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“I hope to God they (small businesses) do go out and borrow money. If this country doesn’t invest in itself we are going to be in a recession…”
Barry Cargill
V.P. Government Relations
Michigan SBA
SmallBusinessNewz.com
www.businessweek.com
Borrow For Your Country
Pamela Kinser works for the Stanislaus County Department of Employment Training.
“When you’re working with the government,” she told me, “you have so many regulations to follow — City, County, State, and Federal. Two years ago, we knew that the Work Force Investment Act was going to come into effect, bringing a whole new set of regulations.
This article is written for anybody who reads, publishes or plans to publish and e-zine or newsletter.
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As you carefully consider the importance of the marketing strategies and approaches you choose in reaching your target audience, what message do you hope to communicate to your potential purchasers and clients? Perhaps you are perplexed as to what approach would be most appropriate to your particular type of business, which is of course understandable. With so many ways and means available to choose from, it’s often perplexing to know which will work best for you.
If you are an affiliate or are thinking of becoming an affiliate in an affiliate program you probably have seen some statistics like these in the affiliate sign-up information:
Business-to-business debt collecting is a different ball game compared to collecting from an individual debtor. Once a business debtor has owed you for quite awhile it’s perfectly OK to take the gloves off and go all in an effort to get the Money. After all, things have reached the point where you wouldn’t do business with that outfit again anyway so you have nothing more to lose! But first, be clear about what your objective is: getting the balance owed to you paid in full. Don’t be willing to accept anything short of that. .
In these unsettled times, it’s the sign of a smart business owner to expect the best but prepare for the worst. What will happen to your business if you are unavailable due to any circumstance? Perhaps you are a Reservist and get called into active duty, for example.
Recently we ran across a company who had an advertisement in a local newspaper. It was a nice full page ad and at the bottom was a web address. Just the day before I was frantically searching the net in every search engine I could think of with no luck for this type of business. I was more than intrigued to pay this site a visit. Upon visiting the site I found a page in which I was supposed to be able to submit a request for an estimate. I spent quite some time explaining & detailing what I wanted & got to the bottom of the form where it said “press submit button to send”. I looked & looked & looked again. No submit button! I spent a good 10 – 15 minutes carefully thinking out what I wanted to say and now I can’t even get it in their hands because of a careless error?
