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Tue, 4th November 2008
5 Things You Must Do Well When Buying a Business to Not Get Burned
Are you not sure what Business to buy? Need to know what is a fair deal?
Martin Smith thought he was buying an established business with good credit and collectable accounts receivable. The day after settlement the surprises began.
Inventory could not be used because expiration dates had past. Money shown as receivable had already been collected.
7 Tips To Increase The Success Of Your Online Business
1. Outsource what takes you too long to do
When you don’t have time to do something, you either don’t do it, or do it faster and make mistakes. This can hurt your business. One mistake people often do when they start an online business on a shoestring is that they don’t give themselves a value! I hear someone saying : "I will optimize my site to get traffic from the search engines because it is free traffic".
10 Things To Ask Your Accountant
This is a quick checklist of a few things that you, as a new business, should expect to ask your accountant (or potential accountant).
1. What will you do to help my business?
2. What guarantees do you offer?
3. Do you offer fixed prices?
4. How long will it take you to prepare a set of accounts?
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Learn to Improve Sales - 10 Ways to Get More Business Starting Today
You need sales and you wanted them yesterday. Here are ten ideas to start those sales pouring in. Learn them then use them.
Brand your name and business. This is the most important thing you can do for your business. You can easily do this by just writing articles and submitting them to e-zines, web sites, press-release sites, local newspapers for publishing or republishing.
The Ten Best Kept Secrets For Protecting Your Business Property Against Theft
1. Locks and Padlocks ? Locks on all outside entrances and inside security doors should be double cylinder deadbolts with removable collars. The deadbolt should have at least one inch throw containing a hardened steel insert and protected by a latch guard. Padlocks should be of hardened steel, mounted on bolted hasps and always locked to prevent exchange.
Top 7 Ways to Profit from Foreign Trade
Here are seven excellent ways to earn income from international trade.
1. Importing: Retail store owners can find additional products to sell from foreign manufacturers, distributors, and other suppliers. You may even decide to go exclusively into the import business and become a wholesale distributor.
2. Exporting: Manufacturers can find new customers for their products in foreign countries.
The Top Ten Ways to Stop Procrastinating Now
10. Procrastination Condemnation - Lose the Labels! All those things you call yourself, such as lazy, scattered, disorganized, not good enough, incompetent, or stupid, for example, aren’t helping you get things done, are they? You’ve learned to believe them, and you think they’ve become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you look around yourself, though, you’ll see evidence that you can accomplish quite a number of things without delay.
10 Tips for Effective Proofreading
Proofreading may not be terribly fun, but it’s one of the most important parts of writing.
Have you ever read a web page or a document that had typos, grammatical errors, and punctuation mistakes? This reflects badly on you and your business, and you could easily lose a customer over a simple spelling mistake!
Here are some tips for quick and effective proofreading:
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Plan Your Success In Seven Ways
Many businesses lose money yearly because they don’t think creatively about the future. They run their businesses doing what they think they should: dealing with customers, dealing with problems, ordering for their business, and paying their expenses. They act like their business is a job. They are surviving and that’s it.
Ten Top Performance Management Tips
By building a great relationship with your people you will bring trust, honesty and information. This gives you a head start in Performance Management of your people.
On the job two-way feedback processes gets rid of the nasty surprises that gives Performance Management such a bad name.