Discover how your business network can help your clients

Your network can help you keep clients as well as find new ones

Here’s a simple way to add value to your product or service.

From time to time your clients will reach the limit of your product or service. With a good sales and marketing process you will have already set the parameters of where those lines are drawn. However, you can add value if you have worked out who can help your clients where you can’t. Read on for examples. Read the rest of this entry

Want to secure cashflow despite bad luck?

Fire risk assessments are not exactly high on the list of priorities for everyone. Some small businesses might think fire evacuation procedures are not important. So spare a thought for the business owner in Scotland who didn’t think a fire would ever affect his organisation.

The business was unlucky enough to suffer a fire and they didn’t have an evacuation procedure, they probably couldn’t find the time to do it – especially as there 101 other things to do every week to keep the business afloat.

The fire brigade arrived yet the absence of an evacuation procedure (which should be tried and tested) meant that no-one at the premises could tell the brigade if anyone was left in the building. Read the rest of this entry

Health & Safety Inspections – coming soon?

On the spot fines following these inspections have been increased to £20,000. Find out if your business is at risk and review our 7 free top tips on Health & Safety.

There are three reasons why you may hear from the health & safety “police”. All of them are beyond your control. Read the rest of this entry