Tag Archives: Growing a Business
How To Make Someone Who Complains Into a Sales Asset
No one likes getting complaints from customers but the fact is that if you handle a complaint well you can make the complainer into an asset – someone who will praise your business.
OK, we all know that there are some people you can never please no matter what you do and there are some people [...]
Running Your Business – How to Present a Professional Image While Working From Home
In the current economic situation and with more people leaving regular employment and setting up as consultants, it has become much more acceptable to run your business from home.
Apart from anything else, running a new business from the spare bedroom removes a whole layer of cost and risk, and makes it a lot more likely [...]
Marketing on a Budget
Customers are the lifeblood of any business and without them no company can survive. So how do you go about getting (and keeping) customers?
Finding customers is the key to running a successful business and all highly successful businesses are good at marketing. This doesn’t mean that you need to spend thousands on an expensive marketing [...]
Setting Up an Office: Part 5 – Working from home
Many small start-ups find setting up an office at home the most attractive option. It is cheap and handy, but there may be drawbacks.
The Legal Position
The first thing is to consider is whether or not you can legally set your office up at home. If you rent your home there may very well be a [...]
How to Succeed in Business
Ever wondered why some people succeed in business and others don’t? Or why some of them are exceptionally successful?
Well some of it may be luck but there are common factors seen in all successful business people that would seem to indicate otherwise.
It appears that great entrepreneurs have 5 key qualities that help them succeed in situations that others [...]
Setting Up an Office: Part 4 – Look Good on Paper
There is a saying in marketing that “image is everything” and there is a lot of truth in that. Your customers, existing and potential, will expect you to present a professional image and your stationery is an important factor in creating your business image.
You should take time to consider what you will need and how [...]
Setting Up an Office: Part 3 – Office Equipment
In the first two parts of this post we have looked at what you will need by way of furniture for your office and also what communications equipment you will need to consider.
In this part we will now look at office equipment: what you are likely to need, what your options are, and how to [...]
