As an entrepreneur you have a million balls juggling in the air. From balancing your budget, to hiring staff, you can’t overlook even the smallest detail since the success of the business lies in your hands. One detail that you shouldn’t overlook or underestimate the importance of is personal insurance. …
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How Your Office Space Could Benefit Your Business
Did you know, the way your office is designed could potentially benefit your business? There’s been a lot of studies carried out in recent years which has revealed a positive, modern and attractive office space can bring numerous benefits to businesses. Here, we’ll look at the main benefits the right …
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Problems In The Workplace? Common Issues Any Business Owner Can Face
It’s a fact that running a business will never go as smoothly as you dream it would. When you start out you possibly imagine that you will have a team of enthusiastic individuals working at your beck and call, equally as passionate about your business empire as you. Making lot’s …
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Six Protective Steps Entrepreneurs Should Take
Being an entrepreneur is an exciting venture because it allows you to have a ton of freedoms as a business owner. However, a lot of responsibility also comes along with entrepreneurship, and one of those is the responsibility to yourself to keep your business and its customers safe. The following …
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How to Get Set Up in the Taxi Industry and Run a Successful Business
In a time where the public transportation system is expensive and unreliable, more and more people are turning to taxi, private hire and lift offering services. This includes people looking to get to work on time, arrive at the airport or even just to get across town. A Rewarding Career …
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Hiring a Car for a Business Trip – What You Need to Know
The car rental business is ferociously competitive, which means the services offered are often firmly squeezed to keep the headline price low enough to make it onto the price comparison sites. This, in turn, means it pays to stay abreast of this business model so you can ask the right …
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The Importance of Background Checks Before Hiring
Small business owners require staff to help with various processes in their businesses. Whether it is in the accounts departments, as sales agents or casual laborers in the warehouses, business owners have to recruit workers to help with these crucial business operations. When recruiting workers into their fold, those who …
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The Right and Wrong Way to Sacrifice Quality
One of the biggest trade-offs that businesses all over the world have to keep in mind is the link between quality and cost. In most cases, reducing the cost of an item opens up the accessibility and thus, puts your product into more hands. However, it also means there’s a …
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Your Business’s Most Valuable Resource? Time!
When you’re running a business, you’ve got a lot of resources that you need to consider, all of which are extremely important and valuable. From the money that you spend in order to keep things functioning properly and keep your business in the black, to your employees who you rely …
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3 Alternatives to Layoffs When Times are Tough
It’s tough to be a small business these days, and many owners have been forced to downsize just to keep it afloat for as long as possible. To make the process go around and ensure that the ends meet, you’ve probably considered cutting down on one of your biggest expenses, …
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Benetrends: Women Entrepreneurs & Succeeding in Small Business
Hi readers! Recently, I had the honor of being interviewed by Benetrends on how I help women start and grow their businesses. In the interview, I share information about the state of women-owned businesses, work/life balance and even how I got started as an entrepreneur. Here is an excerpt from …
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How Turnover at Your Restaurant Is Costing You Money
By: Matthew Griffith Your favorite server just quit. The line cook you thought would be with you forever is moving away. It’s sad and frustrating, but employee turnover also can cost you a lot of money. Between the cost of hours lost to interviewing, of advertising the position, of training …
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Three Ways to Turn Around Your Business
No one ever said that owning a business was easy. If you’re experiencing difficulty making a profit, you may need some help. These three tips can help you turn around your business quickly. Follow them, and you may find your company more productive than ever. Focus on the core It’s …
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Can a BYOD Culture Improve Productivity in the Workplace?
Smartphones have changed our day-to-day lives – from working practices, to socialising and communication. In the month leading to December 2016, it is estimated that there will be 42.4 million smartphone users in the UK. In January 2017, the Labour Force Survey found that there were 31.85 million people in …
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How to Avoid Office Disasters
The humble office, it’s the source of every businesses salvation and their problems too! Offices can be a right pain for you if things go wrong in them as they can seriously disrupt your employee’s work. But what can you do in order to prevent office disasters from happening? Well …
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Customer Satisfaction: The Key To Small Business Success
Starting a small business comes with a lot of pitfalls and setbacks before truly getting off the ground. While you establish yourself in your industry, you’ll learn a lot of lessons about yourself and the way you should change your business to keep it running the way that customers expect. …
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