Advice on growing your small and medium sized business, SME, in the UK. Hiring and managing staff and finance plus marketing all on one website
For a salesperson, cold calling can present one of the greatest challenges in their day. Get the most out of your cold calls by following these nine steps. And remember that staying positive, being persistent, and listening and adjusting to customer responses are the personal ingredients to help you succeed.
The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has today launched an online advice surgery staffed by five ‘Business Doctors’ to help cure the most common day to day problems that companies face.
Andy Preston explains why people don’t buy from you …..and what you can change right now to get their business in the future……..
Developing an effective digital strategy isn’t easy. Once you’ve got your website right, how do you begin to increase the traffic to your site, convert these visitors into customers and generate more sales?
A new ‘fit note’ introduced has the potential to cause uncertainty amongst employers and employees, and may result in more workplace disputes according to a leading employment law specialist.
Tired of new social media services that promise to bring customers to the door? Well, the truth is consumers are using social media to connect, and you might be able to see business results by harnessing this. Here Richard Alvin looks at the options available to you.
One in eight small business owners have had to cancel a holiday in the past year as they’ve battled to stay on top of work commitments and the struggling economy has turned up the pressure, according to new research published today.
Last year food giant Unilever dropped the ad agency it had been using for over a decade and put up a $10,000 bounty for new ideas to promote Peperami on TV. Here Fergus Dyer-Smith, Co-founder of Wooshii looks at how cost effective research can help grow your business.
People – in other words employees – grow businesses. As economic recovery begins in earnest small businesses need to recruit key staff with the right attributes if they are to succeed.
Santander has won three awards at the recent annual Business Moneyfacts Awards including the prestigious title of ‘Business Bank of the Year’, which the bank was named for the second consecutive year.
A leading law firm is warning that SMEs are not doing enough to protect themselves from the threat of cybersquatters.
Marketing Director for Google to head speaker line-up at the IoD’s inaugural National Young Directors’ Conference, sponsored by the Northwest Regional Development Agency
We all know what we would do if we were chancellor, but standing up for the last budget speech before an election – probably the last one as chancellor – Alistair Darling used his words very carefully.
The question I get asked most, by business owners and entrepreneurs, is ‘When do I get help?’ How do I know when my business needs some kind of support?
KashFlow, the cloud based accounting package for small business, have announced today that it has won the backing of the AIMS accountancy network, the UKs largest national association of local business accountants, and is to be recommended to its 260 strong membership base. KashFlow is the first cloud accounting software product to gain recommendation from the network.
