Despite a Series of Rejections of Your Business Proposals, Don’t Give Up!
You’re lucky if you can find the right investor the first time of asking. If you have an irresistible idea, a host of investors will be ready to fund you. However, you can’t expect things to go as smoothly as you would like. If an investor turns down your proposal, you have to stand up…
‘3 Reasons Why Local SEO is Important
SEO is a marketing tool used to boost the levels of web traffic, leads, and brand awareness. Local SEO works in the same way but from a local search. Local SEO can be improved in standard ways such as maximizing the use of relevant keywords, through optimizing Google’s My Business profile and building NAP citations.…
Giving Your Firm The Facelift It Deserves
At a time where most businesses are reassessing their strategy and making new, hard decisions, focusing on improving or changing your brand image can be important. Yet too many firms believe that a change in name or logo is enough to completely overhaul their reputation or even approach. For this reason, something of a more…
The Importance of SEO to Small Businesses
For a small business, this is a harder time than they’re used to. Indeed, as we’ve recently written about, some former employees are now going into business for themselves. Perhaps even a few are using skills learned on the job to now compete in the same industry on a smaller scale. As a result, smaller…
How to Turn Your Customer Care Team into Service Pros
Excellent customer service is one of the keys to growing any business. Yes, the best way to ensure that your customers come back is by making them feel cared for. You can achieve this by ensuring that they get personal attention whenever they interact with your business. That is why you should invest in improving…
How Dirty Is Your Office?
Maintaining a clean office should be a priority. A dirty office can create a bad impression for guests, it can affect employee morale, it can make you and your employees sick and it could even lead to damaged equipment. Most of us don’t have a real idea of how dirty our office is. Germs and…
How to harness bonuses and incentives to work for your business
Getting the most of your employees and ensuring productivity is as high as possible can help you make the most of the resources you have. There are different ways to go about this, including development plans for colleagues and incentives for promotion. And for generations, business have utilised bonus schemes as a means of getting…
How Exchange Rates Affect Your Business
For most business owners who deal domestically, exchange rates seem like no more than abstract figures. Yes, you’re aware that the pound is worth less than it used to be, but aside from wondering how it will affect your summer holiday budget, you give it little thought. The same cannot be said for businesses who…
Why You Don’t Always Need An In-House Marketing Team
Listen. If you can afford to hire in-house marketing specialists within your business, then fine. Thanks to their skills and talents, you will have the opportunity to promote your business to the masses, and hopefully, experience the profits gained from a greater number of customers. But if you can’t afford an in-house marketing team?…
From Unemployment To Entrepreneurship: Making Money Independently On Lockdown
The COVID-19 virus, and the lockdown it has necessitated have dealt many of us a punishing blow. Some of us have been directly affected by it and may even have lost loved ones to it. Even those lucky enough to have avoided the virus itself have not been lucky enough to avoid the grievous social…
How To Look The Part And Convince Customers You’re To Be Trusted
In the world of business, you have to be able to get people on your side. If you can attract people, build relationships with them, and keep them on your team, then you’re going to stand a great chance of success. The longer you keep people loving you, the more longevity you’re going to have. …
Using Facebook to Market Your Business
The majority of consumers around the world utilize social media on a daily basis. The high volume of people who use social media means that social media is one of the best ways to market your business online. Read more about other types of digital marketing and why they are essential to your business. To…