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What are the Strengths and Weaknesses of a Smaller Company?
The article provides insights as to how business owners and new entrepreneurs can focus on competing with larger firms who have significant perceived advantages in the marketplace . Small and medium sized firms have advantages also .
Lesson #4: Give Your Business a Little Brand Aid
“Originally, it was Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web, but we settled on Yahoo!,” says Yang. “It is a pretty recognizable brand name.” Despite Filo’s admission that he was “not crazy about the name at first,” he now concedes that they made the right choice. “It grew on me,” says Filo, who is now grateful they selected a name that is “so memorable and that conveys the sense of fun involved in all this, the sense of adventure. This is what really distinguishes our site.”

Asking for Feedback
It is always wise to encourage clients to ask for feedback from an advisory board or their ideal clients when delivering new creative, be it for a web site, a brochure, a new logo or even a rebrand. It is also important that the client provide the creative team with background re who their audience is, how the piece will be used and what they are trying to achieve. In this article, I include tips on how to get useful client/peer input on everything from logos to web design, to content.
Are You a Leader or an Enabler?
Are you looking internally or externally to solve current business challenges....
Smart Branding for the Smaller Enterprise
Build your brand Big Time . . . not with a Big Budget . . but by providing Big Benefits to your clients. Think Small Before Thinking Big . . . and concentrate on Building Better Relationships.
In Search Of The Well Paying Survey Site
Interested in making some extra money from your own home? Well, one excellent way to bring in some extra money is by taking paid surveys. Yes, you can actually get paid for your opinion. There are quite a few companies out there today that are willing to pay for good information from surveys.
Entrepreneurs – Grow Your Small Business into a Large Business
So you have a small business just making a profit, but you really want a bigger and more profitable business. How do you make the jump from small to large?
How to make an employee redundant
How to make an employee redundant - a quick and simple guide for employers on how to handle the situation.

Generating Leads Through Your Website
Generating leads through your own website can be broken down into two basic steps: getting people to your website and converting them into a lead once they are on the website.
Part Two - Prospecting for More Sales
In this series, we explore all the different avenues of prospecting necessary for a business to succeed. Think of your business as a a beautiful garden, and then consider all the things you need to do to keep that garden beautiful and growing, rather than dreary, dead or decaying. Need help with Prospecting? Feel free to get in touch with us via our website.

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About 60% of all franchise opportunities have less than 50 units.
There are over 2500 franchise opportunities operating in the U.S., some of these franchise opportunities are larger systems but most of them are smaller emerging systems. About 60% of all franchise opportunities have fewer than 50 locations, so you’ll have a bigger choice if you opt for the newer, smaller systems.

Lesson #5: Tend to Your Team to Create a Company of Giants
Every so often, Ogilvy would send each of his directors a set of Russian nesting dolls, where inside the largest doll would be a small one, and then a smaller one, and so on. In the smallest doll, he would place a piece of paper that read: “If we hire people who are smaller than we are, we will become a company of dwarfs. If we hire people who are larger than we are, we’ll become a company of giants.”

Hiring Former Fortune 1000 Employees
If you are considering a salesperson, sales manager or VP of Sales from a big, name brand company, there is a crucial point that executives from smaller companies usually miss. You probably don't run a large, name brand company. Your salespeople probably aren't automatically invited in with open arms. Your company probably doesn't have a reputation that precedes it. Your company probably isn't the market leader. Your company probably doesn't have the lowest prices. So how would one of these former big-brand salespeople or sales managers fare when they encounter the resistance, challenges, ambivalence and rejection that the rest of your salespeople endure?
Maketing Budgets Continue To Shrink In Today's Economy
Many small to medium sized businesses are struggling with smaller marketing budgets. Just because your marketing budget is smaller you shouldn't expect smaller results. Use these marketing tactics to improve marketing ROI in a down economy.
How Much Can Your Staff Handle?...The Limiting Factor Behind Sustainable Productivity Gains
Most companies are now trying to boost flagging profits with a smaller workforce. What that means is that each member of your staff will be required to work with greater speed , efficiency and productivity than ever before. But what if your remaining staff can't physically, mentally or emotionally handle this increased workload? What will it cost your company in terms of absenteeism, workers compensation and skyrocketing health premiums if your company just wears out your employees to the point of illness, injury or burn out? What can you do to prevent employee burnout?

Master Licensing Franchises - A Change of Heart
The odds are against success. The numbers don't lie. The challenges facing the operations of a larger small business development compared to a smaller business component is significant enough that it is best to start smaller, ensure your grip on the business model and then grow from there. These are all expressions I have used. For the most part I still believe these...IF we were talking 5 years ago I would stand by them, in front of them, behind them and arm myself on all of the information that supports them. Today is a different day however.
Lesson #5: Use Strategic Partnerships to Promote Your Products
Throughout most of his career in the toy industry, Warner had made a name for himself by bucking the trends. When tradition stated he should sell in the biggest stores he could, Warner opted to distribute his toys via the smaller “ma and pop” shops. And, when his competitors were spending millions of dollars on advertising campaigns, Warner resisted, choosing instead to cover the company and its products with a veil of secrecy.

Open Innovation
For smaller companies particularly, the resources inside the company might be too small to allow real innovation to flourish. The principle behind Open Innovation is that you can partner with others to exploit greater thinking power ... and you can exploit the intellectual property of others. So if you can work with others to mutual advantage (perhaps many others ... and hence the term 'crowdsourcing') why would you not?
And the Winner is...
Probably not the consumer but is the balance tilting? I had the pleasure this month of attending the PLC Awards dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel. The categories of award included Best Performing Share, Best Performing Smaller Company Fund, and Company of the Year. Funnily enough there was no award for most cost effective fundraising/acquisition of the year; that's possibly not something that the City would wish to celebrate.

IS BIGGER BETTER IN PR?
Is it smart to hire the biggest PR firm you can find to promote your company or should you look at smaller fims as well. A veteran public relations professionals offers some insizeful advice.
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