When the going gets tough, clients are for spoiling: entrepreneurial companies, a survey suggests, are changing their tactics as they battle through a time of tighter profits
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Australian entrepreneurs are focusing more closely on customers as business conditions become more challenging, according to a survey of 212 firms with turnover of between A$1 million and A$10 million a year. There is particularly strong competition in the small business sector.
Publication Name: Business Review Weekly
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0727-758X
Year: 2000
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Home-business wrecker
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Australian restrictions on running businesses at home are discussed, with focus on the large numbers of businesses involved and the actions taken against them by local councils.
Publication Name: Business Review Weekly
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0727-758X
Year: 2000
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