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Introduction to Procedures: Usage, Terminology, and Tips for Getting Started

All Things Admin

Ultimately, well-defined procedures save you and your team members time, provide clarity, and ensure consistency, compliance, and customer service across the board. Everything is right there in your procedures manual! Procedure – A documented, step-by-step guide that tells someone how to complete a certain task or process.

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5 Habits to Help You Handle Rejection Gracefully

Success

The best thing you can do when you’re afraid is to take a chance, be bold and tell a friend or mentor exactly what your biggest fears are. Objections: They read you a laundry list of what’s wrong: why the competition is better, your product is too expensive and your customer service is lousy. Don’t become defensive.

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Why You Need to Grab for Training Opportunities at Work

On The Job

Among the most popular skills employers want are communication, writing, finance and customer service, he says. You want to model them and make them your mentors," Blumenthal says. Another key: Be known as someone who treats customers like gold, he says. These days, it's all about service," Blumenthal says.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

Success

Find a mentor. I want to evaluate my cost-of-living expenses and see where I can cut back. I just started my own business, and I want to evaluate my income versus my expenses to see where I am currently, with the ultimate goal of hitting the salary I want to make. Ask questions of mentors and peers. Attend training.

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Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Within his business he has established what he calls a Mentor Board of Advisors, a group of people he turns to for advice and learning. Not surprisingly this group includes mentors within his own industry, but what is unique about Scudamore is that some of these mentors run the businesses he competes against every day.

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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!

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How to Survive a Recession, According to a 91-Year-Old Business

Success

The key to staying in business and being profitable, Hustead notes, requires regularly monitoring your overhead, labor, inventory expenses and revenue: “If you run out of money and go broke, you’re out of business.” The impact of COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic dealt a blow to millions of small businesses, and Wall Drug was no exception.