Almost half of SMEs (49 per cent) across the manufacturing sector have aspirations for growth over the next three months, compared with only 31 per cent six months ago immediately after the EU referendum, according to the new quarterly research from Hitachi Capital’s British Business Barometer. The percentage of SMEs anticipating decline is also down from 12 per
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Monthly Archives: March 2017
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4 Networking Tips for Introverts
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How to Spring Clean Your Gadgets
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You probably don’t want to know what lurks on your devices. Embrace your inner germaphobe and get scrubbing (without damaging your tech).
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7 Ways Entrepreneurship Helps You Be a Better . . . Anything
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Whether you ultimately decide to be a poet, salesperson, scholar, chef or anything in between, entrepreneurship can give you the skills that will improve your chances of success.
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SXSW 2017: Sure, You've Got a Brand Strategy, but What's Your Chat Strategy?
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The big opportunity for businesses to win with this technology lies with how well it succeeds in making their customer interactions more personable and intuitive.
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Warning! Are You Hindering Your Employees' Creativity?
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How This Single Mom Became a Virtual Assistant from Home
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Tawnya Sutherland’s entrepreneurial journey started more than 18 years ago. As a divorced mother of three, she needed to find a way to put food on the table, a roof over their heads, and still find time to spend time with her kids. Read on to see how this single mom was able to defy […]
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Businesses urged to join consumer protection scheme
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Businesses are being urged to join one of the UK’s most robust and trusted consumer codes of practice schemes after the total amount it protects topped £50 billion per year. The Consumer Codes Approval Scheme (CCAS) is a growing family of sector-specific consumer codes, each sponsored by an industry body and vetted by the Chartered Trading
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Firms more concerned about retaining staff than the impact of Brexit
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Businesses are more concerned about retaining and developing staff in the next six months than the potential impact of Brexit, according to a poll of over 3,000 senior HR professionals carried out by Alexander Mann Solutions. In its survey, the global talent acquisition and management specialist finds that 23 per cent of companies are most concerned
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Setting small business financial goals: Why and how you should do it
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
Too few choose to ignore it, or simply don’t do properly, yet setting small business financial goals is a practice that can change the way you look at your business. Paying attention and getting it right, then, is absolutely vital. A financial goal is a target; something you put in place with hopes of achieving
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