Business & Industry

6 Traits that Would Make You a Great Entrepreneur

There is nothing like receiving your paycheck at the end of the month but if there is still that thought in the back of your mind about whether you could do the job better if you worked for yourself, you may have been considering whether to go down the route of becoming an entrepreneur. Here are the six traits that would make you a great company leader.

Decisiveness

As an...

The Success of Tesla’s Battery Recycling Programme

With a goal to sell 20 million electric vehicles annually by 2030, Tesla has big ambitions to remain a global electric vehicle leader. Factories are being built around the world at incredible speed and with every car manufactured and sold, CO2 levels are dramatically reduced. Last year alone the automaker sold nearly one million vehicles, which accounted for an almost 90% year on year...

4 Ways to Build Quality Backlinks

Put simply, link building refers to the process of getting other websites to link back to your business’ website. Link building is a process that all business owners and marketers should be interested in to increase the authority of their site and drive referral traffic. There are several reasons to build links. While Google’s algorithms are constantly evolving and becoming more complex,...

6 Effective Ways to Manage Employees

1. Establish values early on

A value is a guiding principle that helps us to make decisions and behave in certain ways. We all have values that we live by, whether we are aware of them or not. When it comes to managing employees, values can be an important tool for setting expectations and ensuring that everyone is on the same page.

For example, if one of your values is...

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Chattiest business towns in the UK revealed

Communication is central to the work many of us do. Whether you’re part of a large corporation or a small local business, the ability to chat is a key tool in helping businesses of all sizes grow, ultimately boosting your local and the national economy.

Chatting really does make the world go round and today, cloud-based business phone system, CircleLoop , releases The Chatterbox...

What Are the Potential Drawbacks of Development Finance?

For all its selling points, and there are plenty of them, development finance is not without its drawbacks.

Development finance is a specialist funding solution for property development and construction projects, which can be arranged at comparatively short notice. As a strictly short-term facility, the monthly interest payable on a development finance loan can start at as little as...

Aiming for a promotion: what you can do to show you are ready

Earning a promotion will allow you to take on a more important job role and advance in your career. While you may feel like you are ready for this next step, it is also crucial to demonstrate your aspirations to your company. You will need to ensure you maintain excellent work performance so that you can catch managers’ attention. Although experience, skills, and performance are common...

5 Tips to Good Finance for your Business

Tips to Good Finance for your Business

Having a good financial management understanding can really make the difference in making sure that you and your business succeed. There are a plethora of things that you as a business owner can do to enhance your fiscal proficiency.

Finances are without a doubt one of the most complicated things that you will have to manage running a business but at the same time they are probably...

What jobs are going to be in demand in 2022?

If you’re thinking about switching jobs in 2022, you might be wondering where to focus your attention. The pandemic changed the way we live and work and had a significant impact on the job market. Furlough, job losses and high demands on particular sectors forced many people to rethink their career choices.

Focusing your job search on the sectors that have the highest demand for...

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