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Feb
22
Can President Obama help strengthen Small Business?
With the 2012 presidential election looming, it’s important to understand just where President Barack Obama stands when it comes to small business. Given that small businesses employ more than half of all Americans and account for 60 per cent of new jobs, the Obama administration is understandably interested in assuring business owners that they are of top priority. The Startup America... Read More >>
Feb
14
How to maintain your customer base in a down economy
Where did all your customers go? Maintaining your customer base in a down economy Without a doubt, a shrinking customer base is one of the biggest challenges facing small business owners today. Brand loyalty is almost a thing of the past in today’s market and as more and more competition arises, preserving your current customers becomes just as important as finding new ones. Senior... Read More >>
Feb
10
How will the European Debt Crisis affect your small business?
Greece may be thousands of miles away, but in today’s increasingly globalised world, economic depression in Europe equals economic recession for the USA. Unfortunately, the troubles across the Atlantic don’t appear to be improving and right now Greece is on the brink of dropping out of the euro zone currency. But what does this mean? Greece makes up the ‘G’ in the set of European... Read More >>
Feb
08
Wish You Knew Then What You Know Now (about an employee)?
Have you ever relied on your gut when making a personnel decision, only to suffer from ongoing indigestion when saddled with a poor performer? Making sound decisions about hiring and promoting people is not easy. Even well conducted interviews can result in poor hires, and roughly one-quarter of executives who are promoted from within fail to meet expectations at the two-year mark. When... Read More >>
Feb
01
Why outsourcing means big business
What is outsourcing? When most people think of outsourcing, they think of large corporations and job redundancies. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Outsourcing is not restricted to the confines of big business and does not refer solely to sending work offshore. In fact, an Enterprise Systems Outsourcing Survey found that over 70 per cent of outsourcing activity by American... Read More >>
