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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. Being sharp means being succinct. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. By investigating resources MOST open to you, momentum increases. Rehearse your pitch.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. economy is still in a deep funk, and for many small business owners that means business isn’t exactly booming.

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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015.