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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Make sure you have a separate phone number that applicants can leave messages on without disrupting your workday. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved.

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Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk by Stefan Töpfer on May 19, 2010 While we all hope to make our customers 100% happy all of the time, and this must of course be what we strive for, there will be occasions where a customer is less than happy with the service you have provided.

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MAY 13, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk It is difficult to say but in small business we can learn a lot abut the importance of public relations through this story. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Health care organizations get compared by consumers to their auto insurance company, their bank and their cell phone companies. A customer’s last memory of service is rarely another organization of your type. Can they easily get a human on the phone if they need one? Can your client look at its transactions online?

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JUNE 20, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Try to learn a bit about the industry that your prospective business customer works in so you don’t look out of your depth. If only more people would learn the value in such information. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk

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FEBRUARY 2, 2008

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Now you can learn what went wrong and understand your business better, it will force you to rethink and face facts. you must also start thinking about your finances to be able to support your business. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Learn about how your company structure affects pay. do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it!

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JANUARY 21, 2008

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk The fact that there are plenty of highly profitable companies, with for instance bad customer service, does not mean they are not loosing customers. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Thanks for your good points.

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They can listen to phone calls. They know how they’re doing with their service level goals, their attendance, what other types of skill set goals they have. They’ve learned the ones that they want and they just want to answer the phones on a day–to–day basis. So they have manageable team sizes. Rob: Exactly.

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JULY 13, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk It might take time, but you will learn a great deal about how to, and how not to, do things! Networking not only allows you to meet potential clients but you will also learn valuable lessons from people who are more experienced in the business world.

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MARCH 14, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Learn everything you can about your competition, their products and how they advertise. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk If you are no longer personally growing and learning in your role it can cause your business to stagnate. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk If an area such as accounting is your weakness, rather than wasting time learning the skill it may be more cost-effective and time efficient to outsource the service. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk You might be surprised how much you can learn about your people and your business! when I was managing people I learned fast that setting an example got the most response and number 4 helped keep people fired up. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Although he never finished high school, Scudamore loves nothing more than learning. Within his business he has established what he calls a Mentor Board of Advisors, a group of people he turns to for advice and learning. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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MARCH 2, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Many small businesses struggle to find finance, especially with the financial climate being as decidedly frosty as it is at present. Jp14 Said on March 5th, 2010 at 10:36 pm Another common thing is to keep learning. Not an excuse not to succeed.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Not only that, you have someone that is learning the latest and greatest tech practices. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Thanks for the list!

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MAY 20, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk When you begin employing staff you need to quickly learn how to not only manage them, but also how to help them achieve their best. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Cash-flow – compare your cash-flow fore-cast with the actual numbers on a regular basis and learn from it, it’s not about being spot on, but about knowing what happened so you can control it. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk

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JULY 20, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk As I have mentioned previously , I am looking to help small businesses to hold conversations, engage with each other and learn from what is happening in the big business world. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk No large retailer can be all things to all people, and there are always going to be segments of the population whose needs for particular products and/or services are going unmet. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player.

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JULY 27, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk For example, if you learn about products that are doing well in other countries then you may be able to adapt them for sale here if no-one else is doing it. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Lessons from recession will help SMEs’ future roadmap courage and… : Learning lessons from recession important for future upswing SMEs should graduate from growth by default. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk I look forward to reading your pitches, and learning more about your small businesses! OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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JUNE 29, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk The only issue that comes up is that just like with traditional hardware and software… there is always a learning curve and employee’s often run into tech problems that they either try to solve themselves… or ask their neighbor to help out with.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Entrepreneurs benefit from mentors : Starting a new business involves a steep learning curve, but thanks to a local mentoring program, owners of fledgling Sask atoon businesses can call on the experience of established entrepreneurs.

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MARCH 20, 2008

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk What have I learned yesterday? Quality, customer service and a niche market, what could possibly go wrong. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved.

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JANUARY 13, 2008

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk But saying that, we are still learning and growing. I have learned a lot just from the info posted here! OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk I came across one company from Canada which took SEO optimisation into their own hands and learned through experience and extensive testing a few proven ways to boost Google’s rankings of your website. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk You learn to enjoy that and understand that they are doing that because they are hurting – after all we are destroying their business model, which made them all very much money. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it! External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk

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APRIL 16, 2008

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk If you consider the skills potential of parents, if each parent would only contribute one hour on average per week to their learned professions. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk

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MARCH 30, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Another tip I have is to learn to say ‘no’ Too many people especially in this economic downturn are too afraid to say no to tasks or turn down work if they are a freelancer. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Mel @ Make Rain Said on July 31st, 2009 at 10:55 am Wow this is great to know going to have a look at it as I am busy learning how to use pastel, maybe this is something that will come in handy and maybe a little easier to use. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk At the same time business failure is far less an issue, as the risk associated with these ventures is very small, with the right mental attitude of the entrepreneur towards failure, the learning effect of a failure can be enormous.

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APRIL 1, 2008

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Although this is a competitive market, if you are talented and customer focused enough then you can become successful. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved.

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Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk By discussing these issues everybody in the company knows what is going on, “em-powering&# them to understand my vision and decisions, while at the same time giving me the opportunity to learn where my vision for my business has not made it to my staff.

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