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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 Good Client Bad Client

Written by Paul Stanford on August 5, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business Marketing, Business Sales, Business Startup, Success Thinking

SharePosted by: Paul Stanford   What’s in a client? Many businesses believe that they need to find more and more clients and go all out to get as many clients as possible. Whilst it is generally a very good idea to have several clients so that you are not reliant on one or two clients [...]

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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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Raising Finance Small Business

Written by Paul Stanford on July 30, 2008
Categories: Business Funding, Business Growth, Business Startup, Success Thinking

SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Raising Finance   There comes a point in most businesses where the need arises to raise some funding. Whether that be to start a brand new venture, buy new equipment or purchase another company the chances are that it will be stressful and if you get it wrong then you will [...]

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Home Based Business Free To Enter Competition

Written by Paul Stanford on July 29, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business Marketing, Success Thinking

ShareEntries open for Home Business Awards Enterprise Nation, the home business website, has launched its annual Home Business Awards and is on the look-out for the UKs best home businesses. This years Awards are bigger and better than ever with new categories, more prizes and top Judges. Having had the difficult task of choosing just [...]

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Small Business Profitability

Written by Paul Stanford on July 28, 2008
Categories: Business Funding, Business Growth, Success Thinking

ShareIn this day and age we all seem to be obsessed about getting more clients to increase income through more sales of our products and/or services. I agree this is vitally important but now that we are in an economic downturn then is it realistic for us to get more new clients and for existing [...]

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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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Starting A Franchise

Written by Paul Stanford on July 21, 2008
Categories: Business Startup, Success Thinking

Share Put yourself in a situation where you have decided to start up your own carpet cleaning business. The next step is to ask yourself an important question – Should I go with a franchise or remain independent? This decision should be made with great care after exploring all the factors involved as it is [...]

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Small Business Advertising Campaign

Written by Paul Stanford on July 18, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business Marketing, Business Sales, Success Thinking

ShareHave you ever thought “My advertising campaign is boring?” That is because you are not being creative and you are not having fun doing it. When you create a fun and exciting advertising campaign, it doesn’t have to take forever and it doesn’t have to be difficult. Business owners must create an advertising campaign or [...]

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