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Five Tips to Calm Cranky Customers

Top 5 Tips to Calm Cranky Customers1.Tis the SeasonRecognize that everyone is frazzled during the holidays- you and your customers. Give everyone, including you, the benefit of the doubt when it comes to ‘bad behaviors’ like being abrupt or rude....

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Believing the Plan

Mary had a delivery service business. Her idea was to market to senior citizens who couldn’t get out every day. She came to me as a SCORE counselor because her business was struggling and she thought she needed marketing help. She had been marketin...

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Got the Career Blues Step Outside the Box!

You have permission to publish this article electronically or inprint as long as the resource box is included. Please notify meof publication by sending a website link or copy of yourpublication to claudette@metavoice.org.Word Count: 511 Thanks, Clau...

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Selling Your Business Note

Why wait for payments on your note?In many parts of the country, business owners who sell their business must take back financing from the buyer in order for the sale to be consummated. The reason- banks and other conventional lenders are hesitant t...

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Beating The Competition

Unless your product or service is one-of-a-kind, you've got competition. To beat them, you have to make sure you're the key company, the one your customers turn to above all others. How do you do that if you're new and small? Try these...

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Women Are You Selling Yourself Short Pricing for a Healthy Business

A few years ago, Vlasic Pickles teamed up with Walmart to sell a gallon of pickles for the unheard of price of $2.97. They sold over 240,000 gallons of pickles a week. Vlasic loved the sales numbers, only to discover that profits were shrinking by 25...

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Starting a Small Business Is Just Like Running the Peachtree...Only Tougher

STARTING A SMALL BUSINESS IS JUST LIKERUNNING THE PEACHTREE…ONLY TOUGHERI started jogging several years ago. It was a New Year’s resolution. Like most of my New Year’s resolutions, I was confident at the time that the euphoria of the holiday se...

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PLORK Creative Laziness, Part 2

An entrepreneur I know, starting a new venture, gave himself three years to turn a profit, firmly believing that working very hard for that amount of time would produce results. And it did! But another entrepreneur, in a very similar field, went into...

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Guidelines for *Staying* in Business

As "soloists" entrepreneurs, webpreneurs, SOHOs, HONOs(Home Office, No Office), or plain old small businesspeople,we must remember that without a business, i.e., a profit-making business, we have a hobby & we have to go get ajob-job just to pay the...

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THE FOUR THINGS YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Essentially, there are only four elements to being successfulin a business, but these four are absolutely indispensable.1. Education.You may be able to start a business without knowing muchabout the particular field you've entered, but you won&a...

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