Archive for April, 2009
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Small Business Tip of the Week: Surveying Your Customers
The best way to find out if you are satisfying your customers is to ask them. When conducted properly, surveys can be one of your greatest tools for gaining perspective on the quality of your business. To make the most of your surveys, however, you need to receive quality feedback.
Quality answers start with quality questions. […]
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Sucking Up in a Bad Economy
I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure every workplace has one—a brown noser, someone who has his/her head so far up the boss’…well, basically a suck up. In this economy, however, the number of office suck ups seems to be growing, according to experts in a recent article from Reuters.
More and more workers are […]
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Importance of Color in Business
Colors do more than make your business or product look pretty. They actually have a real impact on consumers’ perceptions of your business, which can in turn have an impact on your sales and revenue. I read in a post on the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur recently that “research reveals people make a subconscious judgment about […]
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
3 Ways to Get New Customers
If you’re satisfied with the number of customers your business has and don’t think you would really benefit from any more, then you need not read any further. Chances are, however, you’re still with me. Why? Because customers are the lifeblood of any business. Even if everything is running smoothly and you’re meeting all your […]
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Time Management Tips: Get Things Done and Boost Your Productivity
This is a guest post by Zeke Camusio, founder of The Outsourcing Company.
Ideas are great. We all love ideas. Unfortunately ideas will only get you so far before actions need to take over. Taking action and getting things done, however, is not always as easy as we would expect. A lot of people struggle when […]
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
Small Business Tip of the Week: Buying a Business
Starting a business from scratch can involve a lot of unwanted headaches. That’s why buying an existing business can be a better option for many people. When you buy a business, many of the headache-causing issues involved with the startup process are already taken care of.
If buying a business sounds like it might be for […]
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Doing What You Love, Not What You Don’t Mind
It’s important to do something you love, I don’t think that’s a news flash for any of you. But sometimes I think there’s confusion between doing what you truly love and doing something that you don’t mind because you know you have to do something or because you’re good at it.
A question that I think all […]
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Georgia Bill Offers Credit for Hiring the Unemployed
I read in an Independent Street post recently that the Georgia legislature approved a bill that will give employers a $2,400 tax credit for hiring someone who is currently unemployed. There are a few stipulations however. The unemployed person must be hired before July 2010, and the company that hired the employee must keep him/her […]
