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Category: In Business
Advice on growing your small and medium sized business, SME, in the UK. Hiring and managing staff and finance plus marketing all on one website
6 ways to prevent money laundering
Financial professionals need to ensure they’re equipped to spot signs of money laundering within their company, as the European Commission continues to introduce tough new laws.
PPC for Business
Believe it or not, it has been 20 years since pay-per-click was first introduced to our screens, which, according to research, was developed by online directory site, Planet Oasis. Fast forwards to 2016 – PPC ads are now clicked by 67% of users for every search term, and Google made in excess of 67 billion dollars in ad revenue during 2015 alone.
Review: Fraser Doherty 48 Hour Start-Up
The expectations that I had for this book were very much confounded. I had merely imagined it would include repetitive lectures, constant pep talks and obvious, boring guidelines in regards to starting your own business – how wrong was I?
Five principles to achieve excellence in customer experience
Nearly every business stresses its “commitment to unrivalled customer service”, but many fail woefully when it comes to delivering on their promise – with horror stories abounding across wide-ranging industries.
How businesses can avoid running out of cash
There are sophisticated reasons for the failure of every business, but it ultimately (with some rare and notable exceptions) boils down to one thing: running out of money.
Review: The Cheat Code
Brian Wong tells us the secret of how to make progress faster than everyone else using his “Cheats”. As he has raised over $24 million in venture capital to start his own company by the age of 25 I’m willing to believe him.
6 elements that make a winning team
No successful big business owner is an island. You can keep a small business running by yourself, but if you are ready to achieve growth, then you need a team surrounding you.
How to become a business high-flier
That miracle now happens more than 100,000 times a day. The world available to anyone with enough money to pay their way. And pay they do: the UK aviation industry generates £60bn revenue each year, with ambitious plans for further growth. Testament to this growth are the likes of Emirates, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, all reporting impressive profit boosts […]
What can businesses learn from Olympic coaches?
Over the last few weeks, the Olympic credo – Faster, Higher, Stronger – has been in ample evidence as we have watched British athletes run, leap, cycle, swim and dive to win a glut of medals in Rio.
E-commerce tips: One web-portal oг multiple websites?
Is your e-business growing? Are you mulling over possibilities to launch new projects, products or services?
Getting to the top of Google with Mark Wright
Help grow your business and get to the top of google with the most successful winner of The Apprentice, Mark Wright.
Ten ways to prevent dark data accumulating in your business
A human instinct to keep hold of things ‘just in case’ is being blamed for Britain’s dark data mountain which is eating into the budget of businesses across all sectors.
Don’t get burnt by HMRC when it comes to phoenixing
In order to pre-empt the changes to the taxation treatment of winding up a company that were introduced in the 2016 Finance Bill, Q1 2016 saw a spike in the number of entrepreneurs voluntarily liquidating their businesses with the intention of later setting up a similar company.
Grow your brain
One of the greatest discoveries in recent neuroscience is the process by which new neuronal cells are created, a phenomenon called neurogenesis.
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