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Business

10 Reasons Retail Stores Should Use Professional Commercial Cleaning Services

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Jewellery

For anyone who owns or manages a retail store, the list of ways you can try to motivate your staff and to create the best possible shopping experiences for customers is a long one.

In many cases, retailers often try to overcomplicate this and lose sight of the fact that, often, the simpler the solution, the more effective it will be.

This certainly applies when it comes to the cleanliness of a retail store. Customers may overlook higher prices, or goods that do not meet their expectations exactly and still purchase if a store is welcoming, clean, and presentable.

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Business

5 Tips For Marketing To Your Strengths

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Online Marketing

Online marketing for law firms and lawyers has become something of a topic of discussion among marketing consultants in recent years.

Law firm marketing can be quite expensive, and this often prevents small or start-up firms from making the most of their marketing budgets.

Slinky Digital advise that instead of throwing money at digital marketing blindly, you should think carefully to make sure that you are getting the most value out of your efforts.

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Business

How to Make Your Bed and Breakfast Business More User Friendly

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Bed and Breakfast Business

Providing breakfast in the garden is a unique way to make your B&B more user-friendly.

Outside furniture in a nook amongst the garden greenery is an ideal place to serve breakfast on a warm summer day.

Many people start up a bed & breakfast accommodation business when they have a nice home with plenty of spare bedrooms.  They get a website designed to show off their property.

The smart ones will then optimise their website’s SEO to improve its ranking on Google when potential guests search for accommodation online.

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Business

Nets and Their Many Uses

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If you were to ask 100 people to name a type of net, given that recently we seem to be living much of our lives online, we are sure a large percentage would say the internet!

Joking aside, it is likely that even if they were told we meant the type of nets you can get from specialist netting suppliers, many would struggle to go beyond ‘fishing’, and we dare say some might even say ‘curtains’.

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Business

What Should I Look For When Choosing A Bookkeeper For My Business?

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Choosing A Bookkeeper

If you run a medium sized business with a few employees, then at some point you will probably need to employ a specialised bookkeeper. It can be hard to find someone with relevant book keeping experience, especially if you don’t have a lot of work or if you can’t afford to pay high wages.

However, it is very important to be selective when it comes to choosing the right bookkeeper as well as financial advisor for your business. After all, they will end up being in charge of everything from payments to other staff members to keeping records of business income and expenses. Their records will essentially form the basis for your tax returns, which means that a bad bookkeeper can lead to a lot of problems with the Australian Tax Office (ATO). Consider the following things when looking for a new bookkeeper:

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Business

Get Your Struggling Business Back On Track With Financial Planning

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Financial Planning

Trying to save a struggling business can be a very draining process. This is especially true if you know your a have proven product and a market for it but just can’t seem to catch a break. Employing the services of a financial planner might prove the kiss of life that your business needs.

One of the most common reasons for a business to struggle is lack of a roadmap or a plan and this is especially true if there is no financial planning in place. With no financial plan, revenues seem too infrequent, bills come too often, cash flow is limited, and the business seems to be in constant state of playing catch up.

It is tragic when any business fails but it is especially so, when a viable business with a great product goes to the wall, not because they have no customers, but because their finances are in disarray. It could be so much different with a financial planner in place, to assess, advise on and structure the business’s finances in such a way that rather than struggling, the business thrives.

So, what can a financial planner do for your struggling business?

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