In a perfect world, every business would secure its funding choice immediately without a hitch. However, this is often not the case. Lenders and investors have set criteria they stick to when considering businesses, and not everyone will meet them. Funding isn’t an...
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Error Proofing – Stop doing that!
What do all the following have in common? Dave Grohl - Foo FightersThe Edge - U2Tre Cool - Green DayBryan Adams Matthew Bellamy - Muse Well, the answer is they’ve all taken a serious tumble off the stage they were performing on. Whenever that happens, I always...
Error Proofing – Why you need to think about the bad stuff
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a crystal ball to see into the future and avoid all the bad things that might happen? Well, this post doesn’t quite do that but what about if we had a neat way of at least thinking about the potential bad things that might happen,...
Error Proofing – If it wasn’t for those people things would run so much better!
‘I’m only human … born to make mistakes’. So said The Human League back in the ’80s (our younger readers might need to Google that one). The thing is, The Human League were spot on. Whenever you get people interacting with your online user interfaces or participating...
Why appoint a Virtual Non-Executive Director or Strategic Advisor?
If you run a business that has strategic challenges to address, or if you are looking to raise it to the next level, where can you turn for advice? The answer may be appointing a Non-Executive Director or Strategic Advisor. Even very successful businesses can benefit...
4 Elements of a Strategic Business Plan
planning can be compared to building a table.
Combine a Better Outlook with Small Business Coaching
It looks like small businesses are rebounding after suffering a significant loss of optimism during the last half of 2016.
How Size Affects Strategic Business Planning
Strategic planning in business is a matter of aligning a company’s mission, vision, and goals with proven strategies that will guarantee that company achieves what it sets out to do.
The Value of Customer Retention vs Customer Acquisition
Do you work with a small business mentor whose opinion you value?