How to Mix Business and Friendship!

1. Individually write out your vision for the new business.Be sure to go into as much details as possible. Be explicit! Do not rely on your friend "thinking" the same way as you do. Consider things such as how much time each of you will put into the business (on a weekly basis), what in competitors it will have and what will you do to be unique in your market?

7 Ways Your Business Can Save Money

1. Use Less Paper 

A lot of initiatives used by businesses to go green can also be used to save money; paper saving is one of these aspects. The office can save paper by printing out only those documents that are necessary; using a smaller font size helps utilize lesser paper. Printing on both sides, and sending the paper out to recycle helps both the environment and your finances.

How Our Dogs Can Teach Us The Secrets Of Business Success

1. Stay cheerful. A positive attitude can take you a long, long way. A dog is rarely unhappy, and never for long. And no-one wants to do business with a misery-guts.

10 Steps To Planning A Corporate Party

Are you looking to book a corporate party soon? If so, here are 10 steps to hosting a successful evening.

1. First of all, what is the party for? Perhaps your team have your team hit their annual targets or won a new chunk of business. Maybe someone is retiring or you want to throw a party to thank clients for their custom.

5 Attitudes That Destroy Your Marketing

When it comes to growing your business, there are hundreds of marketing and sales strategies you can use - from direct mail and networking to social media and cold calling. And these techniques are easy to learn and implement. But at the end of the day, it's not the strategies you choose, but the attitude you have that will make or break your efforts.

Top 10 Tips for Project Managers

1 - Follow a process.

This depends on the company that you work for as they may already have a project management methodology in place, so you will have to follow that, but don't let it stop you suggesting new ideas. Read and keep up to date on good project management practices, you may be told to do this by your work, but you should be doing this off your own back. Most companies with a current methodology will have a diagram of their general processes, print it off and keep it close to hand, it can help you to keep on track.

10 Steps To Help Boost Business Productivity

1. The first thing you may need to do is curtail personal use of web amongst your employees. If your staff are spending too long on sites like Facebook and Twitter, you may want to introduce limits or warnings.