Mark Gwilliam

Employee Feedback: Listen and Learn

25/10/2007
Mark
Business Advisory Services, Business Consulting, General
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Employers have come to realise that one of the best things they can do for their business is to get feedback from their own people. While listening to customers’ suggestions and complaints is important, soliciting the input and ideas of employees can be priceless. What You Learn from Listening Your employees are your “contact people” […]

Firing employees: The right way and the wrong way

It’s very common nowadays for managers to resort to extreme measures such as firing employees just so the business or company can stay afloat. Then there is the other, more common reason for firing an employee. That is, when an employee has become a non-performing asset, a liability so to speak, he or she is […]

Storefront: Does you store persona say “come in” or “get lost”?

It goes without saying that an effective storefront calls out to potential customers and invites them to look at the merchandise. No matter how great your items are, if your storefront doesn’t attract passers-by, you will have a hard time encouraging walk-in customers who actually contribute a large part of your sales income. Have you […]

17/10/2007
Mark
Business Advisory Services, Business Consulting
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Starting on the path of business is hard and choosing the specific path is even harder. Nevertheless, no matter what path you choose, there will always be risks that you’ll have to take when starting a business. Going into business, though, doesn’t always have to be a leap of faith. Although there will always be […]

Top 5 warning signs that your business is declining

The hardest thing to admit for a business owner is the fact that their business is slowly dying. After all, what business owner would want to admit that their once future hope of building an empire is forever to remain in the realm of wishful thinking? Thus, the owner of a failing business continues to […]

5 Tips for picking the best business partner

The success behind any business lies mainly on three things: your product or service, its affordability and you (or the people) who run it. Make just one of these components mediocre and your business and everything for which you’ve worked hard will go down the drain. Therefore, once you have an excellent product or service […]

06/10/2007
Mark
General
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For any small business owners out there who need a little inspiration when recruiting the right calibre of staff, this short movie may help you. http://www.eagleschoolmovie.com/

10 things to do BEFORE you start your business

From the start of your business, you’re in a race against time. Your hard earned money will essentially become like the sands of time, trickling down into a void of nothingness from which your business must rise above within a short period of time. To help you cope for the initial race with time, here […]

26/09/2007
Mark
Marketing
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More than 10 years after the popularisation of the internet as a means of mass marketing, entrepreneurs are still finding this frontier a place one could easily get lost in. Case in point are the millions of entrepreneurs worldwide who are finding out the hard way that having a fantastic looking website doesn’t necessarily ensure […]

20/09/2007
Mark
General
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In the world of business, nothing but change is constant – and change is the means by which the Darwinian process selects the businesses that are likely to survive. Thus, for entrepreneurs, a stagnant business is almost always a dead business. So what are the top five tasks that you must perform to grow your […]