Humour

Thursday 2nd May 2019

How can you use humour to engage your audience in your business presentations? By Jean Stewart, Toastmasters International  Not everyone in your audience will be overjoyed at the prospect of sitting through another presentation so what can be done to get them listening?  Afterall you are there to impart important information or to get enthusiasm…

Continuity

Monday 29th April 2019

Developing a Business Continuity Plan Business continuity planning is the process of creating an action plan to minimise the impacts of interruptions to your business. A robust business continuity plan (BCP), in conjunction with Business processes and insurance, will help to make your company more resilient against any type of incident or disasters such as…

Recycling

Wednesday 24th April 2019

The future of recycling By Aldous Hicks, CEO and Co-founder of ReCircle Recycling Ltd   Over the past 20 years the waste industry has changed dramatically.  Most Western countries have taken responsibility for their waste and have stopped disposing of everything in landfill.  This means that the global recycling market in projected to get to…

Customer Brands

Tuesday 9th April 2019

How to turn your customers into investors and brand evangelists By John Auckland, TribeFirst   I’m going to make a bold claim. The very idea of consumerism is dying. Replacing it will be deeper relationships between people and brands, born of closer bonds and greater interaction not simply transactions. Let’s call these people ‘post-consumers’.  Post-consumerism…

Construction Jobs

Friday 5th April 2019

Working in construction 2.35 million people work in construction in the UK and over a third of the workforce is self- employed. Careers in construction trade roles suit people who are practical, possess good motor,hand eye skills and enjoy working with physical things . Tradespeople can also move into professional and technician roles and there…

Beach Office

Monday 1st April 2019

  Run your business from the beach   What technology do you need to start running your business from a sunny hideaway? By Mike Ianiri, Equinox If you could run your business from anywhere where would you go?  The Maldives, the Caribbean?  Somewhere completely different? Imagine the relaxed surroundings, with wonderful weather and it begins…

Digital Jobs

Friday 29th March 2019

What types of digital marketing jobs are there and what  areas do they cover? There are a wide range of digital marketing jobs out there meaning there are a huge variety of career options. Social Media Pay Per Click advertising (PPC) Video/audio production Interactive technology IoT  & AI Mobile marketing Search engine optimization (SEO) Search…

Conferences

Wednesday 27th March 2019

7 Reasons Conferences are Good for Business     # 1          Break out of your comfort zone Attending forces you to break out of your comfort zone It’s easy to watch a webinar/podcast from the privacy of your office, you don’t have to make small talk while your video loads Some of us are born…

Badmouth

Five steps to take if someone bad-mouths your business By Amanda Hamilton, CEO of NALP For a small business, reviews can be crucial for attracting new customers, and most consumers now utilise reviews and ratings to give them guidance on whether or not to use the services or products on offer. But what happens if…

Hospitality

5 reasons why you may want to consider  working in the hospitality industry   1.          People Do you like working with people? Helping, assisting and making people feel welcome . Hospitality is the ultimate people business.  This is an industry that serves people who are looking to get away from the daily…

Dividends 2019

Salaries and Dividends For The 2019/20 Tax Year If you operate your own UK limited company you will probably want to use the tax planning strategy of extracting money from your company through a combination of dividends and a low salary to ensure you optimise your tax. So, how are salary and dividends taxed? For…

Five Tips

Tuesday 26th March 2019

5 Simple Productivity Tips   Being a small business owner is hard, even moreso if you’re working a 9-5 too! It can be especially difficult to try and get everything done in one day, so  here are 5 productivity tips Use Your Commute On average, UK workers spend 41 minutes commuting each day, in some…

Kent Events

Thursday 21st March 2019

Here you can find links to the various organisations that run networking, seminars, conferences, workshops and exhibitions around the county of Kent     Networkers Networking Events Meet  Networking Groups in one Meeting held across County Details Click Here    Dragon Co-Working Networking , Workshops, Meet Ups Details Click Here      ZC Social Media…

Fin Tech

Wednesday 20th March 2019

FinTech: making finance democratic By David Solomon, Blueprints FinTech is an exciting area to be in at the moment! Even before the 2008 financial crash, many people had begun realising that the financial system was profiting only a small group, as private citizens were burdened with bailing out major global banks.  In what world would…

Application

Sunday 17th March 2019

Right now in the UK we have the highest number of people in employment ever. Yet there are still as at time of  writing more than 800,000 unfilled full-time jobs . So if you’re having problems, finding a role or even getting an interview maybe theres something going wrong with your application Heres how to…