What does it take to cut a 30th birthday cake?
The answer, in the case of STANTA is an MP and two Mayors! Last month at OAs Sports Club, St Albans MP Anne Main joined St Albans City and District Mayor, Annie Brewster and new Harpenden Mayor, Mary Maynard to cut the cake, which featured STANTA’s new logo, designed by STANTA Director, Aarti Parmar of […]
What everyone should know about CRM
Author, Nadia Finer is the founder of smartli.co– helping start-ups and small businesses work smarter. A CRM is a useful tool which enables small businesses to organize and cultivate their customer relationships. It’s usually a cloud based system which retains details about your customers, prospective customers and contacts in one shared secure location, which everybody […]
Fulfilment tips for your Ecommerce Start Up
Logistics is one of the most vitally important stages in a customer’s journey and for many start-up businesses it is the bane of their lives. Companies need to have a process for dealing with their order fulfilment and must be on top of handling the supply of packaging materials, postage accounts and accurate picking and […]
Staff Training Ideas for Small Businesses
For a small business in particular, people can be its biggest asset. When the body of staff is small, the individuals within that body each make a significant impact on your business’s image, productivity, and profits. Keeping your best assets motivated and knowledgeable is crucial but can be expensive and time-consuming. Your training options […]
Office Options for your Start-Up Business
When you start a new business, you will most likely need some sort of office space. While the type of business you run will determine the amount of space you will need, sooner or later you will need somewhere to work and where you can keep things more organised. Here are four office options for […]
Building Customer Loyalty Online
Customer loyalty has always been a key component of marketing a business, but for internet businesses this can pose an extra challenge. With so many companies vying for custom and consumers having an abundance of choice offered by the internet, businesses are having to work smarter to get noticed, and for customers to stay loyal. […]
Building and preserving a good Social Media reputation
Your business reputation is critical to gaining and retaining customers. We all know that customer satisfaction is key to achieving this, but so to is customer perception, and in today’s world, how you are seen on social media says a lot about your business. This article provides a helpful framework to guide you through how […]
Grow your Brand with killer Social Media
We all know the importance of social media to your business, but when was the last time you really thought about how you use it ? This article from PA Business Support will give you 5 hot tips on optimising your social media content.
Expanding internationally?
Looking to grow your business internationally? Ensuring your website is as effective internationally as it is locally will improve your chances of success. For 5 tips for taking your website international this article from FL1 Digital guides you through the things you should be thinking about.
The Coalition and Business Partnerships
There is an interesting thread on the IOD group on Linkedin on the Cameron-Clegg partnership. There are a lot of sceptics around, but also a few who think it could change the face of politics in the UK. From a business perspective partnerships can work very well, but they are also often the cause of […]
