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Thai store chain CP All Q4 net profit more than doubles
18th February 2010: CP ALL Bangkok, Thailand's largest convenience store chain, reported on Thursday that its fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled, beating analysts' forecast, thanks to a rise in sales and better gross margins. CP All, a proxy for domestic consumption in Thailand, posted an October-December net profit of 1.09 billion baht ($32.86 million), up from 509 million baht a year earlier, but lower than the 1.42 billion in the previous quarter.

100 Ways to Succeed #81
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Business Card Marketing
Do you have a box of business cards on your desk that you hardly seem to put a dent in before the information changes and a new box is ordered? Or worse yet...are you still working on that same box of business cards that you printed 3 years ago! Business cards can be a great inexpensive marketing tool for a small business. They say exactly what you do and give people all the contact information they need to get a hold of you. Yet oddly enough we tend to use them only for networking, and even then, we aren't really sure if people are holding on to them.

Business Ethics and Values Do Not Have Expiration Dates
Have you ever thought about your business ethics and values as having an expiration date? Even if you think not, maybe you should read this article anyway.

Small Business Moonlighting--Great Part-Time Franchise Opportunities
Picking up some side work can help make ends meet, but starting a part-time small business offers that and so much more.

How to Improve Your Sales through What You Offer
There’s a gap between what you offer and your understanding of that offer and what your prospects perceive you offering. You think you’re being crystal clear and that anyone can see how you can help them. The problem is anyone can’t see. They can’t and won’t connect the dots between what you’re saying and how what you’re saying applies to them.

What is a Business Broker?
A business broker is an intermediary between a buyer and a seller of a business. In most cases a business broker represents the seller in the sale of a business. It is the business brokers' responsibility to find qualified buyers for their clients.

Relief for Small Business Owners
What can a VA do for your business?

Do your own thinking, Don’t let others do it for you
Have you come across a situation where in you wanted to do one thing, but you ended up doing just the opposite just to please somebody else? I happened to come across one recently, and this time instead of being a victim, I decided to be a victor and corrected it. Read on to find out how.

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Product Branding
You walk into a local convenience store in search of a refreshing drink. In front you lie more choices than your brain can comprehend. How are you going to choose between on or the other? What is the difference between the cola that promises to be refreshing and sweet versus the one that claims to be edgy and cool? Truth be told, there is probably not much that is different between them, and your taste buds would probably not know the difference. But, if any of the companies have done their job properly, you will instantly reach for one before the rest. And that is because of a successful job of product branding.

Lesson #3: Put Yourself in Your Customers’ Shoes
Hindsight is 20/20. Looking back on the success – or lack thereof – of his first Subway store, DeLuca acknowledges that his biggest mistake was its “crummy location. In February, the store was doing so bad that we were thinking of closing up.” But together with his partner, Buck, the pair decided to try something even more eccentric: they decided to open up a second store. “We talked ourselves into building the second store,” says DeLuca.

Productivity
I worked in a grocery store as a youngster. The Depression was on, inventories were limited and merchants frequently ran out of stock items. As a result, the merchants would borrow from each other until their next shipment came in. I was the "runner" for our store and Charlie Scott was the "runner" for the store across the street.

What Is All This Talk About Change
However, most people do not like change. In fact, one could say that the only people that like change are babies and the people who work in toll booths or the cashiers at the convenience store! In fact King Whitney, Jr. remarked, “Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind...

Following the Leader Who Follows the Leaders
It started out -- as most things do in the PC/CE/communications industry -- as a "little" idea...an application store on a corner of the virtual cloud world. Suddenly you can't make your way around the web without bumping into another one. No one at Apple will say but people speculate the company has racked up $45 million with their virtual store front. Now new smartphones are coming out, every app store offers something.

How to Start an Online Store 1-2-3
If you are just starting out as an entrepreneur, an online store can be a great place to start. You can launch an online store for very little cost, and virtually no experience is required. However, there is a downside to online stores. To find out how you can avoid this common pitfall which ruins many online store owners, read on.

Thai store chain CP All Q4 net profit more than doubles
18th February 2010: CP ALL Bangkok, Thailand's largest convenience store chain, reported on Thursday that its fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled, beating analysts' forecast, thanks to a rise in sales and better gross margins. CP All, a proxy for domestic consumption in Thailand, posted an October-December net profit of 1.09 billion baht ($32.86 million), up from 509 million baht a year earlier, but lower than the 1.42 billion in the previous quarter.

Do You Have a Market Niche?
When you have a clearly defined niche to work within, you can optimize your marketing budget and you can target prospects that really need what you deliver. Offering lead generation services to an ad agency or the local convenience store is not a fit. But offering sales techniques or market research to engineering firms can be a good fit.

How Can an eBay Store Increase Your eBay Profits?
If you want to make money selling on eBay, you can help increase your profits by setting up an eBay store. The easy-to-build store format lets you customize your eBay store design so that you can create a recognizable brand and attract more repeat buyers - without spending a lot of advertising dollars.

Organization Structure Limits or Liberates High Performance
The CEO of a national retailer was very frustrated. His face grew noticeably redder as he told me how he had set up each store as a profit center and was attempting to hold store managers and their regional managers accountable for profitability. But when a store under performed the store manager would show that head office buyers were forcing them into stocking the wrong merchandise for their particular mix of customers. Or they would claim that the marketers hadn't put together the right campaign for their local market.

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