise software" is too expensive.

2006 100
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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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