Straight-talking Networking Business Announces Their Tips On How Businesses Can Survive A Recession

Sept. 17, 2008 - PRLog -- Million Impossible has spoken for many months about the importance of ‘strength in numbers’, ‘people helping people’ and the strength of uniting together and now, never has their been a time where survival skills in business are more vital.  

Last week, Million Impossible commenced an email campaign to ensure that their members received maximum benefit by offering advice and tips on business and how to maximise their membership.

One such email concentrated on the important question; ‘How a small business can survive a Recession?’ and gave their members an idea of how to maximise the tools they already have open to them.

Million Impossible were happy to share their Top Tips with us today. They advised;
“Number 1 is to review the controls surrounding your small business to avoid any financial uncertainty. Number 2 is to increase your advertising budget. Number 3 is to offer aggressive sales and discounts to your customers in order to encourage customer loyalty. Number 4 is to review your business expenses on a daily basis and reduce your costs where appropriate. Number 5 is to focus on providing superior customer service.  Keeping your existing customers is a critical objective during a recession. Number 6 is to brainstorm creative ways to increase revenue and reduce costs everyday.  Make brainstorming a part of your daily routine. Number 7 is to increase the number of hours you work on your business, especially working on your sales and marketing efforts.  And Number 8 is to admit that you can learn from others and take any available advice on offer”.

Heidi Weir, Operations Director of Million Impossible Plc told us “Million Impossible has a way to ensure that our members abide by these top tips by making full use of their membership with us. The power of uniting in such difficult economic times is huge and it is vital that businesses use we all use the tools available to us to the maximum to ensure that we all survive these times. There’s actually nothing new; this is not the first recession to hit; therefore we all must learn from others previous mistakes. To stick to the tips I’d recommend that Number 1. Our members speak to other members to discuss the controls they have in place to avoid financial uncertainty.

Number 2.  www.businesssourcer.com offers 12 months free advertising for your business, all fully subscribed members are able to feature in the Mi Tube section of Million Impossible to promote their business. There are many other ways to make the best of your advertising budget with Million Impossible. A Member Spotlight position offers maximum exposure for businesses; call us to find out more; 0845 468 5000. We also recommend that businesses look at purchasing specific numbers for specific advertising campaigns so they can monitor the amount of calls they receive hence establishing the most effective route of advertising for their business. We can supply LIFETIME numbers from as little as £99+vat. There is never a time to ensure that businesses choose the most effective advertising vehicle and that they receive an adequate return on your advertising investment.

Number 3. All Fully Subscribed Members are entitled to advertise their discounts for 12 months with www.ukentrepreneurassociation.com at no cost to them. It is also recommended that members offering a discount post their offer within the Million Impossible Forums. All fully subscribed members also have the chance to use to Member Database to contact individual members about their discounts on offer.

Number 4. All fully subscribed members to Million Impossible are automatically entitled to become a member of the UK Entrepreneur Association which offers various discount on purchasing costs. Whether it’s the cost of printing or the cost of accountancy, UKEA gives discounts of between 5-30% to all members.

Number 5. Million Impossible gives access to find the help you may require to gain assistance with any customer service issues and also gives members the chance to gain new customers by networking with other members. The strongest form of advertising is word of mouth therefore imagine how much power a network of over 1000 business people could have on your business.

Number 6. Brainstorming can be difficult without new input and inspiration. Million Impossible’s forums are a great way to conduct a brainstorming session and gain much feedback from many different business minds. All fully subscribed members are also able to use the Member Database to contact individual members – this could be a way of finding the types of contacts that may help you on any given matter as it may be their specialty.

Number 7. Million Impossible will enable businesses to help each other and share their knowledge. By uniting we can create strength in numbers and ride the recession storm collectively. By sharing your sales and marketing knowledge, others will share theirs – which means we all learn much quicker. By spending time networking your business through www.millionimpossible.com you will gain new contacts, new customers and new business.

Number 8. We can all learn something from everybody and that’s important to remember. It’s easy to believe that nobody understands more than you when you’ve been in business for many years however, we can all learn and develop and this is the greatest way to improve our business. There is a wealth of knowledge on line through www.millionimpossible.com, therefore it is important that each of our members ask for help. Million Impossible is renowned for it’s raw, straight-talking honesty, we all face struggles and by sharing our challenges we will overcome them.”

The following sites are owned & Operated by Million Impossible Plc:

Visit:  www.millionimpossible.com
Visit: http://www.numbersourcer.com  
Visit: www.businesssourcer.com
Visit: www.ukentrepreneurassociation.com

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