How Your Business Plan Can Motivate Your Staff
Can a business plan really be helpful in motivating your staff? Can a dry, faceless necessity of a document be of any interest at all to anyone but the owner...
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Marketing covers a wide range of topics such as products and services, advertising, sales, promotions, and the marketing mix. People often confuse advertisin...
Marketing Facts and Figures
Marketing Facts and Figures Marketing is the attempt by a business to anticipate and then satisfy the needs of customers in order to please the customer and...
Business Planning Problems and How to Get Round Them
Using a business plan is fundamental to the sound running of your business, but writing a business plan is not without its problems. Here are few potential p...
Marketing for Next to Nothing
You might have the best business idea in the last ten years. You might have a great product. However, if no one knows about it, you’re not going to make an...
Why Starting a Business Should Not Be a Last Resort
A lot of people end up running a business of their own. There’s a bit of a problem with that. Running a business is fine, but “ending up” running impli...
Your Business and the Environment
The twenty-first Century has seen much greater awareness of man’s effect on the environment, and, finally, there seems to be a realisation that the actions...
What Business Values Will Be Important Beyond 2010?
The events of 2007 and 2008 may have changed the business world forever. Banks have been nationalised, household names have disappeared from our High Streets...
10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Going Into Business
1. Who Are You? If you are starting up a business then you need to be confident in yourself. If it’s your business, you will be the crucial factor in its f...
Why Starting a Business in a Recession Can Work
No one claims that starting a business during a recession is easy, but would-be entrepreneurs can make a success of it if they have the right proposition and...