Monthly Archive for October 2010

Pricing Your Products or Services Too Low

One of the biggest problems to many small business owners is how to price their products or services.  This article aims at listing some of the problems of pricing the service or product too low and presents an alternative The problems with  price reductions Decrease net profits Lead to the purchase of lower quality products [...]

Preparing for a Smooth Staff Handover

As any business owner will know, an inevitable part of business is staff turnover.  This can cause many businesses a real problem unless there has been a good handover between the member of staff that is leaving and the replacement. It doesn’t matter whether it is a member of staff going on maternity/paternity leave, taking [...]

Health and Safety for Small Businesses

Many small business owners will roll their eyes when talking about health and safety, not because they do not think it is worth while but because they read articles in the newspapers about silly things that are being stopped “because of health and safety”.  We have all read these kinds of articles, for example “children [...]