4 online marketing tips that can work wonders for restaurants
According to a 2016 marketing whitepaper by Pragma, the UK bar and restaurant industry was worth £78.8 billion in 2014, showing an increase of 0.86% since 2008. The report also found that independent restaurants were losing market share over the period at a rate of -2.8%, giving up ground to fine dining and branded restaurants.…
Whoops! Mistakes You Need To Avoid At Your Conference
If you have a conference on the calendar for your business, you need to think of it as a grand opportunity. It’s the chance to make an impact, maximize interest and ensure that people are aware of your company. You can also attract potential investors and ensure that the reach of your business expands. New…
Medical negligence: Drilling down into the stats
It’s a term that’s becoming more and more popular and when you delve into the statistics, it comes as really no surprise. Medical negligence claims are on the rise and are becoming something that the NHS has to seriously factor into its budget. To put the issue into perspective, it’s understood that the organization will…
Keep Your Highstreet Store Healthy
Business owners considering setting up a shop on the high street should think carefully about the danger to this company model. First, there’s the issue with online competition. If you can find the product that you’re selling, online with cheaper production costs, you’ve already lost the battle. If there is a website selling a product…
Does Being Tight With Your Money Pay Off When You’re Starting A New Business?
It’s no big secret: everyone tells you to spend as little as possible when you start a new business. After all, you want to make sure that your new enterprise can grow and not get into any financial trouble! There are plenty of guides on the Internet that tell you how can you be savvier…
Don’t Burst Your Budget! Money-Saving Tricks For Businesses
Saving money wherever possible in your business should be a top priority. That is especially the case if you’re planning to launch a new venture. While you will probably get some investment from the bank, you don’t want to waste that cash. So, you need to keep your eyes peeled for lots of ways to…
The True Cost Of Bad Hires: It’s Worse Than You Think
In places like Boston, London, and Silicon Valley, startups have to operate on a shoestring. There simply isn’t much wiggle room in the system for startups to splash out. If they do, venture capital money goes elsewhere. This means that when startups make bad hires, it’s bad news. People are most startup’s biggest expense,…
Managing Success: How To Ensure Your Employees Strive
As a business owner, you have to work hard to ensure you provide effective management for your staff. Failure to do that would mean your company never reaches maximum productivity. At the end of the day, you became involved in the corporate landscape to make a profit. So, it’s wise to ensure you run the…
Are You Using Social Media All Wrong?
Social media is one of the most incredible developments in the modern world. It’s changed the way that we communicate with one another; it allows people to stay close even over vast distances, it’s even changed the way that we think about our own lives. And when something makes this much of difference to the…
Overcoming content shock with compelling marketing
Content is king, or so we’ve always been told. We’re led to believe that customers have an attention span of zero – stop entertaining them and they’ll find another business that does in the click of a button. So the response is content, content and more content. Blogs, social media, whitepapers, infographics, videos – whatever…
Online BACS Payment Basics that New Businesses Need to Know
As technology continues to advance, the way that customers and banks conduct payments with third parties continues to advance and modernise. With new methods coming out constantly, it is important for new businesses to stay on top of these modern methods to successfully compete in a changing industry. One of the newest methods on the…
So, You Want To Open An Office? You’re Gonna Need Some Help
There comes time for most home business where you can no longer perform your work from the bedroom or home-office. At this point, for a lot of modern businesses, you have to open an office. Of course, this comes with a huge set of challenges and jobs to do. Among these are some jobs that…