Being a small business isn’t always easy when the big sharks are always raining on your parade. That’s why you have to be creative and focus on what you do best, which is to sell products and services to your niche. Stop worrying about what everyone else is doing and …
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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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Days Designed to Bring in Sales: What You Need to Know
It’s never too early for a business to start thinking about events across the year that are designed to bring in more sales — think of Black Friday weekend (including Cyber Monday) and something that we all look forward to — Christmas sales! To investigate further, we’ve teamed up with …
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How Print Media Can Influence Elections
It’s 2018 and the world has become more digital, in terms of the advancements in technology and in the way that we advertise to an audience. Due to this, print media is now overlooked and is seen as a less effective way to spread a message. But what if we …
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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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Self-Managed or Outsourced: Do You Know Which Method is Best Suited to Your Business?
As a small business owner, your time is a precious commodity, and marketing your brand can take up plenty of that time. Building an online presence for your company is an essential aspect of your marketing strategy, but one that many business owners fail to master. To efficiently establish your …
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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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Make Your Business Known
Making your business known isn’t the easiest of processes. You’re working to compete against hundreds of other businesses around the world doing the same as you are, so getting your name out there can be a tricky task. But the key is to start marketing yourself from early on. The …
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What You Need to Know About SEO in 2018
If you’re an entrepreneur who does your own marketing, for the most part, you’re probably familiar with search engine optimization, or SEO as it’s more commonly referred, to some degree at least. However, with a new year, there come many new rules that can change the game completely. You need …
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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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Are the Big Six Energy Companies Losing Their Grip on the Market?
With around 80% of the UK’s households (not to mention scores of businesses) powered by it, mains-supplied natural gas is an integral fuel to the UK’s energy mix. The result is continued high demand, and a busy, competitive market for both domestic and commercial mains gas. What do we mean by …
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Royal Blind New Services
Two new services in the West of Scotland for blind and partially sighted were opened in October. Royal Blind, Scotland’s biggest vision impairment charity had constructed Jenney’s well, a 54-bedroom specialist residential care home for visually impaired older people in Hawkhead Road, Paisley. Scottish War Blinded, their sister charity, has …
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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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