Alena Lapukhova, Account Director (Retail) at Data Science and Marketing Intelligence company Profusion, discusses how businesses can tell if sales like Black Friday are worth the effort.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
The Apprentice: Tides turn for Titans
Finally – a week for a multiple firing, but did the right candidates go?
Can retailers keep up with growing ecommerce delivery demands?
Black Friday 2015 saw a tipping point in peak trading where we witnessed the UK’s first £1 billion online shopping day. This year the stakes are even higher. Those in the retail and logistics industry are being urged to prepare for five days of peak trading in November with industry experts predicting a £5 billion spend online in those five days alone.
Should you be making the most of National Unfriend Day?
Today’s National Unfriend Day may sound like a gimmick, but it brings to the fore real issues about self-esteem, says Julian Hall, founder of Derby-based Calm People – a company running emotional resilience courses to help improve workplace relationships. So let’s use the day to pare back social media contacts who just bring us down, and we’ll all be a lot happier for it.
Lessons learnt from an Evening with Lord Sugar…
Aspiring entrepreneurs from across the capital learned how to be successful in business at an event hosted by Lord Sugar and Mark Wright, founder of digital marketing agency Climb Online.
Getting Trumped in the workplace; avoiding it and dealing with it.
Despite dire warnings from leaders and experts we have an ill-disciplined amateur in the White House and the UK Government is dedicated to delivering a Brexit solution unlikely to satisfy anyone.
Automated robot overlords? Or fast, efficient solutions for Britain’s small businesses?
Bots are helping take over the world, but just not in the way people think.
The Apprentice: Lost in London
This week’s task tested the negotiation skills of Lord Sugar’s candidates, but who came out on top?
Stick to your roots: how to preserve your company’s culture as it grows
The culture of your business is its foundation. It gives it a greater purpose and affects the way you lead, the way your employees work and the way others perceive your company.
What can Trump’s victory speech teach us about public speaking?
The victory speech is the chance for the President-elect to demonstrate to the people what kind of President he will be and his tone matters as much as his rhetoric. The electorate will be looking for his Presidential voice, the one that enables everyone, irrespective of how they voted, to see him as a leader.
As a business leader are you a fairy godmother or evil stepmother, a wise prince or nasty rogue?
The role model stories people write about us.
The 7 basic rules of public speaking
Networking, presentations, client pitches, reports to the Board, conference presentations, even interviewing for a new job – they all require some form of public speaking.
How Technology Has Changed Across the 21st Century
The world has become more reliant on technological advances in recent years.
The Apprentice: On your bike, JD!
Another week and another narrow win. If you don’t put in the work, how do you expect to be victorious?
Government should abandon appeal after Court takes 120 seconds to declare Parliament supreme on Article 50
Today, the most senior judge in the country took two minutes to obliterate the Government’s case for bullying parliament out of its constitutional right to trigger Article 50 and take the UK out of the EU.
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