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The Product Life Cycle

Welcome back to our marketing mini series. This week we are looking at how understanding and managing the product life cycle can impact your business. If you missed out on other articles in the series you can check them out here: Researching Your Market Seg

April 12th, 2010

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Leadership – a strategic intervention

Leadership training is not just about developing individuals Leadership training should not be seen as just a matter of developing individuals. The most powerful interventions focus simultaneously at the individual, group and organisational levels. The interacti

March 23rd, 2010

Leadership |

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Segmenting Your Market

Welcome to part 2 of our marketing mini-series. If you missed out first installment you can check it out here - Market Research. The most fundamental principle in marketing is knowing who your customers are and what they need. Yet many small business operator

March 15th, 2010

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Local Business Should Get Online

If you are a local business it is most likely that your greatest source of competition is other local businesses. Online marketing is no longer the exclusive domain of the multi-national or big end of town business. Whether you are a service oriented small busi

March 12th, 2010

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Harnessing Opportunities in 2010

Are you ready to harness the opportunities of 2010? As the economy recovers and forecasts indicate, 2010 is shaping up for renewed enthusiasm and confidence. As a business owner or operator perhaps there was an area of your business that became the subject of sc

March 12th, 2010

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Researching Your Market

Many small business owners are frightened by the term market research. Market research is seen as something that a large company does, not a small business. yet nothing is further from the truth. Successful small business operators are constantly analysing

February 5th, 2010

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Business Succession & Exit Planning

Most business owners – and their advisers – know that they should do some planning around what will happen to the business when they decide to step back from it. As we get older and the time frame shortens, the sense of urgency may increase but often it is so

February 5th, 2010

Business Planning |

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Thinking Business – New Business Book

A step by step guide to growing your business... A fantastic resource for business owners and operators that includes the 3 keys to running a successful business - Lead, Lift and Leverage. What you'll learn from this book: * THE most important ingred

February 5th, 2010

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7 Strategies to Generate More Business – Part 2

This week we look at Part 2 of 7 Strategies to Generate More Business. Today we are going to examine 4 strategies that are simple to implement that will generate new business, increase business from your existing client base and build repeat business. Let us r

November 24th, 2009

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Customer Recognition & Satisfaction

How would you react if you got a call from the panel beater a week after having you car repaired just to make sure that everything was OK? You got a call from the pool shop after you purchased chemicals to balance the pH in your pool, just to check that the lev

November 24th, 2009

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