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Category Archives: Business Training
Sole Trading
Starting your own business requires a lot of thought about what form it’ll take. Most small businesses, the kind our Start Your Own Business course prepares you for, are formed as sole traders or partnerships. Continue reading
The Changing Face of Marketing
This week I’ve been busy going through the company archives seeing what we need to keep and what we can throw away. Continue reading
Where Does All the Time Go?
There are days when it feels like time just flies. Sometimes I feel I’ve only just sat down and it’s time to go home – the day has passed and my list of jobs has got longer not shorter. Continue reading
Business Training – The 80-20 Principle
Surf the Internet and you’ll find people advising that the 80-20 rule (otherwise known as the Pareto principle) can benefit you in all areas of your life from choosing which book to read to running your business. Continue reading
Where Have All the Staff Gone?
If you had visited our offices last week you’d have thought nobody worked here. It was like a ghost office. This wasn’t planned – but even the best-laid plans go wrong, usually once a year around the summer time in our case. Continue reading
SMART in Business
You may have come across a goal setting tool known as SMART that helps with planning and execution of projects. For those who haven’t come across this before here is a quick explanation. Continue reading
To Blog or Not to Blog
Now that can be a tricky question to answer. Why? I hear you ask. Well, blogs use up your valuable time. So, if all you do is mess about telling people what you had for lunch or what shoes you are going to buy next then it’s probably not worth you spending time writing it. Continue reading
Speed of Communication
Last summer I read Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel which is a wonderful book and if you’re interested in Tudor England it’s a must read. Continue reading
The Business of Twitter
I was discussing Twitter with my husband the other day and he was saying that he really didn’t understand what all the fuss was about, ‘it’s all just celebrity tittle-tattle isn’t it?’ he asked. Continue reading
English is a Living Language and is Changing All the Time!
This week saw the new Collins Scrabble dictionary published with 3000 new words being added to the existing quarter of a million. Continue reading
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