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We’re big fans of Apple products here at The Small Business Blog. If you’ve recently got an iPad (or even if you’ve had one at home for awhile), there are a lot of cool little features that you might not know about which can make your device easier and safer to use for work. Today’s…
“Brain cells create ideas. Stress kill brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.” That quote was by US business write Doug Hall and it is a good explanation of why too much stress will be bad for your business. Pressure can inspire you to create your best work, but too much pressure will lead…
Ecommerce is the sensible (and sometimes, only) option for businesses of a certain size. But online businesses also have the highest likelihood of failing, with some sectors experiencing a failure rate of up to 90% – sometimes as early as the first 120 days. So what is the cause of all these unfortunate business fatalities?…
Earlier this year, we published a news article criticising the Government’s decision to postpone the next business rates revaluation from 2015 until 2017. Rating Director Rod Edwards described the Government’s decision as ‘a badly thought out move, which will prevent any hope of rateable value realignment which ratepayers so desperately need’. At the…
It might seem too early for your small business to start planning for the festive period, but larger companies certainly don’t think this is the case. If you walk into any of the major supermarkets this weekend you will see that they have a lot of their Xmas stock out already, so small businesses should…
You may have heard the term before but not have much understanding about it – so what exactly is a Virtual Private Server? They have existed for over a decade now as a way of hosting the data of any business and storing it off-site. This has made it a lot easier for small businesses…
These are austere times. And austere times make people tread with caution; new business ideas are talked over carefully, slowly analysed and debated before anything is done. The market is analysed, the risks carefully weighed up and the decision to commit pondered long and hard before anyone goes ahead. The market conditions are difficult to…
We are taught from an early age to mind our language and be careful about the way we talk to other people but do you ever stop to think about how you talk to yourself? As children we become accustomed to phrases such as: Don’t talk to me like that. Don’t do that. Be careful………
Running a business without any formal procedures in place might seem cool and trendy, but when your enterprise begins to grow and problems start to occur you will soon see why having written procedures are an essential part of running any business. Here are our Top 5 Tips for establishing procedures: 1. Entrepreneurs are often…
Have you considered making a special offer or discounting your prices to try and drive extra sales? If you have, or are considering doing so in the future, let me ask you to pause for a second and consider something….. Imagine you are researching, browsing or shopping for something new. Also, let’s say you are…
