The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The truth is that charging by the hour is terribly customer unfriendly and is therefor very bad for your small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer- or Personal business, like professional, contractors, freelancer, self-employed, sole-trader and virtual assistants.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 1, 2008

Skills needed: You will need to be very good at graphic design and it will help if you know how to print T-shirts already, although you could learn. Although this is a competitive market, if you are talented and customer focused enough then you can become successful. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I came across one company from Canada which took SEO optimisation into their own hands and learned through experience and extensive testing a few proven ways to boost Google’s rankings of your website. For example, “small_business_bookkeeping.jpg” instead of a digital camera’s default “123.jpg” jpg” will be more effective.

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The Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

I could give you many more examples, but you get the picture. There are many more examples. On the other hand we are less mobile, less communicate on work less learn about the experiences of colleagues. While there are many challenges for home workers, I believe we are seeing the beginning of an “reversal&# trend.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

This is a question that is very much based on individual circumstance; I, for example, started my first business whilst at university and have been doing so ever since! Quit the day job and take the plunge, or build up steadily until you have the security you need to enter fully in to the world of the self-employed?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

  Keep reading to learn what my colleagues and friends had to say about the "Great Calendar Debate."   If you aren't particularly tech-savvy, you might feel more comfortable using a paper planner, rather than having to learn the ins and outs of an electronic diary system. say, to heck with that.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 22, 2010

Where do you learn to get comfortable with all this? Confidence and the lack thereof play major rolls in business… one specific example is when determining a project bid or what to charge per hour. People want security in their purchases and nothing makes a buyer more nervous than a supplier who’s unsure of their own stuff.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 8, 2006

While technology allows to make certain things less expensive and often even provider a better product for less money – see WinWeb OnlineOffice as an example – services like accounting are knowledge based and as such not easily provided cheaper. You Get What You Pay For – this certainly hold true today. Keep posting!

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