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for: ‘2010’

Good Personnel Management Means Better Profits

Most small businesses operate a tight ship. They manage overhead expenses and watch cost of sales to stay on the credit side of the ledger. But when you’ve reached a point where you cannot see any further ways to reduce costs, there could still be an opportunity to increase your profits through increasing productivity. Probably …

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Putting Together A Pricing Strategy

For many small businesses pricing products and services is more a matter of guesswork than logic. Mindful of competitor pricing, they make the mistake of simply undercutting to win business rather than carefully working out the price they need to charge – a price that not only covers the cost of doing business, but makes …

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The Next Great Wave Of Innovation – Succeeding Through Turmoil

How do you see change – as a threat or an opportunity? Our industries, our society and even our planet are in a state of flux as we struggle to come to terms with turbulent economies, dwindling resources and a changing climate. In The Sixth Wave, a book on business and innovation, authors Moody and …

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Keep Your Sales Pipeline Flowing

Business owners spend a great deal of time and money marketing to many, in the hope of attracting the few to their business. This process can be likened to a pipeline with a wide mouth narrowing as it goes along. The wide mouth represents the number of prospects you need to get interested in your …

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Key Skills For Entrepreneurs

What is it that makes the successful entrepreneur? What is it that drives sales and builds a business? If you think you know the answer, consider Bill Gates, arguably the world’s most famous and successful entrepreneur. If you had been in his high school class, would you have thought, “Well, obviously, this man bears the …

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2010 – New Decade, New Gen, New Trends

Not only will we have a new generation of consumers, future employees and business owners but we can expect other significant changes in the coming decade. Here’s a quick bird’s eye view of some of the coming changes we can expect in the way we run our businesses. Gen Alpha starts now Babies born during …

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Simple Direct Marketing Tips

Direct marketing is very much oriented towards immediate response. Direct marketers can tell you very quickly how successful (or unsuccessful) their promotion is, because they have the responses to prove it. So what is the most compelling tool that direct marketers use in order to gain that response? It’s the offer. In general, direct marketing …

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Alternative Finance Products – Can They Help You?

With the amount of available credit shrinking in recent times and financial institutions raising lending standards, more businesses are turning to alternative forms of finance to cover cash flow shortages and grow their businesses. Asset-based lending, factoring, invoice discounting, and merchant cash advances are a few alternative forms of finance that are becoming more popular. …

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