General - Business Plan Blog

An impromptu business plan will do (sometimes)!

04/04/2011

Something we're quite passionate about is that planning should be easy, especially for small businesses. Detailed business and marketing plans certainly have their place, but if you need to get things done quickly, then a quick plan will do. It's still better than no plan at all.

Free Software for Small Businesses

09/12/2010

Last week I was supposed to meet my co-director In York to do some planning for our business. Of course, the weather put paid to that! Instead we spent the day (or most of it) on Skype for free and using Dropbox (for free) and got the work done that way. The only thing we missed was someone to bring us our coffees and lunch! It set me thinking, how much free software is there out there that can make our lives easier?

10 Tips for Surviving the Big Freeze!

02/12/2010

So winter's arrived and some of us have been snowed in already! With our apologies to those of you who are really well organised, here are 10 of our ideas on making sure that your company survives the big freeze.

Time Management

22/11/2010

I don't know about you, but I'm really struggling with my time management at the moment. Where does it all go? Time, of course, waits for no man/woman/person and, fool that I am, I thought that I'd have more of it as I got older... Wrong!

The Importance of Holidays

29/08/2010

This is a really difficult subject for small businesses, simply because we don't see how we can take holidays when we feel that making money is more important. In fact, it looks as though many small business owners will forego their holiday this year, according to the XLN Business Community website.

Marketing and Finance - most important in a recession?

14/08/2010

Having worked with SMEs for a long time (and been one myself) and having seen rather more of recessions than I would have liked, I long ago came to the conclusion that there are two important things in business that you ignore at your peril when things are tough. Marketing and Finance.

E- Service (how to treat your online customers)

06/08/2010

Recently we had a hiccup with our software, which failed to recognise that a customer had paid for their plan. We have always been very particular about our customer service process, because we know how we like to be treated ourselves when things go wrong (and with the best of intentions, they do).

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