UK Online Spend­ing Tops £5bn Dur­ing November

On December 23, 2009, in eCommerce, by Jaimie Dobson

Fig­ures just released by IMRG reveal that UK con­sumer spend­ing for Novem­ber 2009 was up by a quarter com­pared to the pre­vi­ous month and by 11% against 2008.
This news comes just after the BBC reports of critis­ism levied by the con­sumer advis­ory group Which?, who claim that many online retail­ers are break­ing the law when […]

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It’s Not About “Selling” to People!

On December 5, 2009, in Guest Bloggers, Sales and Marketing, by Philip J Gwynne

Con­fused about selling?
Judging by the num­ber of books there are about “how to sell”, the busi­ness world must be full of salespeople and their man­agers who all believe that they could and should be selling more… if they only knew how.
If only they knew the right sales tech­niques… or had the right sales staff… or the […]

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Does Your Busi­ness Image Scream ‘Small Company’?

On December 2, 2009, in Business Life, Business Networking, by Jaimie Dobson

If you’re a small busi­ness then you need to think care­fully about how you por­tray your­self to oth­ers if you don’t want to be labeled “I’m a small ama­teur busi­ness”.
Def­in­itely one to be avoided if you’re try­ing to build cred­ib­il­ity amongst your cli­ents and par­tic­u­larly if you’re tar­get­ing the lar­ger business-to-business sec­tor.
Hang Out with […]

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