Communications
Check your files
Just like if you post an offensive remark on Twitter, or send a colleague an off-colour joke, when you deal with clients you are liable to be judged by your communication. The very last thing you want, then, is to send them something that could potentially damage their computer. Yet, unless you have good antivirus [...]
How Has Business Evolved Using Social Networking?
Business communication has dramatically changed since the ready availability of work and personal computers and especially since the invention of the Internet. We can communicate and indeed do business with customers globally at very little cost. Prior to computers communication would have been paper based and rely on the postal service to deliver quotations of [...]
Business Events
Choosing the right networking event
There are no hard and fast rules to choosing the right networking event for your and your business but there are however, some things that you might want to consider before committing to attend. Is the event relevant to your business area? You can find this out easily enough by researching the company holding the [...]
Boosting Morale – Team Building and Corpporate Events
In the current economic climate employers are looking at ways to streamline businesses and cut costs, measures taken by employers can sometimes stretch employees by asking that they take on extra tasks on occasion without the ability to offer any financial reward. This is where corporate events are great ideas. This may seem to contradict [...]
Presenting A Business And Putting Together A Business Presentation
To most of us the very idea of public speaking fills us with dread, particularly if we are making a business presentation to fellow experts in a particular field. The best way to prepare is to research your subject and practise your presentation before you have to present to peers. Business presentations are not all [...]
Mentoring Master
Sometimes in life it is possible to become an expert in a particular area without even realising it. All those teenage geeks gaming away in their bedrooms become amazingly good at computer programming, and all those obsessive bloggers get incredibly skilled at social networking. These are skills which are actually marketable if presented in the right way, and if you are a secret expert perhaps you could become a mentoring master. [Read More...]
Running a successful business
Many people think about starting their own business and working from home, however most are quite understandably concerned about saying goodbye to their monthly pay slips from payroll services.
There are approximately 300,000 new companies started each year joining the 2 million limited companies currently listed in the UK. As people face the prospect of no pay rises and little prospects during these difficult financial times; more and more of us are thinking about those little ideas which would make us a million. Television programmes like ‘Dragons Den’ and ‘The next big thing’ only add fuel to our fire. [Read More...]