by Sarah Banks | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, Business Planning
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...
by Sarah Banks | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog, Email Marketing
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...
by Sarah Banks | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog, Business Planning
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...
by Sarah Banks | Feb 27, 2016 | Blog, Business Planning
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...
by Sarah Banks | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog
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...
by Sarah Banks | Jan 4, 2016 | Blog, Business Planning, Email Management
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...