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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Is Your Business Ready To Expand Overseas?
It is one of those things that all business owners think about from time to time. No matter what kind of business you run, chances are you are keen on expanding it in a stable and rapid manner. After all, this is one of the main aims of any business. …
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Start-Up Challenges You Need To Plan For
The international business arena is now more accessible than it’s ever been before. The growing accessibility to the internet across the world, combined with the wide range of financing options it’s opened up, has made it easier than ever for aspiring entrepreneurs to make their dreams a reality. While it’s …
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Five Bright Ideas for a First-Time Business Owner
Starting a successful business is a huge challenge that many people are unable to find success in right away. If you’re a first-time business owner and are driven for success, you need to plan and manage carefully in the early days to realize your ambitions. The following are five bright …
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Mortar Combat: Choosing To Sell Online Or In Person
The world of retail in the information age has taken many different forms, from the old convenience stores to the franchised supermarket, and now the wholesale business has made the jump to almost being exclusively online. The trend for any new retail business is to solely go online because it …
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Team Loyalty Doesn’t Have To Be A Challenge
Your team, as vital as it is, is a cost on the business. But costlier still is being unable to keep them. Failing to retain employees means that your recruit and training costs could skyrocket. That’s only one of the reasons that you want to make sure your team is …
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