Month: October 2014

Are you living beyond your means? We live in a culture where everyone is a shopaholic. That means that people waste money every day of their lives for no good reason. When you don’t value your finances, you could end up wasting loads of money. Before you spend anything, you should always ask yourself whether

Before you set foot on a ladder or scaffold, or attach a harness to work from a height of more than 2-3 metres, you should be completing a risk assessment. At times, even the simplest risks can be overlooked, which may lead to a minor, or even a major accident. Keep an eye out for

Coming up with a lucrative business idea can be very difficult if you don’t have a background in running successful companies. However, everyone has to start somewhere, right? If you want to make the move from traditional employment to working for yourself over the next few months, you’ll have to start working hard and select

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” - Strother Martin, Cool Hand Luke, 1967. Not being able to communicate properly is a trap that a lot of businesses fall into these days. That problem can manifest in a number of ways, but this article is going to look at just a handful of

Don’t be fooled; it’s not all gold, gold, gold in the mining business. Other resources such as steel and tungsten are making significant profits for a variety of mining companies – some of which are sure to be using the technology available from industry leaders such as IVolve to assist them with their mighty, mining

Are you finding that your website isn’t engaging people and driving business the way you hoped it would? It may be that it’s simply suffering from bad design. If you make it hard for people to find what they want, then they’ll just leave, won’t they? How many times have you tried to find your

The lifetime value of a customer is a metric that every business owner should place at the top of their list. It details the value of this customer over the entire time they are your customers. To put it into perspective: · Someone may purchase $1,000 in products once · Someone else may purchase $100

Corporate crime is said to be on the rise. For the average CEO, this can have far reaching consequences on the business. For many, they are unsure as how to tackle this problem. In the main, prevention is better than cure. Having stringent policies in your venture can help prevent this problem. Background checks can

Do you like the idea of being self-sufficient? Does living off the land seem appealing to your family? Then owning and running a farm could be the answer to all your problems. While some UK farmers have been struggling to make ends meet since the early 1990s, those with an innovative and flexible approach are

If you are like so many other people, you have considered property investment as a way to help secure your financial future. However, in more than a few cases, little action occurs beyond this point, largely because the process seems so difficult. Property experts, such as Templeton Property, understand that sensible, informed property investment does