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Monthly Archives: February 2017
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Tupperware Brands Posts Q4 Earnings Beat
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Tupperware Brands Corp. (TUP—NYSE) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter 2016 earnings that topped Wall Street estimates.
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The differences between freelancing and zero hours contracts
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Small businesses are under increasing pressure to find ways to balance the need to hire staff and the need to stay profitable. One of the simplest ways to achieve this, where a full-time hire can not be justified, is to make sure they only pay for staff when they are needed. This flexible way to
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Competition for jobs is rife, as candidate applications rise in January
by Owen Gough • • 0 Comments
Candidate applications were up by a staggering 55 per cent in January, suggesting that competition for jobs is rife this New Year. This is according to CV-Library, which compared its job market data from January 2017 with December 2016. The data shows that key sectors across the UK saw an impressive rise in application rates last
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Microbusiness optimism trails behind larger SMEs
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Less than half (45 per cent) of microbusiness owners with fewer than five employees expect their company to grow over the next two years compared to almost three-quarters (73 per cent) of larger scale SMEs, according to a new report commissioned by Albion Ventures. The fourth Albion Growth Report, which is based on interviews with 1,000 SMEs
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Marketing planning: Getting your business the exposure it needs in 2017
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
One of the biggest challenges faced by small business owners is the creation and implementation of their marketing strategies. They know they need a marketing plan, but where will they find the resources to create that plan? There are marketing methods available to you that will cost you little or no capital, and will net
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Skills gap revealed as three quarters of SMEs plan big data project
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Three quarters (76 per cent) of UK companies are planning a big data or data analytics project within the next twelve months, but 70 per cent of C-level executives say they are struggling to up-skill employees effectively to maximise Return on Investment (ROI) for business intelligence tools. The big data skills gap is highlighted in
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BT invites SMEs to help secure the nations economic security
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BT launches a competition to find innovative new ideas from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) aimed at protecting the UK’s critical infrastructure and keeping public sector and business data secure. BT SME Award 2017: Securing the Nation will give SMEs the chance to showcase their new technology and product ideas within three award categories: Cyber Security;
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How small businesses can support employees with long-term illnesses
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
One in seven employees was absent for four weeks or more from small businesses in the previous 12 months, according to a recent survey by Ellipse. This stark statistic highlights the problem faced by small businesses, when the loss of one employee from the workforce inevitably causes major problems. Small business owners are more likely
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Evolving your business to fit the needs of a changing sector
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The world of business and technology are changing at a rate of knots. New cloud technologies, services and solutions are coming to market every day, and companies are finding they are calling on ‘traditional’ services less. If your business is one established in the pre-internet era, chances are, it will need to undergo some form
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