Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
Your company’s next great idea could come from anyone — an employee, a customer, or even a stranger. Everyone involved in your small business helps you drive innovation. They also create chaos. But, with so much input, how do you make sure the best ideas don’t get lost in the shuffle?
Forget about your business idea–most of them don’t pan out anyway. Here’s what it really takes to succeed.
I recently noticed a fellow professional speaker post on his Facebook page that a potential client had told him that the fee he wanted to charge them to speak was ‘too expensive’. He went on to say he was a bit surprised, as he doesn’t normally get that kind of reaction.
With the Christmas break nearly upon us, I’m finding a lot of people asking me: “Andy, how can I use the Christmas break productively, so that I can get ahead of my competition and set myself up for a great 2013?”
Those items at the bottom of the list? You know you’ll never get to them, so stop trying–there’s a better way to get more done.
A few too many drinks at the office Christmas party could cost you more than your dignity, says Alan Cook, director at the Agenci, specialists in information security and business continuity.
The year is almost over. Great leaders know how to tie up loose ends and make sure their employees are happy and ready to move forward.
Every entrepreneur and business owner wants their company to grow, and grow fast. But you should remember he line “be careful what you wish for.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
