Tag Archives: financial performance

How Small Businesses Can Determine Their Financial Value

Let’s say that you owned a gift shop, a restaurant, or a clothing store for five years. Wouldn’t you WANT to know what the financial value of your business is? Of course, you would. But most small business owners have no … Continue reading

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Daily Deal Promotions Not Working for Small Retailers

As we’ve written about before, daily deal sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial often do not achieve the intended results for retailers — namely, to offer a deeply-discounted deal through a Web site coupon that gets people to visit a … Continue reading

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Best Buy Digs Deeper into Price Discounting

As we’ve reported before, Best Buy is in a battle for its future. As such, the chain’s decision to be more aggressive with its holiday price-matching strategy is a tricky maneuver — and it will be tough on profit margins since … Continue reading

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