December 2008
In this issue
►Welcome
►Small-Biz
Mistakes to Correct
►Elevator
Pitches Help Win Customers
►Make
Documents Look Great in Word
►Meet
the Team
►Just
for Laughs
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Welcome
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you’ll see even greater rewards.
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5
Chronic Small-Biz Mistakes To Correct
By Jeff Wuorio
Reprinted with permission from
Microsoft Small Business Center
 To paraphrase Yogi Berra, chronic business mistakes are deja
vu all over again.
Missteps, miscalculations and outright duds are
unfortunate, yet ever-present starters in any small-business
lineup. If nothing else, if it weren't for the battalion of
snafus that lay in wait, every mom and pop kiosk would sport
a bottom line that rivaled the New York Yankees'.
But what can really spell the difference between an
established powerhouse and a perennial cellar dweller are
chronic mistakes — those repeated and overlooked blunders.
Here are five persistent pitfalls that may apply to you
and your business, along with steps to purge them.
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Why
"Elevator Pitches" Help Win Customers
 By David Coursey
Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Small Business Center
If
I asked everyone who works at your company to tell me about the
business, how many different answers do you think I'd hear? I'm
willing to bet I'd hear about as many different stories as you have
employees.
That's unfortunate
because your employees could be your best public relations machine.
They are out in the community, meeting potential customers,
suppliers and others who can impact your business — both for better
and worse. Why not equip your staff with the information they need
to make a good impression? No business can have too many friends and
your employees are just the people to help make them.
I am not talking about
turning all your employees into salespeople, though I guess, in a
low-pressure way, that's precisely what I am saying. Everyone on
your payroll should be able to provide a short introduction to your
company, ideally geared to the interests of the person that they've
just met. Follow that with an exchange of business cards and you now
have one more person who has a favorable impression of your company
and knows someone who works there. If appropriate, your
employee then passes the contact information along for appropriate
follow-up, potentially turning a chance encounter into a sale.
Read more
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Make Documents Look Great in Word 2007
 With Microsoft Office Word 2007, you
can quickly and easily turn a plain-looking document into one that
looks professionally designed. Use styles to quickly format major
elements in your document, such as titles, subtitles, and headings.
Start with predefined, coordinated designs and then customize to
suit your needs. As you work, you don't need to apply formatting and
then do it again until you have what you want — just point to a
style in the dialog box to see a preview in your document. Not quite
right? Point to a different style and see what it looks like.
Watch the demo to see how easy it is to give a plain document a
professional-looking makeover, and then give it a final polish with
headers and footers and a cover page.
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