Small firms: How to win customers
How to most effectively attract customers is one of the key challenges facing any new company.
As a BBC panel of successful entrepreneurs continue to answer your questions on setting up and running small firms, the issue of how best to secure new customers is explored below by two panelists.
Meanwhile, another panel member looks at when is the right time for someone to give up their day job, and commit completely to their business idea.
The panel members include Julie Meyer , the boss of London-based investment fund Ariadne Capital; Ian Livingstone , life president of computer games business Eidos; and Tom Ryan , founder of Smashburger, one of the fastest growing companies in the US.
Joining them are Dieter Burmester , founder of luxury German hi-fi company Burmester; Ron Mahabir , co-founder of Singapore-based Asia Cleantech Capital, which invests
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