When you think about what a business fundamentally does, “building relationships” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Building relationships seems more suited for a counselor or someone who is involved in a service related job. Too often, people’s perception of a business is about selling people things. This is true only on the most basic level. However, when you think about what goes on in a transaction, communication is essential, and the building block of a solid relationship. The way to outperform the competition is to think in terms of relationships rather than just sales.…
Over the past decade, or so, the way we do business has changed at a phenomenal rate. During that time, we have moved from using pen and paper to keep track of everything to doing everything using electronics.
Paper ledgers are out databases are in. Security guards are a thing of the past, now we use remotely controlled CCTV, and digital alarm systems, to protect our businesses.
Even production machines are hooked up to a network. Machine setters rarely go onto the shop floor to fix issues, or set up a piece of equipment for a new production run.…
High business rates are forcing many startups to abandon London, and leaving entrepreneurs to invest in the Caffe Nero loyalty card scheme instead.
Life for small businesses in London has never been more challenging. For example, the West End has seen rent, business rates and service charge costs increase by up to 16% to £217.75 per square feet per annum since 2014.
The 2017 business rates revaluation is aiming to help smaller businesses gain relief, or even exemption, from the tax altogether.…
Investments aren’t a game of chance. The better you are at them, the more successful you’ll be.
It’s a stark truth that varying amounts of money can be made depending on decisions made and actions taken. Investment options other than savings accounts aren’t guaranteed to make specific returns. There again, investing purely in ‘safe’ cash savings can’t be said to offer particularly good returns presently due to current low interest rates.
If you’re bewildered about how to go about making your investments count financially, then expert advice is worth seeking and there’s plenty to be found especially online including tutorials for the beginner investor.…
In the financial industry setting we have to today, there are tons of opinions about stockbrokers, traders, and stockbroking. A lot of people believe that those who are engaged in this are millionaires walking around the metropolis wearing fancy suits and working day and night. Allow us to debunk the myth as we talk about what people say about stockbroking.
Stockbroking Is All Guesswork
Those who have never tried stockbroking before would think that everything is just guesswork– that brokers and traders often make random bets based on the direction of the market they’re in.…
Since the past couple of decades, the recent advances in Information Technology and related applications have provided companies with the perfect tools to achieve business success by promoting a higher level of customer interaction and internal as well as external organizational capability and efficiency. The data analytics process has improved and increased the quality of Business Intelligence thanks to the introduction of text mining applications, which act as a filter to help companies reduce the overflow of excessive and unusable data that circulates internally as well as externally on the world wide web.…
Launching your own open source project is always exciting. You’ve worked on the project for so long and now it’s starting to attract users. Some businesses may be interested in using your open source solution, while home or personal users are beginning to contribute to the project as it grows further. The initial launch of the project is a critical moment.
In order for an open source project or business to be known, it needs to have a good marketing strategy.…
In the competitive world of SEO, businesses, big and small, are trying to utilise every possible factor that will help them get higher page rank and ad viewability on the search result page. Web design is one of these ranking factors that can lead to the success or failure of your business. This is so because search engines like Google factor in web design as a part of their algorithm.
Therefore, knowing the best practices in designing your website will surely get you somewhere.…
Distribution isn’t just about getting from A to B in as quick a time as possible, like a real life variation on Crazy Taxi. As with any type of service, you’re not only distributing speedily. You’re also trying to move goods with the kind of panache usually reserved for tailors at Saville Row.
Because, let’s face it – there’s realistically very little to differentiate one bulk distribution company from the other, at least on a surface level. On the face of it, every company is basically offering incredibly similar looking metal containers, each attached to trucks that look the same as they always have.…
Before we even decide where we want to allocate our portfolio assets, we must understand what our needs and goals are. Besides this, we must be able to take a risk and stick to our decision, no matter how this difficult can be. These two ingredients- defining needs and goals and risk management, are crucial for every XTrade Europe investor.
It is not unusual that traders take more risks than they actually can handle. This could be a big problem. In most cases, they give up too soon, because they do not have enough strength or courage to move on.…
