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Upon leaving a company and going self-employed income protection insurance is often considered to fill the gap left behind by loosing employer provided benefits and sick pay. Read More

Deals should not be won at the presentation stage. Deals should be won before you ever present your solution. In order to win deals, you cannot collect the prerequisites to a deal late in the sales cycle Read More

"Today is is an exciting day for me. It’s my first day on my new job of working for myself. I can already see that there is a big difference in working for a boss and being the boss. Another thing that strikes me about my first day on the job is how different certain things are from my previous job. I’m getting the feeling that maybe I have been missing out on some benefits. Am I totally off base or could this be true? Read More

Sure, sending newsletters is a great way to send information to your customers, but what information are you getting back? You might think collecting information at subscription is the only way to get data out of your newsletter, but there are several other ways you can get your company newsletter to deliver valuable customer insights Read More

It is your duty as a salesperson to do everything in your power to ensure that you win deals. This means that you have to take action—even when taking action is difficult or uncomfortable Read More

Hi, folks. Put this together as kind of a more in depth exploration of how you go about creating real community on BizSugar or any other social media site you might participate in whether large or small. Thankfully, there are many others among our regular users here at BizSugar who are equally adept at building community through social media so I thought it would be great if everyone could pitch in with some suggestions as I'm sure there are things that could be added here. Besides, getting others' input is what social media is all about, right? Thanks, in advance, for your contributions! You can comment here or on the blog post by following the link. Read More

What does a lunar eclipse have to do with using your numbers to improve cash flow and profits? Everything, according to this article. Learn why performance, when stacked against comparisons against yourself and competitors, is improved through this often over-looked best practice Read More

Want to know how social media will help you grow your business? Amazingly, many small business owners continue to doubt the effectiveness of social media sites as a marketing or better yet a sales tool. Here we look at some of the ways social media achieves the same results we might expect from more traditional techniques aimed at building your business's sales Read More

Got a great idea for a small business? Or maybe a world changing idea for a product or service large small that you're sure will become the next big thing? If you need funding for your idea, where do you start? How do you go about raising capital for your brilliant venture in order to make your dream a reality? Learn from a team that has already done it. Here is the story of one such entrepreneurial voyage... Read More

A lot is written about building customer profiles of those who you want as customers. This of course is an essential part of small business marketing. But what about the other side – those customers that you do not want as customers. Two blog posts recently have been written about this dilemma and give great insights into this problem as they shared their experiences.
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