Why Good Record Keeping Is Crucial For Business Tax time comes around every year, yet it still catches many businesses ill-prepared. Perhaps you’ve been meaning to get your paperwork in order all year, but never got around to it. Or maybe you’re not sure of your legal obligations. Either way, poor record keeping can get you […]
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Keeping Yourself Healthy So Your Business Can Thrive How many times have you seen a business advertised for sale ‘Business for sale due to ill health’? Fairly often, right? Fatigue and burn-out account for the closure or sale of far too many small to medium businesses these days. Buying your own business is a huge investment
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Setting Up An Efficient Paper Filing System In Your Office Right now you’re probably think ‘Why do I need a paper filing system when the overall aim is for my business to go paperless?’ It’s a good point, and it’s exactly why we are looking at issues such as minimising printing and only capturing important documents.
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How And Why You Should Backup Your Data It’s one of those things we always mean to do, isn’t it? Backing up our computer files. We know we should but we’re always too busy to get around to it (unless it’s done automatically). So ask yourself this: if you were to lose all your data,
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Make Money With A Unique Business Idea Have you ever had an idea for a unique product or service, only to dismiss it as ‘silly’? You’re not alone. Only sometimes, it may not be as silly as you think! Where would we be today if George de Mestral hadn’t been fascinated by the way burrs
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What Are The Advantages Of Keeping A Business Car Log Book? As a busy business owner, probably wearing multiple hats, the last thing on your mind is filling in your car log! However, there are some very good reasons for trying to make the time. In the past, there were a few different ways of
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How To Define And Meet Your Sales Targets The words ‘sales targets’ can strike fear into the heart of some, while enthusing and motivating others. Either way, if you’re in business, they are something you have to have and, to be successful, have to meet. As with everything in life, a target or goal gives
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Before we answer those questions, we should probably clarify exactly what information goes into an Employee Handbook. Whether you call it a company manual, staff manual or employee handbook, it’s basically a document given to employees to help them understand the organisation’s policies and procedures. Broken down into generic and specific sections, the book may
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An interesting debate in the media lately has been the effectiveness of social media for business, especially as far as SMEs are concerned. There are those who are for using social media extensively, and those that argue its not worth it, but the question should actually be ‘how much social media do we need?’ There is no
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So, you’ve achieved your dream of running your own business. There’s so much to do and you’re always busy. In fact, there’s not much time for anything else these days. The thing is, to enable your business to flourish and grow, you need to make time to invest in yourself, and your skills. The world
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