Monthly Archives: February 2017

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Five things you need to know before scaling your business

by Ben Lobel • February 7, 2017 • 0 Comments

Scaling your business is exciting. If all goes well, your team, your customer base and your revenue will grow. If done badly, you could end up with stressed out colleagues, a crisis of responsibility, and a lot of admin. Here are five things you should think about before scaling up. Know your business An analysis
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Admin is killing UK business: A quarter of managers struggle daily

by Owen Gough • February 7, 2017 • 0 Comments

New research reveals that managers from across the UK suffer from too much admin. It has been found that small businesses are being particularly affected, as 35 per cent of SME leaders spending much of their day on paperwork, tripling time spent on admin tasks over customer services. The management pressures and productivity survey, conducted by
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Cyber security readiness study finds widespread shortcomings

by Owen Gough • February 7, 2017 • 0 Comments

A study of 3,000 companies in the UK, US and Germany, conducted for specialist insurer Hiscox, reveals that more than half (53 per cent) of businesses in the three countries have ill-prepared security to deal with cyber-attacks. The Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2017 assesses firms according to their readiness in four key areas – strategy, resourcing, technology
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Midlands engine roars ahead in start-up surge

by Owen Gough • February 7, 2017 • 0 Comments

Midlands city, Birmingham, is crowned the most entrepreneurial city in the UK (outside of London), while overall the north has seen a surge in start-up lending, according to data from The Start Up Loans Company. The top ten is based on the local authorities, including city boroughs, that secured the highest amounts of start-up funding in
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The Party Plan – An UnderEstimated Way To Make A Great Living – Arbonne Review

by Ted Nuyten • February 7, 2017 • 0 Comments

Direct Selling has basically 2 kinds of compensation plans to make a living possible for a distributor: The Network Marketing compensation plan and the Party Plan. Around a party plan there are myths and mis-understandings:
“You can not make much money in a party plan”
‘It’s for stay at home mums”
“It’s not sexy for young people”
“You have to wait for weeks before you get your money”
If you analyze the earnings in a party plan compensation plan, in this case Arbonne, the truth is different. The average party plannes holds two to four a month including in-home, online and virtual parties, plus direct orders through customer accounts. Party plan companies have combined their party plan with network marketing compensation strategies, and therfore made it possible to earn much more.
Companies pay commissions by direct deposit weekly or