The Art of Business Investment: How to Establish a Warehouse and Viable Logistics Operation

There is a genuine sense of optimism around small businesses in the UK at present, and this positive sentiment is encouraging entrepreneurs to spend higher volumes of capital. This trend is prevalent across multiple areas of business, with small and medium-sized businesses forecast to spend an estimated £8 million more on technology alone this year than they did in 2013.

Warehouse solution

The technology spend is expected to increase across software, outsourcing and office equipment, especially in the fields of warehouse management and logistic operations. For small business owners that sell and distribute products directly to the consumer market, it is imperative that they invest in a viable infrastructure that can help them to minimise costs and maximise profitability over time.…

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Which Services Can a Taxi Company Outsource?

Outsourcing is a great resource for any growing business. It provides you with the extra facilities required to be able to take care of all of your company’s needs, even if you don’t have the resources to do so on your own. Done properly, outsourcing can save you both time and money, permitting your company to grow, expand and flourish.

Taxicab in San Francisco

This holds true when you run a taxi company. In rapid growth periods, outsourcing will enable your taxi business to keep up with additional or unexpected demands on resources. It can also help you to improve efficiency by outsourcing specific services to highly experienced providers, which can also ensure a greater degree of operational control.…

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Help to Make a Decision on Creating a Mobile App

Creating a mobile app can be of great benefit to a business, both in terms of attracting consumers and increasing productivity, but there are a few things for you to consider before jumping in and developing your own; namely how much it will cost in both time and money, how the app will relate to your customers, and how it would be used internally, as well as the logistical elements involved.

Mobile apps

Mobile apps can help businesses relate to their consumers; display content, products and services; provide sales support and promote themselves, as well as being used by employees. However, it may be costly and time-consuming to develop and maintain your own app, for example, or you may find that the market is already saturated with similar ideas.…

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Payroll Doesn’t Have to Be a Chore

Business owners may find that some of the more routine tasks they are required to undertake are also some of the more tedious, and payroll and wage administration can be one of those selfsame tasks. Nonetheless, the administration of payroll, even if the business is a one person operation, is essential from both a regulatory and legal perspective. It also makes sense to streamline payroll from an efficiency point of view.

Payroll and tax forms

Contractor pay solutions can take the difficulties out of payroll for business owners. By outsourcing payroll administration, a business can remove the difficulties for itself of tracking different wage systems and associated costs.…

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Four Ways to Improve your Business’ Eco-friendliness

Offices contribute to over 3% of global emissions and cause 1.54 gigatons of greenhouse gases to escape into the atmosphere each year. In order to make positive changes to the environment, it’s imperative that businesses start taking eco-friendliness more seriously.

Reducing your carbon emissions won’t just help the environment, it will also reflect positively on your finances. Less emissions means less bills, which in turn leads to greater profits. In addition, as more consumers begin to acknowledge the importance of protecting the environment, it could lead to more customers.

If you’re looking for ways to improve eco-friendliness around your office, consider taking these four simple steps.…

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Keeping Up with Business Regulations

It is of vital importance that you stay up to date on business regulations in your sector to keep pace with new rules and practices. Compliance with business regulations should never be compromised because there can be serious repercussions for a company if it is discovered that there is a lack of compliance.

Business regulations

Failure to comply with regulations can result in huge fines in some industries, and compliance is important from business start-up through to sale. If a business is found to be ignoring some part of business law it can result in negative publicity that can damage a business image and brand permanently.…

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Business Lessons You Don’t Need to Learn the Hard Way!

There are several lessons that business owners throughout history have already learned for you.

Why would anyone readily agree to learn these lessons the hard way?

Business lessons

1. Niche Selection: Pick One You Actually Understand

Like Tony Robbins has famously said many times “find something that gets you outta bed early and keeps you up late at night.”

That’s the first step. You also need to have intimate knowledge of your chosen niche industry – the products that sell, positives and negatives that will affect a successful operation, and most important: the types of customers you’ll be serving.

Even venture capitalists who make a dozen deals a week still make sure they know the industry they’re investing in, or have a trustworthy expert at their side advising them on the nuances of the business.…

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Why You Need to Hang on to Troublesome Customers

We’ve all been there at one point or another in business: dealing with a mean, snarly, over-bearing, impossible-to-satisfy customer that seems hell-bent on milking every last dime of profit from your business.

As a business owner, it’s so easy to focus on these “PIA” customers: concluding that telling them to “hit the bricks” is the only sensible solution. They exist in your world only to waste your time and money, and generally put you and your employees in a bad mood.

Nagging customer

The good…

Mr. Jones makes his purchase and you never hear from him again until he lavishes you with yet another order every month.…

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Tips for Getting an Underperforming Team Back on Track

When a team member starts to perform poorly it will affect your company’s business but when the whole team slips off track it can be a lot more serious.

In this sort of situation it is important to take the initiative and try to resolve the problems as soon as you can. Thankfully, there are some simple and sensible tips to let you do this quickly and efficiently. The following are some excellent ideas for getting back on track as soon as possible.

Lead your team to get back on track

Talk to Them More

A common problem in many businesses is that the staff feel that their bosses don’t talk to them enough.…

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5 Tips for Running a Successful Social Media Contest

Social media contests are popping up all over, but do you know the right way to use them for your company? In order to maximize benefits, it is important to understand what you need to do before you launch a contest. By spending time on setting up the rules and establishing firm objectives, there will be fewer questions later on, and you and your employees can focus on creating meaningful relationships with entrants.

Social media contest winners

Check out these five ways to run a successful social media contest below.…

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