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The Essential Items for Starting a Home Business

The Essential Items for Starting a Home Business

Posted by on Jan 24, 2014 in BUSINESS | 0 comments

Starting a home business has lots of advantages. You get to work in your pyjamas if you feel like it, you save money on fuel and you can grab a home-made coffee whenever you want one. One of the downsides of setting up a business in your home is that you are always at work. For this reason it is important to set aside a space for business. When you leave that space, you leave work.

If you have a spare room this would be the obvious place to set up your business. If you don’t have this luxury you can create an office space in a corner of a room, against a wall or even in the garage. Home office arrangements are really only limited by your imagination.

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4 ways effective communication will help your business

4 ways effective communication will help your business

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in BUSINESS | 0 comments

Good communication is essential in building a business that prospers. It allows information to flow effortlessly around your business, and helps everybody know exactly what’s expected from them, and who to turn to for help. A good flow of information is necessary to help your business achieve its goals. Here are 4 ways effective communication helps in the workplace.

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How To Make Innovative Ideas Happen

How To Make Innovative Ideas Happen

Posted by on Oct 29, 2013 in BUSINESS | 0 comments

Innovation and new ideas can stem from social media sites and the knowledge of the crowd can be a catalyst for change. Organizations and individuals can foster new things and ideas, identify service opportunities and market needs with the use of these new technologies as well.

Feedback, ideas and market needs

Social media channels allow organizations and individuals alike gather insights into the needs and wants of their customers or possible clients. Twitter, Facebook and other channels are examples of these virtual venues. Innovation can come from the innovative mass and not just from the innovate few that firms hire to get things done in a different fashion, and they need to set their egos aside if they want to innovate like no other firm in their industry. Advocacy programs can be used to get more ideas from customers and the way the want their future products created.

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5 Ways Promoting Employee Health Can Benefit Your Business

5 Ways Promoting Employee Health Can Benefit Your Business

Posted by on Sep 4, 2013 in BUSINESS | 0 comments

When running a business, you know that sometimes keeping organized and on task is a bit like watching a bit of mercury on a piece of glass — every time it seems to be going in a straight line, it changes course. So when you’re maintaining a workplace that thrives on employee performance, the last thing you want to do is not have your employees work in harmony.

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Surprise as UK shale gas resources more abundant than first realised

Surprise as UK shale gas resources more abundant than first realised

Posted by on Jul 9, 2013 in BUSINESS | 0 comments

With anxiety of future energy supplies persisting in the UK, a recent discovery has helped to make the energy sector, as well as the government, feel like celebrating. In large parts of northern England, the practice of ‘fracking’- the extraction of shale gas – has become more common in recent years, but it seems that shale gas reserves are larger than first thought.

According to a report for the government undertaken by the British Geological Survey, they believe that as much as 1,300 trillion cubic feet of shale gas is lying untapped underground in northern England, around twice as much as first anticipated. The figure is the potential amount of gas underneath, though not all of it might be extractable, but the government were quick to laud the news.

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Conference Services as a business benefit

Conference Services as a business benefit

Posted by on Jul 3, 2013 in BUSINESS | 0 comments

From saving money to improving productivity, there’s a reason mega-corporations have been utilizing the latest in conference services for years. Now as the products needed for virtual conferences become cheaper to purchase and easier to use, there’s no reason why small and medium-sized businesses can’t get in on the game.

For the most basic video conferencing systems all you need is an internet connection, a webcam and a microphone, and since nearly all laptops these days come with the latter two, it has never been so easy to start video conferencing all around the world.

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