Marketing Tip – Build a Contact Management System

As part of your marketing strategy, collecting and managing a lot of information about your customers, prospects and referral sources is absolutely essential. To do this, you need a robust contact management system, which will incorporate customer relationship...

Free advice for business start ups

There was an excellent article in this week’s Sunday Times (13 April 2014 edition page 15) about the huge amount of free advice available for small businesses. Most interesting was the Business and Research Centre operating out of the British Library in the...

Calling all owners of commercial properties

Take action now to secure valuable tax reliefs if you own a commercial property. The rules surrounding tax allowances and commercial properties change on 6 April 2014. If you or your business own a commercial property then there are two main areas that could be well...

The killer question you should ask when interviewing

………and a reminder about the questions you need to avoid! When you are interviewing for a potential new team member here's a reminder of the things that you can no longer ask them :- How old are you (try and work it out yourself from the dates...

The real reason you need to know what your business is worth

How much is my business really worth? This is a question you probably ask yourself from time to time, and it's certainly an important one – it has implications for your future lifestyle and ultimately your retirement. There are a number of circumstances that...