Could Your Business Processes Cope With a 500% Increase in Volume?

Navidad 2011 Plaza Mayor Madrid

You never know how your business systems will survive until you test them at their very limits. Here’s what we learned from the Christmas rush.

Serial Entrepreneurialism is Not Easy

Say No! to the Office Workspace

If something is easy and makes enough profit to outsource the labour that goes into producing it, there will be competition, lots.

How to Choose a Product for an E-commerce Business

Broken plates

Many online sellers start with a product related to their passion. But does it make better business sense to identify the product first?

Do You Have What it Takes to Start Your Own Business?

Hard at Work

Really now, who wants to admit that they probably don’t have the numerical skills to understand pricing or cash flow?

How to Conceptualise Stages in the Growth of a Small Business

Your Company 3.4

If you imagine your business as progressing through a series of major releases (1.0, 2.0, etc.), which version are you on now?

My Personal Theory of Small Business Success

What it all comes down to

Being transparent means you can’t hide behind a rip-off business model which is going to make you rich on the back of little work or talent.

Is a Non-Confrontational Personality Appropriate for Business?

Firefight

Business seems like a fight a lot of the time – and I don’t like fighting. So is the conclusion that I’m no good as a businessman?

“How the hell are you going to make any money out of that?”

A Loverly Wicker Basket

Experiment with novel business models. Then, when people ask “How do you make any money out of that?”, just tell them you don’t!