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What Options Do You Have in a Real Financial Emergency?
The BBC has reported that 50% of young people in the UK do not have any savings. The figures recovered from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also stated that even those with savings have less than £1,000 saved for a rainy day. These trends are not exclusive to the UK with similar patterns detected…
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Should Your Business Outsource to China or Expand There: Our Tips on How to Make the Decision
When you first launch a business, there is no doubt you’ve laid out a full business plan, complete with all the goals and milestones you hope to achieve along the way. Within that plan, there’s a good chance you have alluded to the possibility of growing and expanding as the need arises. And while that…
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Managing a successful business online
Running an online business can be an exciting prospect, but do you know what you’ll need to do to get your idea moving and monetised? Product and brand Don’t make the common mistake of deciding on your product without first considering the market. Seek out people with a problem and consider how you could fill…
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Strategic Market Research For Your Industry
To ensure survival in a competitive marketplace, it’s essential that businesses obtain an understanding of their customers and competitors. This vital information assists in making key business decisions and promotes innovation and growth. Market research employs a number of quantitative and qualitative research techniques to gather information and provide analysis based on this data. Market…
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How To Expand My B2B Business Into E-Commerce
Over the last 20 years, it has become conventional wisdom that a business must offer an e-commerce component to have any hope of success. The reason for this is simple: Convenience is king. Being able to browse through an entire inventory and place an order at virtually any time and from practically anywhere has become…
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Speed Up the Sales Cycle and Increase Profits
It goes without saying that when you hasten the sales cycle, you will sell more and thus increase profits. But how can your business accelerate the sales cycle? After all, the same seven steps are still required: prospecting, lead contacting, lead qualifying, nurturing a lead along, presenting the offer, responding to objections and closing the…
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Five Ideas for Your Next Direct Mail Strategy
So much of the brand experience has become digitized that the commerce world now finds itself in an interesting cycle as old trends return with modern attributes. To stand out today, you might have to look at yesterday. Such as the case with direct mail. Direct mail reaches consumers right where they are-in the safety…
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How to support your employees’ wellbeing as they return to work
Covid-19 has completely flipped the world of work on its head. Whilst before you may have been used to an open-plan office and were happy to talk to your colleagues during your breaks, the last few months have been filled with working remotely and enjoying the silence that home life has to offer. Now that…
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Rethinking our use of paper since Covid-19
Lockdown measures across the world have lead many businesses to rethink their daily work life and as many pack up their equipment and begin working from home, employees and staff have had to get creative when it comes to sharing, saving and storing paper documents. With that in mind, Joe Muddiman, General Manager from Rads…
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Happy Employees Make a Happy Business
You’re a small business owner, so you know the truth: business is actually built totally on relationships. And the most important relationships are the ones you build with your team. Your employes, and your staff. Keeping them happy, engaged, and inspired can make or break the business that you are so tenaciously trying to build.…