You’d like to think that the success of your business depended on your ideas, hard work, and that little pinch of all-important luck, but alas, it doesn’t. Other people are going to have an impact on your business too, and their influence won’t always be positive. Indeed, in some cases, …
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Does Registering Your Business Name as a Trademark Give You Automatic Protection for Your Business Logo?
Registering a business name just in the form of words does not automatically give you protection for your associated logo regardless of whether or not the name is part of the logo. The same can be said for the logo, registering the logo does not automatically give you protection for …
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How to Take a Good Idea and Turn It into a Business
Image Credit: Helloquence on Unsplash There are plenty of business models out there that show even a solo entrepreneur can make a big difference to an entire industry. Though you might just a be a person with a great idea right now, with the right approach, you could quickly become a person with …
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Entering the Battle Prepared: 8 Common Presentation Mistakes You’re Best Off Avoiding
We’ve all been in meetings and presentations which have gone badly. Either we’ve found ourselves getting extremely bored and distracted, the information is overwhelming and incredibly difficult to absorb and remember, or maybe it’s just so badly presented you’re just not interested. The art of giving a great presentation is …
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Mayday Vehicle Hire: Tips for Driving on the ‘Right Side’ or the ‘Wrong Side’ of the Road
If you’re travelling abroad this year, the chances are you will need to hire a car. Approximately 70% of the world drives on the right, and with different highway codes, driving etiquette and unfamiliar surroundings this can prove difficult. Driving on ‘the wrong side of the road’ can be awkward, …
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A Real Base Of Operations: What Does It Really Take To Set Up A Business Empire From Your Home?
As far as the notion of business success is concerned, we hear a lot about those self-made entrepreneurs, when they started out their business with nothing but a wing and a prayer. Steve Jobs famously set up the early Apple prototypes from his garage, and now, with more and more …
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Matching Your Personality To Your Career And How It Could Change Your Life
Some people go through their whole education knowing exactly what they want to do as a career. They know what to study, what the plan is, and how they are going to get there. But for some of us, we just don’t have a clue. Focusing our studies on the …
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How To Make The Most Of Your Internship Abroad
Pixabay One of the best ways to advance your career is with an overseas internship. There are many benefits to gain by going down this path. Not only will you benefit from real-life working experience, but also you will improve your cross-cultural skills and find it easier to adapt to …
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Tips on Advertising Your Local Event
There are many businesses and charities that host events over the course of the year. This can be great for drawing in the crowds but the crowds will only come if they are aware of the event taking place in the first place. In order to raise awareness of your …
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Boosting Your Retail Sales with Visual Merchandising
Despite more people seemingly making the transition to online shopping — including Marks & Spencer and House of Fraser — there is still opportunity for retail stores to maximise their sales revenue. Visual merchandising has been around for decades, in all industries. However, the problems dominating retail in 2018 make …
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What’s the Best Insurance for My New Restaurant?
Opening a restaurant can be one of the most stressful and yet rewarding experiences an entrepreneur can undertake. With the hustle and bustle of the nightly rounds of meals, drinks and table service, the hiring of experienced staff and even just finding the right cooks, the routine can be exciting …
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The Essentials of Growing Your Commercial Real Estate Business
Growing any kind of business takes significant skill, dedication, and and hard work – not to mention a little luck. Timing is a big component of determining whether or not you will succeed in your goals, too. However, one thing you can do to give yourself the best possible chance …
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Little Things Can Make a Huge Difference: 9 Ideas for Customizing Your Office Space and Adding a Personal Touch to It
Personalizing your workspace is a great way to make the time you spend at the office feel a bit more like home. Many workplaces now encourage their employees to spend time putting personalized touches on their cubicles or in their offices, because they know it helps boost morale and makes …
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More Employers than Ever Looking to Hire Temp Staff
A new report from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation revealed that the number of employers planning on increasing their temporary/contract headcount doubled in August 2018, year on year. This occurred despite falling confidence in the economy because Brexit remains uncertain. Let’s look at the report’s findings in greater detail and …
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6 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself If You’re Planning to Change Your Chosen Career Path in Middle Age
Changing your career mid-life is a daunting task, and certainly not a decision to make lightly. Whether your motivation for doing so is dissatisfaction with your current line of work or if you’re simply looking for a fresh breath of change, there are certain questions you need to ask yourself …
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Démarrage D’entreprise Tips for Getting Your New Business Off the Ground
You may have found out that you’re passionate about making a certain product or rendering a certain service. Since you want to take full control of your life instead of having to work for somebody else, you have decided to turn your passion into profit by establishing a startup business …
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