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Sussex Food And Drink Awards 2008/9

Written by Paul Stanford on September 1, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business Marketing, Business People, Success Thinking

SharePosted by: Paul Stanford     Sussex Food and Drink Awards 2008/9     If you have a business in Sussex that provides local Food & Drink, then you should encourage your customers to vote for you in the Sussex Food and Drink Awards. The competition is open to Sussex Farmers Markets as well as [...]

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The Purpose Of Work

Written by Paul Stanford on August 31, 2008
Categories: Business People, Business Startup, Success Thinking

Share Many people ask how to discover their life purpose, believing that when they find that, they will be able to find their ideal work. This is certainly the case, but no experience is wasted in life. While you are working on discovering your life purpose, what about learning the purpose of the work you [...]

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Small Business Customer Service Techniques

Written by Paul Stanford on August 27, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business People, Success Thinking

Share When dealing with any customer always remember the golden rule that it is a good opportunity for your company to make an impression by providing that person with a sense of personal satisfaction. My research has clearly shown that successful businesses and organisations make every effort to deliver what the customer wants by applying [...]

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Free Customer Service Training For Your Organisation

Written by Paul Stanford on August 18, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business People, Business Sales, Success Thinking

SharePosted by: Paul Stanford     Free Customer Service Training For Your Organisation   I am sure that any Small Business owner will understand the importance of delivering a high quality of service to its clients. Good customer service is often the differentiator (particularly for a small business) between a client choosing your business over [...]

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Advertising And A Lesson In How Not To Sell

Written by Paul Stanford on August 13, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business People, Business Sales, Business Startup, Success Thinking

SharePosted by: Paul Stanford   Advertising your business and lessons in how not to sell   I was prompted to write about this subject today as I spent an hour of my time that I could ill afford with a journalist trying to sell me advertising space over the phone. So I thought I would [...]

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The 10 Most Common Reasons Why A Business Opportunity Will Fail

Written by Paul Stanford on August 8, 2008
Categories: Business Funding, Business Growth, Business Marketing, Business People, Business Sales, Business Startup, Success Thinking

Share The one fact that most people do not realize about starting a business opportunity is that around 90% of all businesses started will fail or go out of business within their third year. Some business will never make it past the winter depending on their product or service. This is just fact. This statistic [...]

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Small Business Improving PC Performance

Written by Paul Stanford on August 4, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business People, Business Startup, Success Thinking

SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Small Business Improving PC Performance If you are a small business, perhaps as a sole trader or with a few members of staff then it can be cost prohibitive to have someone come in to manage your IT. But you have had your PC/laptop for a couple of years now and [...]

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Contact With Clients For Small Businesses

Written by Paul Stanford on August 1, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business Marketing, Business People, Business Sales, Business Startup, Success Thinking

SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Contact With Clients For Small Businesses I have decided to write this blog today as I have been trying to get in contact with several of my clients for days and some even weeks! So I think that when I do finally manage to catch up with them I will be [...]

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Sales Qualification Successfully Bidding For Contracts

Written by Paul Stanford on July 31, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business People, Business Sales, Success Thinking

Share  Posted by: Paul Stanford Sales Qualification Successfully Bidding for contracts For 15 years of my life I worked in the sales environment selling ICT solutions to clients. Some of these were very small clients and some were extremely large multinational corporates and Government clients. One thing that became very apparent was the number of [...]

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Business Networking And Business Cards

Written by Paul Stanford on July 27, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business People, Business Startup, Success Thinking

ShareThe use of a business card is essential in modern transactions and networking. Yet many small businesses and professionals still don’t have this essential tool. Granted the internet and all it’s social marvels is revolutionizing good old fashioned networking. When it comes time to sign that new account or make that big sale it is [...]

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