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Opening Doors & Closing Business Deals Online Social networking sites that emphasize business offer powerful tools for finding new customers, recruiting new employees, generating interest in your business proposition and even finding a new business partner. You can search for new contacts based on their business, location, interests, experience or even their past employment. I have often started dialogue with some people through their blogs and articles. When somebody writes something interesting I often click on t... An Ideal Age For Business What is the ideal age to start in business? In paid employment and especially politics there is definitely ageism at work. Some politicians in the past have had to retire as leader of their parties because they were deemed to be too old to appeal to the voters. Business has no age barriers. When it comes to starting a business your age and experience will stand you in good stead. Many successful businesses are managed by people close to retirement age. Using their exper... Generating Business Through Social Networking Some business owners arrive on social networking sites and immediately start working. They write hundreds of blogs, post many advertisements and start communications with many of the high profile networkers. They build huge networks within a couple of months. After spending two or three months they suddenly start feeling disillusioned. They wonder why nobody has given them any business. After all they have made hundreds of new contacts haven't they? A few then start cri... Protect Your Home Business From Extreme Weather Weather can have a devastating affect on your home business. In the summer of 2007 the UK experienced much higher rainfall than normal. May to July was the wettest 3 months since records began. Around 50,000 houses and 7000 businesses suffered flood damage. As the rain kept coming our flood defenses struggled to cope. Many homes had disruption in their power supply, communications were knocked out and some even had problems with their fresh water supply. Extreme weather... Starting A Smoothie Business Is there room in your town for a Smoothie business? Juice bars are popping up in most towns and cities in the UK. Their offering is healthy, nutritious, easy to make, fun and very tasty! Fruit & vegetable juices definitely beat most other foods having lower calories, higher vitamin and mineral content and are low in fat. They have been recognized as preventing many types of illnesses caused by our fast food / low nutrition diet. Every fruit and vegetable has its own uni... Disadvantages Of An MLM Business Model Most Multi-level Marketing (MLM) business models involve selling to close family, friends & business colleagues and recruiting them in your downline. You pay a small sum of money to join and then make money both from your own sales and the sales of the people that you have recruited. Initially your friends will humour you and take time out to listen but in the longer term they will slowly start to keep their distance or even become downright intolerant of your attempts to ... Christmas Gifts For Business Travellers Does the person special in your life do a lot of traveling? Business travelers have to while away a lot of hours sitting in planes trains and automobiles. They are burdened down with a lot of luggage and often have to while away the hours in waiting areas. Here are some great gift ideas for the traveler in your life: Miniatures - everything & anything, but in a small / miniature size. Perfumes, aftershaves, deodorants & shaving foams all serve to lighten the load for th... Improve Your Business Credit Score Borrow More Money! Small businesses can improve their credit rating by borrowing more money. You heard me right! Borrow money even when your business does not need it and pay it back on time or better still clear the loan early. Bizarrely, if you have never applied for a loan before then this will negatively impact on your credit score. The clever way to improve your credit score is by taking advantage of offers that charge you zero percent interest if you pay by a cert... Internet Banking - Pros And Cons For Your Business Many businesses now use internet banking as they deem it to be even safer than the traditional method. Once suppliers' details have been entered in correctly the payment goes directly to their bank account within 3 working days. Traditional Method With the traditional method you get to deal with real people but there is a lot that can go wrong. The teller might punch in the wrong amount or you might arrive at the wrong time and end up queuing. You might run out of ch... Business Is So Slow - How Do I Create More Sales? When business is slow it's time to make some more sales. One of the easiest ways to do this is to get existing customers to buy more from you. The expense of picking up a new customer far out way the costs of getting a "second sell" from an existing customer. It is funny how much effort businesses put into getting new customers and then forget to follow through. Gather information and build a database of your existing customers. The way your business handles data will ... Business Ideas That You Can Run From A Van Here are some business start up ideas that you can run from a van: Furniture Restorer You will need to do a course on furniture restoration before you start this business. They are widely available at most large colleges and universities. You will also need a garage or workshop to store all your cleaning materials and equipment. Your main task will be to preserve and restore old furniture whilst maintaining their original features. Pest Control You will need to... How To Get Business From Your Email Enquiries Does your business get a lot of email inquiries? You know the type I mean - where all the information you have of the enquirer is their email address. Isn't it frustrating when you reply to the email and hear nothing back? Then you send a follow up email and still nothing! Finally in desperation you send a third email with your best price and nothing… nada… nil response! You finally give up out of sheer frustration. So how is it possible to turn this type of inquiry int... Starting A Business As A Consultant Starting any business can be tough, but a consulting business can be rewarding for an entrepreneur that possesses expertise in a specific niche or area. Before starting any business it is important to understand that a considerable level of effort will be required especially in the start-up stage. What is a consultant? A consultant is someone that provides counsel, advice and assistance to other business owners. He or she must be an expert in their field and posses know... Is Your Business Making You Sick? Our business environment could actually be making us sick. Think about it. We sit in the same chair in the same position for hours at a time. We breathe the same air in and out… in and out… get the idea? On a hot day in summer the heat can be unbearable and if you have air conditioning that just makes things worse, by removing all the moisture from the air. Skipping breakfast and eating on the move whilst answering the phone or on the way to the bank leaves our body in ... Half Of All Franchises Are Owned By Multi-Unit Franchise Operators Multi-unit franchise operators are on the rise. Some buy multiple units in the same brand. A few buy more than one franchise in different but competing brands. Others buy multiple units in totally different sectors. Franchisor Benefits For the franchisor it is highly advantageous to have a successful site operator running more than one unit. Once a franchisee has proven their mettle in one territory chances of success in multiple territories are higher. Franchisors a...