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One man’s solution to a tough selling problem - history repeats itself in surprising places
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| How a chance meeting in India reminded the author of the birth of the advertising agency business - with a moral to be drawn. |
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Entrepreneurs – Buy A Business Plan Template Or Do It Yourself?
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| You want to write a business plan but are a little unsure what to do so should you buy a template? |
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Entrepreneurs – What Goes Into A Business Plan?
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| You are ready to write your business plan for funding purposes, or you are starting a new business and know that you need one. So what goes into your business plan? |
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Entrepreneurs - Some Low Cost Business Ideas
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| You want to go into business, but you don’t have much money, or you don’t want to invest too much into a new business. So, what are a few low start up cost businesses that you can start? |
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Entrepreneurs – Want To Successfully Sell Your Bottled Water?
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| Do you have a supply of fresh water and want to sell bottled water locally and hopefully nationally? Well there are a few things that you have to think about first of all. |
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Entrepreneurs – Want To Price Your Reports?
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| You are a service company or a consultancy and you want to regularly provide industry or market reports for your customers. How do you price them? |
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Entrepreneurs – Want To Be An Airport Driver?
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| You’ve seen them pick up people and passengers at the airport and think that you might like to do the same as a business so how do you go about it? |
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Entrepreneurs – Want To Open A Kennels And Not Sure If Is Needed?
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| You want to open a local kennels and are not sure if it will be needed or if you will be a success? What do you do? |
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Business Ideas for Beginner Entrepreneurs
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| You are sure that you want to start a business, but you don’t have much experience and even less funds so what is a good beginner business that will grow as you grow? Here are a few ideas: |
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Entrepreneurs – What Do You Need To Ensure Before You Start Your New Business?
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| You are ready to start your business, but you are not sure it will be a success. What do you need to ensure that you do before you start your new business? Here are the important items: |
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Want To Know Why You Are A Failing Entrepreneur?
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| You are working hard at your business but don’t seem to be getting anywhere? Want to know why? |
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Want To Write A Winning Tender?
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| Times are hard and you want to tender for some more business, but you don’t want to waste your time writing proposals that do not win new business. So how do you ensure that you write a winning tender? |
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How Do I Know That My Customer Is Having Financial Problems?
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| In times of recession we are all trying to survive and sometimes the worst thing that can happen to your business is that one of your customers is in trouble. If they go down, your business could be the next in line. So how do you know when one of your customers is having problems?
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Entrepreneurs – What Can You Expect In A Business Life Cycle?
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| Have you ever wondered where you business is? How much life it still has and what you can expect in the next few years. Well here is the life cycle of a business and what must you be particularly careful about? |
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Entrepreneurs – Want To Take Your Financial Services Company To The Next Level?
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| In these recessionary times its getting harder to sell financial services so you need to really up your game and increase your marketing. How about using seminars? |
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Entrepreneurs – Want To Start A Travel Agency?
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| You have decided that you want to be a travel agent, you know it is a very competitive area so you are not quite sure what you should do in order to start a successful travel agency. Here are a few ideas. |
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Entrepreneurs - Want To Open A Small Catering Business And Not Sure What You Need?
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| You want to set up a small catering business or maybe a part time business and are not sure what you need to do to be legal and efficient. |
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The First Year In Your New Business
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| Well you’ve done it – you’ve started your new business. You’ve managed to get a great business loan, your marketing seems to be working and your products and services are starting to sell. So what else should you expect? |
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Entrepreneurs – Critical Mistakes That Will Damage Your Business
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| You’ve decided to start a new business, or you already have a business and you are making it through the recession. So what are the mistakes that are likely to severely damage your business? |
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Marketing Your Real Estate Business In A Tough Climate
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| Times are tough in the real estate business. The recession and lack of mortgage loans is a problem. So how can you ramp up your marketing? |
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Businesses To Think Twice About Starting In A Recession
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| You’ve recently become unemployed and the idea of starting a business is very tempting. There are a few businesses that you should be wary of starting though. Here are a few and the reasons you should think more than once. |
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Entrepreneurs – Here Is How To Win A Tender Or Proposal
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| You are ready to write your proposal or tender. You know what you want to do, you’ve priced it up and you think that you have a great idea that will solve all your potential customer’s business problems so what can go wrong? |
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What Type Of Marketing Strategies Should I Use When Starting A New Business?
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| You’ve got your new business, you are raring to go but you need customers. Unfortunately you don’t have a large budget, so what do you do? |
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Some Great Businesses For An Out Of Work Professional To Start
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| You have just become out of work and this seems as good as time as ever to start the business that you have been hankering after for some time. So what opportunities are open to you? |
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Putting Your Books, Training Material And Transcripts On DVD
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| When eBay stopped selling ebooks on its site that caused problems for a lot of entrepreneurs who used to sell their information and articles as ebooks, easily downloaded from their web sites. There is a solution to getting your books, training material and transcript out to your customers. Put them on a CD or DVD. |
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What Do You Need To Do Before Tendering For Business?
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| You now have a business large enough to go out and look for more business. You’ve found some great RFP (Request For Tender) and you want to go ahead and bid for some more work. So what should you have done before hand? |
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Want To Know How Your Tender Will Be Evaluated?
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| You’ve been hard at work writing your tender and are curious as to how you it will be evaluated. You might be thinking of writing a tender and want to ensure that you write a winning bid – so you need to understand how your tender will be evaluated. Here’s an overview. |
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Entrepreneurs – Writing Your First Quotation And Not Sure What Goes Into It?
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| You’ve got your new business up and running, you’ve done a bit of marketing and got your advert in the yellow pages. Now you’ve got your first request for a quotation for a large job – so exactly what does a quotation look like? |
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Entrepreneurs Want To Write A Small Proposal or Quotation?
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| A proposal is a document written to outline work that will be done at a set price in response to receiving a request for proposal, or more formally a RFP (Request For Proposal), ITT (Invitation To Tender) or RFP (Request For Tender). A quotation is a less formal document that is a document that outlines the work to be done and a reasonably accurate price for its completion. |
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The Best Business Online Storage Services
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| These days there are more and more files and documents that are vital to keeping safe to ensure that a business runs smoothly, so how do you find the best business online storage services? Data storage is vital to any company's success and even though files and documents may not be used on an everyday basis it is important to make sure that they are readily available as a business can never be sure when the unforeseen will happen. Each and every year businesses lose countless files due to fire, flood, theft, and many other unforeseen incidents. Having your business files backed-up and stored with an online storage service is the best way to make sure that your business is always protected and never caught with its pants down. |
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Do You Really Want To Be An Entrepreneur?
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| Of course you do, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. You’ve probably got an idea, you may have held onto the dream of working for yourself for some time – but how do you put them altogether? |
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Lessons You Need To Learn For A Successful Business
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| You are ready to start your new business or you are already established – these are the lessons you will need to learn in order to become successful. |
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What’s A Unique Selling Point And Why Should I Have One?
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| You’ve heard about a Unique Selling Point and guess that you want one but you have no idea what it is and why you need one. Often called the U.S.P – it means – “What makes your company, product and services different from all the other companies selling the same thing? |
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Entrepreneurs Need To Produce A Costing Model To Assist You In Estimating Or Bidding?
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| Estimating is a very important part of business. It is also one of the hardest things to do. You also need to cost bids and proposals. Estimating and costing is made much easier with a Costing Model. So how do you set one up. |
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Want to Increase Your Chance of Winning A Tender Or Bid?
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| Ok you want to bid for work? Great but you are a small company and are not sure whether you have much chance of winning. So what do you do? |
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Entrepreneurs – Want To Bid On Project Market Places?
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| You’ve seen the sites – they offer loads of people and companies all looking for small and medium projects to be completed. All you have to do is register as a “guru” or provider. So how do you go about finding this extra work and winning those projects? |
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The Recession Means That Your Need To Open Up Your Café Or Restaurant On A Sunday?
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| You are working hard to beat the recession, but you are going to have to open up on a Sunday in order to make any profit and keep your staff employed. So how do you go about capitalising on this? |
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8 tips for effective small business advertising
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| Advertising is often the first thing people think of when they hear the term marketing. But in fact it is only one element, and rarely works well when done in isolation. As part of a portfolio of marketing activities however, it can be a great tool for the small business - but there are some rules that you should stick to. |
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Job Adverts – attracting job seekers
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| When seeking to recruit good quality job applicants for your organisation the key is in the advertisement. Research is crucial so spend time looking at other adverts and always remember that the intention is to attract potential employees. Make the advert as appealing and catchy as possible. |
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Employee References – essential guidance
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| After making the recruitment decision on whom to employ you’ll want to take up the job candidate’s references. In this article we offer all considerations and possibilities to help assist you in hiring the best possible worker. |
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Starting Your Job Search
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| Finding a job is often said to be a job in itself – here’s some guidance on how to succeed. |
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Induction – your first management job
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| Want to make a cracking success of your first management job? This article tells you how. |
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Accepting a New Job Offer – To Take or Not to Take?
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| The decision on whether to accept a job offer after an interview with an employer may not be as straight forward as you think. On face value you’d probably jump at the chance but it’s worth considering and weighing up all options so you make the right job choice for you.
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New Job – Negotiating a Salary
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| Negotiating a job salary can be delicate so whether it’s at the interview stage or in an existing position of employment do your research. Here we offer some useful advice and help. |
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