Expanding your business overseas is much simpler than many SME owners realise, Matt Barker of top tech company mpb.com shares his insights.
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Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
How to create a cohesive online-to-offline customer experience
Looking around your local high street you would think that physical shops were phasing out in favour of online shopping. However studies have shown that the internet has assisted the physical purchase of goods instore rather than hindered or deterred it.
The key to achieving a successful company sale
Whether you’re looking to retire, or want to sell your business to start a new investment, there are certain things you need to know about how to successfully get a company value calculation before you start crunching numbers.
How to pick up the pieces when things go wrong in business
‘We’re gonna drop the ball, Michael’, explained Terry Laybourne, restaurateur and CEO of the 21 Hospitality Group. ‘I’ve got 7 restaurants doing a couple of thousand covers a week. It’s not about what we do if it goes wrong it’s what we do when it does go wrong.’
Why understanding the baseline of accountability is essential to business success
Whether you are the CEO of the company, or someone elsewhere on the totem pole, your role matters. There are various functions that each member of the team, as well as your customers, should be able to count on you to provide. Everyone is expected to deliver on their responsibilities and come through on promises and commitments made.
5 business lessons learned from scary movies
Halloween is the perfect time of year to curl up under the blankets on the sofa and watch scary movies under the flickering glow of a creepy pumpkin lantern. But did you know that there are plenty of great business lessons that you can learn from cinema’s spookiest horror films – provided you can muster the courage to look at the screen?
Six must-have ingredients your disaster plan is probably missing
Torches, check. Batteries, check. Spare bottled water in the break room, check. Backup generator, check. Off-site or redundant data centre, check.
The best leaders are constant learners
As Juan Manuel Fangio exited the chicane before the blind Tabac corner in the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, he stomped on the brake. It was a counterintuitive reaction for a racing driver exiting a corner — but one that likely saved his life.
How to structure your presentation for maximum impact
As a business person, chances are you are going to have to do a presentation sooner or later. If the thought of composing something from scratch strikes you with fear, Laura Bruce from Toastmasters International has some advice that will make every presentation you create much simpler to master.
Is your brand in need of a refresh?
Getting your corporate branding right is an essential part of business growth.
Shared Economy: The Solution To London’s High Office Costs
It’s true that square foot costs are skyrocketing in London, reaching record levels this year alone along with other major markets around the world. This appears to be a huge problem for the SME community.
Fears that can arise over running a business
As a result of the employment situation in the UK over recent years, many people have decided to take the plunge and go from being employed to running their own business.
Ridding the myths surrounding redundancies
Redundancy can a difficult subject for both employer and employee, and there are a number of myths surrounding the subject.
Why you should (sometimes) just forget your mistakes
Those that don’t know history are doomed to repeat it? Maybe not, suggests a new study.
Why your staff are resisting change and how to encourage them to embrace it
Resistance to change is seen as a major challenge to organisational initiatives. According to Sarah Lewis M.Sc. C.Psychol, of Appreciating Change, before we think about how to reduce it, we need to understand why people resist change.
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