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
As the weather turns colder, the risk of property damage from burst pipes, storms and floods increases. Weather-related and other types of property damage can cause severe disruption to local businesses, economies and livelihoods. It is therefore critically important to check whether your insurance cover will adequately protect your business against such incidents.
One of the top objectives stated by 58% of B2B marketing executives in a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit – ‘Megatrends in B2B Marketing’ (2011) was “positioning our company as a thought leader”. Phil Brown, Director at UK b2b marketing agency, The Channel Partnership, discusses what thought leadership is and how companies can use it to their advantage in 2013.
Businesses get burgled every day: it’s a fact of life. With robberies happening every 38 seconds in the UK, commercial property is a prime target for criminals. Whether it’s money, equipment or important documents that go missing, it can be a stressful and time consuming process to get your company back on track.
It is a sunny Saturday afternoon in Battersea, south-west London, and outside Sambrook’s Brewery a party is in full flow. A bluegrass band is playing on an open sided truck, people are sitting on hay bales drinking pints of ale, and fat sausages are sizzling on the barbeque.
Max Firth, Managing Director of Experian’s Business Information Services division, offers advice to firms looking to maximise their chances of finding and securing the right finance for their needs.
Many of us in business surely will have long recognised that increasingly, clients and the market in general, are demanding further reductions in charges and better terms – in return for…………enhanced services and even more added value. Let’s call this what it is; ‘The more for less new reality.’
The new James Bond film Skyfall parachutes 007 into a chilling cyberspace of computer hacking and cyber terrorism in which malicious software – known as malware which infects and damages computers – is more dangerous than exploding pens.
“If you keep on doing what you’ve always done you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got.”
There are some famous companies out there that make it hard to write about ‘growth strategy’. Ironically it’s the ones that are experiencing extraordinary, global and stratospheric growth right now, companies like Facebook and Twitter.
As leaders of ambitious SMEs you and your brand will be searched for online by potential customers, so it is vital that what they find helps secure a sale. Whether you are targeting a global or local audience, customers need to find the right information as easily as possible, and get a positive impression from what they find.
Like most of the rugby loving public, the seemingly endless saga surrounding the mismanagement of England’s Rugby Football Union has lead me to conclude that if an entrepreneur ran their business the way the RFU runs it’s boardroom then they’d have gone bust a long time ago!
Are you providing a product or service, or are you providing a benefit to a customer? A new way to think about value–and get the most for your company.
As Global Entrepreneurship Week UK, hosted by Youth Business International in partnership with Barclays, kicks off we look at some of the highlights of the events running across the whole of the country to help, inspire and nurture you and your business.
Youth mentoring initiative Mosaic is set to launch a national business competition for school pupils this month with the support of the Nick Boles MP, Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
Public relations is one of the most attractive marketing strands to fuel awareness of your business, and as entrepreneurial business leaders you are perfectly positioned to drive this utilizing your network and business story.
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