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
Keeping an SME thriving needs time-poor owner managers to multitask at every turn and when everything is a priority, it’s easy to let recruitment drop. There’s no magic formula, says Sinead Hasson, MD of Hasson Associates, but by following a few ‘golden rules’ finding the right people needn’t be a major headache.
Successful business leaders understand that the sales process is the lifeblood of their company. Without an efficient, productive means of making sales, even brilliant ideas will fail.
The answer to this question can be found just by looking around you. How many electronic devices can you see?
How and where you hold stock can have an impact on your bottom line
Research shows successful entrepreneurs make time for family, learn from failures and build a strong team of experts and supporters around them
Has technology allowed you greater choice or greater distraction? Has flexibility given you greater work-life balance or work-life blur? Are you working from home, or living at work?
Live coverage from MicroBizMattersDay 2016 with interviews with businesses and live coverage of the day.
If your business has ever been affected by an event such as the current flood crisis and recent closing of the Forth Road Bridge, you likely wouldn’t argue that it’s crucial to have an effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy in place.
We spoke to Steve Pammenter, COO and co-founder of Venntro Media Group, Europe’s largest privately owned dating and lifestyle business with 25,000 sites and 50 million members across the world, to give us an insight into the advantages of running an online dating business and why he think that now is the best time to enter the industry.
If there are two terms likely to induce a deep sigh and/or a slumping of shoulders, it’s HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and Self-Assessment Tax Return (SATR). And not without good reason.
As Sweden looks to cut the length of the working day to boost productivity, Javier Peralta, UK Country Manager for ForceManager, argues that technology has a major part to play in addressing the UK’s productivity problem
Most business owners hear the word marketing and believe it’s all about lead generation; pulling in new enquiries and gaining new customers.
The ecommerce landscape has shifted dramatically in recent years, with the explosion in smartphones and mobile devices being used for online retail interactions. With 264 million e-shoppers, Europe is very much at the heart of this change – especially Central and Western European countries, which are home to some of the biggest online spenders. However, not all brands are maximising the revenue opportunity that this presents.
Intellectual property (IP) is often thought of as a defensive right used only by large corporations fighting high profile and expensive court battles. However, IP – if used correctly – can be a valuable tool for growth of a business of any size, without the need to step anywhere near a court room.
Almost every business now has an online presence. It can be the first thing a potential customer sees of your business and with the level of global competition businesses now face, first impressions mean everything. If you are looking to convert potential customers online into paying and returning customers, you need to design a website that’s tailored to the user’s experience.
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