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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2015

Small Business Labs

Already in use by Apple and other major retailers, Beacons are being used for applications such as in-store customer service notifications, special upgrade offers and personalized marketing messages.    3. This is rapidly changing as growing numbers of firms successfully raise money via crowdfunding platforms.

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Non Core Tasks That Are Usually Passed On To Outsourcing Services

Catch Friday

The usual non core tasks outsourced are the following: Customer Service - Customers are very important but in house staffs just don’t have the luxury of time to attend to all the customers’ needs. But this doesn’t change the fact that customers need to be attended to. Their concerns will be attended to.

Finance 40
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Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget

The Small Business Blog

Many equipment manufacturers offer free training to companies that purchase their products. Attempt to form a training co-op with other local companies to cut costs. If you have close links with customers that have a standardised training routine already in place, consider working with them to train your employees also.

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Grow Your Business With These Eight Processes Every Business Should Have

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Co-mingling is when your personal and business finances are mixed--either through a bank account or credit card.    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.    7 - Customer/Client Service.

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Change of Business Ownership | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

For many businesses in the UK it will be useful for them to have some form of an exit plan in case the day comes when it seems like the right time to sell. This is particularly true in the high levels of anticipation of business ownership change throughout the western world. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

2008 100
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Bookkeeping made easy – WinWeb CashBook | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

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. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

2006 100
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Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake.

The Small Business Blog

many manufacturing companies need cash-flow in form of loans, to take that away from them means killing their cash-flow and sometimes their business. I’m also a little concerned about your business finance understanding – you may not know but it is the banks job to finance new business. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

2009 100