If you’re thinking of supplementing your income as a landlord, or making it your full-time career, there’s a lot to learn. While you may know a fair amount about property investment and the factors that affect it, the life of a professional landlord has a lot of things you need …
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What Can Jill Ennis Teach You About Managing A Team?
Image Source The world of business is anything but a game. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t learn some valuable lessons from the world of sport, especially when it comes to managing a team. USWNT coach Jill Ennis famously brought the Stars and Stripes to World Cup victory in 2015, …
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Kicking Asphalt! Company Car Tips
Image Source One of the perks of getting your small business to a certain level is the fleet of company cars you can amass. Using a company car instead of your own is a perk that many employees flock to big businesses for, and the fact is that looking after …
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The Easy Business Success Guide
Everybody knows that being a business success is not just about having an amazing product or service to sell. In fact, it about a lot more than that. Think of your business as an organic organism, it doesn’t matter how good one part of it is, if the rest of …
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Ways To Ensure A Building Site Is Secure
The construction business is a safe and secure industry in which a company can be based, but that doesn’t mean construction projects themselves are always carried out in the safest way possible. A botched job might not only damage the company, in terms of reputation and opportunities for projects in …
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Outsourcing Is Dead, Long Live In-House Manufacturing!
Okay, so it’s not the catchiest motto in the world! But, just because it doesn’t roll off the tongue doesn’t mean it isn’t true. In a world where businesses rely on outsourcing like a newborn relies on its mother, the term ‘outsourcing is dead’ might come as a shock. In …
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Do Your Offices Give The Wrong Impression?
It applies to just about every kind of business. Whether you’re in manufacturing or in retail. In a home business or a growing multi-location operation. You are likely going to have people visiting your office at some point or the other. If you’re not prepared for that, you risk giving …
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The Fleet Of Vehicles: How To Succeed
If you are in business with a fleet of vehicles, say an owner of a taxi firm, or a long haulage company then there are certain things you will need to be successful. Issues such as cash flow and marketing present issues just like they do to all companies but …
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How to Hire the Right Skilled Workers for Your Business
A business can have the best tools and the ideal location to get bigger profits, but you can’t expect it to function properly without the right people. This is especially true for those who rely on skilled workers since there are fewer and fewer applicants these days, with people preferring …
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Business Changes: What Lies Ahead…
The work of the startup is never done. The whole first year or so is a period of complete uncertainty, feeling through in the dark to a certain extent. And while you may work hard at finding your feet, you are spending a lot of time leaning on others to …
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Are You Hiring the Right Employees or the Wrong People?
Businesses need employees to survive. At least, unless you are working as a freelancer or a small company at home by yourself. Employees take a lot of care and they’re also very expensive investments. For a small startup, it’s difficult to justify the cost of an employee if you are …
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Making A Splash When Hiring New Staff
As you business grows, you will get to a point when it makes sense to hire some new staff. In this case, things can start to get a little bit stressful. When you’re taking on an employee, there are loads to think about. And, most people don’t know exactly what …
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Quick Steps to Start A Small Cleaning Company
Thinking about ways to start your own business without much hassle? One of the best low-cost business options is to start a small cleaning company. The demand for cleaning companies is increasing in both the private and public sector and you don’t need to have a lot of capital to …
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Keeping Your Customer’s Comfortable
It doesn’t matter what sector you are working in, whether it is IT services or healthcare, chances are you have a waiting room. That’s because we aren’t robots. We are humans. Appointments run over, people arrive early, the rush hour madness was even worse than usual; all of these reasons …
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Cooking Up a Storm: How to Give Your Restaurant the Best Start
These days, restaurants are popping up left, right and center. People are interested in small restaurants that do things differently. So, if you want to get started in this industry, you need to take steps that will lead to rapid success. There are so many stories of restaurants failing fast …
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Improve Your Business’s Reputation in All Aspects
Reputation is everything in the highly competitive world of being an entrepreneurial business owner. The reputation of a business is pivotal to its survival — without a good and positive reputation it won’t draw in customers, without customers it won’t draw in profits, and without profits it won’t be able …
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