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What Are 5 Components of Emotional Intelligence & How Do They Shape Your Future?

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Consider, for instance, an entrepreneur who has a great relationship with an essential supplier. The product, price and speed of delivery are each excellent, yet their customer service could use some improvement. After a stressful day for this entrepreneur, one particular customer service representative behaves rudely.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/10

The Small Business Blog

Categories Announcements Balderdash Business Books Business Checklists Business Ideas Business Quotations Comments Customer Service Guest Blog How to … avoid growing pain be eco-friendly be successful bootstrap choose your office deal with taxes do a reality check do a SWOT plan do bookkeeping. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Reducing Overheads Can Save A Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Shop around : Make sure you are getting the best deals from all you suppliers- right down to your electricity, broadband and gas bills. If your business has an inventory make sure you source the best suppliers at the right price, and don’t be afraid to haggle ! You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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10 minute power meeting technique. | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Remember this is a rule for internal meetings, for meetings with customers this rule does not apply – within reason of cause. The customer should determine the length of the meeting. Suppliers will probably thank you for short meetings, so they too can get more done. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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WinWeb's Free Online Accounting Software Now With Cost Centre.

The Small Business Blog

This allows you to “tag&# expenses to products, departments, services or projects – giving you the opportunity to analyze the true cost of a department or any project. This will enable you to see exactly where your money is going and you can evaluate if your projects or products make you any money.

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5 tips for Sourcing Employee Training for Small Businesses

The Small Business Blog

In fact, a couple of projects in the Toastmasters leadership track manual can be used for that purpose. The benefits they get out of it is the experience, a completed project, and possible new members to their local club. They will, more often than not, do training for free to groups. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/03

The Small Business Blog

‘Restructuring’ or Cost-Cutting For Small Business Enterprise With WinWeb OnlineOffice : Restructuring – a word used by BIG Business to lower cost, fire employees and squeeze suppliers. The small business owner was at a clear disadvantage – until now! — ST. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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