When you spend all day working in an office, whether it's at home or elsewhere, it's not exactly great for your health. You can experience back problems from sitting at your desk, eat badly and experience all of the stresses that go with working in close proximity with others. Fortunately, you can stay healthy while working in an office. You just need to do a few things to maintain a healthy office worker's lifestyle. A few changes to how you work and your daily routine can make a big difference … [Read more...]

It's always important to keep up with the changing demands and tastes of modern customers. As different generations become the ones with the most purchasing power, you need to pay attention to what they're looking for. If you have a store that you feel is out of date, it doesn't take a lot to make it more modern. You can update it in one or several ways to cater more to modern customers and keep them coming back again and again. Take a look at some of the ways you could create a more modern … [Read more...]

Paper shouldn’t really have a place in businesses, nowadays. Passing information around using this medium is expensive, wasteful, and much less secure than the alternatives which have appeared over the last few years. Regardless of the size of your company, you should have the resources available to take this element out of your work, and it’s very important that as many companies as possible start going down this route. To give you an idea of what can be done to take the paper out of your … [Read more...]

It’s a heartbreaking thing for any entrepreneur to have to accept that their business — that thing which they have dedicated such a huge share of their time, resources, and attention to — is faltering, and may well fail. Yet this is the unfortunate reality that faces the vast majority of all entrepreneurs at some point in their professional lives, with no exceptions being made for the rich and powerful. If your business is faltering, you may well find yourself in a state of panic and … [Read more...]

The world runs on new inventions. Where would be without the light bulb, the elevator, or the humble microwave? It’s not worth thinking about. If you’re constantly tinkering around with new ideas, and have come up with something that might, with some hard work and a pinch of luck, become a viable product, then don’t just leave the idea sitting around in your idea: bring it to life. If you can dream it, you can do it, as R Kelly would say. Below, we take a look at a few essential tips that’ll … [Read more...]

Deciding to start a business under any circumstances is a risk, but by yourself? That can seem like you’re asking for trouble. Yet despite the added risk, many people continue to do just that each year - and many of them succeed. So it’s far from being all doom and gloom, and indeed, if you’re doing things by yourself, then you have the opportunity to create a company based entirely on your vision and ideas. There’s a lot to be said for that idea. Still, and as we said, going solo means added … [Read more...]

When you work for yourself, you can often be used to managing yourself and just getting on with the work. But at some point, you may find that you really need to hire someone. You’ll get to the point where work is just too much to handle on your own. But when it's time to bring someone on board, don’t freak out or worry that it’s too big of a task. The infographic below has some handy hacks for the entire process. But let’s consider three steps now. Know Who and What You Need First of all, you … [Read more...]

When it comes to your career, it can be risky to leave things to chance. If you just tend to go about your day, trying to do a good job, you may never get to where you want to be. Because to climb the career ladder and land in the role that you really want, it takes a lot of work. You need to know where you’re going, and what you need to do to get there. This is why having a career plan is so important. Sure, it’s unlikely that you’d create a ten-year plan and follow it to the letter - but this … [Read more...]

When working with high-valued assets, it can be difficult to know how to maximize the price we sell it for, and expose the item to the correct market. Valued assets sale can really inject plenty of cash in our personal revenue stream, or perhaps for the balance sheet of our business. It’s simple good sense to sell items for a profit, but with items that rarely come into our possession, it pays to make the best opportunity yours. Also, sometimes to earn money, you need to spend a little money to … [Read more...]

If you’re a business owner, then you already know that it’s not an easy environment to succeed in. There are a million and one things that can go wrong, and when they do, you’ll need to work hard to get back to your original position. However, there’s one area that is, arguably, more threatening than all the other threats to your business, yet one that many entrepreneurs fail to take seriously. We’re talking about cyber crime. It’s on the rise, at an unprecedented rate no less, and does, for … [Read more...]