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Are You Afraid to Talk to Your Boss?

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By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 Filed Under: Organize A re you afraid to talk to your boss about your workload - if you really do feel stressed about the workload that you have? Youd be amazed of how well it works and helps you negotiate the only thing that you really can negotiate - time!

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Cost Cutting for Small Business – Payment Terms | THE SMALL.

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Cost Cutting for Small Business – Payment Terms by Stefan Töpfer on Aug 24, 2007 There are two ways to get better payment terms from your suppliers – make sure you know what the pricing is and negotiate the payment terms last, without warning. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Cost Cutting for Small Business – Payment Terms | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Cost Cutting for Small Business – Payment Terms by Stefan Töpfer on Aug 24, 2007 There are two ways to get better payment terms from your suppliers – make sure you know what the pricing is and negotiate the payment terms last, without warning. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Dealing With Unreasonable Requests

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Negotiating Time If the person persists on bothering you, one thing that you can always negotiate is time. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010 Even if they are starting to irritate you, keep a smile on your face (even if its fake) and repeat yourself until they walk away.

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Small Business Checklist: Business Process Outsourcing | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Negotiate a back-up deal if you can, so if your primary provider falls ill, you have a back-up, or divide the work between two or more service providers to begin with. Anybody who has been in business for 12 month or more should be able to give you at least one or two references. Get a back-up. Pay on time. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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How To Make This Recession Work For Your Small Home Business.

The Small Business Blog

Get better payment terms by negotiation. It’s obviously fine to try and negotiate payment terms, but I think that deliberately paying your bills late is just bad business. They’d do exactly the same to you if they could – so no false sentiments here. Just make sure you have the money when it is time to finally pay.

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Top 5 Basic Advertising Tips

The Small Business Blog

Frank Said on March 21st, 2010 at 9:58 pm Another tip is to align your advertising activity with your public relations activity and if you can, negotiate a review of your product or editorial alongside your advertise campaign. thanks for your advice. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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