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100 Top Business Tips
When we originally sat down to discuss the Top Tips guide for businesses, back on a cold and rainy afternoon in Newcastle (some say just a typical summer’s day), we wanted to give our customers something really useful, something different and most of all something positive.
100 Top Tips guide
Several coffees later we made a decision. Who better to provide business advice than our customers? And so the Moving Forward…100 Top Tips guide was born.
Top tips for businesses, from businesses
[A couple of people have had problems downloading the guide. If you're one of them then please email me I'll send you a copy. Cath - catherine.sheldon@sage.com]
When you download the 100 top tips guide you’ll get a collection of business tips from some of our 800,000 customers. A rather handy reference guide for all types of businesses. Oh, and did I mention it’s free?
And for our customers that sent us their business advice? Well, they get to promote their business, show off their knowledge, and be one of five possible winners of an iPad. Not bad.
Within hours of asking our customers to share their tips they started to pour in. In fact, we received everything from the down right wacky (you know who you are) to the fresh and innovative. Of course, quite a few of our customers said their top tip was to use Sage business software…so thanks for that 
Some of my favourite top business tips
Tip 6
“Invest in your employees. A happy workforce is a productive workforce. Staff need to be kept motivated. Clearly define their role in the business and make them feel part of a team.”
Susan Nisar, Swimshop
Tip 53
“Your existing clients are your best source of referred business, a great Customer Relationship Management system will keep you in touch and strengthen the relationship. Always ask clients for feedback, positive feedback makes a great testimonial and negative feedback should create your action plan.”
Grahame Johnson, Opus Accounting Ltd
Thanks Grahame. Being Sage we’d obviously recommend our CRM software ACT! by Sage for that one.
Tip 95
“Keep spirits up, the best sales people are not the ones who get all the deals, but the people who can pick themselves up and carry on when things fall down.”
James Esom, Patchsave Ltd
A big thank you
Thanks to all our customers and businesses who took part. You’ve helped to create an essential collection of business and advice and tips. We had a great time creating this guide and it was clear from day one that people were more than happy to share their advice with us and others.
Congratulations to our five lucky winners; I’m sure you’re enjoying your new iPads.
Your free business top tips guide
We hope you find our 100 Top Tips guide useful. We’d love to hear from you, so let us know what you think.
Andy Atkinson, Sage Small Business Division
