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By Lucy Elkin, founder of myworkhive.com, a social venture bringing great remote jobs to a wider audience There are many reasons why working remotely can be a great solution for startups. Our previous article looked at some of the advantages, from reducing office costs, to making it easier to find the perfect team member. But if you want the best chance of building a remote team that’s happ...
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Building and maintaining good relationships with your customers is absolutely essential for any modern business. Even in today’s world of digital advertising and targeted micromarketing, word of mouth is still a very important consideration for any business looking to reach its maximum potential. Satisfied customers are a great source of free advertising, but the consequences of poor custome...
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Getting teams to work together and form strong relationships has long been accepted as highly important when it comes to morale, productivity, and therefore success. One of the ways most companies look to achieve this is with team building exercises and activities. However, sometimes, when this is done badly, staff can feel like they are wasting time on strange or mundane activities when they coul...
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By Jason Downes, Managing Director, Powwownow Some business owners, senior managers, and entrepreneurs are so concerned about their company they don’t take holiday even though they should. Here’s how to keep your business running like clockwork while you’re away. Like so many other managing directors, or indeed anyone working in a fast-paced business environment, my workin...
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Being creative and innovative are great characteristics to have. You have the ability to make positive contributions and improvements to society. If you are an entrepreneur, you will need to be a bit more creative than others so that you can have your competitive advantage. However, you have to take care of yourself before your creativity can reach its maximum potential. Many entrepreneurs fail to...
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By Lucy Elkin, founder of myworkhive.com, a social venture bringing great remote jobs to a wider audience For many early-stage startups, an office is an expense you just can’t afford. Around 70% of UK businesses start from home. Yet as your team starts to grow, most organisations outgrow working around the kitchen table or in a coffee shop. That used mean taking on an office lease, bringing...
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As businesses grow, it can be very tricky to know how to hire people and where to look - and how to be sure they are really right for your business. The fact that your business has reached a stage where you need to bring in some extra members of staff is, of course, very positive. However trying to build a team that will work well together is harder than you’d think. In the case of a start-u...
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If you are a business looking to do a bank transfer between european nations, here is how SEPA Credit Transfers (SCT) can be sent and received.SEPA is an efficient, simple and reliable payment transfer solution which simplifies bank transfers between European nations. Introduced in 2008, the system is an effective alternative for existing banking models as it can simplify cross-border payments. T...
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Isabelle Ohnemus, Founder of fashion-sizing shopping platform EyeFitU shares a few sustainable & useful ways of maintaining that important healthy work/life balance. Isabelle Ohnemus is the Founder and CEO of fashion-sizing shopping platform EyeFitU. Isabelle’s background in international finance gave her the solid foundation to turn her passion for fashion and desire to help change the...
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There used to be a time in the history of the internet where a company blog was not necessary for online success, but we’re certainly not in that era anymore. If you’re looking around and seeing everyone else posting free blog content to their website and wondering if you should be following suit, the answer is a resounding yes. But if you’re still not convinced, we’ve got ...
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Neeta Patel, CEO of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation shares some top suggestions on how to take care of yourself - mentally and physically as an entrepreneur. "You’ve started a business, it’s going well - the orders are coming in, the business is growing and you’ve secured investment. You’re on cloud nine but this doesn’t last long. In the last year you’ve...
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Martin Neill is the Founder & CEO at AirPOS, a Belfast based cloud-based ePOS software platform which offers point-of-sale and e-commerce software to helps small retailers manage their sales and inventory, both in their shops and online. Here, Martin shares some invaluable thoughts and knowledge on raising investment as a startup and why EIS is perhaps more for investors than startup...
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