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Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
6 tips to help you overcome cold calling anxiety
Cold calling is an essential tool for many business owners – and to do it successfully requires good nerves, a thick skin and, of course, an ability to sell.
Improve your company’s financing prospects
For SMEs in any industry or field of operations, finding the right kind of funding deals or arrangements can be critical to future success.
The importance of pre transaction planning
The sale of a business is a process with a timeline.
Five steps to creating a personalisation strategy
Organisations across every market, from retail to travel, gaming to financial services, recognise the increasing importance of giving customers an engaging, relevant online experience. Whether the focus is driving repeat visits or higher transaction values – or both – ensuring the entire customer experience is engaging, relevant and reflects the context of what that individual is doing at the time, is essential.
Top tips for businesses when faced with a cyber-attack
In light of a number of recent high-profile data breach cases, Stephen Attree, managing partner at commercial and private client law firm, MLP Law, discusses what SMEs should do when faced with a cyber-attack.
How to get rich dealing in modern art & vintage furniture
We are a nation of house-buyers, with Brits desperate to put their money in bricks and mortar. However with mortgages harder to come by people are seeking out alternative options. If you have some collateral, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t invest. And I may have a solution for you – dealing in modern art and vintage late twentieth-century furniture.
The hidden value of your intellectual property
David Bloom, founder and CEO of SafeguardiP, the UK’s only dedicated intellectual property insurance broker, explains the importance of protecting your intellectual property.
Actionable user experience advice from the experts
Jeanne Bliss, customer experience pioneer and Simon Ensor, Managing Director of Yellowball, talk about the importance of user experience.
The biggest challenges for future workplace benefits revealed
A new report from employee benefits provider Unum sets out the future trends and challenges affecting the composition of an effective and desirable benefits package.
What SME’s can learn from the release of Bieber’s ‘What do you mean?’
As one of the most successful artists of the modern era, Justin Bieber hasn’t got to the top of the music industry by sheer luck. With his new single ‘What do you mean?’ set to be released today, businesses can learn a thing or two from JB.
How to ease the pain of third-party assessments
Nick Rafferty, Chief Operating Officer for SureCloud, offers advice on how companies can survive multiple assessment requests from third-party partners.
Are you relieved when a staff member goes on holiday?
One of your staff members is on holiday – and you suddenly feel less burdened and are enjoying work more. When you look at your team you notice they appear energised and are getting more stuff done despite being one man down.
Is your UPS actually uninterruptible?
Andy Parfitt of Harland Simon UPS outlines the value of combining a standard UPS with customised, environment specific ruggedised protection.
How headsets can make your business more efficient
Often, working in a professional environment requires one to spend great amounts of time on the telephone. This can be very limiting to the employee, as it leaves them tethered to their desk, either interacting while on a phone call, or waiting for the phone to ring.
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