Rise Partners

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 […]

The virtual secretary – now that had always intrigued me, for years since I first heard the title, I wondered what on earth it meant.   I actually was a VS, but at the time not called that.  I was just the junior working in a travel agency chain run by the company my mother worked […]

The whole point about being in business is to highlight your particular talent / product / service which you want to sell to other people.  Preferrably in enough quantities to make you some money.  It’s quite easy to enjoy a hobby and be good at making things, or doing services for other and not actually […]

Every business needs a leg up and helping hand throughout the first few years.  Getting the idea for a business is quite hard sometimes but when  you realise the hobby you were enjoying for yourself could be a money spinner, then actions have to be taken to get products out there to the others.  Logo […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]