Knowing how to make the most of your business opportunities is something that you only learn in time.  No one who starts their own business can possibly have any idea how to keep up with their competition.  In fact, when you first start trading and realising that this hobby as was, is now a fast […]

One of the things  I’m getting used to about volunteering is that I although I’m so self disciplined to taking orders or just always wanting to meet someone’s criteria, I don’t actually have to abide by particularly stringent rules that affect the paid members of staff at the same place.  There are different expectations of […]

The way we run businesses these days is so very different to methods of yesteryear.  When you see the older documentaries produced in the 1960s and 1970s, there are ‘businessmen’ going about their daily tasks – the smarter chaps in their bowler, crombie coat, obligatory umbrella and briefcase.  The train station would be awash with […]

Any size business needs to promote itself.  Not only amongst the locality, but if suitable, then further afield and more importantly, online.  The next point is to ensure this online presence is as noticeable and easy to recogise as possible.  Sometimes it is possible to fix this yourself – you have social media apps ad […]

There can be nothing more frustrating for a business person than sitting waiting for someone to arrive, or if they have, to get themselves organised and ready for the meeting.  We do spend an inordinate amount of time travelling – be that in the car or on trains, planes etc.   There have been some amazing […]

Once you have your business ticking over nicely, you have a good base of regular customers and are confidently thinking about getting more customer interest, one of the most sucessful is to use seo methods.  Companies in that line are experts in getting  your name banded enough for interest to come to your site.  It […]

In these very challenging times business wise, it is so tempting to just go with the flow, sell whatever you can from your product range and try to keep your head above water.  Not everyone thinks big and decides to invest further sums in a radical new website and ordering system.  It is incredible though […]

Small companies often struggle when it comes to administating their enterprise.  I have found that men especially are not terribly good at sorting out their priorities in the world of business management.  Just concentrating on bringing  sales and ensuring you have enough of whatever the product is, to meet this new ademand is only part […]

In the really old days before tv advertising, the only way to get your services and goods known to the wider community was to walk about literally with ‘sandwich’ boards attached to one’s person.  These were probably only wooden, with leather sraps to hold them onto your shoulders and you simply wrote or painted details […]

There is a much greater viariety of ways to promote and advertise one’s business and services than ever before.  When I was much younger, the only method for getting  yourself known if you were starting a new business for example, was to engage an advertising agent if funds could run to that.  Their fee would […]