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SURVIVING THE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION BY CREATING A STRATEGY FOR YOUR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
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| This economic recession times calls for measures not just to make our business survive but make us come out stronger. Sound strategies are what will separate men from boys. Business leaders creating and harmonizing their strategies to fit the economic future will leap more once this economic recession is over. A strategy will help your business fit in the global economy once this economic depression is over. But how do you create a strategy?
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Alternatives to redundancies have benefits
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| The overall cost with redundancies is far more than just the initial redundancy pay an employee receives. You will need to add costs for the recruitment when you require staff again and the cost of training new recruits to have them reach the development stage your redundant staff were at prior to being made redundant. How do you place a cost on this?
Then there are the negatives that come from any business making redundancies which includes low morale within the workforce which inevitably reduces production, performance and service. Good quality staff can leave for alternative employment due to the uncertainty which may happen after you have reduced to the number of staff you felt appropriate as they have been offered employment from interviews taken during the redundancy process. What is the cost of this?
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Elliot Jones on Search Engine Opitmisation, What to look for in dynamic sites
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| There’s no doubt that search engine optimisation is here to stay. Indeed, it has finally staked its claim in the mainstream marketing mix, after years of being doubted and misunderstood as a form on online marketing witchcraft. But how do things work when you want to search engine optimise a dynamic website? Read on to find out some of my pointers... |
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Financing Alternatives
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| We are often asked about how a company can get its initial financing. There is usually considerable misunderstanding about the various alternatives and their implications. This article positions the various alternatives that a company should consider before embarking on a financing strategy. |
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Unleashing the Expert Within...
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| This isn’t kindergarten any more kids! Are you at the stage of business development where you can step up as an expert and really shine? After coaching hundreds of people, I have identified some of the stages that business owners move through. See if you can identify where you are. |
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MARKETING YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW FOR BUSINESSES DEVELOPMENT.
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| Marketing concept has evolved over the years. It has gone through some sort of evolution to where we are today. There have been marked stages and these stages are the following:
Industrial revolution: at this stage specialization took place, with the industrial revolution, wages were introduced. At this stage the farmers could produce and sell to the industrial workers. The marketing and the business concept was simple at this stage but later become more complicated eventually. In marketing this stage is called the production stage, it took a while and Henry Ford perfected it. He came up with the car assembly and mass market was born. At this stage there was limited choice for the customer. |
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Entrepreneurship Part 1
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| The entrepreneur is the key person to the successful development of any business. He/she is the person who perceives the market opportunity and then has the motivation, drive and ability to mobilise him/herself to meet the requirements. Innovative skills – Not an “inventor” in the traditional sense but one who is able to carve out a new niche in the market place, often invisible to others.Professional risk-taker. To succeed means taking measured risks. Often the successful entrepreneur exhibits a step-by-step approach to risk-taking, at each stage exposing him/herself to only a limited, measured amount of personal risk and moving from one stage to the next. |
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Salespeople misperceive their proper roles by being misled by leads
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| By being the "Star of the Show' you are in peril of overplaying your part.
By being the Stage Manager you can control the development of the plot. |
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Three Stages of a Sales Agent
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| Sales agents and advisors have a life cycle, similar to that of the life cycle of a franchisee. There's a beginning stage, an intermediate stage, and the final result stage. Most agents and advisors behave in a similar fashion during the first two stages, but their behavior can differ dramatically in the final result stage. But I'm getting ahead of myself… |
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Early Stage Startup Finance: What You Need Is Dumb Money
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| Many startups seeking angel capital aren't actually far enough along from a development perspective to be attractive to early stage investors. In essence, there is an entrepreneurial myth that angels invest in concepts or ideas. This is rarely the case- angels typically want to see some level of progress being made with the business before getting seriously interested. So what does a cash-strapped entrepreneur do to get off the ground? They raise what is called a "friends and family" round. This article discusses the attributes of this type of seed stage investing, and provides some tips for putting together a viable deal. |
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Entrepreneurs Raising Early Stage Venture Capital are in a Beauty Contest
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| Startup and Early Stage entrepreneurs must compete for the attention and limited capital available from angel investors and early stage venture capitalists. In many ways it can be compared to a Beauty Contest. The business fundamentals of a successful business are in place, but to be "picked" from the other companies also pitching those investors, that company must be the most attractive to that investor, that judge who will decide if the company qualifies to go to the next stage in the process. |
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Dealing with Prospects in the 'Untroubled/Unaware' Stage
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| The most difficult challenge in sales is talking to prospect who need your product or service - but don't know it. They do not see the trouble or the need to change, so we call this the Untroubled/Unaware stage. This article explains how to deal with people in this stage. |
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Angel Investors Where Are You?
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| Looking for Angel investors and can’t find them? Depending on your business stage of development and growth you are probably looking in all the wrong places. |
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Marcus Asay Teach 5 Mystic Stages to Go Through For Successful Business Planning and Development
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| In this very first stage of business planning & development, you find out where the business is presently in terms of finance & general positioning. And so, you will require analysing not only the economic position, but also who the business is marketing their products or services to. |
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