Outsourcing After-Sales Service

Are you outsourcing your after-sales to a support company? How do you leverage the benefits of outsourcing after-sales service? What are the challenges you can face while outsourcing after-sales to a service partner?

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How to Launch Your New Business Website On-Time

As the owner of a web design company, helping my client’s launch their new business web design on schedule proves to be challenging at times. From whatever point you look at it, delays are costly. Failing to launch your business website on time may cost you new business, and if you have ongoing marketing and no website to support it or the wrong one, you are losing money that way too. Getting a business web design is serious business, and it shouldn’t be taken lightly. Why? The bottom line is 85% of all people when surveyed said that they go

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10 Tips on How to Use Twitter for Your Small Business

Twitter has become a must-use tool for businesses to reach more audiences, talk with their customers and initiate dialogue with other individuals and businesses in their sector. Here are tips on how to effectively use Twitter for your small business

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Email, Phone or Live Chat Support: How to Best Serve Your Customers

There are generally 3 options for providing the customer support services needed by your customer: Email, Live Chat, and Phone. Compare these options and learn each one's own advantages depending on the nature of your products or services.

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How to Develop a Green Business Strategy

An environmentally-conscious business will often promote goodwill among potential customers. Here are ways to develop a green business strategy

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Collecting Receivables During the Holiday Season

Collecting receivables is an important step in ensuring that your business has adequate cash flow. However, with the holiday season upon us, how should a business deal with the collection efforts? There are questions on whether a business should continue with their collection efforts, change the way they go about them or even stop during these times. While some businesses may be lenient in collecting during the holidays, it is important to stay on track with your collection efforts. However, you need to do your collecting with an understanding that with the holiday season comes an increased spirit of diplomacy and

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Is Your Website Springing a Leak?

Imagine that you own a beautifully designed yacht. It looks great on the surface of the water, with superb lines, gleaming decks, a well-appointed galley . . . but you’re having real trouble getting out of the harbor and you can’t figure out why! You investigate, and you find that beneath the surface your beautiful boat has a number of slow, silent, leaks. None of them are big enough to sink you on their own, so there’s no obvious immediate crisis – just a constant drain on your efficiency and your speed. I’ve been reviewing Web traffic reports for over

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10 Mistakes That Will Kill Your Transition From Executive to Entrepreneur

We have seen an increased interest in executives wanting to start their own businesses. Learn the 10 mistakes that will kill your transition from executive to entrepreneur.

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How to Find Wholesale Sources for Your Home Business

An important element to creating a long-lasting profitable business is finding good wholesalers willing to work with you. Learn how to find wholesale sources for your home business.

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How Your Small Business Can Benefit from Bartering

“Barter”, we hear that word a lot these days. Do a Google-search and you’ll be deluged with websites on the subject. But what exactly is barter? Why is barter seeing a huge resurgence especially after the bad economy we’ve had a few years back? How can you get involved with bartering and how can your small business benefit from it? So, what is barter and why the excitement? Barter, simply put, is the ‘cashless exchange of goods and services between parties’. An example of bartering in business would be a florist exchanging a bouquet of flowers for an oil change

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How to Choose the Right Tax Preparer

When you decide you need help preparing your taxes it can be difficult to decide where to begin. Learn how to choose the right tax preparer to do your taxes and know the list questions that any competent tax professional should be able to answer.

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How to Organize the Work Space for Your Home Business

The ideal work space for your home business can be anything from a desk tucked in your kitchen to a complete room transformed into a home office. The key is that the work space must allow you to be productive, efficient and happy in your work environment.

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