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Top 5 Biz-to-Biz Sales Tips

The Small Business Blog

Try to learn a bit about the industry that your prospective business customer works in so you don’t look out of your depth. If they are unhappy with their purchases, work hard to repair the relationship between businesses. If only more people would learn the value in such information. Number 3 is also especially relevant.

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What's Your Business Personality? | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

It is difficult to say but in small business we can learn a lot abut the importance of public relations through this story. I, for one, have encountered a rude, curt or abrupt salesperson and gone out of my way to not purchase something from them. Nice sharing. I love the analogy. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Small Business Checklist: Business Costing | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Buying – keep control of your spending, make one person sign off on all purchases, ideally that person should be you. Cash-flow – compare your cash-flow fore-cast with the actual numbers on a regular basis and learn from it, it’s not about being spot on, but about knowing what happened so you can control it.

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New Small Business Startup Idea: Virtual Import/Export Assistant.

The Small Business Blog

But remember you are working with 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 , you need to keep the price low for them. I am not her only employer though.

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Don't charge by the hour! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

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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How To Make This Recession Work For Your Small Home Business.

The Small Business Blog

Thank you very much for your comment – if you try any of my tips and learn something new come back and tell us about it! I would also add that a business owner needs to bootstrap as much as possible right now, and to avoid any large purchases that are not bringing money in the door. that might be limiting advertising capital?

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Work-Life Balance 2.0 and Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Having looked into the options we have decided to purchase the Interwatch Security system. amstore Said on August 20th, 2009 at 11:04 am Much to learn from people such as yourself. Seems harder than I thought to keep up and learn all the things. I find myself learning through mistakes. Do you have any suggestions?

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