This week, Doug Richard, former Dragons’ Den investor and founder of the School for Startups hosted a ‘bootcamp’ for social enterprises in London. Much of the day focused on comparing businesses run to generate profit for shareholders with those run to create a social impact. Just how “business-y” should a social enterprise be?
Posts Tagged ‘success’
Review YOUR 2009!
Posted in Advice for your business, tagged achieve results, aims, ambitions, goals, review, small startups, success, tips, tools on 14 December, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Have you actually considered what you did achieve this year? Whether it’s in business or your personal life, what can you honestly say you are proud to have accomplished in 2009?
The simple life – three ways to gain success on the web
Posted in Advice for your business, Technology, tagged copywriting, Marketing Sherpa, online business, Stefan Tornquist, success, web, website on 1 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Start up business owners absolutely can’t ignore the opportunities that are available online to market their small business. As great an opportunity as there is, it’s also a pretty daunting task for a new business – especially if you’re not an expert in getting attention on the web. The good news is, keeping it simple [...]
Boosting sales: Things my new clients say to me
Posted in Advice for your business, Life as an SME, Random thoughts, Sales and Marketing, Successful entrepreneurs, tagged advice, business advisers, business start up, expert advice, practical business advice, sales, selling, SME, start-up, success, training, what business startups need to know on 14 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Referencing his experience helping start-ups, SMEs and beyond, Steve Bent from unrivalled talks about boosting sales. In this installment he tackles the basics of sales process: meaurement.
Your new business is exciting isn’t it!? DON’T talk about it! (Pt 2)
Posted in Advice for your business, Life as an SME, Random thoughts, Sales and Marketing, tagged expert advice, practical business advice, sales, selling, SME, starting a business, success, training, what business startups need to know on 17 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Following his introduction about why you shouldn’t talk about your business, Steve Bent delves further as well as offering some practical advice about how to talk about your new venture.
Your new business is exciting isn’t it!? DON’T talk about it!
Posted in Advice for your business, Random thoughts, Sales and Marketing, tagged advice, practical business advice, sales, success, training, what business startups need to know on 12 August, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Steve Bent from Unrivalled Consulting shares his thoughts on why you SHOULDN’T talk about your business – if you want to sell that is!
Leading entrepreneur says “hundreds of people will tell you your idea is rubbish”
Posted in Advice for your business, Ideas, Successful entrepreneurs, You and your idea, tagged Coca-Cola, great idea, Innocent drinks, Richard Reed, success on 23 July, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Not a particularly cheery headline for a business startup blog, but it’s an interesting observation which we can all learn from. Richard Reed is co-founder of Innocent Drinks, a very successful business which brings fresh, tasty smoothies (and food products as it turns out) to a health conscious market in the UK, and now further [...]
Go on – dare to be different!
Posted in Advice for your business, Ideas, Random thoughts, You and your idea, tagged be different, competitors, differentiation, success on 17 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You’ve got a great idea. You’ve got oodles of self confidence. You have people who believe in you. You know that this is going to be successful. So you’re set to go, right? Wrong. If you are about to launch a new business, make sure that you are going to be significantly different from every [...]
