Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
Sales Expert Andy Preston explains that although LinkedIn is one of the best business development tools available, many people don’t use it properly, and even worse…
Professional negotiator and media lawyer, Clive Rich, has urged SME’s to improve the negotiation and deal-making skills of their top executives or risk financial ruin as…
Graham Lowes, marketing director, OKI Printing Solutions, says If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. An over-used phrase perhaps, but in the…
As the co-founder of a small business, I'm often asked for hints and tips when starting up as an entrepreneur. To be a columnist for Business…
Have you ever had one of those tumbleweed moments in a presentation you’ve given when you’ve told a joke, and nobody laughed? Or have you been…
July marked 75 years since Penguin books began publishing stories. They became renowned for their originality and innovation, which got this Book Midwife thinking back to…
New research has revealed the poor state of trust between employees and managers with a quarter of those surveyed saying that they are feeling that the…
Many staff returning to the office from their holiday today will be greeted back with hundreds of emails demanding their attention, which according to research published…
For years now we’ve been hearing plenty about how our high streets are suffering at the hands of the supermarket giants and how their ‘evil plan’…
With summer having finally arrived – the flowers are in bloom, the BBQs are stoked up and the flip flops are out. However, while most of…
Apprenticeships are vital for our business and an attractive recruitment option for other employers, writes Lesley Bowen, Head of HR Delivery at Sellafield, winners of the…
Jamie Waller is the UK’s best known debt recovery and enforcement specialist. His company, JBW Group, work with businesses and local councils across the UK in…
As the owner and director of a successful rural business employing over 30 people across two locations in the East of England, l was approached recently…
Businesses are being warned to be on their guard following a string of cold calls from suppliers offering ‘off the shelf’ localised internet marketing campaigns which…
Given our natural cynicism, it was easy for us Brits to get the sandbags out and put the defences up as we went into recession, but…