When you run a small business of any kind, the pressures can quickly mount up and it can be tough to prioritize your to-do list. One of the top ways that people get around this is by outsourcing certain tasks to other companies. Outsourcing has a range of benefits including …
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You Need To Make Your Product Sell Itself
If you’re an entrepreneur or gearing up to start your entrepreneurial journey, then you have no doubt read a ton of literature about the importance of research. You will have then done some research and found out that the market is immensely saturated and that consumers don’t tend to stray …
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Is Your Business Truly Prepared To Grow?
The first two or three years for a startup might strike you as some of the most challenging. You’re trying to get on your feet, to get all your services up and running, and to get enough customers to start growing. But, growing itself can be a huge challenge that …
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Graduating Your Business
It’s one of those milestones in the business world, moving your office from your home to actual premises. While starting out at home is a financially great idea, this changes over time. Business growth is a wonderful thing, but it can easily encroach on your family life. Graduating your business …
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Houghton International Secures Motor Maintenance and Rewind Contract at Lynemouth Power Limited
Newcastle established electro mechanical engineering specialist Houghton International has acquired a three-year motor maintenance and repair contract at Lynemouth Power Limited in Northumberland, following its recent development. Because of a rewarding tender submission, Houghton International will be responsible for the ongoing repair and maintenance of all motors, generators and all …
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Surprising Secondary Incomes For SMEs: Are You Utilizing Those Moneymaking Opportunities
In business, the battle to gain sales should always be your main revenue-based priority. However, ignoring the potential to create secondary incomes would be a huge error. Many SMEs are using those opportunities to gain a significant profit boost, and yours should too. An additional source of income will remove …
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Are Your Business’s Foundations as Strong as Can Be?
What is the most important part of business, you ask? Well, it’s undoubtedly the business’s foundations. Without solid foundations nothing in this world is safe from falling, but businesses are especially susceptible to this plight. This is because there are a whole host of different areas within a business that …
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Don’t Be Fooled. There Are Only Two Paths In Business
It would be perfect if business mirrored real life, wouldn’t it? What does that mean? Well, in most circumstances based in real life, we have choices. Our real life gives us loads and loads of options! Business is like that – but it doesn’t have a lot of end results. …
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3 Business-Crippling Issues You Keep On Ignoring
Image source If there is one thing that all new entrepreneurs struggle with it is spinning so many plates at once. It’s a whole new skill to learn, keeping track of everything that is going on at such a hectic time. It is probably going to feel like a very …
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Feedback On Feedback: Dealing With Constructive Criticism
Any business that wants to become a market leader needs customers, but not only for the obvious reasons. Sure, a healthy customer base will lead to a higher turnover and more profit, profit which may result in expansion and growth. However, money isn’t the only thing they have to offer. …
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Communication Is Key: Making Sure Your Employees Stay In The Loop
In the digital age, the way we approach business responsibilities has changed. In order to gain more efficiency, meet tighter deadlines, and make use of the benefits modern technology has bestowed upon us, never before has it been so important to implement responsive, dynamic communication throughout all levels of your …
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A Foolproof Guide To Keeping Employees Happy
If your business is the heart of your endeavors, then your employees are the blood that you circulate. Sure, you could go on without them, but there wouldn’t be much point. Most business owners put a lot of time, effort, and focus into making sure they hire the right employees, …
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How To Ensure Your Business Is Secure
Every business owner wants to achieve success, but the key to strive for ever greater heights is always to keep one foot on the ground. All that success means nothing if your company is left vulnerable to attack or in-house issues through a lack of safety and security measures to …
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Business Decisions Have Consequences, But Do Yours Have a Rationale Too?
We all know that making the wrong business decisions can cost you big time if you’re not careful. But as well as having consequences, the decisions you make should also have a rationale behind them. If you make decisions without having a rational reasoning to back them up, you’re going …
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Store Wars: A New Hope (Against Ecommerce)
Running a retail operation doesn’t have to be your run of the mill setup. More and more businesses are making a store an immersive experience, and with the rise in ecommerce services, there is scope for a budding entrepreneur to bring the human touch back into shopping. Before all of …
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Take Your Business Wherever It Needs to Go
As a business owner it’s easy to find a comfortable place in the market and stay there. It’s easy to set up shop in a particular geographical area and be happy to do business there. It’s easy to continue producing the same things, year in year out. It’s easy to …
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