INSIGHTS

Navigating the Cost-of-Living Crisis: Understanding Evolving Consumer Behaviour

The cost-of-living crisis, characterised by rising inflation, is impacting businesses as much as it is affecting consumers. Understanding how consumer behaviour is changing is crucial for businesses to adapt and stay competitive.

Author: David Ellis

October 21, 2023

Category:
All
Contractors
SMEs
Startups
LEARN MORE

CLOSING THE DEAL

Every business is a sales organisation. Selling generates the cashflow that is the very lifeblood of any business. However, sales is as much an art as it is a process. Here are some top tips to help you to close deals.

Author: Nigel Simmons FCCA

June 10, 2023

Category:
SMEs
Startups
Contractors
LEARN MORE

NordPass - Simple and secure password management

Strong and varied passwords are key to effective cyber-security. However, few people can remember all the passwords needed for logging into their various devices, online accounts, cloud services and so forth.

Author: Nigel Simmons FCCA

February 11, 2023

Category:
Contractors
SMEs
Startups
LEARN MORE

Growing your business through a recession

Growing a business is hard work, particularly during a challenging economic environment. However, now might be the time to increase your market share while your competitors are pulling back. Perhaps some of your competitors are laying off employees and if so, this could be a good time to acquire some talented people from a rival firm. You could also take advantage of less competition from rival firms and try to grow your market share.

Author: Nigel Simmons FCCA

December 14, 2022

Category:
All
SMEs
Contractors
Startups
LEARN MORE

Critical thinking

In business, critical thinking is the ability to solve problems effectively by gathering key information about the issues at hand, generate further ideas involving a variety of perspectives, evaluating the information using logic and making sure that everyone involved is on board with the decision. 

Author: Nigel Simmons FCCA

November 10, 2022

Category:
All
Contractors
SMEs
Startups
LEARN MORE