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Often, the word ‘boundary’ has negative connotations, but in the business world, setting boundaries can make a big difference. In this article, NLP Master Trainer Ewan Mochrie discusses the importance of boundaries in business. Why is limit-setting important for business growth? A new business needs to be nurtured to maturity like a new-born baby or…
When I started freelancing ten years ago, I had to do my marketing the old fashioned way. Granted, Linkedin was launched in 2003 and then Facebook in 2004, but I hadn’t heard of them. I was too busy trudging my local neighbourhood with freshly designed flyers, pinning them in every library and appropriately placed shop…
“Real artists ship.” This quote was by the visionary former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and he was making a valid point about businesses, particularly those in the technology industry. It is always great to come up with cool and interesting concepts for a product, but it is even more important for you to actually deliver…
The Abilene Paradox was first put forward by JB Harvey in the mid-70’s. It says that a group of people can end up taking a course of action that none of them individually wants to take. It’s a paradox because it happens when people try and be nice to each other. It starts when someone…
Being a mother is perhaps the most difficult job of all, but nowadays many modern women manage to juggle parenting while also having a successful career. Men are now taking on a greater role in the household and dealing with family responsibilities in order to allow their partner to continue along their current career path.…
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” That quote was by a man who features regularly in the quote of the week, the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw. It sums up the whole nature…
Your business might have already taken tentative steps into the world of eCommerce by operating your own online storefront or offering things for sale directly through your website, but if you want to be successful it is important for you to understand the things that your customers want from their online shopping experience. The issue…
Regular contributor and friend of The Small Business Blog Tony Robinson OBE is passionate about micro business issues. His latest campaign is a petition to draw attention to the unfair practices used by large corporations that are putting small businesses at a disadvantage. Not only do larger corporates often pay their workers badly, they also…
Today is Blog Action Day 2013 and the theme for this year is Human Rights. We’ve decided to look at human rights legislation in the workplace. Human rights are protected by the law and this also applies to the workplace too. In the UK your work-related human rights and freedoms are protected by provisions of…
A BBC investigation has confirmed what many UK small business owners have been saying for a long time now – the measures to prevent late payment are simply not working. In 2008 the government established the Prompt Payment Code in order to ensure that small businesses get the money they are entitled to, often owed…
