Small businesses across Europe are missing out on new business opportunities because they are unable to respond to enquiries fast enough in a world where customers expect around the clock service.
Category: Advice
Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
5 steps to build your concentration and focus in long meetings
Do you find your mind wandering in long meetings? Could you do with a little more concentration and focus? This article looks at the impact of poor concentration and focus in meetings. It also offers suggestions on how to tackle this and improve you and your colleagues concentration and focus.
Business innovation or imitation, management training grants available & Levi Roots interview
£20m management training fund unveiled to help small business The Skills Minister John Hayes has called on senior leaders in SMEs to take advantage of funding that will support leadership and management training to help them grow their businesses.Business Matters reports that a round 13,000 small and medium sized businesses and social enterprises that demonstrate a […]
UK Business: past, present and future
In the first of a series of online business masterclasses, join the team live to discuss what the future holds for business success and how to stay one step ahead.
Are You Killing Your Business? Mistake Seven
There are seven mistakes that business owners often make that can kill their business. This week I am looking at Mistake Seven – staying in your comfort zone. Find out why you do it, what it can do to your business and how to change your behaviour so your business thrives.
Royal Wedding boost for craft sales and good & bad news for start-ups
Royal Wedding boost for ailing craft businesses. The Online marketplace Notonthehighstreet is expecting a 25 per cent increase in orders for Royal Wedding related memorabilia. The company, which is backed by venture capital firms Index Ventures and Greylock Partners, launched a Royal Wedding section on its site yesterday as well as a campaign to direct international traffic to […]
Keeping your customers coming back
Customer service is king and rightly so. Gordon Jones, a Chartered Marketer and author of several booklets including Successful Customer Care on a Shoestring, explains why companies are investing so much in it and how it affects each and every of us.
Are You Killing Your Business? Mistake Six
Many business owners refuse to face their fears and insecurities – they have a lack of awareness of their own personality, of their strengths and weaknesses, and their impact on others. Ultimately this means they are less able to build an appropriate team around them. This is Mistake Six of the Seven most common ways people kill their business.
Are you killing your business? Mistake Five
There are seven common mistakes that people make that can kill their business. Number five is “bringing in the wrong people”. This article looks at how you can avoid this mistake.
Top 10 tips for staying active at work
Are you fed up with feeling overworked, stressed and exhausted? Can you feel the weight pile on as your time sitting at a desk increases? Do you want to be fit and healthy but don’t have time to join a gym?
Are you killing your business? Mistake Four
Are you killing your business? As a business grows, it’s crucial that your actions don’t strangle it. There are seven common mistakes that people make that kill their business. This week I am looking at Mistake 4 – You Haven’t Got Anyone To Bounce Ideas Off.
Rachel Bridge offers workshops for aspiring entrepreneurs
Being made redundant could be the best thing that ever happened to you, according to Rachel Bridge, The Sunday Times’ enterprise editor and leading business author.
Are you killing your business? Mistake Three
Don’t be the reason your business fails. There are 7 deadly sins that an kill a business. Mistake 3 is “Growing Too Quickly Before Your Model Is Proven”. Here Hilary Briggs explains why this is a problem, how to spot it, and what to do differently.
The importance of delegation
I’m very lucky, as I’ve always found delegating comes naturally to me. I think it comes from naturally wanting to do the exciting stuff and letting others take the initiative and do the hard graft!
Are you killing your business? Mistake Two
There are seven mistakes that many business owners make – and they can kill your business. Each week Hilary looks at one of these deadly sins and offers some advice to help turn this “wrong” into a “right”. This week “you don’t know what you don’t know”.