Start-up advice
National Work Life Week: Helping wellbeing in your business
How do you manage work-life balance within your small business? Whether you’re a solo freelancer responsible for everything that happens…
Small Business Contracts – Why it Matters
When you set up your business, how long did it take for you to formalise contracts? To set up official…
Price Perception: Understanding Your Buyer for Sales Success
It’s always interesting how people perceive prices – why £200 to attend an event will be expensive to some and…
Franchise Yes or No: Should You Start a Franchise Business?
Many of our members are new to business which is why we talk such a lot about those first steps….
Starting a Business – 7 Steps to Success
There are many reasons why people decide to take the leap and start their own business, we discussed some of…
Starting a Business – What will it be?
Choosing to set up your own business might be prompted by any number of factors; perhaps you’re frustrated with your…
Creating Lifestyle Business Success
Recent years have seen continued growth in the number of lifestyle businesses being started, that’s more people building businesses which…
Whoops I’ve just dropped my self-belief!
I recently received a lovely message from a lady who has been writing a book, inviting me to her closed…
Understanding ‘sales’ is a crucial skill for SME’s
What is your first impression of sales people? Good, bad…ugly? Unfortunately without harnessing sales in your business – you will…
5 Steps to a confident 10-min Presentation
How often have you been to a networking meeting and agonised over how difficult it is to present your business…
Growing your connections
Growing connections – not sure where to begin? Starting, establishing and growing a business needs some very specific skills, knowledge…