Category: Business

  • Trendy choices that pubs, restaurants and bars are using to keep up

    Trendy choices that pubs, restaurants and bars are using to keep up

    Going back 20 years, there was 60,800 pubs in the UK alone. Now, the number is closer to 48,350. With supermarkets offering alcohol for keep, and more than enough takeaway apps and entertainment at home, it’s an increasingly difficult game to try and coax people out of their homes. Let’s explore the new, trendy methods…

  • Negotiating Mistakes You Should Avoid

    Negotiating Mistakes You Should Avoid

    Our lives are an endless chain of negotiations, from negotiating when to go to bed as a kid, to negotiating an insurance deal for your car. We instinctively know our limits based on our options, namely our Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement – BATNA. The most powerful tool you can have in a negotiation…

  • Ace Your Next Business Radio Interview: 6 Tips to Get It Right

    Ace Your Next Business Radio Interview: 6 Tips to Get It Right

    You just landed your first major business radio interview. Congratulations — this could be a really big deal for your career. Or it could be a total dud.  Let’s be reasonable: Unless you say something truly inappropriate on the air, your upcoming interview probably won’t be a career-ending disaster. But, if you don’t know what…

  • 5 Essential Data Security Tips for Business

    5 Essential Data Security Tips for Business

    Businesses today handle all kinds of data, much of it personal in nature. Consumers have seen a number of corporations behaving carelessly with their personal data, making it more important than ever that businesses redouble their data protection efforts with help from companies such as can be found at https://cyral.com/data-activity-monitoring/. Fortunately, good data security is…

  • 4 Actionable Tips to Become a Better Employee

    4 Actionable Tips to Become a Better Employee

    Have you ever wondered if you are viewed as a great employee by your employer? Being a great employee doesn’t always come naturally. For most, it requires hard work to consistently produce quality work, be productive, being a team player and ultimately contribute the success of the company. If you think you are doing a…

  • Marketing laws limiting product placement around the world

    Marketing laws limiting product placement around the world

    It seems hard to imagine a life without being bombarded with intense marketing techniques and product placement. You might agree that’s sometimes it’s hard to differentiate between strategy and reality? For this reason, and in a bid to protect the general public, various governments throughout the world have introduced laws which limit the location, timing,…

  • The importance of lunch breaks at work

    The importance of lunch breaks at work

    We’ve all been there. A stressful day, the work just keeps coming in, and you feel like you’re behind before you even start. Lunch break comes around – for some people, this is extra time to catch up on work, rather than a chance to take, well, a break! According to a 2017 survey of…

  • 4 Productivity Hacks for Full-Time Home Workers

    4 Productivity Hacks for Full-Time Home Workers

    You know all too well how devastating a well-timed distraction can be. According to a UC-Irvine study reported by The Muse, the average person needs a whopping 23 minutes (and then some) to recover from a distraction. That’s many times longer than your typical at-work interlude. For those who work exclusively at home, distractions pose…

  • How can you motivate your employees?

    How can you motivate your employees?

    Let’s be honest, it’s hard to feel motivated when you’re at work. For most people, having a job is a necessity rather than a choice, and the best that they can do is to try and choose a career that they don’t hate. To combat this, companies are introducing innovative ways to help their workforce…

  • How much of an impact does sport have on the economy of the UK?

    How much of an impact does sport have on the economy of the UK?

    For the year ahead, some news correspondents are forecasting another great year for UK sports. In particular, cricket is set to be the focus of the year while men’s football takes a backseat, as both the Cricket World Cup and the Ashes series are to be held in England.  There’s no doubt that the summer…