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Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor

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Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor by Stefan Töpfer on Jan 25, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Make sure that the mentor is aware of what you want from them e.g. cashflow advice. Develop a network of mentors you can rely on for good advice.

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Building a better customer service experience with expert branding

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Let’s face it – we want customer service and quality products on our own terms, and if we don’t get it all the way we want it, we are likely to move on to another product or service who properly “wows” us. Brands get turned into lifestyles. Don’t ever say or believe “whatever.”

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

The Small Business Blog

Within his business he has established what he calls a Mentor Board of Advisors, a group of people he turns to for advice and learning. Not surprisingly this group includes mentors within his own industry, but what is unique about Scudamore is that some of these mentors run the businesses he competes against every day.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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Find a mentor. Ask questions of mentors and peers. Put those things on your not-to-do list and pay people to help you with the stuff that doesn’t produce the sales and lifestyle success you desire. Todd Duncan , sales expert and co-author of The 10 Golden Rules of Customer Service: The Story of the $6,000 Egg.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/03

The Small Business Blog

Entrepreneurs benefit from mentors : Starting a new business involves a steep learning curve, but thanks to a local mentoring program, owners of fledgling Sask atoon businesses can call on the experience of established entrepreneurs. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Top 5 Tips on Making Big Changes

The Small Business Blog

Oh, and get the mentoring and personal access to make it happen as safely as possible. 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! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Let Go A Little and Help Your Business

The Small Business Blog

I already tried doing QA but I find that I spend more time telling the people or mentor them on how to correct a certain issue to get the job done. The truth is unless you have an employee working for your people that you outsource don’t seem to pay attention to details much. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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