If there is one thing that is almost always available in ample supply, is “Advice”. There are many types and levels of advice and sometimes it can be quite difficult to actually work out what advice you should pay attention to and what advice you maybe shouldn’t. The big question is how do you know [...]
Many businesses depend on some form of management structure. While a business may last for an indefinable amount of time without proper management, it is not a recommended practice. Having management in place in a business helps to provide direction, and keep the controls that are in place working for the business instead of against [...]
All day everyday we are required to do different things, some of these things are work related some personal. Generally our personal tasks we don’t think so much about how they provide value to us. Sometimes they will provide us time savings other times we will waste time on them.
When it comes to business related [...]
While many people that go into business create a business plan or a marketing plan, of some form to keep in mind the details of the business. There is another form of plan that you should also be considering creating. That plan is a strategic plan for your business.
A business plan may deal with the [...]
The idea of having no fixed office, should not mean that you do not have any contact with your current or potential customers. Even though contact via email, and other electronic means is going often be sufficient, meeting people in person should still be a part of your routine at least for the customers that [...]
The constant challenge of the having no fixed office is where to successfully promote your business to the largest number of people. Depending on the type of business that you operate there may be a couple of different options that you could pursue.
1. Trade shows and Expos – While this is discounted by some as [...]
You can walk down just about any street in any city and pass many different businesses. Some of these businesses are owned by major corporations, some by small businesses and others by individual’s or families. For a large portion of people those businesses being there are a fact of life. They expect them to be [...]
Just for a moment, lets imagine that we are going to set up an office. The office should be located maybe not in the center of the business district but not to far away. Needs to have a reception type area, and at least one separate office for maybe a total of 50sqm minimum, which [...]
The cost of having an office can make a decent dent in your potential profit for your business. While there are some of these costs which cannot be avoided, and are replaced with similar costs for a portable office, there are some which you just don’t need or don’t need to the same extent.
THE LEASE
This [...]
On the 1st of April, so just 18 days ago, i put in some time converting the layout of this blog. In doing that i had just three things i wanted to achieve in the change that i would make. The first was to make the blog more user friendly. The second was to improve [...]