Recommended reading (No Comments »)
Here are some great books for small business owners:
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
The Jelly Effect: How to Make Your Communication Stick by Andy Bounds
Business visibility (No Comments »)
Business networking is a vital to meet other small business sharing ideas, opportunities and referrals. It can be done online or offline. It is a great way to raise your profile in the market place talking about your products and services and inevitably increasing business. You will also make great friends along the way and it can be a great support network helping you through your business journey. Here are some excellent networking, forums and directories we recommend you try out.
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How can businesses manage and cope with absenteeism?
By Claire Hibbert
www.icomplete.com
Running a business can be pretty tough and having a reliable workforce is key to surviving in today’s economic recession. What many small businesses fail to realise though, especially in the early stages of setting up or during a recession is that inadequate staffing means overstretched and stressed workers , and consequently the long term affects lead to a high staff turnover, a drop in quality control and customer service causing business to suffer.
In May 2008, statistics revealed that workers took 176m sick days last year costing £11.6bn – up 10m days on 2002. But employers suspect a large slice of that, 15% or some 25m days, were as a result of feigned sickness. Unreliable staff can result for many reasons so what does a company do to when it is left to cope with staff absenteeism? View full article.