If you know what you’re doing, social media is an easy and cost-effective way to improve your customer service, especially for small businesses.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Why your team needs LESS leadership
Steve Jobs. Bill Gates. These are the people that most business owners aspire to; leaders with incredible vision who have built empires through their powerful leadership.
Dragons’ Den: Dancing intros, designer toothbrushes and past best-before food
Giving us the plethora of ideas and innovations we love, this week the Den played host to everything from out of date food to glow in the dark chess pieces.
Dragon’s tailor make a deal, but hope they’ve kept the receipt in case of return
In what was a mainly non deal-making episode of the deal-making show Dragons’ Den Kelly Hoppen & Piers Linney invested in Enclothed one of the new wave of male e-tailors aiming to take the High Street stress out of clothes shopping for men.
When disaster strikes- what do you do?
However good business or marketing plans may be, they can sometimes go awry because of unexpected events.
Six critical steps for SMEs to survive and thrive
Many SMEs with limited financial support have undoubtedly emerged scarred from the worst post war recession which saw the demise of businesses – large and small – and across all sectors.
Five ways to boost efficiency and make your enterprise a Size Zero
More than a decade into the world of digital business and following a deep global economic recession, organisations are discovering new ways of operating that challenge many long-held assumptions.
Princesses and wearable tech brave the Dragons’ Den
This week in the Den, with only three offers made in total, the Dragons witnessed some innovative ideas, cute children, and some rather familiar looking princesses.
Seven months on – Is your business embracing the new flexible working legislation?
Richard Morris, UK CEO, from workspace provider Regus argues that businesses have much to gain from adopting a more flexible approach to staffing.
Social Media: Are you in or out?
There are plenty of opinions; a lot of them are on social media platforms of one variety or another, about whether social media is good for small business. In fact, as a small business owner, you can probably find any opinion you want to find, if you are looking for an excuse to support an opinion or decision of your own.
Ethics in business
Recent revelations surrounding Premier Foods’ “pay to stay” scheme and Two Sisters’ dubious supplier contract terms may have attracted significant media interest, but came as little surprise to the Forum of Private Business, which has continued to highlight the issues surrounding supply chain relationships.
10 ways to kick start your marketing campaign
We may be well into January, but it’s not too late to start making some plans to kick start your business marketing for 2015.
How to Trick Yourself into Doing Tasks You Dread
For some of us, checking off each item on our to-do lists provides the endorphin rush we need to make task completion an intrinsic joy.
James Caan on growing your business in 2015
‘New year, new career’ has made its usual appearance across media channels this month and the encouragement of annual reflections often makes employees wonder if the grass is greener on the other side? Reflecting on 2014 reminds us all to think about our career focused New Year resolutions and ensure we have done everything we promised we would do the year before. More importantly though, it prompts us to focus on projections for 2015.
The true cost of outsourcing IT to SMEs, according to an entrepreneur
Gary David Smith, co-founder of leading cloud provider, Prism Solutions, delves into outsourcing IT and what all growing small to medium enterprises need to know about Internet technology.
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