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Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
Teaching your business to run without you
It’s an age old question faced by all women when they decide to start a family. “Can I have kids and still run a successful business?”
Writing to win: 10 tips for writing better online content for your business
The internet is a crowded place for businesses and it keeps getting busier. In 2015 around 4.6 billion pieces of online content were published every day.
4 cost effective ways to improve your digital marketing skills
The pace of change in the digital marketing landscape is phenomenal. In less than 10 years, we’ve seen Internet browsing go from exclusivelu laptop and desktop based to being dominated by handheld mobile devices.
Purchasing a small business and making it work
Buying a business is a significant step for any entrepreneur. You spend all your time tirelessly researching a company to buy, approaching and negotiating with its previous owners to hopefully securing a sale that both parties are happy with.
Crafting kingly content: How to write a better speech
The delivery of your speech, while fundamental, is not the only aspect of speech-making to consider when you’re up on that stage. A strong performance will help you create an immediate buzz, but content is what can transform those thoughtful moments amongst your audience into sustained thought leadership.
Leading leaders – how to be a successful Super Leader
There comes a point for many leaders when they find themselves leading other leaders. This requires a whole new set of skills and ways of operating because we have to guide those leaders and inspire them to deliver results though their teams. That way we become Super Leaders.
Rio 2016 and IP: how to avoid breaking the rules
It has been an impressive summer of sport so far with Wimbledon, the European Football Championships and The Open providing plenty of drama, excitement and mixed emotions to satisfy a broad spectrum of sports fans. Nevertheless, the sporting calendar is yet to reach its climax with the Games of the 31st Olympiad just a couple of weeks away.
Britain’s SMEs bracing to battle an uncertain economic future
After having worked its way back up to some sort of economic stability after the Great Recession of 2009, it would seem that Britain should be optimistic for the economic future of SMEs in the months ahead.
How to spend your daily commute
If you have to travel to work on public transport, you can end up with a fairly sizeable amount of time each day that, if you don’t really use it for anything, is just ‘dead time’.
The 10 commandments that every business owner should follow
Although many people start their own business to get away from rules – the reality is we need them if we’re going to be successful.
5 Minute Marketing Tasks: How to Make the Most of 5 Minutes a Day
Small businesses with limited budgets can really feel the pinch when it comes to digital marketing.
How To Grow The Skills Of Your Staff
It can be difficult to manage a business effectively. As a manager or owner of a company, many employees will look to you for direction, and if you do not give clear guidelines, instructions and expectations, your business will surely encounter problems before long.
5 Steps to a Successful Promotional Campaign
With the Euros 2016 in full swing, and global events like Rio 2016 and Russia 2018 just around the corner, it’s time to ask yourself how your business can take advantage of such valuable marketing platforms. It’s too late to design and execute a campaign at gold medal standard for the Olympics this year, but […]
12 tips to help you overcome your fears and be a better business speaker
Speaking in public – even about the business you love – is a widely held fear. So how do you turn fear into confidence?
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