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		<title>Late payments: How Safe is YOUR Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How vulnerable is your business to late payments and non payments of bills because you don&#8217;t have your own house in order? It&#8217;s bad enough having to chase late payments from those who&#8217;ve received your products or services and are deliberately avoiding contact with you; having to do it because of sloppiness in your own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could YOU Trade or Train YOUR Skills?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What skills do you feel you need most right now? Do you need to learn them or could you buy or barter with someone else? What skills could you offer? I&#8217;m a firm believer that there is a wealth of talent amongst you, our regular visitors and followers and your networks. Some of which we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Top Reasons Small Businesses Fail and Quick Fixes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did some online research over the past couple of hours on the Top 10 Reasons Small Businesses Fail. The first I came up with was information from the Small Business Administration, an American federal government agency with some 2,000 permanent full time staff and a head honcho (called an Administrator) sworn into the post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A gentle puzzle for you!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Riding stormy business seas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A woman had built a successful service business from scratch and enjoyed the lifestyle that went with it – nice house, top of the range car, holidays abroad, dining out, classy clothes, trips to the theatre – she’d earned it all. She had a permanent workforce of fifteen people and about thirty-five part time outworkers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you say something BAD about me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Customer complaints]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often feature customer service here and the importance of getting it right &#8211; never more so than dealing with a customer complaint. Or even preventing a problem turning into a complaint&#8230; so I thought I&#8217;d share this with you&#8230; Background A land line went down here the other day and I was having real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are 12 of you ready to up your game?</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinesstraining.co.uk/marketing/are-12-of-you-ready-to-up-your-game</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you can see by the side bar, we&#8217;ve been concentrating on helping people who are finding themselves out of a job get the best possible perspective on how to handle their predicament and get themselves back earning. So apologies to the thousands of you who visit this site and read our blogs if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoid Business Growing Pains</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinesstraining.co.uk/marketing/delegate-or-learn</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know people who&#8217;ve lost or nearly lost their business. We hear how they&#8217;ve been &#8220;stitched up&#8221; by rogues or, at the very least, let down by incompetents whom they&#8217;ve charged with responsibility for sales, marketing, financial, legal or IT issues and it&#8217;s all gone horribly wrong. So how did they allow this to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How effective are your business meetings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smallbusinesstraining.co.uk/?p=243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post was prompted by a company selling a webinar about meetings; more specifically, how to have effective meetings. It reminded me of one of a series of training videos that were used a generation ago that often used humour to put the main points across. This particular one was &#8220;Meetings Bl****y Meetings!&#8221; and reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Control Costs, Win And Keep Customers</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinesstraining.co.uk/marketing/control-costs-win-and-keep-customers</link>
		<comments>http://www.smallbusinesstraining.co.uk/marketing/control-costs-win-and-keep-customers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smallbusinesstraining.co.uk/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 40% of small firms want more support to survive the recession, according to research by Lloyds TSB Commercial. Two thirds of firms put advice on controlling cost top of the agenda 60% want advice on attracting customers 44% want help on how to keep them So we had a quick look around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your business booming?</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinesstraining.co.uk/marketing/is-your-business-booming</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve said before that your business isn’t your life. Yet if it’s taking up a large part of your waking (and maybe even sleeping) time in this crazy economy, it ought to be contributing to you leading the best life you can. If you wake up every day raring to go about your business that’s [...]]]></description>
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