Almost every business owner has one thing at the forefront of their minds: profit. After all, earning a good living and being able to afford the finer things in life is the main reason that people set their own business up! However, with every executive decision that is made regarding …
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How to Help Protect Your Van from Theft
There are a large number of vans across the UK used for commercial purposes. Recent news has warned us that a van is broken into every 23 minutes in the UK – with van tool theft up by 30% as of April 2017. Many of us, including tradesmen and business …
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A Step-By-Step Guide To Securing Your Business For The Future
Most entrepreneurs would agree they want their businesses to remain successful and profitable for as long as possible. The issue is that some people let their operations stagnate, and that is when problems begin to arise. For instance, you might lose out to new competitors if you fail to alter …
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Could Your Company Be Greener?
Every business owner must take sustainability seriously, particularly if they want their businesses to survive. The fact is that statistics show that half of all businesses don’t make it past the first year, and a quarter of those left don’t make it to five years. Business owners have the odds …
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Carillion Collapse: A Vital Lesson For Construction Firms
If you work in the construction industry, then the collapse of the UK’s largest construction firm is unlikely to have escaped your notice. The company, the second largest in the UK, went into liquidation on January 15th. The news not only sent shockwaves through the UK, but around the world, …
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Going Global: 4 Things You Need To Consider
If you are in charge of a growing business, you may be thinking about going global. It may be the next stage in your expansion plans, but there are challenges ahead. We will examine some of them in this article, giving you a brief overview of the obstacles you will …
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Ways in Which A POS Software Can Help You Manage Your Employees Better
The point of sale (POS) represents the actual moment and place of a transaction, the one when the customer pays for the purchase. In order to make things easier, many businesses have begun to use a point of sale system that allows business owners to access numerous additional features. With …
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Keeping The Good Ones: Small Business Employee Retention
Multimillion-dollar businesses have a distinct advantage over smaller ones. This advantage is that they have a larger budget to provide incentives and benefits to their employees, an action that can help keep the staff they have spent time recruiting and training and save them a lot of hassle and money …
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High Street Retailers Must Cater for Needs of Older Shoppers
There are far too many older people that are finding high street shops unwelcoming, with confusing automated checkout machines and nowhere to sit down for a rest. Older people’s charity, Anchor, had commissioned a report that highlighted that older people aren’t getting catered in high street shops and warns if …
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The Main Points of a Solid Business
A business should be built on the foundation blocks of greatness. Each businesses foundation blocks are unique in a certain way, but they should all loosley be based around the same things. When you first start a business, you’ll often feel like your mind is running around like a headless …
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Test, Unrest, and Invest: Tips for New Startups
Every day, new startups are born. These companies can range from the disruptive, looking to topple the status-quo and announce themselves as the behemoths of their industry, or they are the strange, the quirky that fill a niche but won’t necessarily change the world. And then, there are the bandwagoners. …
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Why Head Hunting Is Essential
Recruitment is a huge part of corporate life, and there’s no more famous example of it than head hunting. Head hunting is an old term that a lot of people don’t really know. So there’s people out there that go around hunting heads? Well, to make a long story short, …
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Taking Your Product From Idea To Shelf
So you’ve got a great product idea that you think is going to make you a lot of money. Well, before you go off looking for a business loan to get you started, you need to think about the costs and process that’s going to turn that product from an …
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Why You Should Think Local in a Global Market
One of the greatest changes to happen in our lifetime is the internet. It has brought the world together, changed the way that we do business, and it has altered the way that consumers reach out to brands. In the global business world, your website is the most valuable asset …
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The Difference Between OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 Courses
If you are looking to jump start your construction career in 2018, it is time you start thinking about your general OSHA training courses. After all, safety in the workplace is one of the most critical things to know on the job, whether you are new to construction or aiming …
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7 Caring Career Paths: For Graduates With A Big Heart
You’re a loving, kind, career-driven person with big dreams for your future. You may have studied for a degree at college without really knowing your career path, so the world is still your oyster. With online classes and further education you can truly enter into any job you wish to …
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