As the great summer getaway begins, research by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has found many managers plan to forgo their holiday this year to avoid falling behind in their work.
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Businesses that make student life easier
There’s a million businesses out there catering for students, both online and offline but it’s online you’ll find the best ways to save cash and have a great time.
How to Optimise Your Paid Search Campaign
Here multinational search marketing agency QueryClick brings you another snippet of expert advice – this time on making the most of PPC advertising.
SMEs are embracing flexible working and reaping the benefits
New research from Lloyds Commercial Banking published today showed that UK SMEs are leading large corporates in offering employees more flexible and home working arrangements and consequently are benefitting from having a happier, engaged and more productive workforce.
When’s your most unproductive point of the day
Office workers have named 2:55pm as their most unproductive point of the day – according to new research.
Good things come in small cash-shaped packages
A small business club has announced it will be giving away free cash – and an extra pair of hands – to lean early-stage enterprises as part of its Fund 101 initiative.
Popup Britain announces two new shops to open
PopUp Britain has announced it is to open two more empty shops, at either end of the country, to groups of collaborating start-up entrepreneurs.
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales: “Fail faster and don’t tie your ego to a particular business.”
Speaking at the UK’s flagship festival for high-potential businesses, Accelerate 2013, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales answered the question “Why not do it on the internet?”
How customer focused is your business?
Marketing – by our definition – includes every touchpoint with your customer. Why? Because every touchpoint leaves an impression of your brand and your business on that customer, which directly impacts whether they will return and what they might tell others about you.
5 steps to achieving great things
Greatness doesn’t just happen. The best leaders take steps to ensure that when they do something, they do it better than anyone else.
How to define a vision for your brand that motivates your team
The vision you create for your brand or business is one of the most powerful drivers of growth.
8 words to avoid when selling
These words really raise your customer’s hackles and potentially kill potential sales stone dead.
Startup Britain bus to help boost start-up rate to 500,000 in 2013
National enterprise campaign StartUp Britain is set to hit the road this summer to help to boost the number of businesses started in 2013 to a record 500,000.
L&D Must Adapt To Cope With The Evolution Of Organisational Learning
L&D teams must redefine their role to resolve a growing tension between how individuals want to approach learning and how organisations want to deploy it, according to a new white paper from Hemsley Fraser, the learning and development company.
How to crack conflict issues
I read this past week or so of a woman driving on the M25 in Surrey who was forced to dramatically stop in the fast lane when a blue car started tailgating her. It then undertook her before pulling back in front of her, before coming to an abrupt halt forcing her to stop too.
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