As the days get longer and warmer, you’re starting to notice your attention span getting shorter and shorter. The great outdoors is beckoning, and your stuffy office is looking less appealing by the second! We get it; while winter feels like a natural time to sit inside in front of your computer screen, summer screams ‘fun
If the glittering decorations across shop fronts and lampposts don’t highlight that the end of the year is fast approaching, we don’t know what does! Whether you are winding down for a well-earned break or winding up for a busy sales period, the end of the year is the ideal time to take a look
If you have ventured out into the shops in the last few weeks, you may have noticed that those sparkly green and red decorations are starting to appear on the shelves. Before you know it, Xmas songs will be blasting from the radio, tinsel will be dripping from ceilings, and Xmas trees will be for
‘Entrepreneur’ has become a buzzword. There seem to be more and more stories popping up about self-made millionaires and small businesses making it BIG in what appear to be overnight successes. The rise of mobile tech and super fast Internet access means owning your own small business is easier than ever before. In short, the
Do you remember when you joined Facebook for the first time? I do. I was late to the party, that’s for sure. I thought Facebook looked dull and was still an avid ‘Bebo’ fan. Making quizzes for my friends and changing the background pictures and themes to all kinds of snazzy designs. (Hey, I was in my
No one starts a business thinking it will fail. Just like the beginnings of a new relationship, starting a new company is exciting, exhilarating, and fresh. When you first start out, you’re not sure where things will end up, but you know where you’d like your new business to go. You have boundless energy and
Lying awake at 2 am, tossing and turning. You have an early meeting tomorrow that you’re presenting at and you need to sleep. Instead, you’re toiling over a huge client that hasn’t replied. It’s been three weeks. You’d based your whole next month’s income on this client. You’ve already hired staff to cope with the
Getting a bit philosophical today, as we ponder the notion of time. Time is many things: The fourth dimension; something people want to speed up or slow down depending on the situation; it’s something we waste, buy, steal, and spend; in fact, there are even people out there trying to work out if we can
With a fledgling business, it is easy to manage your client information in the early days. Once the workload increases (you bring on more customers and add members to your team etc.) things can get a bit more complicated. Suddenly those spreadsheets, sticky notes, whiteboards, notepads and the old memory banks are just not doing
Does your phone ring off the hook at the worst times of the day? Unexpected business calls can disrupt your flow and eat up big chunks of your time; BUT because they also give you the chance to offer customer care or to make a sale, you can’t just ignore them! What can be done?
