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• Making your business card
• Business-card expert Kaye Z Marks explains the kind of thought process you should go through when designing your business card.
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• Buying a gift card shop – Jill Stones
• Trouble with wholesalers aside, Jill couldn't be more pleased that she has bought her own business - and only wishes she'd done it earlier.
• See more in: buy a business, gifts, cards, shops, retail, interviews

• 10 tips on how to social network
• Many books have been written about how to social network, but verbal communication expert Phillip Khan-Panni has distilled the best advice into the 10 top tips.
• See more in: communication, speaking, networking, social networking, business cards, contacts, guides

• Redundancy – a blessing in disguise
• The threat of redundancy looms larger than ever, but if you've got corporate experience then you could spend your money on a lucrative management franchise.
• See more in: redundancy, corporate, management, franchise, managing, guides, franchises, franchising, franchisees

• Calculating the potential profit of a franchise
• Advice on how to ascertain the profitabilty of a new franchise business, by Robin Every of Card Connection.
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• Guide to e-payments
• Once viewed with suspicion, paying for things on the internet is now standard practice - and having the facility available is essential for many businesses.
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• Shoppers want high street standards online
• Eight years on from the dotcom crash, a web entrepreneur suggests that e-tailers are still getting things wrong.
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• Might now be a good time to buy a post office?
• If ideas emanating from the government are acted on, the fortunes of the beleagured post office network could be revived.
• See more in: post, post offices, post office, mail, royal mail, buy a business, buying, government, news analysis

• How I started... an online wedding stationery business
• Carly Flanagan, who has entrepreneurialism in the genes and had many business ideas, chose to play it safe by going online.
• See more in: online, internet, stationery, weddings, interviews, start a business, start-ups, startups

• Online retailing: retail versus e-tail
• Retail or e-tail? It is becoming more and more popular to shop online as confidence grows, but is it wise to set up a virtual business?
• See more in: online retail, online, internet, retail, ebusiness, work from home, guides

• Business networking
• Not everyone is comfortable ‘working a room’, says the founder of an online business networking site. But by following certain pointers and gaining experience anyone can network successfully and gain new clients and small-business ideas.
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• Ingvar Kamprad
• He is to be commended for overhauling our previously staid living rooms, but not many married men will thank him for the hell that is: Ikea on a Sunday afternoon.
• See more in: Ingvar Kamprad, Ikea, furniture, profiles

• Warren Buffett
• Having divested himself of a staggering 85% of his fortune, investor extraordinaire Warren Buffett can still afford the odd treat or two.
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• Newsagents
• Assailed and undercut by supermarkets, newsagents nevertheless still perform a crucial function in the community.
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• Post offices
• The post office is a traditional business which is adapting to the modern environment. Are you ready for the challenge?
• See more in: post offices, retail, franchises, buy a franchise, guides

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