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How to Grow Fast in Down Times
From CNN Money: We checked in with several of this year's FSB 100 companies for tips on what they've learned through their torrid growth and occasional stumbles.
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The Profits of Gloom
From the BBC: Despite the credit crunch, increasing inflation and falling house prices, some businesses are reporting record profits.
Pawnbrokers, bailiffs, company liquidators and discount retailers are recording bulging order books and soaring profits.
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Treat Employees Right in Tough Times
From Businessweek: If employees really are your company's most important asset, mass layoffs and salary freezes are a poor way to show it.
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Get Yourself Some Inspiration
A business book like no other on the market has just been published.
The Book of Business Inspiration doesn’t just feature the usual step-by-step business guides, it also has interviews with people who have started or bought their own business or franchise. These everyday entrepreneurs talk about how they did it, the problems overcome and the lessons learnt, and offer advice on how you, too, can have your own business.
The book also features how-to guides, ranging from how to buy a business to how to make money via the web; profiles of various businesses, from newsagents to nightclubs; profiles of legendary entrepreneurs; information on relocating your life to another country; and much more.
The Book of Business Inspiration is available to buy on Lulu.com for £14.95, or £5 for a downloadable copy.
The Book of Business Inspiration is published by Dynamis, the online media brand behind BusinessesForSale.com, FranchiseSales.com, BusinessOpportunities.com and BusinessWings.co.uk
Adam Bannister
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The Importance of Networking
For a ‘born socialiser’, making the most of meeting people, expanding their circle of business contacts and building on those relationships is effortless.
But not all of us are quite as confident at ‘working a room’. However, networking is a vital part of success when starting a business and, thankfully, a skill that can be developed.
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Problem Solved
From Entrepreneur.com: Stop startup problems before they even begin.
Here are five common mistakes that can sabotage your business - and how to avoid them.
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Small Business Books That Break the Mould
From the New York Times: Books aimed at the small business and entrepreneur audience far too often fall into two categories.
There is the “how I made $27 trillion in business, and you can too,” genre or the ones that say you only need to take care of customers (or cash flow or sales or something else) and you will be the envy of Warren Buffet and Bill Gates.
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Forget Branding, Invest in Relations
From the Financial Post (Canada): The majority of business owners could be headed for disaster this year.
Small business does best when it acts like small business. It does poorly when it blindly attempts to copy big business.
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Basics for Seasonal Business Owners
From Businessweek: You may depend on a sliver of the year for the bulk of your business. Here's how to maximize the rest of it.
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Staff Need to Live Your Values
Video From The Times: The CEO of Marrone Organic Innovations explains why it is best to hire people who share your values.
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How to Stay Informed While Avoiding the Attention Crash
From Advertising Age: One of the most important skills executives need today is the know-how to manage and harness their personal information flow.
The Attention Crash is a crisis in global business that is getting worse every day. By 2009, the Radicati Group predicts that we'll spend 41% of our time managing e-mail. Now add to that the IMs, documents, Facebook pokes, RSS feeds, Twitter tweets and text messages coming at us, and we're officially way oversubscribed.
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Taking Advantage of a Down Market
From Businessweek: Assuming you've saved some cash, there are a few steps you can take to weather the economic downturn, and even flourish.
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Low Prices are not Always Your Friend
Cutting prices might seem reasonable given the state of the economy, but doing so could backfire over the long run, argues a columnist in BusinessWeek.
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Expanding Your Brand Culturally
Expanding your business is one thing, but expanding into another country has a million problems associated with it.
Not only are there likely to be language barriers but there will be cultural barriers too.
Bachir Mihoubi is CEO of FranCounsel Group and provides some of his experience of international expansion to writes for Franchising World magazine.
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Intrapreneurs and Adaptive Persistence
From Businessweek: Author Gregg Vanourek on applying entrepreneurial principles to your life, why a recession can be a good time to start a business, and more.
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A Small Idea May Be the Start of Something Big
From The Times: Innovation: How do you grow a ‘light-bulb moment’ into a business?
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Finding the Perfect Location
From Businessweek: A restaurant's nationwide expansion offers entrepreneurs in other industries lessons on how to determine the right place for their own businesses.
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Getting the Right Marketing Ingredients
There are 14 marketing trends that you should be aware of.
That’s the gist of a new book by Seth Godin, marketing guru and best-selling author.
In Meatball Sundae, Seth explains what to do about the increasing power of stories as opposed to facts, how attention spans are becoming ever shorter, and about how five thousand people who want to hear your message are more valuable than five million who don’t.
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You Don't Have to Ditch the Day Job
Tony Wright talks to BusinessWeek and provides some tips on running a successful web business in addition to your day job.
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Be Prepared!
Prepare for new regulations, says Business Link.
6 April 2008 is the first Common Commencement Date of 2008, a twice yearly event when Government introduces new regulations and makes amendments to existing ones.
Business Link, the free business advisory service, encourages people running a business to visit www.businesslink.gov.uk/ccd regularly in order to keep on top of changes.
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