According to the latest statistics, the UK economy is forecast to have grown by 6.6% during July 2020, meaning it will have recovered 88% of its pre-lockdown size.
Category: Advice
Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
Five tips for building business confidence
The current economic climate has thrown drastic obstacles in the way of UK businesses – new research conducted by Nexus Global reveals.
Four tips to enable you to be fully client-fit for 2021
Everyone knows it’s more important than ever to keep building your business during these tough times. What’s absolutely crucial to doing this is ensuring you stay relevant to your existing client base.
Rishi Sunak’s new job support plan: What the changes actually mean
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed the £40bn furlough scheme will end on 31 October, to be replaced by a programme that will subsidise employees for part-time work.
Three simple questions to test your business’s sales commission plan
If you employ salespeople to sell your company’s products and services, it is more than likely that you have a sales commission plan in place.
Relocating to work in the USA? Here’s what you should know
Working in the United States can be a great opportunity. Aside from new experiences, you also get to enjoy a culture that’s both similar yet different at the same time.
Three simple questions to test your business’s organisational design
If you want to evaluate whether or not your business’s organisational design is as effective and efficient as it could be, there are 3 simple questions you should ask yourself.
Why you should treat your employees like customers
It’s an age-old adage that the customer is always right. Everyone has heard someone in management say this at one point in our lives.
Upselling and Cross-Selling: Maximising your business’s revenue and profits
One of the most effective ways to increase your business’s revenue and profits is to upsell and cross-sell to your customers.
Let robots free you up to thrive
One of the essential strategies in business is that you should never reveal all you know.
Craft yourself a new direction
With lockdown forcing many people into furlough or redundancy, the thought of turning a personal passion into a startup has never been more tempting.
Four step test to take your business to the next level post-covid from award winning CEO coach, Peter Ryding
Take ten minutes of your time to read and apply this four step test. You’ll need a piece of paper and a pen. Nice and simple.
Never make forecasts, especially about the future
If you could predict with absolute certainty the exact moment each opportunity in your company’s sales pipeline would convert into an order, wouldn’t life be marvellous.
September furlough changes – what you need to know
For many employers, August would have been the start of a very important period of post-coronavirus economic recovery.
Angela Podmore on when and how to market your business through a recession
With the UK officially in recession, the current financial state of the UK raises many poignant questions surrounding marketing.
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