Decision, decision, decision.
As you have already known, as the company owner and CEO, the make or break of your company is determined by your decisions. You see, business decisions are like dominoes. What you’ve decided today will impact tomorrow, next week, next month and even years to come – the domino effect.
The problem is, not all of your decisions are the right ones. Chances are, you will make bad decisions, and that’s okay.
But what if you don’t like the impact of the decisions you’ve made?…
When it comes to choosing a location, we’ve all heard that ‘it’s better to choose the worst property on the best street than the best property on the worst street’. Whether you’re looking for commercial or residential purposes, the reasons for this are simple: your postcode is everything.
For businesses, especially, location is highly important, as it has a major influence on everything from people’s perceptions of your enterprise to your client base, image and accessibility. Here are just three of the reasons that it should be at the forefront of your mind the next time you’re scouting out potential premises.…
On the surface, most industry sectors are self-explanatory – everybody knows what is involved in auto manufacture, food production and the construction industry. Or do they? In fact, many of America’s most traditional industries are underpinned by technologies and processes that people know little about.
Here are some examples:
Automobiles
The American auto industry produces millions of vehicles each year, and is one of the leading industry sectors when it comes to making use of new technology. The auto sector puts technology to many different uses, including the application of sensors (supplied by leading companies such as Transducer Techniques) to monitor production quality and efficiency, as well as to enhance the performance of the vehicle in use.…
An entrepreneur running a small business has a long list of duties — and many times, there is no personnel to help. Luckily, there are many resources available to a small business operator to streamline their work. Here are some tools to use for a more efficient workload.
Consider Virtual Assistants
Small businesses may not have the money for a full-time assistant. However, there are many virtual assistants online who can be hired for a few hours a month or a week to handle small tasks.…
Office design has now become synonymous with things like egg chairs, ping-pong tables, and arcade machines. While this may be fine for multi-billion dollar companies like Google and Facebook, the majority of us would appreciate it if our office simply made the best use of its real estate. Here is three ways you can start saving space.
Think Vertically
If you look around, you will notice a growing trend in our urban landscapes: we now have to build upwards rather than outwards.…
Most entrepreneurs face the dilemma of whether to hire a VA or not at some point in their career. While it might seem like hiring a virtual employee might bring more aggravation into your life than it will take away, this is rarely the case. The plain and simple fact is that the services offered by virtual assistants cost a lot less money to a growing or well-established business than a physical employee does, even if you have to cycle through a few to find the right fit for your company.…
As the technology improves and the cost per unit continues to fall, 3D printing will become more prevalent in small business operations over the next half a decade. With the potential to be at the forefront of the most significant advent in mass production since Henry Ford developed the first commercially-viable moving assembly line over 100 years ago – 3D printing could oversee improvements in product development, lower overheads and reduce environmental impact.
Here, we look at five ways 3D printing could revolutionise small businesses in the next five years.…
Effective asset management is vital to developing a streamlined and efficient organisation that’s performing to its maximum capabilities. It can take a number of guises, from procedures that you implement yourself, to programmes developed for and tailored to your business by professional enterprises such as Killik. Irrespective of the form your asset management plan takes, each of these incarnations has one shared goal: to ensure that your company is running as efficiently and profitably as possible.
In order to achieve this aim, it’s important to properly introduce your plan into the workplace.…
Starting a business is a really exciting venture, but simply starting one and doing work doesn’t mean that your business will be a success. For a successful ad marketing campaign, you need to put in a lot of hard work behind the scenes. Marketing for startups is a particular beast to tame as well, and traditional techniques might not always work for such a small enterprise with tight resource and budget restrictions.
Take a look at some of the steps that you can take to make sure that your business gets the attention that it deserves.…
SMS (short message service) marketing, or text marketing, is quickly becoming one of the most common and effective forms of marketing. Many small businesses have been reluctant to try it because they either don’t understand how it works, are afraid it will cost too much, or think they won’t have the time to manage it. But what we’ve learned about SMS marketing shows that it is a viable and valuable marketing option for virtually any small business or organization.
Cost-effective (Cheap)
Cheap can sometimes be seen as meaning of little value or worth and that isn’t what we are saying about sms marketing, that is why we choose to use the words cost-effective.…
