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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
Black Friday: how to prep your customer service teams
Black Friday is fast approaching, the day where bargain hunters across the UK try and grab themselves a great deal before heading into the festive period. According to retail analysts, this year’s Black Friday is set to be the first time UK shoppers spend £1bn in one day , providing retailers with a golden opportunity to maximise sales and profits before the sun sets on 2015.
5 actions to take when you win an award
One of the time-tested ways of establishing yourself as a standard in your industry is to win an industry recognised award. An award serves as independent evaluation of your company’s quality – an evaluation that your customers are more likely to trust than your own marketing material.
How Reverse Mentorship can benefit your business
With age and experience comes wisdom, but all too often in the business world, hubris can come along for the ride too. Subconsciously survivorship and confirmation biases are at work; good decisions are reinforced, and poor ones fall out of the memory – which distorts their real importance.
How to know when you need an Finance Director
It’s widely accepted that if you can bring on a Finance Director to help you in business, you should. Having a viable idea for a business doesn’t necessarily mean you know how to run the books – and the analysis, insight and advice an FD can offer your venture will be invaluable.
5 ways to cut your Capital Gains Tax bill
Capital Gains: the good news/bad news tax. Good news … you’ve made money. Bad news … well, it’s a tax.
Why SME leaders should harness the creativity of their workforce
In any challenging and fast-paced organisation, it is important to remember that creativity has underpinned some of our greatest achievements. It has helped us treat diseases, find new energy sources and put a human on the moon.
Locking in Value: structuring the deal
As introduced earlier in this series of articles, the sale of a business is a process with a timeline.
Dealing with cashflow problems
Cashflow is consistently cited as one of the biggest challenges facing SMEs and advice about what to do about it abounds. But, have you ever stopped to consider how to be about it?
Don’t forget about offline
When anyone jumps into the world of small business ownership, they are taking a big risk. Due to advancements in technology, marketplaces have become both larger and smaller at the same time, and as a result, have become more competitive.
Don’t wait until New Year to make your business resolutions
The festive season is just around the corner, which means it’s not long until the New Year arrives – bringing with it the inevitable dilemma about whether you need to make any resolutions to change your life, or business, for the better.
How to improve your resilience
With change now a constant and ever present part of working life, personal resilience is fast becoming an essential attribute of effective leadership.
Business celebrities support first ever national mentoring day
Following the buzz that a new National Mentoring Day was to grace the UK events calendar, the influx of support has ensured this new awareness day is here to stay. Alongside a nationwide ‘get involved programme’, a celebratory inaugural summit event took place during the afternoon of at the RockStar hubs in London on the 27th October.
4 investment options other than buying stocks & shares
If you want to invest your money in smart ways, you may have considered investing in the stock market and purchasing various stocks and shares. But the problem with doing that is the fact that you’re taking a high risk with your money
Why innovation holds the key to business success
When changes occur that impact a business such as market developments, a shift in customer demand or technological advancements, a business must behave innovatively in order to adapt.