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Hearing the Message

Office Dynamics

And I finally heard the message when Joan shared her post with us about taking time to take care of her health and well-being. What example am I setting for our teenage daughter about pursuing dreams at a fairly expensive price? The message wasn’t just about self-care. To me the message was, Pay Attention!

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Top 5 Tips on Building a 6 Month Cash Reserve

The Small Business Blog

Add up all your monthly expenses so you can estimate how much money you will have left each month. The best tip from my point of view would be to avoid unnecessary expenses. Then try and remove or refinance the most expensive lending. Start getting into the habit of saving each week right now, at the beginning of the year.

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Benchmarking Customer Expectations - What’s the Right Yardstick?

Small Business CEO

Maybe you look at maximizing revenue per full-time employee, increasing first call resolution in your contact center or IT expense as a percent of revenue. Your customers, whether they are consumers or businesses, rarely measure you against others in your industry. So you benchmark your company against others in your industry.

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Work Frustrations and Meaningful Work

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Surely, as executive assistants we may feel this way when we have to do all the boring stuff - filing, expenses, travel, calendaring, and phones. As an executive assistant, I knew I wasn't curing cancer or inventing anything, but that customer service role and making a difference in one executive's life was meaningful for me.

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Let Go A Little and Help Your Business

The Small Business Blog

We all start our own businesses because we have passion and drive, this can easily become lost in the day to day monotony of paperwork and tedious tasks, yet employing full or part-time staff can be expensive and risky. Outsourcing offers the perfect balance, to help you regain balance! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Q & A: What are successful cost-cutting solutions in small.

The Small Business Blog

Darling we’re out!&# » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 11:49 am and is filed under Finance , Health Check , Home Business , Outsourcing , Sales , Virtual Assistants , Work/Life Balance , be successful , bootstrap , do a SWOT plan , do a reality check , do bookkeeping. ,

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How Working From Home Can Work For You

The Small Business Blog

While your competitors have to pay out for expensive office space that they don’t need as clients dry up, your business can continue to thrive. An ideal example of people in this category are parents, childcare is hugely expensive and allowing people the flexibility to work from home means you can gain the staff others are missing out on!

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