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Avanta Exchange Employees vote three serviced office companies best place to work

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FreshBusinessThinking.com Surviving Success: A Crisis Management Guide For Startups

Launching a startup, even when you build it upon a carefully considered business model and pay close attention to it's costs, must be seen as running a gauntlet. You and your intrepid team set out to create a profitable enterprise and commit to taking on whatever challenges you find along the way. Your personal and financial success is cruelly measured by just how quickly you can cope with an ever changing set of business requirements. With that as a training ground, it is odd that the biggest… Continue

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FreshBusinessThinking.com Top Tips To Promote Your Business Locally

The recession has meant that many businesses are looking for alternative ways to promote their products. By providing consumers with better propositions, communicated through more direct channels, they hope to gain better cut-through than would be achieved through traditional routes i.e. in-paper advertising.

It is common business practice to exchange coupons and undertake joint mailings with other noncompeting local businesses which serve the same clientele but the variet… Continue

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Avanta Exchange Allianz Commercial offers legal service to SME customers

Allianz Commercial offers legal service to SME customers

08 March 2010

Allianz Commercial offers a complementary service to its SME policyholders. The additional service, provided in conjunction with Allianz Legal Protection, will assist SME policyholders with their potential contract and professional negligence disputes.

Businesses will have access a free legal assessment of their dispute… Continue

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FreshBusinessThinking.com Real-time Business Collaboration - Driving Competitive Edge For SMEs

Time is at a premium for most SMEs in today's highly competitive business environment. Historically, senior management has struggled to stay in touch with everything going on within their organisation. They and their employees constantly miss out on critical internal information because existing collaboration tools are expensive and complicated and put the onus on users to do most of the work seaching out information relevant to their daily needs. Today, however, with the advent of [b]Chatter[/… Continue

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FreshBusinessThinking.com Top Tips For Maximising Your Chances Of Winning An Award


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If you are proud of your excellent service, products or people and want to let others know, try these tips on how to go about researching, and entering relevant awards that you have a good chance of being shortlisted for.


First, let's outline the benefits:

. An award endorses your company's service or product offering, within your key business/industry community, keeps you ahead of your competitors and helps boost sales . Everyone loves

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Anna Norman-Butler Avanta really is a great place to work

Avanta really is a great place to work
Avanta Managed Offices has proven to be a great place to work according to the Sunday Times newspaper, which has ranked the company as one of the… Continue

Added by Anna Norman-Butler on March 5, 2010 at 6:58pm — No Comments

FreshBusinessThinking.com Alternative Marketing Solutions For Small To Medium Businesses

The recession has meant that many businesses are looking for alternative ways to promote their products. By providing consumers with better propositions, communicated through more direct channels, they hope to gain better cut-through than would be achieved through traditional routes i.e. in-paper advertising. It is common business practice to exchange coupons and undertake joint mailings with other noncompeting local businesses which serve the same clientele but the variety of promotional optio… Continue

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FreshBusinessThinking.com How Businesses Can Convert Website Traffic To Sales

Q - How do I convert web traffic to sales? The internet has become a must for growing your business. Rather than looking up a company in the Yellow Pages or local business directory, consumers and other businesses will simply search online to find the service they need. So, with millions of people searching online, all you need is a website that is search engine friendly and the sales will flood in, right? Not quite, it's important to acknowledge that being optimised for search engi… Continue

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FreshBusinessThinking.com Modernising Your PR And Marketing

The fragmentation of media, rise of social networks and increasingly savvy purchasers have conspired to challenge the established approaches to PR and marketing. You only need to look at each generation’s attitude to print to appreciate how quickly media is fragmenting. Print-to-online My grandfather will almost certainly be the last person in my family to subscribe to a morning and an evening newspaper everyday. My parents read the local paper in the evening and like me the we… Continue

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FreshBusinessThinking.com Top PR Trends To Watch In 2010

PRs must learn new skills to measure up to the challenge of multi-channel PR Until a few years ago, it arguably made sense to think in terms of online PR v traditional print and broadcast media. But in 2010, that dichotomy is well and truly over. Call it ‘integrated’, ‘multi-channel’ o r even ‘PR 2.0’, the plain truth is, if you want to get maximum exposure for your brand, you need to consider every possible channel to get your story out. Today’s media ecosystem is far more complex and… Continue

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FreshBusinessThinking.com How To Attract Publicity At No Cost

Compared with advertising, getting media coverage with a press release has practically no impact on your bottom line. The only costs associated with press releases are printing and mailing. And if you’re using electronic distribution like email, you can take mailing costs out of the equation.

Both PR Web and PR Newswire services help distribute press releases. PR Web emails press releases daily to between 60,000 and 100,000 global contact points. Journalists, analysts, freelance… Continue

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FreshBusinessThinking.com How To Boost Your Website Traffic Fast

Generating online traffic (visitors) and in turn exposure for the products you’ve chosen to promote is a challenge. However, this guide will enable you to begin to generate targeted visitors and potential customers immediately. Use Forums and Message Boards An outstanding way to advertise your own website and your top affiliate/referral links is by participating in online message boards and forums, responding to posts and writing your own posts. Most boards don’t allow blatant adverti… Continue

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Avanta Exchange 9 Tips for Effective Meetings

Very nice article from Productivity 501 on running an effective meeting.


Original article can be found here http://bit.ly/afZoZ6



Meetings can be one of the biggest time drains for you as an individual and for a business.

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FreshBusinessThinking.com How To Develop Negotiation Skills

People often ask me: “Mike, please tell us everything you know about negotiation”. “Easy!” I say. I get out my trusty Beermat and write down the following: 1. Take the client down the pub 2. Say to them: “Please give me the contents of your wallet!” 3. Run away as fast as possible All right, I confess. I’m totally useless at negotiation. Purveyors of sexy gadgets rub their hands with glee when they see me coming. I’ll buy anything. And the more the salesperson talks at me, the m… Continue

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FreshBusinessThinking.com How To Build A Marketing Strategy

To many people, marketing is a bit of a mystery: corporates do it well, usually, but it costs millions. Smaller businesses often dip a toe into marketing and get precious little in return: pretty brochures, clever ads but not much extra business. Yet the thought lingers on – marketing is important; out there someone else is getting it right… There are many ways of looking at marketing: back in the sixties, Neil Borden came up with the term ‘marketing mix’, which meant all the different marke… Continue

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Anna Norman-Butler Third City of London business centre for Avanta

Following resurgence in demand for high quality serviced office space in the capital, Avanta has recently exchanged contracts to open a new business centre at One Fetter Lane, London EC4.This will bring the number of Avanta business centres in central London

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Added by Anna Norman-Butler on March 1, 2010 at 6:58pm — No Comments

FreshBusinessThinking.com Marketing's Critical Dual Role: Acquiring Customers & Keeping Customers

Most new businesses work very hard to acquire new customers. They carefully identify their target markets, place thoughtfully considered advertisements in magazines, invest in trade shows and send out bulk mail. Online they develop attractive websites, create, test and deploy "more information" registration forms, run ads in search engines and publish SEO press releases. Those who sell products through distributors and/or resellers carefully choose their partners to ensure their products… Continue

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FreshBusinessThinking.com Advancing The Science Of Customer Experience Management

Identifying “Markers” – Early Location Warning Signs of Promoters Versus Detractors Social networking sites are no longer the preserve of the tech-savvy teenager. Aside from retailers launching their own networking sites, the existence of pervasive, well established external sites brings both opportunities and challenges for retailers. Despite usage becoming more commonplace, most businesses in general, and multi-unit “bricks and mortar” retail enterprises in particular, are strug… Continue

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FreshBusinessThinking.com Take On An Apprentice And Reap The Benefits

As Managing Director of a medium-sized business, that has been trading continuously since 1877, I'm always happy to share advice for new businesses and employers. Berthon Boat Company Ltd is largely a service based company in the marine sector, and from time to time we still build limited production advanced technology high quality motor boats. Berthon is based in the South East, with a total employee count of approximately 125, including about 22 apprentices. In my experience, businesses can't… Continue

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