Category: Advice

Nestled away in the entrepreneur’s mind, there are four distinct traits of his or her personality that work together to make an entrepreneur successful.

If you want some more ways to bring money into your business, are you using your business blog to its full potential?

Strategist Richard Bosworth facilitates What If Forums for SME owner managed and family run businesses talks about creating a team of stars. In the same way that outperforming Olympic teams – in which both the leading and supporting players are synchronised and focused on the end goal – businesses who create High Performance Units (HPUs) are more likely to emerge triumphant in today’s fiercely competitive and turbulent climate.

Social networks; you either love them or you hate them, but no one can argue that they are a great way to communicate with customers, as current figures show over 60 per cent of UK companies have a Facebook page and 44 per cent a Twitter account

In the current economic climate, managing your cash-flow is even more important than usual.

According to recent research, 83 per cent of Brits believe businesses should be aware of their impact on the environment and be doing something about it. So here are 10 tips to get your business started.

Starting up an internet business takes a lot of planning, preparation, research and thought and needs to be a carefully considered decision, it’s a bit like marriage – not something to be rushed in to. Here, Olivier Chameyrat, managing director of Pixmania-PRO.com, one of Europe’s leading online B2B retailers lists his top tips that all budding online entrepreneurs should consider before anything else.

Organisations are looking to exploit the benefits of SEO and SEM investment by creating a relevant, responsive online experience that reflects the individual needs of each customer to drive engagement, loyalty and revenue. But while complex analytics, segmentation and data gathering exercises are undoubtedly improving the way information is presented back to customers based on their activity, customer profiles are still essentially guesswork.

Are you the person that gets all your friends together for dinner? Are you the one that makes work meetings happen? Just one in five people is an ‘initiator’ who takes responsibility for organising the majority of their personal and business meetings, according to new research published today.

With the Olympic Games opening ceremony happening this week many businesses are seeking to exploit the marketing opportunities and coming unstuck, however roadside restaurant chain Little Chef’s great ‘Olympic Breakfast’ has received permission to continue.