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Managing your staff’s home-career balance

Aug 19 2010

Posted by Gordon as Business Concepts, General Management

One big issue in the workplace these days is attaining balance between work and family life. And this goes not only for employees and rank-and-file staff, but also for management and company executives. In most cases, it doesn’t really make much of a difference whether one is in a large company, or running a small business. Companies have come to realize that they have to work out schemes by which employees can balance their careers with their personal lives. At first, it may not be clear enough, but after a closer look, it rings true that the best employee is ...

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Baby Businesses

Aug 05 2010

Posted by Gordon as Business Concepts, General Management, UK Company Gossip

Having had my little baby accessories business for about a year, I somehow managed to elude what I perceived as the trappings of a “proper business”, scraping by quite happily, but admittedly inefficiently.

I sold my adorably useful goods at village fairs or simply by word of mouth through friends and family. Things were good, easy, manageable, and my modest home double-dutied as office, warehouse, call centre, shop front and so on - that is until I accepted an unprecedented massive order, and at the same time, received the happy, but stunning news that our cosy family of three would soon ...


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Check out your competitor

Jul 19 2010

Posted by Gordon as Business Concepts, General Management, Strategies, Tricks of the Trade

Studying your competitor is one of the most important responsibilities of an entrepreneur. By gaining knowledge about a competitor they will be more equipped to handle the competition. But how do you go about this function especially if you have limited financial resources? Company formation and business solutions experts agree that it doesn’t necessarily have to be expensive to study the competition. Some of the competition-studying tactics that can be done are: • Study the competitor’s website • Talk to the competition (depending on the sector, this is possible but you must follow certain etiquettes) • Ask friends and associates • Investigate the competitor’s SEC papers • Use ...

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Start-ups need long-term vision

Jul 12 2010

Posted by Gordon as Business Concepts, Business Enhancements, General Management, Strategies, Tricks of the Trade

The usual problem of trying to find funding and finance to set up a business is no longer the biggest barrier to enterprise. This was the finding of a poll of early stage start-ups that overwhelmingly rated credit management as the biggest obstacle. The study was carried out by the Better Payment Practice Group (BPPG) as it polled over 200 small enterprises about the difficulties they have experienced in starting and operating a business into a thriving success. A similar small business enquiry made by Enterprise Insight, the group behind the forthcoming Enterprise ...

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Naming a business – a few tips from experts

Jul 05 2010

Posted by Gordon as Business Concepts, Business Enhancements, Company Formation Tips, General Management, Off Shore Companies, Strategies, The Sole Proprietor, Tricks of the Trade, UK Companies

In an earlier post, we reported that most UK small businesses are no longer seeing the need to name their companies based on their family names. In the survey conducted by British Gas Business , 74 per cent of business owners now prefer more memorable names that are not related to any kind of family ties in forming their business . According to British Gas Business’ commercial director, Adrian Harvey said “Small businesses have to punch above their weight to compete against larger competitors with more established brands. A company’s name plays an important role in ...

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The anatomy of a successful entrepreneur (Part 2)

May 24 2010

Posted by Gordon as Business Concepts, General Management, Strategies, Tricks of the Trade

Company formation professionals and business solutions experts agree that the entrepreneur plays a very big factor in the ultimate success of any start-up business venture. The successful entrepreneur must acquire certain characteristics that would ensure that he has the right disposition to handle his business and face any obstacles that may come his way. Here are some more characteristics a successful entrepreneur must possess: Goal setting – The willingness and ability to set realistic yet specific business goals. It also means having the foresight to make the necessary plans to achieve the goals that have been set. Flexibility ...

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Tips on raising credit management awareness

May 10 2010

Posted by Gordon as Accounting and Finance, Business Concepts, Business Enhancements, General Management, Strategies, The Sole Proprietor

Business solutions experts reveal that over 10,000 businesses fail every year because of late payments. It is for this reason that the Better Payment Practice Group has embarked on a campaign, the goal of which is to advise businesses to be more alert in noticing signs of a credit management policy that’s about to fail so as not to meet failure with the company they have failed and ultimately throw away the efforts that were exerted in forming the company. Here are some signs/warning signals that would mean the credit management policy of a ...

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A few reminders in keeping a good profit margin

May 03 2010

Posted by Gordon as Accounting and Finance, Business Concepts, General Management, Sales and Marketing, Strategies, Tricks of the Trade

Regardless of what the original goal or motivation was for setting up a business it is a given that a business exists to make money. A business that generates insufficient revenue will obviously fail. With business solutions experts saying that one-third of new businesses fail within three years, it really drives home the point that managing profit margin levels is an important consideration for business owners. What businesses charge for their products or service plays a huge role on the profitability and success of a business. Too much and a business loses customers, too little ...

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Work Hard…. Live harder

Mar 06 2009

Posted by Jon as Family Features, Family Life, Featured Articles, General Management, Health Features

workoutLife is a tad bit harder with the recession biting hard and with jobs being harder to come by, more and more people are getting desperate with their financial needs. Blogging the whole day, well time to get healthy and stretch out from time to time for too much sitting down can get some stuff accumulating in your belly. This being the case, there are many who forget that they should be watching over their health more now than ever. The stresses that build up everyday need to vent and what better ...

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Time to REBOOT

Jul 26 2008

Posted by Jim as General Management

  I'm sure you've come across this period in your office life where you need to just stand up and walk away.  Don't worry, it's normal!   What's abnormal is if you keep working and slaving away on your desk EVEN when the shoulders hurt, EVEN when the eyes are strained, EVEN when that deadline is staring at you squarely.  YOU HAVE to stand up, so PLEASE do. Office stress takes the most from all of us.  If we fail to prevent the symptoms, the weight on your health can be very devastating.  Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,  Kidney problems, Bowel ...

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