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Ten Easy Ways To Discount And Lose Money

Many business owners end up passing on discounts to their customers without intending to. Are you guilty of any of these profit-reducing practices? 1. Forgetting to explain your terms of business before starting work If you do not explain your terms from the outset you leave yourself open to misunderstandings. If your terms of business [...]

The Best Way To Win New Business

In order to make a sale your customer needs to believe you are the person with the product or service who will solve their problem. They need to get to the point where they trust that you will make things better for them. Just because you know all about your products and services, your client [...]

Don’t Be Bullied!

Do you allow yourself to be belittled or bullied? Professional bullies will expect favors and demand that work is done unreasonably quicker, better, cheaper: “I don’t care; just do it.” Bullies will take precedence over all your time and may even demand exclusivity — but beware — they don’t want you to succeed on your [...]

7 Reasons To Thank Your Employer Today

Almost everyone these days wants to be the next Richard Branson or Donald Trump but not everyone has the entrepreneurial spirit it takes. Let’s face it, it’s kind of un-cool to say that your ambition is to win ‘Employee of the month’. It’s much more socially acceptable to say you want to run your own [...]