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How to Know If You’re Financially Ready to Start a Business

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suppliers, margins, and so forth). After all, without cash flow and a solid financial plan that includes costs and expenses, you won’t be able to get your business off the ground. Either way, go through your bills and determine where you can cut personal expenses. Divide your expenses into one-time (e.g.,

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How to Make Sustainable Practices Make Sense for Your Business

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Production has globalized and resources are increasingly narrowing. According to Finnegan, the reluctance to embrace sustainability is usually linked to thinking of the additional expenses incurred for a “trend” that “will pass.” Similarly, society’s expectations of business are also changing.

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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

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But they are time-consuming and expensive. Adjacent to social media lies such resources as blogging and podcast platforms. For instance, a pet food supplier would be a candidate for Emma to avoid as she may one day expand into pet foods. Yes, brand refreshes happen. Social media provides great scalability for this reason.

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8 Easy Contract Changes to Make for More Sustainable Events

Practically Perfect PA

We can review our venue contracts and make conscious decisions to ask the questions about waste and sustainable resources. Wherever you are planning your event ask your venue to ensure they buy local food and drink product and wherever possible use local suppliers. Here are 5 easy changes that can be made today. Food wastage.

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Proactive steps for developing a business that won’t affect the environment

Eco-Office Gals

It’s common for business owners to prioritise monetisation at the expense of the environment. Partner with ethical suppliers. For smaller businesses, it isn’t possible to dedicate teams or resources to improve sustainability within an organisation. This is when it is better to partner with specialist organisations.

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Top 5 Tips on Building a 6 Month Cash Reserve

The Small Business Blog

hiremyparents.com Great resource for parents and small business finding work. Webmasters feeds : THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG» Blog Archive » Top 5 Website Design Tips Indinero.com Blog : Your Business, Your Cash: More Small Business Resources Mark Rosemans Blog : Kudos for 20 years in the internet business! 5% is a good target too.

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Some training suggestions for assistants

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Another factor is that they simply don’t have the budget for it, especially if they have staff that need expensive professional qualifications and CPD programmes. You can meet with potential suppliers but also attend free training sessions. LinkedIn Groups and articles. Business podcasts. Blogs (like this one!). Free online tutorials.

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