Getting Things Done: The Benefits of a Weekly Review
June 6th, 2013 – It is not enough to KNOW that you SHOULD be doing a weekly review, not doing a weekly review could be the ONE THING that is holding you back from the success you seek. It’s not what you KNOW that will create the success that you desire – It’s what you DO, and DO, and DO repeatedly.
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Everything You Need to Know About Branding a Small Business
May 23rd, 2013 – Building a name for your business, creating brand awareness, and managing it are all responsibilities and requirements of a successful businessman. No matter if it’s a small and starting company or a sole proprietorship, having your own brand is a must in this highly competitive era. Many ways exist so you can establish a name for yourself.
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Protect Your Business Assets
May 9th, 2013 – Have you considered what you would do if your business was destroyed by a disaster? Being able to financially recover from a major loss is a consideration all savvy business owners and entrepreneurs face. Many, though, don’t realize the value of having a thorough, up-to-date asset inventory.
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How to Eat an Elephant
April 25th, 2013 – Running a business has been compared to eating an elephant! That is a weighty thought when you consider that an elephant may not be able to fit into your home, let alone on your dinner plate. Similarly, thinking about starting a business (or keeping up with the one you have) may seem daunting.
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Honesty May Always Be the Best Policy
April 11th, 2013 – Benjamin Franklin is credited with the saying “Honesty is the best policy”. No doubt it is a great saying with well intentioned meaning. However, do we always adhere to total honesty and integrity in our daily lives and in our business lives? Maybe reading this article will help you decide your own policy for honesty and integrity.
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4 Tips for Creating a Quick, Simple and Effective Marketing Strategy
March 28th, 2013 – Marketing decisions at most times lie on the shoulder of the business owner. Understanding the essence of creating basic marketing techniques is thus critical when they decide on which direction their company takes. This is due to the fact that marketing strategies; even the basic of forms, as known by all result oriented entrepreneurs is a key factor when one wants to achieve increased revenue and output. Its benefits can thus not be emphasized.
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The Scoop on Marketing – 6 Tips for a Successful Business!
March 14th, 2013 – In business, marketing is the key to survival. Marketing takes a lot of planning, organizational skills, budget measures and timing. Proper planning and accountability measures will enable you to position your business for success.
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Are You Treating Your Business Like A Hobby?
February 28th, 2013 – It is estimated that over 395,000 new businesses each month are started in the U.S. alone. For many new business owners they enter entrepreneurship with the intention of making money.
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How to Know What Your Business Is Really Worth
February 14th, 2013 – Using a rule of thumb to determine the value of your business is risky at best. Learn how professionals value businesses and get the most for your small business.
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Small Business Woes: How Many Times Do You Have To Prove Yourself?
January 31st, 2013 – Building up a business takes time and effort though, after a few years, you may think you have finally reached the point where you have established yourself and can rely on a steady stream of business from clients who know what you do and that you do it well.
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How To Successfully Drive Business Change
January 17th, 2013 – As an owner looking for ways to improve your business processes and your business performance, you are no doubt on the look out for new ideas and strategies to implement.
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How To Plan For Success In 2013 In 3 Easy Steps
January 3rd, 2013 – Does the thought of planning for 2013 feel daunting to you?
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Get Out of Your Own Way
December 20th, 2012 – Don’t allow YOU to be the reason that YOU don’t get to where you wanna go. You should always focus on being the one pushing yourself in direction of growth.
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Use the START Method to Make 2013 Your Best Year Ever
December 6th, 2012 – Do you begin the year with good intentions, then fade away because you got sidetracked? You’re not alone.
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5 Practical Tips To Beat The Competition
November 22nd, 2012 – Small businesses often fail because of their inability to take into account the actual competition.
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How Trust Building Impacts Business Success
November 8th, 2012 – Trust building plays a very significant role in the development of any business!
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How to Profit More By Thinking Small
October 25th, 2012 – Can you actually profit more by thinking small?
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9 Things That Hinder Business Growth
October 11th, 2012 – Have you ever wondered why some small businesses take off and grow very rapidly and others stay the same for years and years?
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How Well Does Your Marketing Know Sales?
September 27th, 2012 – Having worked in both sales and marketing we understand how important it is for the two to be closely linked and in this article we will explain the main reason why they need to have a strong bond.
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Small Business Marketing: 5 Key Marketing Steps to Fast Growth
September 13th, 2012 – When you start a small business you need to grow quickly so you can generate enough revenue to stay in business. These 5 key marketing steps will help you grow your business fast.
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Data Protection Is Becoming Increasingly Important for Small Business Owners
August 30th, 2012 – We’ve all seen the headlines: Major organizations such as Sony, Citigroup, Google and AOL experiencing a “data breach” in which confidential information is compromised…
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The Importance of Follow-Up
August 16th, 2012 – One of my personal challenges as a small business owner is following up with new business after providing a proposal/quote…
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Learn to Control Your Anger and Frustration
August 2nd, 2012 – The business is not going as planned. Sales are down and expenses are up. One of your best employees just quit to go work for a competitor and there are some problems at home. Do any of these things define where you are currently or where you find yourself, from time to time?
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I Hate Paying the Bills
July 19th, 2012 – Do you ever dread the task of sitting down at your desk and going through all of the invoices and bills that have accumulated over the past several weeks? I dread it and never look forward to it…
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A Small Business Can Promote Its Services in a Big Way
July 5th, 2012 – If you’re a small business owner, you probably struggle to find time and money to market and promote your business…
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Are You Prepared for Success?
June 21st, 2012 – It is possible to build a successful business with little more than a great idea and passion for your vision…
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Get It Out of Your Head and On Paper
June 7th, 2012 – Have you ever had an idea in the middle of the night and by the time you woke up the idea was gone?
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How to Become a Pillar of the Community, Grow Your Business and Make More Money!
May 24th, 2012 – One of the major stepping-stones preventing people from attending your clinic or business in general is not so much a lack of trust in what you do – but rather a lack of trust in you…
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The Different Types of Elevator Pitches
May 10th, 2012 – As a small business consultant in North Carolina, we have always stressed to our clients that they be ready at any moments notice to give their “pitch” to potential investors or partners…
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It’s OK to Say “NO!”
April 26th, 2012 – When we were kids, one of our first words was probably “NO!” Our parents worked with us to teach us to say “Yes” cheerfully and with a smile…
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Get Your Business Edge Over the Competition
April 12th, 2012 – You already know that each and every day more business are opening up and competition, if it hasn’t been already, is getting fierce…
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A Small Business Owner Doesn’t Have to Do It All
March 29th, 2012 – The majority of small business owners tend to be running the entire company themselves – whether they have employees or not. Why would you choose to run the show yourself?
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Look Like An Expert Online – The Key To Getting More Business From Your Online Marketing
March 15th, 2012 – I have a question for you: Do you consider yourself to be an expert in what you do? Chances are that the answer is yes. But do you look like an expert, especially when people look you up online? The answer to that may not be quite so affirmative…
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Back to the Basics: 3 Simple Tips to Keep Your Employees Motivated
March 1st, 2012 – According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, American companies spend $300 billion every year on stress-related work issues like reduced productivity, absenteeism, health insurance costs, direct medical expenses and employee turnover…
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Customer Service and Your Bottom Line
February 16th, 2012 – As every business owner knows customer service is paramount for a successful business. Without customer service you will have disgruntled and unsatisfied customers…
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Why Most Profitable Businesses Are Proactive!
February 2nd, 2012 – Most profitable businesses got that way by being proactive, developing a plan, and then most importantly taking action accordingly…
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When Should Owners Develop An Exit Strategy?
January 19th, 2012 – Many times an owner of a business, particularly a family owned business, will question when they should develop an exit strategy from that business…
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Plan to Grow Your Small Business in 2012
January 5th, 2012 – If you’re tempted by the growth bug, the first priority is to take a close look at your business and decide whether you really want to expand…
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Small Business to Large Business Transformation
December 22nd, 2011 – If you have a successful small business, you may be at the point in your career where you are considering expansion to increase your business and your money…
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Get Clear! How to Gain Clarity So You Can See More Success
December 8th, 2011 – Clarity about what you want in your business is absolutely priceless. If you’ve ever been stopped dead in your tracks because you don’t know what to do first or where to go, you can appreciate that…
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Small Business Marketing and Three Common Mistakes
November 24th, 2011 – Marketing is a challenge. Period, no doubt about it. It is also critical to the success of a business…
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5 Top Small Business Marketing Blunders You Should Never Commit
November 10th, 2011 – There are tons of small business resources available both online and offline. Many of these resources can help you to avoid mistakes that others before you have made, thereby saving you time and money…
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The Curse of Work Life Balance
October 27th, 2011 – If the concept of Work Life Balance worked surely we would all be living our ideal by now. After all, it is something the majority of people strive to achieve but it somehow stays strangely elusive…
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5 Successful People Who Failed Horribly in Their Journey
October 13th, 2011 – Having success will take you time and effort. And SURE, many times you will fail before you are even successful…
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Boost Your Business Performance by Taking Time Out
September 29th, 2011 – Have you ever had that experience where you get out of town, perhaps it feels like hard work to actually make it happen, but as soon as you get into a new environment you realise how much you needed a break…
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Is Dreaming Big Hurting Your Business?
September 15th, 2011 – The title of this article may have caught you off guard – since I always encourage people to THINK and DREAM BIG…
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Small Business Tip: Get Off the Bandwagon
September 1st, 2011 – If you run a small business, it is increasingly important to stay ‘ahead of the game’ instead of just being a player…
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What to Do With Customers That Won’t Pay Their Bills?
August 4th, 2011 – There has been a lot of discussion lately on one of the forums in the appliance service industry on what to do about customers that refuse to pay for services rendered…
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The First Steps in Improving Your Small Business
July 21st, 2011 – There is a massive cry from business consultants recommending that small business owners take the time to improve their business to deal with the current market climate. The question is where do you start?
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Make Marketing Your Business a Top Priority
July 7th, 2011 – Where does improving the results from your advertising, sales and marketing rank on your company’s “bucket list”? If it’s not one of your top priorities for this year and beyond, then you are putting the business at risk…
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The Benefits of Team Building Activities
June 23rd, 2011 – It is important for co-workers to feel a bond with one another and be willing to work together…
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Customers’ Praise - Making the Most of It
May 26th, 2011 – As a small business owner, it is essential that you make your customers happy! A happy customer is a repeat customer. A happy customer tells other people who in turn, hopefully, become happy customers…
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How Important Are Good Habits In Building Your Business?
May 12th, 2011 – “We are what we repeatedly do” – Aristotle. You’ve probably once heard it said that thoughts become things. Perhaps, you’ve read somewhere that our thoughts become our actions, actions become habits and habits eventually become character.
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Reducing Fixed Costs - 3 Sure Fire Ways to Save Money Today
April 28th, 2011 – In this tough economy, many business owners are looking for ways to save money. Sometimes we overlook a few truly basic but fundamental ways to reduce our fixed expenses.
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Email and Internet Usage at Work - A Right or a Privilege?
April 14th, 2011 – Employees spend on average 8 hours or more a day on the job working at least 5 days a week. Is there any harm in allowing staff to use the email or the Internet on occasion?
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Preparing Your Business So You Can Take a Holiday
March 31st, 2011 – If you find that you’re only ever taking short 2 or 3 day breaks here and there because you are worried that your business won’t cope while you’re away, then this article will shed some light on some key things you can do in the lead up to your holiday so that you can take a decent break to recharge your batteries and spend time with your family…
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How to Remain Cool With an Irate Caller
March 17th, 2011 – If you’re in business, you can never really avoid meeting irate people. These are the ones who will scream, curse, or even threaten to sue you for a lot of reasons…
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Small Goal Setting to Get to the Big Ones
March 3rd, 2011 – When it comes to making your dreams a reality there are many different ways that people go about trying to accomplish it…
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Sales Truth Number One: No One Wants What You Are Selling - Really
February 17th, 2011 – This article is for you if you don’t like to sell, think you can’t sell, really hate to sell, and hate salespeople…
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Internet Marketing 101
February 3rd, 2011 – Internet marketing can be used for a wide variety of businesses. There are many different tools to use with marketing online and which ones your business will use depends on the size of your business and the type.
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Not So Different After All: Social Online and Face-To-Face Networking
January 20th, 2011 – If you’ve been feeling that social media networking is invasive or a waste of time, you’re not alone. The ability to reach many people inexpensively has become popular especially with small business owners, some of them brand new entrepreneurs. With so many people trying to navigate this technology, there are a lot of missteps and misconceptions, but much of it has to do with the underlying mindset going into it.
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5 Steps to Ensure Your Success in 2011
January 6th, 2011 – So many people go from one year to another without much thought to their goals and plans for the next 12 months. Most people spend more time on planning their holidays than they do planning their careers/businesses and then wonder why they never really achieve their goals. What about you?
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The Customer Is Always Right - Are They Really?
December 26th, 2010 – Is the customer always right? Usually, the answer is yes. However, there are three important exceptions to this rule. Some customers are not worth pursuing, and are best sent to your competition…
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Is Your Business Visible?
December 9th, 2010 – Today I made a phone call to a local dentist as part of my duties as an ambassador for our local Chamber of Commerce. I always ask if there is something that the Chamber can do for your business when I make these calls. His response was “Send me business.” Keep in mind that we live in a relatively small town and I had never heard of this dentist – to me he was not visible.
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The Ground Up - Starting the Foundation For Sales Success
November 25th, 2010 – As a business development professional / sales representative before you can go out into the world and consistently hit million dollar quotas as well as bring home enough commission to be within the $200,000 compensation range, you must build a foundation comprised of the most basic sales skills.
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Renting Trade Show Booths
November 11th, 2010 – Trade shows have these days become a vital part of an organization’s marketing campaign. They are extremely useful for introducing and promoting the company’s products.
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Facts and Advice About Business Growth
October 30th, 2010 – Why is it that some companies set a clear path for growth whilst others simply go day to day, putting out one fire after another?
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How to Market Your Business With a Small Budget
October 14th, 2010 – Many small businesses have great products and services to offer the public. However, the bigger companies may seem to swallow all of the potential consumers with their fancy, big account advertising…
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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
October 1st, 2010 – Think and Grow Rich was published by Napoleon Hill in 1937. Since then, the ideas expressed in Think and Grow Rich have led to the creation of more than a million millionaires…
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Top 10 Press Release Mistakes
September 16th, 2010 – There are good reasons why some press releases generate a journalistic frenzy and others fall flat. You can learn a lot about how to write and distribute great press releases by examining some of the common public relations mistakes companies make…
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How to Price Your Service
September 2nd, 2010 – Do you find yourself wondering how calculate the price for your service? Many people who start their own business are experts on the services that they provide, however they aren’t so sure how to price them…
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Business Basics: Password Safety on the Internet
August 19th, 2010 – As someone who’s seen the ins and outs of businesses all over the web, I’m asking you to read this article and protect your business. (And spread the word, too)…
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How to Crawl Out of Failure’s Rubble
August 5th, 2010 – After you’ve been successful for a time it’s easy to tell who is not very successful even from very short conversations. They give all kinds of subtle clues. Some of those clues aren’t very subtle at all…
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The Importance of Financial Management For Small Businesses
July 22nd, 2010 – Financial management is crucially important to the future growth or failure of small businesses. How the finances are used and accounted for could become the “make it or break it” point for a small business…
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The Small Business Financing Crisis
July 8th, 2010 – The current small business credit crunch is getting much attention and rightly so. We know very little about the overall small business universe because it is so huge and diverse…
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Not All Sales Professionals Are Created Equal: Here’s Why
June 25th, 2010 – Not all sales professionals are created equal. Here are six reasons why…
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Small Business Success Tips – Time Management
June 10th, 2010 – Time is a funny animal. Time can fly, and it can crawl. Time can disappear. Time can stretch and shrink. Time can be gorgeous, or give you nightmares. Time can be your friend and it can be your enemy. Time, in other words, is not dependable. You cannot tell it what to do…
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Why Most Business Owners Aren’t Productive
May 28th, 2010 – I made a post on Facebook the other day which read… “One of the secrets of life is making stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.” And a number of people liked it, so I want to talk about that now…
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Why Entrepreneurship is Better Than Any Self-improvement Program You Can Think Of
May 13th, 2010 – Entrepreneurship is self-improvement. When people think of self-improvement, starting a business is not the first thing that comes to mind…
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Importance of Local Free Online Business Listings
April 30th, 2010 – Those who are already experts when it comes to Search Engine Optimization or SEO know that local free online business listings are very important whether for small and medium businesses which are focused on a specific region…
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Checking For Identity Theft
April 16th, 2010 – With identity theft a growing and persistent problem, you should do everything in your power to keep your information safe. Here are some ways to make sure you are not being victimized…
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Competition is Healthy for Business
April 2nd, 2010 – Every business has competition. And competition is really healthy when you think about it. It inspires you to do better and keep on improving so you can achieve more with every passing day…
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Making a Claim For Business Interruption
March 26th, 2010 – If your offices have been affected by fire, floods or storm damage, more likely than not you will have incurred a significant amount of time where normal service was impossible…
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Voice Over IP Phone Systems – How Do They Benefit Small Businesses?
March 12th, 2010 – Small businesses do not have the same options as large concerns in adopting new technologies and tools…
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How to Choose the Right Software For Your Business
February 26th, 2010 – The decision to invest in technology for your business may be a costly and time-intensive undertaking due to the sheer
number of products currently on the market…
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Small Business Marketing Tips – 5 Ways To Market Your Small Business Online
February 12th, 2010 – As small businesses naturally don’t have the necessary resources to launch huge marketing campaigns, they will have to compensate this with resourcefulness and innovation…
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The Role Of Words In Our Communicating Effectiveness
January 29th, 2010 – Words fitly spoken are like apples of Gold in a picture of Silver - this saying by a man of wisdom spells out the importance of using proper words. It is a skill. It is the skill of communicating…
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3 Things That Will Increase Your Sales
January 15th, 2010 – There isn’t any magic bullet in what you’re about to read, but there are always things that you can do that without a doubt will increase your sales…
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How to Create a Basic Businesses Disaster Recovery Plan in 4 Steps
December 11th, 2009 – Loss of data is a common problem for businesses. Fortunately, it’s a problem that can easily be avoided with the correct preparation…
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Successful Outsourcing
November 27th, 2009 – Small businesses can rarely afford the luxury of a large full time staff, with all the skill sets needed for the functioning of the business…
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Seven Ways To Get Proactive Instead Of Worrying About A Recession
November 13th, 2009 – Aren’t you tired of hearing about all the worries of recession, depression, economic downturn and the like…
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Small Business Opportunity Faux Pas
October 30th, 2009 – Running a successful small business is definitely partly about identifying opportunities and acting on them…
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How to Build Your Business With Referrals
October 16th, 2009 – Customer satisfaction is at the top of the list of priorities for businesses as they strive to be the best they can be in order to not only excel in business to make money but also in generating repeat sales and referrals…
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Thriving on Discontinuous Change
October 2nd, 2009 – IBM’s 2008 Global CEO Study finds that organizations are being bombarded by change, and many are struggling to keep up…
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How to Build a World-class Business
September 18th, 2009 – Building a business takes hard work. That’s one reason that many small businesses fail: not enough focused effort in doing the things that need to be done in order to succeed…
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Take Care of Your Customers Before Someone Else Does
September 4th, 2009 – Have you ever heard of the saying that “if you do not take care of your customers, someone else will?” There is truth to the saying…
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