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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Checking Out Your Customers Before You Take The Job

You have heard of consumer sites ranging from Rip-off Reports to Consumerist to Yelp to Rate My Professor. They all allow consumers to rate the people they hire. That is all well and good, but what about you? How do you know if the customer on the other end of the phone is a real customer or a deadbeat? Enter BusinessBeware.biz.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Internet : Taking Your Small Business Online

How do you know if it's time to take your small business online? These Small Business tips will tell you how to know when the time is right to take your business on the internet.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

How Cap and Trade Affects Your Small Business

As a small business owner, you know well enough that your taxes are going to be rising—possibly dramatically—over the next year or so. It is in the stimulus, and the budget, but have you paid attention to what is going to happen as soon as Obama passes his cap and trade legislation. It is supposed to lower carbon emissions, and it might. It will also be a massive tax on energy, one that you won’t be able to escape.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Make the Sale Before Even Stepping Through the Door

Your business survives on sales, no question about it, but there is a little-known secret that the sale is won before you step into your potential customer's office. It all comes down to one word: Planning.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Ways to Sell your Products or Services

Small Business tips about ways to sell your products or services.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Business to Business Selling

How do you sell to another business instead of just the individual consumer? Business-to-business selling can be tough if you don't know what you're doing. These Small Business tips are about business to business sales.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Stimulus Fraud Coming to an Inbox Near You

Ripped right from the headlines, con artists are targeting people with an email campaign that promises to get you a piece of the recently passed stimulus bill, thousands for just a small fee. Don’t you believe it!

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Buy Local Networks and You

Small businesses today are banding together in even greater numbers than ever before to promote the idea of buying from local businesses. Would this be a good fit for your business?

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Enhancing your Sales

What are the best ways to enhance your sales? Here are four simple ways to excel! Small Business tips about how to enhance your sales.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Changes Coming to Government Procurement

It is a great idea and the time for it is ripe: Rebuild the nation’s government procurement process to make it leaner, less expensive, more efficient and more fair, but will it work and how will it affect small business?

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Building Your Referral Business

How can I build my business using referrals? Learn four easy ways to get started! Small Business tips about building your business with referrals.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Skittles Social Media Campaign - Is it the Right Kind of Attention?

Skittles launched a social media and public relations campaign that takes most of the attention away from their product and places it more on what the internet is saying about them. Good or bad? Is this the right kind of attention? Kim suggests how to do it better next time.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Getting to Know Your Customers

When you are trying to sell something, you need to know what you're selling and who you're selling to. How do you get to know your customers though? Small Business tips about the sales side of getting to know your customers.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Negative Feedback

We want feedback from customers because, well that's how we improve our business. What do you do though when the feedback is negative? Here are four Small Business tips about handling negative feedback.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Branding

We are our brand. Take some steps to get your brand known. Small Business tips about branding.

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