As a small business owner, you’re naturally going to have to keep a lot of balls in the air at any one time. You simply don’t have the luxury of being able to devote entire weeks or months to one specific area of your business. Your average working week is, necessarily, an often frantic scramble…
Read More3 Steps to Make Sure Team Members Don’t Become Part of the Problem
Anyone who’s been around the business block a couple of times almost certainly has more than their fair share of horror stories to tell around “strategic revamps”, “pivots” and “repositioning”. Things, to put it kindly, don’t always go well. The sad fact is that, while there’s no doubting the need for ongoing strategic review at…
Read MoreThe 5 Habits That Define Successful Teams
Once you’re through the initial panic of getting your small business off the ground on your own, attention soon turns towards putting the right team in place to secure your firm’s long-term future. Get the mix right, and you can look forward to many years of calm, steady growth. Get it wrong, and you’ll be…
Read MoreHow To Eliminate Distractions As A Small Business Owner
As a small business owner, you’re naturally going to have to keep a lot of balls in the air at any one time. You simply don’t have the luxury of being able to devote entire weeks or months to one specific area of your business. Your average working week is, necessarily, an often frantic scramble…
Read MoreHow To Transform Customer Support From A Money Pit To A Profit Centre
The subject of customer support isn’t generally one that fills most small business owners’ hearts with glee. When time and resources are tight, clearing the decks to handle customer feedback, some of it potentially negative, can seem like a big task to tackle. There is, however, a much rosier view that can be taken of…
Read More3 Facebook Mistakes to Avoid for Small Business Owner
Over a decade into its existence, Facebook is an increasingly dominant presence online. With over 1.7 billion active users faithfully logging in each day, and powerful new advertising features being rolled out each month, the platform has emerged as the clear winner in the social media wars. If you’re looking to capture customer attention as…
Read MoreThe Difference Between Building A Business And Building A Job
Starting out as an entrepreneurial small business owner has never been easier and, in many ways, it’s never made more sense as a long-term move than now. The days of one-company careers are pretty much done and dusted. These days, you’ll be lucky if you manage to stay put in one industry let alone happily…
Read More9 Business Boosting Techniques To Master
Whether you’re a budding solo entrepreneur or a middle-manager in a larger organisation, you’ll soon realise that getting ahead is going to take a lot more than simply showing up every day and hoping for the best. If there’s one factor that marks out those who ultimately succeed, it’s that they are sticking to some…
Read MoreHow To Learn The ABCs Of Defining Your Ideal Customers
Let’s be honest – when you’re struggling to get your business off the ground, the ideal customer is any customer. As things start to settle down, however, you’ll get substantially more selective and start spending increasing amounts of time and energy working out exactly who your perfect picks are and how to attract them. Let’s…
Read MoreHow to Run Effective Small Business PR on a Budget
Public relations is an incredibly powerful marketing channel, but often comes at an eye-watering price that small business owners simply can’t afford. Even if you do have the money to burn, a full-scale, externally managed PR campaign is often not appropriate for early stage entrepreneurs. In this piece, we’ll teach how to run effective small…
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