Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2017

Managing your employees can be a tough job. It’s not something that can be taught and each employee you have is a different case. Some employees might be motivated by gifts and promises of a promotion, and other employees are motivated when you criticise their work and tell them bluntly that they aren’t meeting your standards. However, there are times when our lack of care for each employee can lead to them slipping from our business, and their loyalty might slowly be fading because of it.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2017

Photo courtesy of Pixabay. A lot of modern business have turned their focus away from factories overseas, opting to make their products closer to home. Of course, this is a great selling point for a business. And, it’s one that a lot of businesses use to get customers interested in their goods. Tactics like this can often offset the extra costs of manufacturing at home.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2017

Almost every sales manager was, at one point in their career, a peak-performing sales professional, top dog on the team. When promoted, everything changed—except, perhaps, them. This presents a problem because managing and leading a sales team requires a completely different mindset from selling. Yet what sales managers have to rely on are the instincts and competencies they developed when they were selling.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2017

Photo courtesy of Pexels. One of the hardest things any business owner is faced with is the task of keeping their business up to date with all the latest technologies. This doesn’t mean you need to have office chairs that have in-built keyboards and fridges integrated into the armrests or anything. But it does mean you need to be abreast of what technology will help your business boom.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2017

Photo courtesy of Free Great Picture. So, you have an idea for a product? Before you start pitching to manufacturers, investors and retailers, you’ll need a final working prototype. The design stage is crucial – and the more thorough, the better. Some people will take their design through all manner of stages, but here are really the five main stages that you should be worrying about.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2017

In a world which demands more and more of us on both a personal and a business-based level, it’s no wonder that stress levels are so high and health issues are arising in numbers we’ve never encountered before. The problem is that we try to function into a mechanical and robotic way within business, but the machinery on which we depend is very much alive and very much human.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2017

Photo courtesy of Image4Free. Even the strongest businesses in the world have had their weak moments. Maybe things aren’t going so well with your business at the moment. Perhaps it’s just one factor of your business that isn’t performing as well as it should be. If we look at the most common elements that come into play when things aren’t going amazingly for any given business, it quite often has to do with poor Internet marketing.

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