Business

Have you started a new business and not reached the heights you had hoped? Want to know the reasons why business owners like you don’t get their idea off the ground? The success of your business relies in the most part on you, the owner. You’re the one person at the top who drives everything [...]

Are you a busy entrepreneur and always on the go? Would it help to be able to manage some of your daily tasks from your smartphone? From customer support through to taking payments and managing your company accounts there are a wide range of smartphone apps available to help you run your business. You no [...]

How risky is your new business idea? Does history show that you are more likely to fail than achieve success? Studies have shown that 50 % of small businesses will fail within the first year, and a whopping 95 % will stop trading before they hit their fifth year of operation. Some types of business [...]

Are you starting a new business and looking for ways to grow? Or perhaps you’ve been established a while and want to refresh your marketing strategy? From the basics of internet marketing (social media and SEO), through to offline direct sales campaigns, there are many ways to grow a business. What works for you will [...]

Are you considering starting a new business? Are you looking for ways to improve yourself as an entrepreneur? The success of a new business venture will more often than not depend on you, the founder. Take the time to improve your own skills and make sure you attack each day with the right mind set [...]

Do you have plans in place for 2016 and beyond? Want to know the trends that are likely to affect the way you do business? Keeping one eye on the future is an important part of running a business. Capitalising on trends before they become mainstream can catapult your business to stardom and make you [...]

Are you considering going it alone and starting your own business? Want to know if you have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur? Before embarking on starting a new business it’s important to consider how well suited you are. Not only to the industry you’ll be working in, but also running a business [...]

Are you and your business destined for success? Do you have the right mind-set about money in order to succeed? If you’re a small business owner the success of your business largely relies on you, particularly in the way you think about money. If you don’t like thinking big or taking risks, you may find [...]

Do you have what it takes to run your own business? Want to know the common concerns business owners share? Running your own business can be one of the most rewarding experiences in life, but it can also be the most stressful and time consuming. According to recent studies 43% of business owners don’t take [...]

Do you attend networking events to expand the reach of your business? Want to make sure you’re not remembered for all the wrong reasons? When worked correctly networking events can provide a steady flow of warm and relevant sales leads, do it all wrong and you’ll just find it a big fat waste of time. [...]

Are you looking for low cost ways to recruit new staff for your business? Have you considered how social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn can help? Finding the right staff is a major challenge for business owners. Recruitment costs can be high if you outsource to an agency, so why not use social [...]

Are your employees slacking on the job? Want to know what you can do to help improve productivity? According to research employees using their phones, chatting amongst each other and surfing the net for personal use are the biggest time waster’s business owner’s face. But other than block mobile phone signals, ban talking and monitor [...]

Are you thinking about names for a new business venture? Want to know how some famous companies got their names for inspiration? Naming Red Website Design was quite a straight forward process. The boss’s favourite colour is red, and the footy team he supports play in a red shirt, so for him it was a [...]

Are you wasting time whilst carrying out your daily tasks? Is that wasted time preventing you from being successful? Business owners that know how to make best use of their time are more likely to succeed than those who allow time to slip through their fingers. There are only 24 hours in a day, you [...]

Is your office struggling with mood killers and lazyites? Could they be affecting the productivity of your business? Unfortunately not every member of staff will share your enthusiasm for the business and work as hard and effectively as you do! To stop staff from killing your productivity take the time to identify the weak links, [...]

Are you looking for ways to streamline the way you do business? Do you want to create more time to be able to move your business forward? Advancements in mobile and cloud technology has given rise to literally thousands of apps that can help you do things quicker, easier and cheaper. From file storage, accounting [...]

Are there people working for you that annoy the hell out of you? Want to know if you should give them the boot? Bad employees can cost a business thousands of pounds. From poor work through to poisoning morale of others, their effect can be far reaching and long lasting. But what type of employees [...]

Are you thinking of going it alone and starting a new business? Do you want to know what it takes to become an entrepreneur? According to research people who are successful in starting a new business share a lot of common traits. It goes without saying that you can’t be scared of taking risks or [...]