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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or what about an elegant restaurant that has a dress code prohibiting shorts? Instead of turning someone away, a restaurant staffer escorts him to a private closet that has “loaner pants.” A couple of hours later, the happy patron pays his $200 tab; he will return to the restaurant nine times the next year.

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Super Bowl Promotions and Preparations: How 8 Small Businesses Are Bracing for the Big Game

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Chronicling history Company: Storyville Road Who they are: Woman and minority-owned video production company based in Las Vegas How they’re preparing: Storyville Road is an approved supplier of Super Bowl LVIII Business Connect Program and the Las Vegas Super Bowl LVIII Host Committee.

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Business Travel Is Back: How to Maximize Your Miles

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The Delta SkyMiles Reserve Business American Express Card, for example, offers triple miles on Delta purchases and additional miles for other eligible purchases. Many business card issuers also have opt-in dining programs that reward you for eating at certain restaurants. 5 Don’t carry a balance.

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Reduce The Risk Of Employee Fraud

Small Business CEO

Turning in restaurant receipts even though someone else paid the bill is a popular scam. For example, when ordering office supplies, an employee goes online to purchase office supplies, then prints out the screen shot of the shopping cart but never actually places the shopping cart order. Meals expenses are also easy to fudge.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Meeting other assistants who work near by, who share the same suppliers, hotels, restaurants etc. Previous to this I worked in such roles as Secretary to a group of Consultants, Marketing Assistant for an Architect firm, Facilities Coordinator for a construction company and Purchase Ledger for NHS Legal department just to name a few.

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

The Small Business Blog

One of the obstacles I came up against was that I had to order wine in serious ‘bulk’ I naively thought I could order a couple of cases from a few hand picked wine farms and start my ’small business’ by selling these cases to restaurants, gaining trust and loyalty and slowly building up a customer base.

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Ten Small Business Startup Ideas – 2009/09/20 | THE SMALL BUSINESS.

The Small Business Blog

An impartial advice line for people purchasing consumer electronics. A YouTube channel reviewing local restaurants. A café for aspiring filmmakers to congregate and show their work to receive feedback. A clothes-sharing website for high-value items such as shoes. Keep other people’s elderly relatives company for a small fee.

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