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…
I think it is fair to say that trust in big business is at an all-time low. The banking sector, energy companies and other big businesses have made many headlines in the last few years about corporate greed and misbehaviour at the highest level. But here is the point, love ’em or loath ’em, we…
It is sometimes surprising how easy it is to get managers or business owners to believe their staff are working! Just clock in and all is well, but is it? If you need to worry about staff doing their work, you have problems. Motivating staff has to be the name of the game, not monitoring…
Yesterday I had reason to ponder the business model of copying products and services of others, or in this case more specifically us. Why do people do it? It is cheap, you don’t have to develop your own ideas and it works sometimes very well, i.e. if you buy a franchise for example. But the…
