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		<title>No room for weenies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No use complaining Keep up won&#8217;t you? There&#8217;s no room for weenies in the global micro enterprise community. My hapless and hopeless UK agent, Tony Robinson OBE, sent me a press clipping of what Serena Williams said after winning the Madrid Open last week. He&#8217;s obsessed by how Serena and Venus have raised the game,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t push when you can pull</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No selling required There is a better way of winning new customers than pushing you and your B2B offer at them. Customers love it because they&#8217;re buying rather than being sold to. You&#8217;ll like it because it feels better than selling and you&#8217;ll get more long term business from it. Using social media well has&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Tips for Taking Time Off from Your Small Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home &#38; micro business owners. 1. Make sure that your email Inbox is totally clear of anything urgent and that you have replied to everything important. You can set your email to provide an &#8216;out of office&#8217; message&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of your Sales Ledger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many businesses are not aware of the potential to release cash against their sales ledger. For every sale made, you have to invoice your customers for goods sold or services provided. Factoring.uk.net explains how resourceful your sales ledger could be in these economically demanding times. Just like your business’ brand, the sales ledger is an&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Work within reason, wise Dad advised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My father, who worked for himself all his life, either alone or running his small business, said to anyone thinking of going for it (me included) that it would take ten years to get established. I couldn’t see that at the time but I now fully understand what he was getting at. Dad died in&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Tips for Business Credit Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home &#38; micro business owners. 1. Using a credit card is actually a sensible thing for a business to do, provided they are going to be paying it off in full each month. Doing this helps to build&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Getting more out of your networking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine, Barclay Thompson of Clear Business Development, shared the following link (from Nigel Botterill called Networking – The Surest Way to Stay Poor?) with me the other day. Following that we met up for coffee earlier today to talk about blogging, which I do quite a bit of, and a general catch&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://sme-blog.com/small-business-soho/getting-more-out-of-your-networking?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=getting-more-out-of-your-networking</link>
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		<title>Taking over the (virtual) world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The online space is very competitive and businesses can sometimes struggle to be seen. Your business probably can&#8217;t afford to buy any physical land, so why not grab yourself some virtual land and start taking over the map one grid at a time? That&#8217;s exactly what the people at Landjacker are allowing businesses to do.&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>More than just a brand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I told you last week that “back in 1998-9 our instinct was to radically change the course of our lives”, promising to tell you this week just how, where and why. That was a tad ambitious for one small blog, but here are the bones. Mother’s Garden is more than a brand; it is a&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Dinosaurs, Wind Farms &amp; Let&#8217;s Twist Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keep up won&#8217;t you &#8211; most websites that promote &#8216;how to successfully start and run your own business&#8217; are sponsored by big companies and government bodies and written by people that are in jobs and have never started their own business. The advice is so yesterday. It is stuff from antiquity that belongs in a&#8230;]]></description>
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