Category: Advice

BM Columnist and Internet Marketing expert Maureen Wright, MD of Midland Web Solutions, explains what domain names are, how they work and whether your business needs to take any notice of all the new domain names that are currently flooding the market…

Ever since its inception, the use of email for business communication has received unprecedented support from all sectors. It fast became the primary form of contact for many businesses – a fact which remains true to this day – but the secret behind its success was simple.

Some of the qualities that make you an effective entrepreneur are the same things that make you a tough boss to tolerate.

Executives who combine work and family emphasise the importance of defining success for themselves.

One thing seems true in both life and business – all living things must continue to grow or they die.

Design expert and MD of Derbyshire-based Matchstick Design Laura Faulkner explains what you need to know if you want to rebrand your business…

We rarely think about whether presentations are the best way to express our ideas; we just blindly create and deliver them.

We all have great ideas. And we often need the help of others to let them shine. But getting people to support our brainchild is easier said than done.

Lara Morgan, who famously took all her staff to Barbados to celebrate Pacific Direct’s first £1million profit, talks to Business Matters about the importance of getting your recruitment process right.

Lara Morgan, who famously took all her staff to Barbados to celebrate Pacific Direct’s first £1million profit, talks to Business Matters about the importance of people in your company.

Are leaders born or made? When posed to executives or HR professionals, the vast majority say that leaders are made; that is, leadership is something one can learn. Yet researchers have found traits, such as extraversion and intelligence, which differentiate leaders from others.

Every entrepreneur knows that happy customers are the very definition of success, and most will talk a good game about just how much they care about their customers.

One of the greatest moments in anyone businessperson’s life is when that ‘million dollar’ idea strikes – usually when it’s least expected.

Focus on a few core components of leadership and you can take your company to new heights.

We often talk to SMEs who have business websites but don’t really see the benefit in them – perhaps they don’t get much traffic to the site or they don’t get many enquiries from it.