The FSB research, «
Treating Smaller Businesses Like Consumers — Unfair Contract Terms», sheds light on the scale of the problem, suggesting 2.8 million small firms have suffered because of unfair contract terms.
Not exact matches
Small -
business owners looking to buy mobile phones are often
treated more
like consumers than
business professionals with specific
business needs.
You can also go analog here and make
Small Business Saturday an event in your neighborhood by hanging balloons, giving away
treats and pointing customers to other
businesses they might
like.
Because your
business is
small, lenders assume you'll
treat your company finances much
like you do your own.
We are a company built on human interaction with our end user... a
small amount of really good customers that we truly
treat like family rather than trying to be the
business that serves everyone.»
Any
smaller company would go out of
business if it
treated it customers
like TomTom.
To the extent you
treat your church
like a
business, behave less
like a major corporation and more
like a networking group for
small start - ups.
By imposing third - party reporting of expenses, a VAT system reduces tax evasion relative to a self - reported income tax system
like that used in the U.S. where the IRS periodically audits
business expenses, but there is widespread abuse in the area of
business expenses (especially in
small businesses that often
treat what should be considered personal expenses as
business expenses) due to a lack of third - party reporting of
business expenses the way that it has third - party reporting of
business income via 1099 information tax returns.
In my
small unique book «The
small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and
treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a
small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen -
like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep -
like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it
Small business owners tend to pay themselves last, but I recommend that you get in the habit of
treating your retirement contribution
like a monthly bill and pay yourself first.
My money is
treated like little employees, they are all out there in real - estate, invested in
small business start - ups, my education, stocks, etc... and I expect that they earn.
They have reasonable expectations, they
treat employees
like human beings, and, at the end of the day, are the reason you have a
small business in the first place.
The most successful real estate agents
treat being an agent
like they are running their own
small business.