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Business Presentation Skills Top Tips
Business Presentation Skills Tips A good presentation is often the foundation of a successful meeting, pitch for business or team building day out. Therefore, it is important to finely hone your presentation skills in order to be at the top of your game. We’ve outlined what we think are five of the most useful presentation [...]
How Businesses Can Survive the Recession
We have the pleasure this week of a video from one of our newest contributors, John Spence. With the economic future still uncertain and the famous ‘green shoots of recovery’ appearing and then seemingly disappearing again, it is clear these are still tough times for businesses both over here in the UK and globally. In [...]
B2B Social Media Marketing
9 Ideas for B2B Social Media Marketing All the time I hear variations of ‘social media is for B2C and I’m B2B so it won’t work’. Not true at all! There may be some social media platforms that offer more relevance to B2C or even B2B but there is no clear distinction. The problem is many people [...]
Customer Focus
Extreme Customer Focus The Three Key Questions I have some very strong beliefs about what I feel it takes to run a highly successful business. For example, I am completely convinced that whoever “owns the voice of the customer” and uses that information to build an organizational culture of Extreme Customer Focus… will own the [...]
Environmental Legislation Update
Environmental Legislation Updates Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 SI 2849 Amends 2007/871, establishing waste recovery and recycling targets for 2011 and 2012 and making other technical changes. Eco-design for Energy-Related Products Regulations 2010 SI 2617 Puts in place a framework for minimum energy efficiency standards for energy-using products. Adds civil sanctions as [...]
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What is a business plan and why do I need one?
How to grow bigger and better during the recession
Sources of Finance, Developing a Good Proposition
Introduction to Environmental Legislation
Sales – Asking for the Business
Accounting – What is VAT?
Quality Management Standards – An Improvement to 9001
Health and Safety – What are Hazards and Risks
Tendering – Tender Checklist
Marketing – Developing a Brand
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PayPal Small Business
Using PayPal in a small business We covered the taking of online payments in our Online transactions guide. Due to the popularity of the PayPal system amongst small businesses this guide covers its use in more detail. Please note that the Business IT Guide does not endorse or promote any specific product or payment system. This guide is [...]
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New Environmental Legislation UK
New & Upcoming Legislation. Although we discussed in the previous article the virtual impossibility to cover legislation in one go, what we can do and will do monthly is to detail the new and upcoming changes to Environmental Legislation. The following areas of legislation are under consultation at present – drop Wayne a line wayne@eagletuk.co.uk [...]
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Health and safety myth
Health and Safety Myth of the Month Myth: Egg boxes are banned in craft lessons as they might cause salmonella. The reality This story started after a school briefly banned children from using cardboard egg boxes to make things, threatening years of Blue Peter tradition. They were concerned that children might catch salmonella. Within a [...]
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Using Twitter Lists
Using Twitter Lists Twitter gained over 70 million new users from April to October last year and I often feel there is a lot of noise on Twitter these days. Whilst you don’t have to follow every person who follows you, it all depends on whether you are using a quantity or quality approach in your [...]
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BS25999 overview
How was the snow? In December 2010 it is likely that you suffered some disruption with the sudden high levels of snow, whether that was on plane, train or automobile. But how did is effect your business? BS25999 is a reasonably new British Standard regarding Business Continuity, where according to the standard business continuity is [...]
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Tendering – Tender Checklist
Before you start to bid for tenders, it is important you cover all of the bases. See our tender checklist and make sure you have everything covered before you start.