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		<title>The best business is repeat business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Soothill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the main aims when you carry out just about any project as a freelancer is to get repeat business, to ensure you have regular work coming in as time goes on. However, you will find that in a lot of cases repeat business can be hard to find.]]></description>
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		<title>The best British small business ideas announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Soothill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annual Barclays Take One Small Step awards, which aims to identify and nurture outstanding new business ideas, saw over 5,000 entries this year, each showing innovation, diversity and creative flair.]]></description>
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		<title>HMRC cold-calling startups to offer advice, friendly warning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Norris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HMRC staff are to begin calling new businesses to offer advice on how to correctly take care of their bookkeeping and tax obligations. HMRC is referring to this new practise as "telephone education", and businesses will be contacted "at key stages in their lifecycles".]]></description>
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		<title>[Money Monday] Next Apprentice series to have entrepreneurial focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Norris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Sugar has recently unveiled the plans for the next series of his popular reality TV show, and it has a slightly more entrepreneurial theme than previous series. In the past, winners were gifted a high-paying job at one of Alan Sugar's businesses, however the victorious candidate in the next edition will be given the dubious honour of being allowed to start their own business.]]></description>
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		<title>5 tips for graduates going self-employed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent feature in The Guardian ran with the headline: ‘<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/06/graduates-face-tougher-jobs-fight" title="Graduates warned of record 70 applicants for every job">Graduates warned of record 70 applicants for every job</a>’ The next line went: ‘Class of 2010 told to consider flipping burgers or shelf stacking to build skills’.

Was I the only one thinking flipping burgers and shelf stacking is a flippin’ great way to earn part-time income whilst building a business? For all graduates considering self-employment, here are five tips along with stories of those who’ve been there and done it.]]></description>
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		<title>Please call me back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toby Buckle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freelanceadvisor.co.uk/?p=6077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reminded recently how I used to get frustrated by people not coming back to me if I emailed or left a message. Well, that's an understatement. I often used to see it as a personal offence and affront and get wound up if it repeatedly happened. 

Over the years I have learnt to <em>reframe</em> lack of response and see it from another point of view.

Reframing is a really useful NLP technique that helps prevent negative responses, such as losing motivation or creating frustration. Below are some ways to reframe a lack of response from people as well as some practical tips on getting people to respond.]]></description>
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		<title>Winning new business! 6 Simple Rules for Success</title>
		<link>http://www.freelanceadvisor.co.uk/getting-a-job/winning-new-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Fell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winning new business the easy and fun way.  By following <strong>6 simple rules</strong> you can build the freelance life you always dreamed of. Lucky you! You could be getting yourself shed-loads of new business starting from today.

You may to want to earn good money, have long holidays and be your own boss....but all you have to do is win new business. That's the bit where most freelancers get the heebie-geebies. But I promise you can do it and you'll get good at it!]]></description>
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		<title>Five sites for monitoring your brand online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosie Sherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look who&#8217;s talking: Monitoring buzz on the web As a freelance community builder and co-director of TheWerks web-socialite Rosie Sherry offers advice on monitoring your brand and filtering out the noise. Five sites for monitoring your brand online There&#8217;s no denying that the web holds huge amount of information. Most of it irrelevant to you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing yourself as a freelance designer: Six simple tips for your CV and portfolio</title>
		<link>http://www.freelanceadvisor.co.uk/getting-a-job/marketing-yourself-as-a-freelance-designer-six-simple-tips-for-your-cv-and-portfolio/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freelanceadvisor.co.uk/getting-a-job/marketing-yourself-as-a-freelance-designer-six-simple-tips-for-your-cv-and-portfolio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The death of the CV? Are curriculum vitae a thing of the past? Guest blogger Greg Coley, Creative Director of the integrated agency VGroup, gives an insider&#8217;s view on what freelance designers can do to get noticed. Marketing yourself as a freelance designer So you’re a budding young designer straight out of university, a middleweight, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One.. Two.. Three.. SELL!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Fell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked by Phil Green of the MD Hub 100 to present to a MD Hub 250 group about how I took Pure360.com from no customers at all to hundreds. As I thought the following presentation may be useful to all at Freelance Advisor. It shows the early days and a few photo&#8217;s of [...]]]></description>
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