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Skills needed: You will need to have a background in personal training and nutrition or have experience of working as a fitness instructor. Because you will be in direct contact with the general public you will need excellent communication skills and an approachable personality. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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MARCH 11, 2008

Establishing a professional looking portfolio website to showcase your previous work will be the main way in which you will attract customers. Skills needed: Experience is the key to success in this industry. « Canada Small Business News Round-up – 11/03/2008 Service Desert is big small business opportunity.

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APRIL 16, 2008

Often the conversation includes the so called “skill shortage&# , felt especially hard in Australia these days. When I question this alleged shortage, I’m always surprised about how little consideration is given to well skilled and educated parents – mainly women – sitting at home looking after the family.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Yet as soon as these women have a child they are placed on a ‘has-been’ pile with their skills and talents lost. And people claim our country has a skills shortage? I meet these ladies all the time, and often they come from large corporate backgrounds, and have a fantastic skill set. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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MARCH 16, 2010

If an area such as accounting is your weakness, rather than wasting time learning the skill it may be more cost-effective and time efficient to outsource the service. Work out if these weaknesses will truly impact your business, and if there are ways to improve in these areas. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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JULY 27, 2010

» « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 7:00 am and is filed under Business Ideas , How to. , « Top 5 Tips for Writing Content for a Small Business Website John Needs YOU! You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 a good idea is so important. a good article.

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MAY 20, 2008

Writing Service by Stefan Töpfer on May 20, 2008 The competitive job market makes it important for applicants to have a résumé that stands out from the pile. Many people have trouble writing a successful CV or cover letter, so if you have excellent writing skills and know how to effectively create a résumé then this business may be for you.

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AUGUST 21, 2007

Examples of teams are: Work Teams Sales Teams Customer Service Teams Virtual Teams I would suggest that small business owners need to form teams around their small business and start-up business , like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses, too.

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DECEMBER 29, 2008

« Small Business Blog Roundup 2008-12-28 Book Review: Spare Room Start Up by Emma Jones » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 11:47 am and is filed under Home Business , Self-employed , Small Business / SOHO , Sole-Trader. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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« Five Tips on Preparing for a Growth Spurt Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/11/03 » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 7:00 am and is filed under SME News Round-up. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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MARCH 19, 2008

Partnerships benefit from finding it easier to raise capital and drawing on the combined skills and knowledge of all partners. » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 8:46 pm and is filed under Business Checklists , Start-Up. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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AUGUST 7, 2007

So if you ever had a dream or goal in business, now is the time to start, some people make their hobby into a business, others their DIY skills and some even start social businesses for giving someone else a helping hand – the reasons and opportunities are truly limitless. What business would you like to start today ?

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APRIL 1, 2008

Your business could offer a range of t-shirt designs to select from a catalogue as well as making custom shirts to order. Although this is a competitive market, if you are talented and customer focused enough then you can become successful. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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AUGUST 28, 2007

So I can work on my communication skills to do a better job in future. do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it! Small Business Infrastructure For Business Start-Up.

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MAY 9, 2006

There is no way you could hope, as a small business, to employ even one of these skill sets full-time, unless they are important to the core business. The same is true for other “ Virtual Assistants “: Call answering, bookkeeping, typing, credit control, etc. The combination of the SaaS model with our Live!

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MAY 8, 2006

Members of the major accountancy bodies, such as ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS, CPA, ICAI and others are also subject periodic reviews of their files by their professional body and are required to keep up to date by engaging in Continuing Professional Development. Unqualified “accountants” are not subject to any of the above. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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OCTOBER 11, 2007

Here is some of what she emailed me: “… I was a nurse of 13 years experience in all areas of nursing and a practicing aroma therapist, so using my extensive knowledge in health care and natural essential oils and emollients I created my blend, Tattoo Aftercare®, (Scots are also famous for blending skills!) Any idea anyone?

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

The ability to do a lot yourself, pick up aspects of skills you need to complete a task and then get back into selling/making/building/consulting, ie. We’ve have had to buy in stock though so not much we can do there. Maybe bootstrapping is more a state of mind than it is to do with cash? what you do to bring in the money.

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DECEMBER 29, 2008

No you are not – the former customers or clients have lost a supplier too. So here is my idea, what about if you and some of your colleagues set up small home businesses and formed a little Co-operative and started providing services, like maintenance or upgrades or products to these former clients of your employer?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

I would encourage Joshua and everyone else working from home to relearn the social skills of building local friendships, or live near family and give you the social life you need. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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