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   <description>UMACS Business Solutions blog keeps your business up to date with the latest tips, tricks, ideas and methodologies to keep your business moving forward. 

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   <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:37:09 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The business growth plan is a great tool for testing exponential business growth</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/business-growth-plan.html</link>
    <description>The business growth plan consists of a series of &quot;what if scenarios&quot; that can show you how to grow your business with incremental improvement is certain areas. A great planning tool for any business!</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:37:09 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>sales prospecting and prospecting tips</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/prospecting-ebook-pitch-cb.html</link>
    <description>Create More New Business Opportunities with Successful and Proven Prospecting Methods</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:51:15 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Small Business Tips for you the business owner, check out these great tools now!</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/small-business-tips.html</link>
    <description>Do you want some great small business tips to help you grow your business? Perform some what if scenarios on your business to position the business for exponential growth. Maximise your sales!</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:42:41 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Having a Business Growth Plan is Essential to the Success of Your Small Business</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/business_growth_plan.html</link>
    <description>This is a business growth plan for all small to medium business operators. This complete guide to small business growth teaches you to find, sell to and retain more customers using practical methods.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:35:31 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The UMACS Business Zone is a monthly newsletter that helps small businesses grow</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/umacs-business-zone.html</link>
    <description>Subscribe to the UMACS Business Zone, a monthly newsletter for small business operators. Here you will find tips, templates and tools that will help you grow and market your business effectively</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:54:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Run Rates are an Effective Method of Tracking your Sales and Margins</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/run-rates.html</link>
    <description>Keep track of your sales and margins with run rates, complete with instructions on how to use this tool, it tell you exactly what the new targets are to acheive budget, stay focused with run rates.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 23:54:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Hourly Rate Calculator - An Essential Tool to Calculate your Charge Out Rates</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/hourly-rate-calculator.html</link>
    <description>Calculating your charge out rate to cover your overhead and required profit is made simple using the hourly rate calculator. Find out how using practical examples here.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 23:51:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Upload PPT Files</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/darebin.html</link>
    <description>Upload Area for Powerpoints</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 04:51:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Establishing your Marketing Objectives is a Key Component of any Business Plan</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/marketing-objectives.html</link>
    <description>Fail to Grasp What your Marketing Objectives are? Check Out How to Develop Your Marketing Objectives and More Areas of Your Business Plan Here at UMACS Business Solutions.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 04:05:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Establishing Purchasing Objectives is a Key Component of any Manufacturing Plan</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/purchasing-objectives.html</link>
    <description>Understanding what are your purchasing objectives is crucial for any manufacturing operation, this affects cash flow, asset management and inventory management. Set a purchase plan budget.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:56:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Target Market Defining, Find Out How Here at UMACS Business Solutions </title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/target-market.html</link>
    <description>Defining your target market is one of the most difficult things to do in business. Once you have defined this everthing unfolds in terms of how to market to them! Find out more on how to do this here </description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:52:55 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Selling Tips to Give your Business the Edge Over your Competitors</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/selling-tips.html</link>
    <description>Practical selling tips and suggestions to give you every advantage possible to sell your products and services and stay ahead of the competition at every step.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:42:01 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>eBooks Taster to Help you Achieve More Sales, eBooks for Small Business Growth</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/ebooks-taster.html</link>
    <description>Check out our range of ebooks tasters for small business. Find out how to find more customers and achieve more sales by working smarter not harder.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:21:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Establishing Production Objectives are a Key Component of any Manufacturing Plan</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/production-objectives.html</link>
    <description>Production objectives are critical success factors that should be considered as part of the business planning process</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:02:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Business Objectives, Every Successful Operation has These in Focus at All Times.</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/business-objectives.html</link>
    <description>Find out here how to understand and focus on your business objectives using the SMART principle</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:57:28 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Where to Find UMACS Business Solutions</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/umacs-business-solutions-find-us.html</link>
    <description>Wher to find UMACS Business Solutions</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:36:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Financial objectives are a key part of any any business plan, find out why here </title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/financial-objectives.html</link>
    <description>How to develop financial objectives for your business plan, find out this and more information on the critical financial ratios and success areas for your business.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:31:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Employee Skills Matrix </title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/employee-skills-matrix.html</link>
    <description>This employee skills matrix is a handy tool for assessing your staff </description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:14:28 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Small Business Websites by UMACS Business Solutions, Customised to Your Business</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/small-business-websites.html</link>
    <description>Small business websites are essential if you want your business to have a presence, an image and a market position.This should be a major consideration regardless of what your competitors are doing!</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:35:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Understanding Generations is the Key to Effectively Marketing your Products.</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/understanding-generations.html</link>
    <description>One of the greatest challenges for business today is to properly understanding generations and how to create a demand for our products based on what stimulates the various age groups to buy.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:19:45 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>pricing strategies, pricing strategy, loss leader</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/getting-the-price-right.html</link>
    <description>pricing strategies, pricing strategy, loss leader</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:15:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Market Research for Small Business is essential for Business Focusing &amp; Goals.</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/market-research.html</link>
    <description>Market research is an essential part of your overall marketing plan for your business. From understanding your market, your competitors and defining your target market, find out more here ...</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:53:13 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Vision Mission Strategies should Form Part of your Overall Business Planning</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/vision-mission-strategies.html</link>
    <description>Easy to follow tips on how to develop vision mission strategies for your small business. A clear picture of the required objectives for the business is a must do part of your future success planning.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:12:16 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Training Courses</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/training-courses.html</link>
    <description>Small Business Training</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:02:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Controlling your Labor is Critical to Success in any Service Based Business</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/controlling-your-labor.html</link>
    <description>The key to profitable growth in any labor intensive business is controlling your labor. When you profitably control your labor you control your business destiny, See why with examples here.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:52:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Vision Strategies Plans are all Part of Your Overall Business Planning</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/vision-strategies-plans.html</link>
    <description>Develop small business vision strategies plans, these are essential elements of any business planning exercise. You must envisage what shape your business will be in, in say 3 years time and plan this</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:48:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Small Business Market Positioning</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/market-positioning.html</link>
    <description>Position your  business for maximum advantage, market positioning is important to ensure that your business is perceived much better than your competitors, read why this is so important .</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:26:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>small business profile, business company profile, writing a busness profile</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/business-profile.html</link>
    <description>small business profile, writing a business profile</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:17:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The goal of Viral Marketing is to Maximise the use of Social Media</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/viral-marketing.html</link>
    <description>What is viral marketing, how does it work, and how can you take advantage of this and grow your business using social media?</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:10:58 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Training and Development</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/training-and-development.html</link>
    <description>Developing opportunities for small business through training and development.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:31:47 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Small Business Mentoring can Provide the Shot in The Arm Your Business Needs.</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/small-business-mentoring.html</link>
    <description>Small business mentoring and coaching by UMACS Business Solutions in Melbourne Australia</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:29:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>site map links, useful links, small business links</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/sitemap-general.html</link>
    <description>site map links, useful links, small business links</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:24:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>ebooks business, ebooks small business, ebooks</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/sitemap-ebooks.html</link>
    <description>ebooks business, ebooks small business, ebooks</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:22:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Image Plays a Very Important Role in the Market Positioning of Your Business</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/image.html</link>
    <description>Improving your small business image and your profits</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:07:34 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>site map links, useful links, small business links</title>
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    <description>site map links, useful links, small business links</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:18:04 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales Prospecting  is the KEY to your Business Growth with New Customers</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/sales-prospecting.html</link>
    <description>Want to create new business? Achieve more sales?  Get more customers? But don&#39;t know how? Can you rely on your existing business? THINK AGAIN!  Learn all about effective sales prospecting here!</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:13:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Map your Future Success in a Business Plan, Plan Out Your Future Business Growth</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/map-your-future-success-in-a-business-plan.html</link>
    <description>Map your small business success in a business plan which includes all the essential elements for your business to be successful and have continued growth.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:02:39 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Growing Your Small Business Profitably is the Key to Success, Learn How Here!</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/growing-your-small-business.html</link>
    <description>Tips and ideas on growing your small business, through practical methods and easy to follow guidelines and templates. </description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:55:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Competitiveness and How to Improve this Against Your Competitors is Essential.</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/competitiveness.html</link>
    <description>Great Ideas and ways to improve the competitiveness of your small business operation</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:45:40 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Business Services customised for YOU the Small Business Owner/Operator</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/business-services.html</link>
    <description>Business services including ideas for planning and mentoring for your business operation.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:31:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Why have a Website?</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/why-have-a-website.html</link>
    <description>Self managed small business websites</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:20:21 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>small business training, site map training</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:07:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Establishing Personnel Objectives are Essential for any Human Resources Plan.</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/personnel-objectives.html</link>
    <description>The personnel objectives for any business should reflect the planned growth of the business and the required human resources to manage this growth. </description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:59:10 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Easily Navigate Your Way Around the Business Improvement Pages at UMACS.</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/sitemap-business-improvement.html</link>
    <description>Find out here how to implement the critical areas of business improvement for your business. Ecah page offer precatical advice on improving all areas of your business operation.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:54:09 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Superior Business Solutions - Information, Guides, Examples for Business Growth </title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/index.html</link>
    <description>Looking for some superior business solutions to stay ahead of the rest?  We offer FREE information on how to grow your business, with easy to follow working examples on just how you can do this.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:14:09 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Executive Summary is a Brief Snapshot of Your Business Plan.</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/executive-summary.html</link>
    <description>The executive summary for many people who read business plans, tends to be the focus to get an immediate outline of what the business is all about. Find more about why this is, here ...</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:03:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Business Mentor Programs</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/business-mentor-programs.html</link>
    <description>business mentor programs are much more that just providing advice at &quot;arms length&quot; its rolling up the sleeves and getting involved in the operation!</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:59:40 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>tools for business, web tools, small business tools</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/sitemap-business-tools.html</link>
    <description>tools for business, web tools, small business tools</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:55:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Performance Measurements for Sales</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/performance.html</link>
    <description>Improving your sales performance is vital for the continued success of your business, get some great ideas and examples on how you can acheive this right here.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:54:27 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Break Even Point is an Essential Part of your Business Planning</title>
    <link>http://www.umacs-business-solutions.com/break-even-point.html</link>
    <description>The break even point must be understood to establish the required sales to acheive a  zero (or break even net profit) or to acheive a required amount of net profit. Get this FREE information here.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:50:07 GMT</pubDate>
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