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Category: Advice
Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
BlackBerry launches Better Business Hub to support SMEs
BlackBerry has launched the Better Business Hub, a new online portal providing small and medium businesses with support and unique insight across multiple business disciplines to help them to do better business.
Budgeting Tips for Freelancers
There are many benefits to freelancing, but there are also many things to be concerned about. One of the most important aspects to successful freelancing is planning a budget. This is essential since you are not receiving a monthly salary cheque anymore.
Keeping your business secure over christmas
If you thought your Christmas tree was cheap this year it may have been one of the hundreds that have been stolen. Just as you and your colleagues are working hard to pay for Christmas so are the criminals.
Why digital strategies fail…
Firstly, let’s be clear, a lot of digital strategies ARE failing. I have had the feeling this was the case for a good couple of years now – that beneath the hype that ‘new media’ constantly generates, a lot of digital initiatives simply weren’t working.
Stop poor performing staff costing your business
Ever feel that dealing with underperforming employees is a huge time problem for your business? You’re not alone. The chances are, you’re spending too much time on employees who don’t deliver. Here are seven tips to help you retake control.
Setting up a pension for the first time
If you are considering setting up a company pension for your business and your people for the first time, you’ve picked a fascinating time to do it, as we’ve now entered one of the most significant periods of change in workplace pensions.
Why nobody reads your blog and how to create content so customers do
The way we consume media has dramatically changed in the last ten years: from smart phones to LinkedIn Today to Facebook and Twitter, we now all have information at our finger tips, instantaneously. This firstly means you and your business can be researched easily (see our article on managing your online reputation) but more importantly presents an opportunity for you to attract people that are looking for the expertise you have, with useful content.
Tips to help you overcome nerves & feel confident when presenting & speaking
Do you feel nervous before presenting? Do the nerves affect you performance? Are they stopping you from doing things or progressing in your career or business? Would you like to start feeling more confident about speaking in public?
5 Top Web Metrics and Tools for Growth Businesses
One of the most important parts of implementing a marketing strategy is being able to analyse your performance – and never has that been more accessible than for activities you do online.
Managing Great Teams: Just How Inspirational Are You?
When we inspire our people we get the very best from them be it in energy, commitment, passion, intelligence and of course results! Being truly inspirational, be it on the sports field, in your community or as importantly in the workplace is an art. Here are five principles that if demonstrated, tend to extract the very best out of people;
Culture Innovation for Your Startup
How to position your business for innovation may not be your top start-up question, but it should be.
Deadly Sins of Writing Your Own Ads
Advertising should always be an investment, giving you more money back in sales than you spent. Avoid these deadly sins if you want to invest wisely.
Tips on How to Choose an Accountant
One of the most important decisions you will make as a business owner is choosing an accountant to help you with your business.
Businesses To Be Named And Shamed Over Fake Reviews
Businesses who write their own glowing reviews are to be named and shamed, a move, which could lead to loss of revenue and irreparable damage.
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