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While there are numerous benefits to outsourcing, certain tasks carry special considerations. IT is one of them.     Because IT is such an important part of modern business, you must take particular care when outsourcing your IT to an external source.   Quality The company you outsource your IT tasks too must be of the utmost quality. A company that uses untrained or minima...
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There is an issue which many startups fail to address satisfactorily. That is security. Often it is something which merely falls by the wayside in the day-to-day hustle and bustle of growing a business, and is only brought to the forefront when some breach occurs. If you are lucky, this breach will be a mere inconvenience, but there is always the danger that it could prove to be much more siniste...
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Of all the skills required as an entrepreneur, we can safely say that Public Relations is one of the most daunting and tricky to master. It is complex, time-consuming, and can be the difference between rapid growth, and complete stagnation. Needless to say you need to get it right. For this reason and so many more, entrepreneurs hand over the reigns of their PR strategy to agencies, which whilst ...
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Stephen Canning is Management Consultant, a councillor at Essex County Council and a Startacus member with some insight to share.  In this post written exclusively for Startacus, he describes how to find the motivation to start your own business.Finding the Motivation to Start Your Own Business They say that the most difficult thing is knowing your true calling, yet many people do actuall...
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Useable space is at an absolute premium within many urban areas. So much infact that there is a growing movement of inventors and entrepreneurs attempting to alleviate the issues by creating all manner space saving innovations. We're sure you have all heard of the apartments being built in Tokyo which are stacked vertically on a site no bigger than a parking space. Now a group in the US has taken...
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These days most businesses rely heavily on software. Even small firms use it, very little is done on paper. Companies realise that investing in good systems brings many benefits. However, despite this there is only a finite pool of money available, which means that firms save money where they can. Inevitably, some departments are left behind. They do not get their software updated on a regula...
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Proper promotion and marketing are just as important to the success of your crowdfunding project as the quality of your product and your pitch. After all, how will investors find out about your campaign unless you get out there and tell them about it? They simply won’t! Here are a few ways that you can promote your crowdfunding campaign! Your Contacts Just take a look around you (both li...
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Turn the clock back a decade and the chances are had you uttered the word ‘crowdfunding’ you would have been met with a blank, slightly puzzled stare. It’s rather telling of the fast-paced digital world that in 2015, crowdfunding has become one of the most popular forms of alternative finance, not only for enterprise but for a massive range of projects, initiatives, and cam...
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Zombie businesses aren’t just for Halloween you know. Indeed many entrepreneurs find themselves at the head of a zombie business 365 days of the year. It’s a term that you have probably come across before; and for an enterprise, it is every bit as gruesome as it sounds. Essentially, a zombie business is one which is little more than a walking corpse, or at least on drastic life suppor...
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Bettina Pickering is the founder of Aronagh a leadership and behavioural change consultancy, that helps entrepreneurs create and adopt the mindset and behaviours, they need for success. Wtih previous posts on Startacus on Quitting Your Startup? 5 Key Considerations and Dealing with Rejection when running a Startup, she returns with another mindset themed post (and a fab one at that)...
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Bettina Pickering is the founder of Aronagh (www.aronagh.com), a leadership and behavioural change consultancy, that helps entrepreneurs create and adopt the mindset and behaviours, they need for success. "500 000 new businesses were registered in the UK in 2014 according to Companies House. This number seems to increase year on year. 50% - that is 250 000 - of these startups will have closed ...
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5 Key Decisions You Need to Make When Creating Your Business Website Sometimes it takes an expert to help talk you through the key decisions you need to make when tackling a challenge like creating your own website. So we’ve enlisted the help of the folks at Starting Point Website Plan, to talk you all through 5 of the key decisions you need to make when creating a website for your business...
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