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Business Change

Jan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:55:08 +0000

We preach and teach “change” 24/7. The old slogan ” The sign of (business) madness is doing the same thing each day but expecting something to change” – still hits the nail. We know that many times it’s hard to stop what you’re doing and go down a completely different path. If you have money [...]

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Business Change

Buying Decisions

Jan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:33:26 +0000

A short while ago, I observed a training session where the topic was “Influences on the Buying Decision” The trainer put up four categories with the corresponding percentage of influence alongside.. These were Price 8% : Company Pedigree 17% : Product 28% : Salesperson 47% I don’t know about you, but with the cold winds [...]

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Buying Decisions

Survival – The Funny Side

Jan — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:49:30 +0000

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1920′s, 30′s 40′s, 50′s, 60′s and 70′s !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin or Bex and ate blue cheese, tuna from a can and didn’t [...]

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Survival – The Funny Side

Markets still taking a hammering

Jan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:58:34 +0000

Stock markets have again fallen worldwide, fired by concerns that turmoil in the financial sector is far from over. On Wall Street, the US Dow Jones index fell to 6,700 points for the first time since 1997. In the UK, the FTSE 100 index closed around 3500 - a six-year low. Markets elsewhere in Europe [...]

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Markets still taking a hammering

Small Business Nightmare?

Jan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:43:45 +0000

The wide range of opinion regarding both the severity and likely timescale of this recession was illustrated yesterday with comments from the BoE, BCC and IOD. Take your pick who you run with….. BoE Governor, Mervyn King says “The slowdown could be deeper if the authorities at home and abroad are only partially successful in [...]

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Small Business Nightmare?

Business Owners Not Listening

Jan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:10:18 +0000

Whilst the Bank of England and the Government continue to make predictions regarding the severity and likely length of this recession, many business owners have stopped listening. It took the BoE & Govt a while to acknowledge a “credit crunch” and they avoided the term “recession” for as long as they could, not realising that [...]

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Business Owners Not Listening

Federation of Small Businesses

Jan — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:15:45 +0000

A member survey at the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) has shown that recent VAT cuts, bank lending guarantees and pledges on payment practices have had little to no effect on trading. The Government-backed Prompt Payment Code, launched last year, seems to have been largely ignored and small businesses are increasingly being used as an [...]

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Federation of Small Businesses

Market Share

Jan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:54:20 +0000

Market share The tough economy will undoubtedly see its share of casualties. American Express OPEN reports that nearly 20% of small business owners felt that they are at risk of going out of business in this economic climate. What does this mean for you? If you survive, you’ll enjoy a greater market share as competitors [...]

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Market Share

Small Business Plan

Jan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:04:47 +0000

Small Business Plan One of the key issues with business success is the small business plan. No plan – no direction – no progress. Each business needs to have an overall plan plus a detailed plan for each quarter, month, week and day. Just to turn up at the workplace and react to the situation [...]

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Small Business Plan

Small Business Web Designer

Jan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:16:21 +0000

Have You Got A Website For Your Business? Let Me Phrase That Question A Little More Precisely… Have you got a website THAT GETS RESULTS for your business? Let’s show you what I mean…If you do a Google search for “Web Design” you get 297 MILLION results! (rather seems like the world is involved in [...]

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Small Business Web Designer