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The changing rules of the game in a small business

When you play Basketball, which game’s rules do you follow? Sounds like a silly question. But do you know that in your small business, you could be playing by the rules that are no longer relevant? You know it when your revenue is stagnant; you feel stagnant. If you are a small business, you have [...]

Employee Retention Is Easier if You Know How to

Not all attrition is bad. Planned attrition is desirable for the growth of your business. I know of a small scale businessman, who after losing a few trained hands did the most desperate thing. He limited his employees’ access to training and product information to make them unattractive to poachers. He effectively stalled the growth [...]

Use LinkedIn to Generate Revenue and Grow Your Small Business

LinkedIn is a good tool. But it’s boring. When was the last time you found something funny in LinkedIn? Yeah. There are articles talking how to use LinkedIn. But most of them are equally boring laundry lists of all LinkedIn can do. Not something that will be useful to you. Some just waste your time. [...]

‘p2w2’ Launches Voice-enabled Online Services Marketplace for the Flat World

Lisle, IL (PRWEB) July 14, 2008 – p2w2 (for PeopleToWorkWith) launched voice-enabled services for its online marketplace services company today. This is the first time that an online market place has introduced voice facilities. With this facility, customers can interact with the service providers directly, giving instructions, feedback, or other information. This online voice facility [...]

p2w2-SBL: 5 Good (Marketing, HR and Other) Websites for a Small Business

Small businesses have different DNA. If you are a small business, you are small, with limited budgets and they have a lot to do. You constantly have this urge to ‘scale up’ – in revenue and people. You have meager resources and employees. And face high risk. So want stuff to work out-of-box and give [...]