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Top 5 Tips for Dealing With Holidays in a Small Business

Jul 31, ’12 1:15 PM

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Don’t let it come as a shock to you when an employee is off on holiday. If you are unaware of their coming absence until the day they go away, there is…

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A Woman, still in a Man’s World

Jul 31, ’12 1:00 PM

The equal pay act was passed in 1970, and you guessed it, us women are still low earners compared to our male counterparts, sometimes earning only ¾ of a man in the same job. In a world where everyone is seen as equal, everyone should be paid equally right? Especially if they are working the…

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5 Cloud Computing Security Concerns and How to Mitigate Them

Jul 27, ’12 1:15 PM

More and more small businesses are moving to cloud computing, signing up with private service providers that offer highly functional, subscription-based solutions that are far cheaper than the traditional in-house hosting method. Whether your company is using online email, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform, or creating offsite backups of company data, you are trusting a…

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Most Politicians, Bankers and big companies have no idea what it is like to be a small business owner

Jul 24, ’12 10:00 AM

Recently, I was going through my Evernote archives of articles that I had ‘clipped’ over the last month and that I thought would be good feedstock for blog posts. As I was going through all of the articles, I came across Most small business owners have skipped paychecks from Yahoo! Small Business Advisor. When I…

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Top 5 Tips for Business Technology on a Budget

Jul 23, ’12 7:00 AM

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Don’t base your marketing strategy off something you have read in a marketing textbook. The world of marketing is changing at a rapid pace due to new technology and the old ideas…

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Easy In. Easy Out.

Jul 21, ’12 9:56 AM

Chic Lit Keep Up, Won’t You? Look I’m sorry, dear readers, that I haven’t been in touch for a while. I’ve been smack up against a publisher’s deadline. I’ve been finishing off my latest erotic thriller, ’50 Sheds du Lait’. It’s about a fit French dairy farmer investigating the disappearance of big supermarket bosses. Anyway,…

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Business Owner’s Toolbox

Jul 17, ’12 7:31 AM

Every business owner should make use of these tools to run a successful business, after all it is all about less costs, higher productivity and more income. Here goes:- Business Focus – every-time you make a decision ask yourself how this is going to bring you closer to your business goal? Business Planning – No, I do…

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Top 5 Tips for Inbound Marketing

Jul 16, ’12 7:00 AM

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Don’t assume that just because your website was optimized for search engines at one point in time that the optimization is still valid and useful now. Things can change very quickly in…

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A Little Slower. Much, Much, Much Faster.

Jul 12, ’12 6:54 AM

New product releases are always a challenge, but customers are not stupid. When a customer considers buying the older model of computer, instead of the latest model and asks what is the difference, you say: “It’s a little slower!” Your colleague next to you answers the question: ” Why do I need the later model?”…

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Are UK politicians missing an opportunity to turn RBS/Natwest into the sort of bank that works for its customers?

Jul 11, ’12 2:06 PM

On Monday, Ed Miliband made a speech about banking at the Co-operative Bank in London. In the speech he made a couple of comments that caught my eye (Source: BBC): Mr Miliband told an audience of financiers it was time to move from “casino” to “stewardship” banking. Mr Miliband said the country had endured a…

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