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Fifteen Strategies To Compete With Large Corporations If You Are a Small Business

Small businesses can adopt various strategies to compete effectively with large corporations. While large corporations often have significant resources, small businesses can leverage their agility, personalized service, and community connections to gain a competitive edge. Here are some strategies small…

You Can Win By Referring Customers to Your Competitors!

Referring Customers To Competitors? Smart Business Move The following is an excerpt from Robert Bacal’s book entitled If It Wasn’t For The Customers I’d Really Like This Job: Stop Angry, Hostile Customers COLD While Remaining Professional, Stress Free, Efficient and Cool…

Leveraging Your Cost Free Advantage: Better Customer Experience Via “Small Ball”

Presentation: Free Slide Deck It’s often the case that small businesses exist in a market that includes at least one, and often many other LARGE businesses or chains. On the surface of it, it would seem that the small business…

Customer Service Only As Good As What YOU Create

Business owners set the tone when it comes to how customers are treated in a small business. When you see these words: Customer Service, what comes to mind? Speedy service? Low prices? A ‘no-questions-asked’ return policy? Okay, these attributes certainly…

What Should You Include In The Executive Summary of Your Business Plan For A Small Business?

When writing a small business plan, particularly when it’s to be read by lenders or others you want to enlist — for example, investors, keep in mind that the executive summary may be the ONLY thing that people read. Catch…

Do You Have The Skills and Knowledge You Need To Start A Business?

Start-up Knowledge and Skills Your knowledge, skills, strengths, and eaknesses are going to dictate the kind of business you will succeed with, your preferences for type of business, and your willingness and ability to seek out help from others to…

Handling Tough Times For Small Business Owners

Small Business: Handling Tough Times and Downturns To Stay Focused Small business owners will face downturns in businesses, so it’s important to master the mental game of remaining focused so as to “work through” things when they get tough, and…

What’s Important When It Comes to a Small Business Web Site – Guiding Principles For Your Small Business Web site

In The Website Imperative For Small Business we explained why you need a web site to represent your business, as opposed to just having a Facebook page, or other presence on social media. Now, let’s look at what makes up a good…

Social Media Not Enough: Reasons Your Business Needs A Website Part 3

(Third in a series on why small businesses should not rely on social media platforms, like LinkedIn and Facebook. The first in the series is available here.) The second in the series can be found here. #16 Customizable Multiple E-mail…

Social Media Not Enough: Eight More Reasons Your Business Needs A Website

20 Reasons You Need A Website For Your Business: Social Media Presence Is NOT Enough (Second in a series on why small businesses should not rely on social media platforms, like LinkedIn and Facebook. The first in the series is…

20 Reasons You Need A Website For Your Business: Social Media Presence Is NOT Enough

These days most small businesses jump into the social media space — primarily on Facebook, LinkedIn, Bebee and other similar platforms. They lose out on the power of running their own websites on their own domains. It’s really not surprising….