Ideas

In the current climate it is tough for young people to get a job.  More and more people are using the opportunity to start out in business.

We asked a couple of seasoned campaigners for their tips for starting in business. (Read more…)

Team-building events are not only great tools to help build and develop relationships between colleagues, but they are also extremely valuable when it comes to increasing employee motivation and rewarding staff, and they can also be used to reinforce a particular message. (Read more…)

Here are a range of business travel tips to make your next trip easier and more productive.

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If you attend meetings at all regularly, the chances are that you want to make them more productive.

My personal dread is the huge meeting, with over a dozen participants. Typically, all of them want to justify their presence and have something to say. But meetings can certainly be made more productive.

Indeed, more than a third of Americans recently polled consider meetings to be “a complete waste of time”, according to California’s Meeting Solutions. (Read more…)

For many of us it is a real dream – to start a small business – and yet for the unwary it is one that frequently can lead to financial disaster.

Business Helper looks at the key steps that you need to start and run a small business (Read more…)

Business ideas

All businesses start with an idea – so how do you find the right business ideas?

We have listed a few ideas that could help you find the right business. (Read more…)

We have been looking around for an example of a good clean desk policy and had been unable to find one – so we wrote our own.

Here is an example that you can use. (Read more…)

Is your small business idea sound?

Before you kick off your project it is probably worth checking whether your small business idea is sound.

Why?

Just as people will never tell you that your baby is ugly, you will seldom get an honest opinion on whether your business idea is sound. (Read more…)

Marketing is the lifeblood of any small company. The initial success of your company, or its growth, will depend upon whether you can attract enough customers.

Here are some marketing ideas that could help your company to grow. (Read more…)

We explore a range of ideas to help you set up a home working business.

Many of us dream about working from home and getting away from the daily 9-5 grind and long commuting time. For many of us it has been a way of freeing up our lifestyle and working in a more flexible way. (Read more…)