 | What business are you in and what is your position? Are you an owner or an executive?
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 | Can you provide a link to a site where we can get to know more about you or your business.
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 | What is your story? How did you come to run a business?
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 | What are the most recent changes being carried out in your business, and why?
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 | A business is based on creating relations of trust with clients, suppliers, employees... How do you create and maintain yours?
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 | How do you attract and retain the best talent?
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 | What is “selling” for you? What is your technique? What is the greatest lesson you have learned about selling?
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 | What techniques do you use to obtain customer loyalty?
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 | How do you generate ideas for your business? Are you used to brainstorming with someone?
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 | Do you see in your business a margin to optimize processes and reduce costs? How would you do that?
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 | How does one develop the instinct to detect business opportunities?
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 | Clients do not always know what they want. How do you correctly interpret their comments and requests?
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 | Do you have a well defined future plan, or is it in your head rather than on paper?
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 | What types of promotion or advertising have you tried? Which have worked best?
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 | Are the words "New" and "Free" magic in your sector?
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 | What role does technology play in your business? Do you believe that you are where you need to be technologically speaking?
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 | How do you make use of the Internet? Have you already tried all the possibilities that the Net can offer you?
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 | What opinion do you have of the tax system your business operates under?
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 | What is the competition like? Have you have learned things from them?
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 | What are your criteria for buying insurance? What has been your experience with this?
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 | What do you expect of your bank? Does it respond to your needs?
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 | At times it is necessary to take on debt to get ahead. How do you distinguish between good and bad debt?
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 | How indispensable are you? Would your business survive if took you a year’s sabbatical?
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 | Which decisions turn out better: the immediate, visceral ones, or the ones reached after mulling the matter over for a few days?
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 | If you wrote a book about everything you have learned doing business, what would the title be?
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 | What is your advice for surviving the economic crisis?
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