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Tag Archives: planning
Did you miss the boat?
Don’t rue your luck Recently I have witnessed people publicly regretting that they did not manage to create a worldwide on-line network before Facebook appeared. Why didn’t their big idea grow the way Facebook did? The fact is that hard … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, Social media
Tagged business plan, Facebook, luck, Mark Zuckerberg, planning, regret, Social network, Venture capital
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How can we hang on to a dream?
To have dreams in the sense of hopes and plans is something we all have and especially in business. We have objectives and targets and aspirations as to where we want to be in a year’s time, or five years or ten years. Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, management
Tagged employee, like, management, marketing, planning, small business, trust, vision
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Don’t make promises that you can’t keep
We must be careful not to over-promise. We all want to do our best but sometimes time scales cannot be met. Continue reading
Posted in Customer relations, Customer service, Sales
Tagged Customer service, marketing, planning, sales
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Time wasting and fog
Image via Wikipedia I believe we should always be at least fine-tuning our business models and especially our marketing of course. Whether the New Year is the time for a good clear-out or the business should have a good spring-clean … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, management, marketing
Tagged advertising, distraction, Fog, planning, small business
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Don’t repeat costly business mistakes
Mistakes. We all make them. In the early years of a business, inexperience may lead us to make quite a few. Don’t worry about that. It is important to learn from mistakes and move on. Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, marketing, Sales
Tagged advertising, customer, learn, marketing, mistake, planning, sales, small business, Start-up, Yellow Pages
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Unwise business assumptions
Image via Wikipedia I remember when I was starting out in the workplace, I took a client file I had been working on to my immediate boss for review. I remember he picked on something I had done and asked … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, management, networking
Tagged adviser, BBC Television, Bhutan, business, help, Himalayas, planning, small business, Snow Leopard, tiger
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Play to your strengths
Especially when we start out in business we try to please every client or customer who comes along. I know because I have been in that position. However I have learned that we should concentrate on what we are best and most comfortable at doing, and on what is most profitable for us. Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, Customer relations, Customer service, productivity
Tagged outsource, planning, sales, service, subcontract
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Need a service? Get recommendations
A couple of people I know had a little success selling items on eBay, and not wishing to be wage slaves all their lives invested a considerable amount of money setting up a shopping website serving a niche market they … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, marketing, Referral networking, Uncategorized
Tagged advice, false economy, marketing, planning, recommendation, referral, service, small business, trust, trusted
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Why we need to be courageous in business
We all have fears of the unknown, of measures we have not taken before. Sometimes we need to spend a little money as an investment to take our businesses forward. It is hard in this environment to spend money on the unknown, so the answer must be to spend it with experts in their field about whom we have heard good things. Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, marketing, productivity
Tagged business, courage, marketing, planning, risk
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