Launching your own startup isn’t as easy as you might think it is. If it were simple, everyone would be doing it. While it feels like everyone is launching their own startup, you can bet that plenty of people have fallen at the first hurdle. Don’t want to be one of them? Learn some lessons…

Every successful entrepreneur must realize they need a set of refined skills to be successful. These days, it’s not good enough to specialize in one thing and one thing only. You have to develop your skills so you can take on other tasks and improve your business. As you may have guessed by the title,…

If you've just started your own small business, you've probably figured out by now that you only have a small budget too. That's mostly down to all the hidden startup costs that you've had to cash out on, as well as loans and any other expenses. Because of this it can be quite difficult to…

Deciding to launch a blog is a big deal. It’s not something you can often take lightly. Because blogging takes work. It really does. Running your own blog can be testing and tough, but entirely brilliant if you’re willing to put in the work. Everyone has their own reasons for why they first start; I…

Most people would consider it a bad idea to buy a two-seater sports car when you have a family of five to drive around. You wouldn’t have the space you need, and the car would probably be less safe than a lot of the alternatives you have access to. Instead, you’d choose something much better…

In our efforts to increase our competency and become better people in all aspects of our career proceeding, we might find our current methods for success are getting stale. Sometimes climbing the career ladder one rung at a time is exhausting, or sometimes so slow that it can be hard to stay motivated within your…

If you want to convince swathes of customers to visit your business website, subscribe to your newsletters, and most importantly of all, buy your products and services, you need to, first and foremost, work on your branding. Afterall, if people don’t know who you are or what you’re about, they hardly have any reason to…

Websites are every bit as important, if not more important than actual shop front in the modern day market. But, there are still. A surprisingly large amount of businesses that only put minimum effort into them. Making them at best basic and at work unworkable for the type and volume of clients that they are…

There’s nothing worse than a bad website. A bad website is an instant turn-off and in a world where time is more precious than ever, losing visitors is a disaster. There’s also no excuse for it. Building and maintaining a website is easier than ever, and if your page is looking more drab than fab…

What happens when a startup is no longer a startup? It is thought that the majority of startup companies don’t last beyond the first two years, but there are some that go all the way to their fifth birthday. In some very rare cases, startups can even go well beyond the first five years! Just…