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7 ways to ensure Your product descriptions sell

Imagine if you could have a super salesperson standing next to a customer every time they looked at your brochure, catalogue or website. Your salesperson would draw their attention to the ways that your products could help them. He or she would answer their questions and respond to their concerns. The ...

Extraordinary Entrepreneur: Karen Hanton – founder of Toptable

Toptable.com is the brain child of Karen Hanton, a truly daring entrepreneur with a passion for British cuisine. Toptable is an online restaurant booking site which she created in 2000, and it is now the UK’s leading restaurant booking website, which allows diners to choose from around 5000 restaurants in ...

Five Biggest Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make

This is a summary of the five biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make when starting a business from Jerry Kaplan It's good food for thought and particularly relevant if you are thinking about growing your business. Jerry Kaplan is widely known in the US computer industry as a serial entrepreneur, executive, technical ...

Top tips for commenting on blogs

Like most bloggers, I love comments on my posts. Comments help bloggers feel like we're not talking to ourselves. I've learned a lot over the years from the smart people who comment on my posts. And I've made many friends whom I never would have met otherwise. Sometimes, I sit at my ...

Video: Learning from the best… Innocent Smoothies

Innocent Smoothies are frequently held up as THE company to model to create a successful business. This is a video from the British Library's Inspiring Entrepreneur series which gives us a chance to hear from the founder, Richard Reed, how they got started and some insight into their success.

Getting used to no routine

Wow what a change! - from a strict routine of, up at 5, gym by half past and at my desk by 7 , to freedom, time, space and the ability to waste a morning watching Jeremy Kyle and GMTV – taking full advantage of the tips about optimum eye ...

The Importance of Being Internally Branded

You’ve spent weeks, maybe months developing your company values and marketing messages. You have a slick company website which compliments your beautiful logo. Co-ordinating email signatures and social media profiles have been set up and you feel you are almost good to go. Note; I said “almost”. There is usually one ...

Speaking for business – 5 tips for getting leads

This is a fantastic article from John Jantsch on how to turn speaking opportunities into real business is well worth a read. You may want to also check out Joanna Martin's video on using satir categories afterwards. A lot of folks dream of being a sought after, highly paid speaker (some ...

Video: Dynamics of change and fear

Fantastic video from Carly Fiorna, the previous female CEO of Hewlett Packard. This is a great discussion around what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur and how we can use our fears and risk taking to create momentum. Carleton S. (Carly) Fiorina was president and chief executive officer of ...

Video: Inspiring entrepreneur Sara Blakely inventor of Spanx

I came across this video on You Tube featuring Sara Blakely. Her story is an amazing one, where she spotted a need (let's get rid of those panty lines!) and created a product, Spanx, that would do it for her. Her story is very inspiring and she has created enormous ...