Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
Are you killing your business? As a business grows, it’s crucial that your actions don’t strangle it. There are seven common mistakes that people make that kill their business. This week I am looking at Mistake 4 – You Haven’t Got Anyone To Bounce Ideas Off.
Being made redundant could be the best thing that ever happened to you, according to Rachel Bridge, The Sunday Times’ enterprise editor and leading business author.
Don’t be the reason your business fails. There are 7 deadly sins that an kill a business. Mistake 3 is “Growing Too Quickly Before Your Model Is Proven”. Here Hilary Briggs explains why this is a problem, how to spot it, and what to do differently.
I’m very lucky, as I’ve always found delegating comes naturally to me. I think it comes from naturally wanting to do the exciting stuff and letting others take the initiative and do the hard graft!
There are seven mistakes that many business owners make – and they can kill your business. Each week Hilary looks at one of these deadly sins and offers some advice to help turn this “wrong” into a “right”. This week “you don’t know what you don’t know”.
Most business people approach a negotiation hoping for a win-win agreement. But even with the best of intentions, they usually fall into the same win-lose patterns that characterize most negotiations.
We have been talking to some of our readers about their experiences of finding the right space for their business, and we realised that it’s not always straightforward or painless. So we spoke to James Friedenthal, Marketing Director of office space providers Workspace and have produced this handy guide as a check list for getting the right business space for you.
When should you consider colocating, and what questions should you ask of your potential colo partner? Craig Denton, director of specialist Next Connex shows how to make the right moves
As a business starts to grow, it’s crucial that your actions don’t strangle it in its infancy. One of the most common mistakes is Doing Too Much Yourself.
This column, number one in a series of seven, looks at this first mistake and offers some advice.
Taking a few simple actions around the office and changing business processes can help cut costs and cut your firm’s environmental impact. We spoke to Martin Dix, managing director of Current Cost, the global provider of energy monitor displays, to give us his top tips for a greener 2011.
You love your work – but you can’t stand the person you work with. It’s a struggle to keep you both from bickering, let alone falling into a full-blown, claws-out argument. But you don’t want to give up your job and murder is clearly out of the question! So what can you do?
I’ve lost count of the amount of times someone has called another person ‘lucky’. And that situation happens just as much in sales, as it does in other aspects of life!
At a time when the number of people starting a business is at a record high the small business publisher Brightword Publishing has launched a Start Up Kit to ease the process of going it alone.
There is a worrying tendency that has developed over the years for a level of ‘being promoted to the level of your incompetence’ to become ever more widespread. We’re taking a look at public and motivational speakers and wondering what qualifies us for the title.
Customer service is a crucial way to differentiate your business and increase its robustness to weather out the current economic uncertainties. Rather than just examining best practice, examine and learn from any examples of poor customer service you experience yourself to stimulate improvements in your own business.
