About fifty percent of small businesses fail within the first five years of opening their doors. To keep your business from becoming part of this statistic, examine the most common reasons businesses fail and make a plan to prevent them from happening to you. Keep reading to discover three reasons businesses fail and steps you can take to avoid them.   Poor Customer … [Read more...]

Small businesses can often struggle to capture the attention of their target demographics, but huge corporations in every industry have humble beginnings. You shouldn’t be intimidated by the success of your established rivals, and you certainly shouldn’t shy away from expanding your company. So many small businesses fizzle out, and it’s not always because those entrepreneurs … [Read more...]

The time is now for entrepreneurs looking for investment opportunities in Singapore to benefit from the exciting economic landscape. With business relations between China warming up, the potential for growth in a few industries is a reality. Professionals in business for themselves might find the country rife with opportunity, as the country has one of the highest standards of … [Read more...]

It's one of those delicate balances in a business space. You want to create a relaxed working environment so the culture of the business benefits, but you also need to have the opportunity to make this environment as productive as possible. Sometimes you can't have it all. But what you need to do is ensure that you’ve got a space that is dynamic and flexible, not just so … [Read more...]

Being in business for yourself is certainly interesting. It’s one of those things that you may find really works out for you, or that you just struggle with. But even if you’re in the latter camp, it really doesn’t mean that you should look to give up or suffer from low success. Instead, it just means that you need to take a new approach. That you need to be able to shake … [Read more...]

IT is a huge part of any business, whether you have 2 members of your team or 100. Whilst we enjoy all of the positives of IT, and our business systems, a lot of the time safety and security falls to the back of our minds. However, the world of IT (and the internet especially) is a pretty scary place sometimes, and there are always people out there looking to steal your data … [Read more...]

As an employer, you will want to always try and make your workers as happy and relaxed as you can in the office. There are so many different ways to adapt and change the office throughout your career and the changes we will talk about today are sure to make people feel happier and more relaxed this spring.   #1 Inject Color One of the ways that you can think of … [Read more...]

Just as you care about continually improving your communication with customers, your clients are just as important. Clients are customers but they are not customers in the sense that the masses are. Clients vary from either private citizens, other businesses, and sometimes even governments. Just as we chase after the human connection with our customers, clients too need to … [Read more...]

When you're building your brand, the topic of trust can come up a lot. We need to trust the people working for us, as well as the clients, and in some way, the customer, so we can develop as a business. But there can be points when we hit a wall, and as such, we need to get outside help. A contractor, or outsourcing, becomes an essential component. This helps us to … [Read more...]

Any entrepreneur that wants their business to do well in the long-term needs to focus on finding their place. No company can make it without finding some form of distinction in terms of its brand identity or its individual products and services. You need to separate yourself from the many similar competitors in your marketplace if you want to give consumers a reason to … [Read more...]