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How to Mail to a List of Prospects
Here are some tips if you are mailing to a list of prospects: 1. Start with the best possible list; otherwise, all your efforts will be wasted. You should know…
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How to Develop Policies for Selling a Product
General policies, which are part of your business plan, are guides in all matters of business procedures and practice. Policies represent the identity of your business, your goals, your company's…
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How to Conduct Customer Research
Good market research is the foundation of your marketing program and business. You have to know your customers and your competition well. Know when your competitors are offering your prospects…
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How to Choose Your Markets Wisely
However obvious this may seem, spend a bit of time in considering who will buy your products and services. Now try and group them in some way. It may make…
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How to Screen Applicants by Letters and Curriculum Vitae
Many companies ask applicants to send a letter of application, with or without a curriculum vitae. Such an approach appears to have several advantages. On its own a typed or…
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How to Reject Candidates in the Recruitment Process
Your aims when rejecting candidates must be to maintain a caring and friendly company image and to keep on good terms with each of them. They, and their family and…
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How to Reduce a Large Pool of Applicants to a Shortlist of Candidates
You'll probably have a fairly lengthy list of applicants from which to select a new employee. Ideally, you'd interview all of them so that the best person is less likely…
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How to Introduce Tests in the Recruitment Process
For many lower grade jobs, in an office or on the shop or factory floor, the recruitment decision will be made after reading application forms, conducting interviews and taking up…
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How to Evaluate Future Needs for Recruitment
Of course, recruitment must not be carried out just to satisfy your immediate staff needs. You should be seeking someone who will stay with the company on a long-term basis,…
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How to Understand Customs in Europe while Backpacking
Customs allowances in Europe Customs regulations are one aspect that can cause problems for travellers. However, in recent years much has been done to simplify customs regulations between the European…
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How to Manage on £20 a Day While Backpacking in Europe
You might not believe it, but you can backpack quite happily on £20 a day - or less. It needs careful planning of course, but if your budget is really…
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How to Look for Casual Work When Backpacking in Europe
Most travellers look for casual work, which requires few skills or commitment. Here are some of the jobs you could consider: Farm work Farmers often need a few extra pairs…
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How to Backpack through Europe by Bike
It is worth considering biking if you are a keen cyclist and also reasonably fit. The main advantage is that it is cheap and maintenance is easy in most countries.…
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How to Cope With Daytime Wetting
Most children gain bowel and bladder control around the age of three or four years and are able reliably to remain dry during the day. Of course, toilet "accidents" will…
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How to Avoid Raising a Fussy Eater
Every child is a picky eater occasionally. From an early age, your child will have particular food preferences. This phase may pass within a few days, or it may be…
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How to Use Studs
Metal studs have been used for centuries, to decorate furniture and to hold fabric coverings in position. In the Middle Ages, tables and benches were sometimes covered with leather held…
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How to Upholster a Drop-In Seat
With chairs and sofas, it is always worth buying the best quality you can and they will last you for life. It is also a good idea to make sure…
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How to Paint a Cache-Pot
The decorative art of painting on metal is known as tole. The word 'tole' is French for sheet iron, and it was from sheet iron that the earliest examples of…
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How to Make a Silhouettes
Silhouettes have captivated and intrigued people ever since prehistoric man daubed the walls of caves with the outlines of sacred animals. That these powerful images are instantly recognizable to us…
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How to Make a Racing-Car Bedhead
The ideal child's room is both practical and fun. Essentially, this means that whatever decorative elements you introduce, choose surfaces that can be easily cleaned and fabrics that are hardwearing.…