Moving office can be a costly and stressful time for any business. Aside from the physical upheaval and practical challenges of relocating, any extended interruption to daily operations impacts productivity and adversely affects your bottom line.
Category: Advice
Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
How to get the best from a product demo
Product demos are like sales presentations on steroids. Here’s how to do them well.
Motivating people for business success
Motivated people will deliver. If you are managing a business or team, it is your job to help achieve that motivation.
Directors warned about taking early dividends
Company directors who take a proportion of their salaries as dividends could be building up a significant liability if things do not go according to plan, warns insolvency experts Cranfield Business Recovery.
Top tips for a smooth maternity leave
Yes, Kate has finally had her Prince, and you would suspect the way the Press is carrying on that he was the only baby in the world. But, strangely enough, he isn’t.
Five ways to foster innovation using Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry is an approach to organisational change and development that helps teams or organisations generate both positive energy and innovative ideas for change.
4 Top Tips to keeping your customers
If your doing something wrong your customers may leave you, heres how to stop that from happening.
Top 5 tips for small businesses to take advantage of online services
These days there are so many online tools and services for small businesses and entrepreneurs out there it can be confusing and hard to know where to turn. In this article Elance’s UK country manager Hayley Conick examines which tools should be top of your list to help you run and grow your business.
5 Top Tips for the Network Administrator’s Holiday Checklist
In a world of remote access and 24×7 email availability, summer holidays have changed. For the vast majority of network administrators, taking time off can be a challenge, especially for those working in a small enterprise.
Redundancy: My top tips for employers
In the midst of government changes to redundancy terms for employers, here are my top tips for business owners who find themselves in the dreaded position of having to to cut numbers.
How to keep on the right redundancy road
Have you ever had to downsize your organisation through redundancies? Was it for more than 20 people at a time? Were those 20 at one of your sites or spread across many? Well, until recently that final question was critical in terms of whether you had to collectively consult.
Customer service – everybody needs to be involved. It’s a culture thing
When considering customer service, you immediately think ‘make/keep the customers happy’ but many do not realise that great customer service isn’t just the product of sales assistants being helpful or having brilliant telephone etiquette. There is in fact a lot more behind it.
Retention vs Recruitment in Recessionary times
Recruiting and retaining staff are major milestones in the life of any small business, not to mention a legal minefield and major financial commitment.
How to best motivate your remote workforce
According to a recent survey, more than three quarters of SMEs use freelancers at least once a year. While, 78 per cent of SME owners have worked with at least one team member they’ve never met, and one-in-seven actually have an entire team they’ve never met.
A Guide To Getting Analytics Right For Your Organisation
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