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How to Choose Business Premises for Shared-Service Workshops

The rationale behind this kind of provision is that survival rates among small firms could be considerably improved by making available on-site a range of business advisory, secretarial and other…

Marie Mayle March 8, 2010

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How to Choose an Office

If you are offering a service, it might not be appropriate to work from home because of lack of space. Perhaps you are in partnership, and it would not be…

Marie Mayle March 8, 2010

How to Build a Planning in Small Business

'It is impossible to plan in this business' is a cry that one often hears from the small businessman, and yet he will later go on to suggest that he…

Marie Mayle March 8, 2010

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How to Choose a Premise For Your Next Business Shop

Retailers, of course, are interested in different kinds of property from the predominantly manufacturing, craft and workshop premises emphasised so far. When purchasing retail premises, it is more common to…

Marie Mayle March 8, 2010

How to Budget for Profit in Small Business

Budgeting is an activity which is undertaken by most people in their private lives, and yet one constantly meets arguments from small businessmen that it is not relevant to the…

Marie Mayle March 8, 2010

How to Budget for Cash in Small Business

The concept of cash budgeting, or cash flow forecasting as it is otherwise known, is not new. Many large companies have been using the technique as a tool of management…

Marie Mayle March 8, 2010

How to Borrow from a Bank – Presenting Your Case

The banks place great store by the banker/customer relationship, and rightly so. However, on occasions, a lack of understanding of each other's problems can arise. This is probably caused partially…

Marie Mayle March 8, 2010

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How to Borrow from a Bank – How a Bank Manager Assesses Your Case

In an attempt to improve the communication between the bank manager and the small businessman the ways that a case for finance for a business should be presented to the…

Marie Mayle March 8, 2010

How to Bet Against a Property

When you are stuck with sky-high debt problems, a last resort can be debt consolidation. This is a process of clubbing all outstanding debts under one roof to pay for…

Marie Mayle March 8, 2010

How to Be Successful in Exporting for Small Firms

Some years ago the shock of a £2.4 billion deficit on Britain's balance of trade highlighted the deteriorating trade position of the country's manufacturing industry. By 1982 this deficit had…

Marie Mayle March 8, 2010

How to Approach Your Potential Customer

Each potential customer is different, and will want to buy your product or service for slightly different reasons. Find out as much as you can about the company or client…

Marie Mayle March 6, 2010

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How to Advertise Your Small Business

Very broadly, advertisements - and advertising generally - can be divided into two categories, selective and non-selective. The business landscape in 2025 is fast-paced, technology-driven, and customer-focused. Staying ahead means…

Marie Mayle March 6, 2010

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How to Advertise a Retail Shop

Potential customers will need to know that you and your shop are there, so you need to be alert to all possibilities for advertising your business. This need not restrict…

Marie Mayle March 6, 2010

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How to Acquire Source of Property Information for Business Premises

Once you have formulated a checklist of property and locational requirements, you can begin the actual search. Make sure at the outset that you get a map of the area(s)…

Marie Mayle March 6, 2010

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How to Deal with a Loss Event

How we deal with a loss event is as important to our depression as the event itself. Unfortunately, we in the West are not good at dealing with loss. Many…

Marie Mayle February 25, 2010

How to Present Your Case to a Financial Organization

This article outlines the basic steps you should take when trying to arrange finance from one of the organizations discussed above. In practice the details will vary according to the…

Marie Mayle February 9, 2010

How to Buy Quality Companies at Bargain Prices

Warren Buffett emphasized buying quality companies rather than speculating about the direction of a stock price. Good companies are still good companies when times are bad. If you buy a…

Marie Mayle January 11, 2010

How to Determine a Bargain Price in Stocks

Buffett determines the value of a company by projecting its future cash flows and discounting them back to the present with the rate of long-term U.S. government bonds. I'm sure…

Marie Mayle January 11, 2010

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How You Make Money Owning Stocks

This is really the bottom line to investors. The only reason you own a business is to profit from it. The way you profit by owning stocks is through capital…

Marie Mayle January 11, 2010

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How to Evaluate Stocks – Value Investing

Value investors look for stocks on the cheap. They compare stock prices to different measures of a company's business such as its earnings, assets, cash flow, and sales volume. The…

Marie Mayle January 11, 2010