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You Must Expand For The Good Of Your Business

Takis Athanassiou
You Must Expand For The Good Of Your Business.

Business is something we often think is precarious at first when we’re getting established, is stable once we have a customer base, and from then on it can only go up and up. Yet in practice, this is a dream world a lot of people accidentally fall into.

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Your business can very easily stall in its progress when you’ve g...

Where Oh Where Are The Best Assets In Your Budding Company?

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Where Oh Where Are The Best Assets In Your Budding Company?.

Where are the best assets in your company? When we start an enterprise, most of us fall into the trap of thinking our products are our primary assets. We put everything we have into that one, trusty thing, and hope above all that it sells.

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This is, after all, your only chance of breaking even, isn’t it? That big business idea and the things you create because of it are what this whole entre...

Making Your Small Business Stand Out From The Crowd

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Making Your Small Business Stand Out From The Crowd.

Starting a small business can be a hugely exciting project to take on, and so the passion of your idea begins and you do what you can to turn it into a success.

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However, many people are taking their own ideas and venturing into the world of business as they find that the flexibility between working and home life can be balanced more effectively, so how do you stand out from the crowd?

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Marking The Marketing Funnel Work For You

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Marking The Marketing Funnel Work For You.

Do you have a marketing funnel in place to help your business? Chances are that if you are the sales or marketing sector, you will have come across the idea of a customer funnel. If not, very basically it’s a series of steps that lead potential customer from the brand awareness and interests stages through to making a purchase and beyond.

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A marketing funnel is definitely something that can help your business...

The Wonderful World Of Web Manufacturing

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The Wonderful World Of Web Manufacturing.

What does web manufacturing mean to you? The e-business industry is massive and encompasses a large number of sectors. It should be no surprise, then, that manufacturing is now available online. Before you scoff at the prospect, think about the advantages.

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To begin with, the World Wide Web is a cost-cutting machine and your products and services may drop in price. Also, online manufacturing is easier to handl...

Why Business as Usual Might Lead You to a Dead End

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Why Business as Usual Might Lead You to a Dead End.

What business as usual means? Businesses have the uncanny ability to run themselves into tight situations, and these tight situations almost always ultimately end in dead ends. But, these untimely ends can be avoided completely by businesses if they just, well, change it up a bit.

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Yes, business as usual can and does prove to be something that drives businesses to the ground, so why don’t you go a bit...

Every Business Needs to Make the most of New Technologies

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Every Business Needs to Make the most of New Technologies.

What can the new technologies do for your business? We are in the middle of a great technological wave. Or at least, it feels like that. In reality what is happening is a sudden and exponential growth of technologies and ideas that are only going to get faster as time goes by. So, ‘beginning’ is probably more appropriate than ‘middle’ in this case.

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Technology has long been the driver of indus...

Key Departments For Your Growing Business

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Key Departments For Your Growing Business.

Do you know what are the key departments for your growing business? As your business grows as will the needs of your company, and those needs create job openings. And those roles will form the key departments of your business.

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Each industry will have different departments that are more important than others – engineers for an el...

How To Make Your Own Products

Takis Athanassiou
How To Make Your Own Products.

Do you know how to make your own products? If you’ve been thinking about an idea for a while now of an invention that you just can’t pass up, why not pursue it?

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Everyone has a moment in their life where they come up with a brilliant idea, but often than not, no one does anything about it. They just push it to the back of their minds and eventually forget. But what if you had a go at turning this vision into a reality?

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Inspiring Interest in Your Enterprise

Takis Athanassiou
Inspiring Interest in Your Enterprise.

Customers are the lifeblood of any successful business. Without them, you will be looking at an early closure for your company and starting all the way from the bottom once again. It is essential that you inspire interest in your brand if you want to build upon any existing success.

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But there are so many businesses doing very similar things now that it can be hard to stand out in an ocean of sameness. H...