Category: Advice

Apprenticeships are well and truly in the spotlight next month, with National Apprenticeship Week (March 9 -13).

Cliff Findlay, MD of strategic brand agency Latitude Solutions looks at the three critical questions company owners and directors need to ask themselves to boost sales in today’s ever-changing, ever more competitive business environment.

LinkedIn has evolved to become one the most important and most prevalent resources for professional networking available. But that’s just what you do know. Here’s what you don’t.

How can you work well when you’re surrounded by the chaos of dysfunction? Here are seven tips that can help you cope like a pro even in the craziest of settings.

At some point you may have to have to take on the difficult task of delivering bad news, particularly in the workplace.

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, this is an ideal time to think about the relationships you have with your customers.

Yes, says Colin Tankard, Managing Director of Digital Pathways, but choose your provider carefully

Running a business can be a bit like being in a long-term relationship. In the beginning, everything you do with your business is exciting and new, and even the supposedly dull things like doing your expenses are fun.

Whether you’re selling to a market of ten or ten million, one of the most effective ways to learn how to improve your marketing is to talk with a single person and sell something to them.

Your kitchen table might have been where your venture first spread its wings, but you can’t stay there forever. Whilst many successful businesses start from home, for the majority of startup owners, the time comes when they have to let their businesses fly by moving into a proper office space.

Using Facebook, Twitter & other digital platforms to reach your target audience

There are events and circumstances that make us feel happy and appreciated. But unfortunately there are also many that kill our motivation.

Price negotiations are all about gathering leverage, long before you actually deal.

With the sudden cold snap last week, many employers may have found themselves without some of their staff, or a few of them coming in late – something that those in the North of England may well have been experiencing for weeks!