The saying goes, “if you want a job done, do it yourself”. However, when money and your brand’s reputation is on the line, it’s safe to say that if you want a job done well, get a professional to do it. Now if you don’t specialise in exhibitions or have a team in your company that does, it’s wise to apply this principle.
Logic and money-saving reasoning says you will be able to do it yourself. That Jimmy over in marketing can balance this with the million other tasks he has on his to-do-list.…
Understanding exactly how to make your employees more productive can be tricky. Many businesses blame distractions like Facebook, smartphones, and a general lack of motivation. But you don’t have to ban websites and overload your employees with extra work to get them to be more productive. Instead, consider solutions that give them more confidence, a better understanding of their roles, and incentives to do well. Your employees will flourish in a goal-oriented, positive work environment.
Provide Ongoing Training Opportunities
Many times employees are unproductive because they feel frustrated by a task or a certain aspect of their job.…
Whether you have a big budget for marketing or you have very little money to spend, there are plenty of ways you can grow your online business though your own personal efforts, social media, and streamlining the buying process.
Increase Exposure with Social Media
There are so many options to promote your business. Make sure you have an active page on every social media site relevant to your business. Add follow buttons on your website so that customers are aware of your sites and can follow them easily.…
With the leads and prospects you receive as a result of your marketing activities, you need a reliable modern CRM system to help you store and analyze the customer data. Today, CRM systems are more than just databases to hold client’s names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Modern CRM software systems give you a lot of unique benefits.
What are the most important features every cloud based CRM should offer? Here are five key features to consider in your future CRM system.…
Behind every successful business lies successful infrastructure and workflow. Whether you are a sole trader or a multi-channel, multi-location firm and whether you provide a single conveyancing service, or it’s just one of many different legal services that you provide to clients, the use of modern and effective conveyancing management software can help improve your business efforts. You can improve communication, standardise the way in which your business operates, and you can more accurately record, report, and analyse business data. You can also offer individual project and time management features that not only help improve workflow completion, but also improve working conditions for your employees.…
Imagine a world without entrepreneurs. You know where we’d be? Still stuck in the medieval era, that’s where!
It was in fact the emergence of the merchant class that brought an end to that long-standing era where people were either masters or servants and there was no in-between.
Challenges in the UK
In modern Britain, we are seeing the most dramatic rise in poverty since the end of that dreadful era, and the widespread lack of money and opportunity has led to the greatest mass exploitation of the working class seen since the twilight of the Industrial Revolution.…
It’s challenging for local business owners to focus on core activities when they have to juggle a hundred different balls at the same time. How can you focus on networking when you’re wrapped up by IT requirements? What about local partnerships and social media?
As local businesses operate with smaller workforces compared to corporate giants, staff members are pushed all the times, and the growing demands of business can often make you lose track of core business operations.
Fortunately, there’s the option of outsourcing.…
There are many ways to measure the success of a startup. Profitability, value, how many people use the service or buy the product. One club that includes the cream of the crop is the “Unicorn Club,” those startups that are valued at over a billion dollars.
But what about the speed in which startups get unicorn status? While it doesn’t mean they will remain successful for life, it does prove that at one point they caught the proverbial lightning in a bottle.…
The most recent UN Climate Summit has many business owners wondering about the best ways to incorporate green ideas into their own businesses. For those currently looking to invest in new commercial properties, you may be wondering if limiting your search to those with green technology built-in is worthwhile. Here’s what you need to know about both the advantages and disadvantages of the situation.
What Are the Advantages?
When buying a property that has been built with its green credentials in mind, whether it be from installing solar panels or improving its cavity wall insulation, you should expect the annual utility bills to be heavily reduced.…
Your website is potentially the most important way that customers or prospects can engage with you as a business. If you don’t have a physical site or shop that people come to, it may even be the only public facing aspect of your business. You therefore need it to perform reliably and support all of the people who may want to be using it at any given time.
Even if your website is not the friendly face of a business, but a blog or other online-only venture, it still needs to be well managed and maintained, and of course up all of the time, to win you the visitors and readers you want.…
