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Top 5 Tips for Planning Your Business Journey

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Know your eventual destination and understand what you ultimately wish to achieve from the actions you take as a small business owner. Are you hoping to build a franchise? Or perhaps become…

Beware the trademark conmen

I have a recent experience regarding trade marks which I should share. We may only be a micro business, but we feel our name and logo – our brand – is so valuable. We registered it ten years ago. It was due for renewal in January. During the summer we received an official-looking notification, complete…

Stop Selling. Stop Talking. Listen.

You’ve done the marketing and your efforts have paid off – customers are contacting you – should you keep on selling? When a customer starts talking to you he/she has already decided you are a person who could help to solve a problem, no more selling required. If you keep on with your sales talk,…

Wrong Decisions Are Good!

I have just finished a call with a customer and he was worried about making the wrong decision about growing or not growing his business… I asked him how long he had been thinking about growing his business? His answer: Two Years!!!! I told him he had managed to make the worst decision of all…

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