by Angela | Tuesday, August 6, 2013 | small business management
In business, as in most anything, it’s important we have confidence in what we do if we want to succeed. This is a topic we’ve covered numerous times in this blog as well as in our Small Business Management course. But having confidence in what you do is one thing —...
by Angela | Wednesday, July 31, 2013 | small business marketing
In a previous post, Telemarketing: Why You Should Start Using the Telephone, we talked about why our Small Business Management course includes telemarketing as an important strategy to incorporate in your marketing plan. This then got us thinking about another form of...
by Angela | Monday, July 29, 2013 | 12 Customer Service, small business management, training courses
Would your customers recommend your services to their friends? If you’re wondering why the seemingly lost art of customer service has suddenly made a comeback, it’s because businesses — large and small — have discovered what the business owners of yesteryear...
by Angela | Friday, July 26, 2013 | 14 Productivity, small business management, training courses
A while back, we talked about adding routine and structure to your business to ensure you’re being your most productive self, which is also something we cover in the Monitor and Manage Small Business Operations subject of our Small Business Management course....
by Angela | Friday, June 28, 2013 | small business management, training courses
Our Small Business Management course gives budding entrepreneurs-to-be all the information they need to get their own businesses off the ground — from researching the market to finally writing their own business plan. But how do you know if going into business for...
by Angela | Friday, June 14, 2013 | News
In a recent post we talked about what makes an entrepreneur, or more specifically, how good leadership is essential to being successful. But could it be that there are also a prescribed set of attributes guaranteed to make you successful? As I thought about this I was...
by Angela | Saturday, June 8, 2013 | 14 Productivity
One of the great things about our Small Business Management Course is that we’ve put all our training materials online, allowing students to access the training materials from any PC, anytime, anywhere. But our training materials aren’t the only things to have...
by Angela | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 | small business management, training courses
So you’ve got a business idea! It’s winning and you’re pumped, excited, raring to go — but first, you have to write a business plan. If you haven’t written a business plan before, our Small Business Management course guides you through the process,...
by Angela | Saturday, May 18, 2013 | 12 Customer Service, small business management, training courses
About 35 percent of the world’s population uses the internet. It may not seem like a high percentage, but when one considers that only 14 percent of the world’s population are classed as living in ‘highly developed countries’ (according to the Human...
by Angela | Thursday, May 16, 2013 | 12 Customer Service, small business management, training courses
Some people play the stock market; buying and trading shares, but it’s a lot like gambling: you gotta know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. One thing that’s often a sure-fire bet on success, however, is the property market. The Asset of Bricks and Mortar As...
by Angela | Saturday, April 20, 2013 | 07 Marketing Action Plan, 08 Undertake Marketing Activities, small business management, small business marketing, training courses
If you haven’t really gotten into social media — particularly Facebook and Twitter (“I don’t see the point of it”) — Quora might just be the social media platform that changes your mind. It’s definitely worth a look if you’re an existing small...
by Angela | Saturday, April 13, 2013 | training courses
Did you know that Germany has some of the lowest rates of youth-unemployment (and unemployment in all age groups) in the developed world? Why is this so? Because of their education system, speculate many economists. Limitless Potential Study a Bachelor of Business at...