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		<title>Training does NOT make sense&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a bit of a ripe statement coming from a Trainer, isn&#8217;t it? Or is it? If your business back is already up against the wall, to be honest you&#8217;ve left it too late to expect any kind of training to get you through an existing crisis. Know how on Brand, Business, Finance, PR, Promotion, [...]]]></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>Stop the pain THEN find the cure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s my shoulder that&#8217;s giving me aggro and bringing this home to me especially now, but it seems most places I look people are hugely prioritizing stopping the pain over affecting an ultimate cure to their problems. Two months without a decent night&#8217;s sleep and I can sympathise &#8230; Of course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One for the ladies (apart from the freebie: that&#8217;s for all!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FREEBIE The offer of a 15 minute telephone consultation on anything to do with growing your business &#8211; that&#8217;s open to all &#8211; guys and gals: All you do is pay whatever your telecom provider charges you. What&#8217;s becoming abundantly clear is that I was by no means the only one to completely miss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do YOUR customers buy from you?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you really know the answer? Do they buy IT equipment &#038; support? Management consultancy? Marketing services? Accountancy service? Legal advice? Courier service? Web design? Web SEO? Sales training? Sales &#038; marketing communications training? Business coaching? Widgets? Plumbing? Clothes? Shoes? If your customers are buying any of the above from you, you are providing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to spring clean YOUR business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t adjust your set! Regular visitors will notice changes to the look and feel of this site over the coming days. We took a long hard look at the theme and had to admit that what seemed really cool before quite frankly had become dated. And it didn&#8217;t allow us to easily add the exciting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employing young women</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With recruitment issues way at the back of many companies&#8217; minds in the current economy, this may seem like weird timing to raise the issue of the potential &#8216;risk&#8217; involved in employing young women: Will she decide to go off and have babies? If she&#8217;s already a mother, what happens when one of her children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make your website work for you!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading an article this morning that said: &#8220;Many small business owners do not have the complete range of skills required and are forced to learn as they go along.&#8221; Well there&#8217;s a surprise ! It went on to say: &#8220;A recent survey we carried out at Made Simple Group clearly showed that marketing, and specifically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When did you last ask for a referral?</title>
		<link>http://www.smallbusinesstraining.co.uk/marketing/when-did-you-last-ask-for-a-referral</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who do you think will be more predisposed towards you: Someone who doesn&#8217;t &#8220;know you from Adam&#8221; or somebody who has been referred to you by a person they respect? Especially in times of economic uncertainty people will be careful who they spend their money with. So if you think it&#8217;s non-u to ask for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You’ve dived into business… How&#8217;s the water?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the market’s less buoyant and buying on price - now's the time to look at doing one of 2 things and they're not that different]]></description>
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