So you have prepared your presentation, your speech, your pitch and are happy with your content. Now, how do you deliver it so that you make the maximum impact? Here are 6 simple presentation tips to help you deliver superbly!

Small business owners spend a lot of time thinking about how to make their business grow, but they are often not prepared when that growth happens. Scaling a small business to grow will require you to rethink how you operate. If you want to keep growing in a sustainable way, then you need to learn how to manage it. Here are few ways you can manage growth of your small business and keep your company running smoothly (and avoid growing pains!):

The long hours, the anticipation, the thrill of the push. Starting a business is a lot like training for a marathon. This summer, I did both simultaneously and learned a ton in the process. At each step, I grew smarter, stronger, and even more prepared for my next set of challenges. Here are my 5 marathon training tips that can help you as a new entrepreneur as you tackle your new business:

At a recent How to of Going Global event in Waterford sponsored by KPMG Private Enterprise, supported by Enterprise Ireland, Ulsterbank and Business Achievers, business leaders shared their experiences of scaling and going global. Here are 8 top tips for taking your business global:

Hiring is hard. I mean, how are you supposed to know after reading somebody’s CV and a talking to them for a few minutes if they’re the right fit for your company? And yet if you don’t, you run the real risk of spending a lot of money on somebody that ends up doing more harm than good. So what can you do enhance your chances for success? Here are 8 tips to help avoid costly hiring mistakes:

The latest event in the ‘How to’ of Going Global series organised by KPMG and supported by Business Achievers, Ulster Bank and Enterprise Ireland was held in Waterford on 27th March 2019, where business leaders exchanged tips on exporting and scaling their businesses globally.

Successful businesses are dynamic. They take the best tips of the trade and experiment with them as needed. Getting too comfortable with where your business is at means that the business model will most likely fail over time. Interests change, technologies advance, and clients often move on to the next best thing. The best way to avoid this is to employ some prime business techniques that will ensure that your company stays on top (or makes itself there if it isn’t already). Here are 6 effective business practices to implement today:

Good communication is absolutely essential when it comes to selling, what you say to a prospect and how you deliver it has a big impact on their decision making. For a sales pitch to be successful you need to be confident in yourself and what you’re selling, but you need to make sure that the comfort you find in your role doesn’t turn into complacency. This is when there is the potential for our standard of language to slip, we might start throwing in a few too many buzzwords, acronyms our client won’t understand and words that we don’t realise that are actually negative. Here are 8 words to avoid in your next sales pitch:

Does your company currently have a marketing plan in place? Well according to statistics, companies that have well documented marketing plans are more often satisfied with their marketing results. Let’s face it, without a strategy in place, you’re haphazardly spreading the word about your products and services. This in turn means that you may or may not get the type of traffic you’re hoping for. Here are 5 reasons why you should develop a solid marketing plan:

There are three elements that define the ability of an organisation in its field to offer its employees the best in skill-acquisition, industry-specific education, and ongoing learning, as well as opportunities for employees to exhibit their strengths and apply themselves immediately. Nurturing these elements will ensure that employees are engaged, have a clear role and purpose in your organisation, and believe wholeheartedly in the mission and direction that your company is headed in. Leadership, strategy and culture: the holy trinity of modern business:

Running a green fleet is beneficial in many different ways. Not only are you helping the environment by reducing your emissions, but you could end up saving money as well. Fleet car insurance brokers often offer a reduced price for eco-friendly drivers’ premiums. Here, we’ll look into green fleets and why they can make a significant difference to the world and your business costs.

Our latest Business Achiever is Michael McElroy and SalesPlus. We asked Michael to tell us a little bit about his sales-focussed business and about his business journey to date. Read on to find out more in Business Achievers: Michael McElroy and SalesPlus.

Why is talent management so beneficial to small and medium-sized businesses? Interestingly enough, the reasons are remarkably similar to why bigger and more well-known companies benefit from them, only with small businesses the valuable perks are more immediately obvious. Here's why a talent management strategy is beneficial for your business:

A large percentage of potential customers search the internet to find out about nearby products and services. Companies that complement their offline business strategies with online marketing strategies can multiply their results since they are offering different channels to communicate to their target customers. Here are tips for small businesses for local marketing:

Are you on top of your business accounting? Here are tips on bookkeeping basics that every business owner should know. They will help you bookkeep more efficiently and reduce the possibility of costly mistakes being made.

Relationship marketing is a strategy to help promote better customer relationships. Through satisfaction, loyalty and trust, you can understand their needs. You can also find creative ways to meet their expectations. The following tips will show you the many benefits and how it can help grow your future business. Here are 5 ways to use relationship marketing to benefit your business:

Have you been looking at ways of growing your business? Have you considered franchising as a growth option? This article explores the concept of growing your established business through Franchising.

Reputation is everything, and with today's always-on social media-driven world, your reputation can be damaged by what your profile does or doesn't say. But social media aside, here are 9 other things that can prevent you from having career success:

VAT isn’t something for business owners to fear – but it does need to be navigated proactively and with informed confidence. Here is part 1 of our series about VAT in Ireland: top business tips.

As any business knows, the hiring process can be time consuming and expensive. Small businesses especially have it tough as 48 percent reported that there are few or no qualified applicants for the positions they are trying to fill. What can small businesses do to improve their hiring process and retain employees for the long run? Here are five recruitment tips for your small business.