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It’s Time For The Small Business Owner To Get Back In The Game
There is no doubt that market conditions have deteriorated over the past few months regardless of the industry. Business leaders and owners have acted quickly to cut unnecessary personnel and expenses to protect the bottom line. That’s a good thing for the survival of the company even though it doesn’t do much for the overall economy. There is an important bi-product of this activity. It forces the owner or executive to get more involved in the day to day activities of the business and in the case of a small company, forces them to “go back to work”.

First Impressions Count
Tips for getting off to a good start during your first 30 days in a new job.

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What to Do When Your Competitors Cut Prices
Do you feel threatened by price competition and eroding margins. Don't cut your own throat, instead ask yourself how can you add more value to your products and services.
How to Make a Start
One good way to get started with creating social business enterprises would be to launch a design competition for social business enterprises. There can be local competition, regional competition and global competition. Prizes for the successful designs will come in the shape of financing for the enterprises, or as partnership for implementing the projects.
New Competition in 2008
Small Businesses who gained profits in 2007, are you ready for your 2008 competition? New competition does not always mean trouble, however competition for the same marketplace can sometimes be tricky. Keeping in mind that competition will allow small businesses to grow and strive in the marketplace. If you are struggling against your competition keep in mind some key principles to help your business strategy.

Stop Driving Your Customers To The Competition
It is estimated that for most products and services your customer shops 2 to 3 places before they make a buying choice. The Jewelry business is no different. I find my sales increase dramatically when I give my customers a choice between the 2 or 3 items I offer and not a choice between the competition and me. Thus keeping them from comparing me with my competition.
Top 10 Ways to Take Customers from Your Competition
Your competition is the best place to find people already buying your products and service.

Who’s Your Competition?
Competition is the reason your salespeople and many of your company’s other employees have work to do. If it weren’t for competition, businesses would lack the strongest incentives for change – new products, new processes, new markets, new strategies, new organizations, etc. Competition also encourages companies to introduce innovations that benefit their customers. And changes often mean new work and new opportunities for employees.

Deadly Sin #5: Sales: The least time-effective process in all of business
Sales is the least-effective process in all of business, but there's nothing you can do about it. Sales people are supposed to sell -- persuade prospects to buy your products by highlighting your product's strengths vs competition, and demonstrate your products. But they only get to do that for about ten percent of the time. For the other 90% they're doing other things -- at least ten of them.
How to use SWOT to create a competitive advantage - Mash Bonigala
SWOT is a method for analyzing both your own businesses position as well as your competition’s. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Every business has competition and the key to creating an advantage over your competition and gaining market share is honestly analyzing your competition’s strengths and discovering how your own business measures up against them.
If it isn't Broken, Break it!
Peter Drucker stated that obsolescence must be planned into products and processes in order to stay ahead of the competition. A company or product that is stagnant only creates fertile opportunity for competition. In other words, your competition will always replicate the success you have achieved in the past. This simplified premise makes innovation the competitive advantage that most successful companies lack over sustained periods of prosperity.

Building Teams and Alliances
Last week we spoke about seeking the help, advices and services of experts to make sure that our businesses were successful. However, often we still stand alone as a business, trying to get contracts, sell products, and convince others we can do everything that relates to our business. And much to our own detriment, many of us see people who provide similar products and services as us as competition,.

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