In business, it is essential that you treat your employees as well as you treat your customers. When you show your workers respect and trust, and treat them with dignity, they will do the same in return. It will lead to them actually caring about the company they work in, their co-workers, and their customers….
In many ways, the current economic climate is simply not conducive to SME growth, with companies struggling to expand due to a fundamental lack of strategic expertise and increasingly stringent funding guidelines. A recent survey underlined this, with 37% of respondents claiming that they had been turned down for finance during their first two years…
Did you know that on average a recruiter or employer will look at your CV for sixty seconds before deciding whether or not you get an interview? You might think at the interview stage time is more favorable. But no, most employees know whether they are going to hire someone five minutes after meeting them….
Making tough decisions is never an easy ride. When you are in a position of leadership, though, you have people depending on you to make the right call. Such a thing can weigh heavy on a person’s composure. However, being able to make these types of decisions is exactly what makes a person a leader;…
If you are currently at a crossroads and wondering what to do, then one possible step you could consider is to go freelance. No matter what you do at the moment, there is probably some skill that you could develop to the point of going freelance with it. The truth is, most of the learning…
There’s no doubt about it; there is a gradual but incremental shift towards freelancing and independent contracting in the modern age. An estimated 40% of the U.S. workforce will be working independently by 2020, for example, while there are now more than 1.5 million self-employed individuals in the UK alone. While it be tempting to…
If you’re a photographer, you’ll know just how expensive the equipment can be. Even with the digital revolution and advances in manufacturing, getting good lenses and camera equipment still costs a fortune. A workman might only be as good as his tools – but for most photographers, their tools are already good enough. So how…
For many of us, putting money into something that doesn’t give us an instant reward is hard to justify, especially if there’s a chance of losing money from it. Investing in anything is essentially gambling, only you have to wait years to get any reward from it. You have to be patient and you have…
The following tips will help ensure that consultants will not turn into employees.
Many people think that businesses have to be complex things. Coming up with an idea should take ages, right? Setting up your business should cost loads of money, correct? Neither of these things is strictly true. If you want to spend ages coming up with an idea, then you can. And, depending on your idea,…
In some respects, you could be forgiven for thinking that now was hardly the ideal climate to consider becoming a forex or financial market trader. After all, the value of the pound sterling tumbled to its lowest level in 31 years in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, while share prices also fell amid rising…
When you start a business, there are loads of costs that you’ll be expecting. You’ll be prepared for the salaries of the employees you hire. The costs of renting or buying a workspace. The price of the technology you need to perform certain tasks. But there are bound to be costs that are likely to…