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How to ensure your business is perceived as professional
When you become self-employed you have a choice to make about how you want your company and brand to be perceived. As an employee you will have always been expected to behave a certain way, provide a certain level of service or even complete tasks in the way that your...
The 5 things every small business should have on their website
Your website is your shop window and knowing what to put on it is a minefield. Check out this guide to the main pages every small business should have.
Keeping track of clients without an expensive CRM
Keeping track of your customers can be a tricky and time consuming process without a customer relationship management (CRM) system in place. As a small business starting up, you don’t always have the funds for an expensive system. So what should you be using? A simple...
Email marketing tips
You’ve taken the plunge and started creating an email newsletter. Your mailing list has subscribers and the first few newsletters have gone out. So what’s next? Take a look at how well your newsletter is actually performing by taking a look at the statistics. How many...
Think hiring a freelancer is too expensive?
Have you ever considered outsourcing to a freelancer and been surprised at how much they charge? Surely they should be cheaper! It’s just them doing the work after all, why should they charge so much? I saw a different freelancer charging much less yesterday, I...
The importance of secure passwords
How many different passwords do you use to access your secure websites and computer programs? According to Ofcom, 55% of internet users use just one password to access everything. If that wasn’t bad enough, 26% of the 1800 adults asked also said that they use easy to...
How to keep your accounts organised and not be panicking ahead of the tax return deadline
Hands up who leaves their accounts to the last minute, and finds themselves working long hours to get everything ready for the self-assessment deadline in January, each year? Not only does it take away your valuable time that could be spent elsewhere on your business...
Overwhelmed…
Quite often you can return from the Christmas break full of good intentions until the moment you open your email only to be confronted with over 100 urgent messages that all need dealing with there and then. The phone is ringing non stop and you still have half a...
How your business can benefit from using online forms
How many of you ask your clients or customers to complete a form when you start working with? Quite a few of you How many of you give your them a paper form to complete? Again quite a few So last questions, how many of you leave those forms sat on top of your desk and...
Happy Christmas
Thank you to everyone who has engaged with our advent calendar in 2015, all of the posts have now been moved but keep following our blog for more administrative hints and tips as well as special offers throughout 2016.
Let’s talk about business processes…
So I'm guessing I've put most of you off by the title of this blog post - lets face it business processes are boring and how often do you actually pick up that operations manual and follow the steps for each task - you know what you are doing in your business and you...
Our Christmas Advent Calendar is coming soon
Christmas is coming and it's not long now until my advent calendar full of Christmas craft and recipe ideas for all the family, as well as some fantastic competitions, games and of course some very special offers will be launched. I am so excited about this and hope...
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