It’s an unfortunate fact that many otherwise promising businesses fail in the early stages due to cashflow problems. When it comes down to it, cashflow is mainly about people and systems – get those two elements right, and your business could be on track for a much smoother ride.
So you’re primed, hungry and ready for your big success. Is it really as easy as having blind faith and loads of energy, or is there more to achieving success? Here’s how to get into your winning zone.
It’s no secret that training your employees gives your organisation an edge. But the impact of the global recession has meant businesses are also looking for ways to improve efficiencies and cut costs – this is where eLearning comes into play.
Recent research shows that the leaders of our biggest organisations use intuition on a regular basis and find it very important to their effectiveness – but what is intuition exactly? Here’s a look.
If a potential customer typed your web address into their smartphone or tablet, do you know how your site would appear? Too many people don’t, which makes for a lot of poorly optimised websites. Here’s how to ensure your site is made for viewing on a screen of any size.
If all an employee wants to do is order some paper for the photocopying machine, the process to do this should be easy and intuitive. Unfortunately, most businesses don’t succeed at this. But, if you make your procurement process as simple as Amazon and eBay do, staff won’t bypass your systems – they’ll embrace them.
There are ‘knowns’ and ‘unknowns’ when it comes to the way search engines work, but a factor that definitely sits in the ‘known’ category is that social sharing is very important for your SEO. Use these tips to get the best results for your SEO activities using Twitter.
Social media is about engagement and building relationships; at its most basic level, it’s about communicating. For it to deliver long-term value to your business though, you should consider actioning these four simple steps.
Non-rational influences in the public domain have long been ignored – seen as something to be avoided, negated, managed or corrected. But new research is pointing to the value of intuition and gut-feel to those in leadership positions.
An ingenious French invention, the ritual of exchanging business cards has been a norm of business. But now the cloud has permeated almost all aspects of life, does it still make sense to still use the business card?
