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The Eisenhower Principle is all about prioritising tasks based on urgency and importance. And it has been really useful to me over the last year or so on those days where there’s simply so much to do and so little time. Here’s what it is and how it works.
Hiring and onboarding are both critical. Finding the right people and then integrating them with your team can make or break team culture and have a direct impact on your business success. We take a look at using HR software to improving your hiring and onboarding in 2023.
Jargon. It’s entirely unnecessary and makes it harder for your audience to understand you. But if some of us do it without even realising, then how do you avoid it? Let’s tak
Credit scores. They’re never as plain English as they should be and yet this mysterious number can affect your life in so many ways. As a freelancer, particularly if you’re new to freelancing, you may already find that accessing credit or applying for mortgages is more complicated than it is for those who are employed. So having a good credit score can help make you more attractive and perceived as less risky to lenders. Let’s take a look at understanding bad credit scores and starting to improve them.
Working at the premium or luxury end of any sector often means you need to elevate your offering to stand out from budget alternatives. So what can small businesses working at the luxury end of car and vehicle repair services to do to keep their offering premium? We take a look.
ChatGPT. Buzz word? Job stealer? Or revolutionary AI technology that could assist your business? We think that, used right, it’s the latter. And here are some of the benefits of ChatGPT for small businesses in 2023.
“Logistics.” Seems like a BIG query and it covers all sorts of elements of the delivery side of your business. It can be one of the most challenging things to get right in a start up. So what do you need to know before taking the plunge?
When it comes to UX design, the core focus is creating or developing products and services that provide solutions to very specific problems that users may run into when using digital or online features. The process of defining pain points and rectifying them can be heavily involved, but there is a set of principles that can be followed to simplify this and make not only a developer’s role easier, but overall UX features more functional and worthwhile. Let’s take a look at them.
Software development. It’s big business. But those who develop for a business know that a process that might look simple from the outside can be deceptively complicated within. So we take a look at the typical stages of developing a software product
“Going green” and becoming an environmentally focussed business is something of an “on trend” thing for businesses to do. But to be TRULY environmentally focussed (not just sticking a slogan up on your website and making sure you do your recycling) has real benefits. Here, we take a look at what it means to be truly environmentally focussed and the benefits of doing so.
Efficient business operations are critical for enterprise success. Custom workflows designed for specific tasks can improve productivity, simplify processes, and enhance profitability. Small businesses, in
For anyone looking to get a client or their own brands in the press, media enquiry services can be game changing. HARO is probably the most well known, but by no means the only one. So here are some more UK centric alternatives you should try in 2024.
I love content marketing and in addition to the 15 years of experience I have helping me improve constantly, there’s a ton of resources out there. That includes a number of content marketing books and these are the best ones I’ve read.
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