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If your business is to thrive you need to put a good team at the heart of it. Unfortunately that is easier said than done, especially if you are in the early stages of developing your business when you have a hundred and one things that need to be done by yesterday. The truth is that the sooner you have that top team in place the more time you will have to work on the strategic aspects of your business,. In other words time to work on your business rather than in it. Today’s blog is based on Duncan Tannahill’s 5TopTips of How To Develop A Top Team, which you can watch just below or you can read on. Duncan Tannahill is Managing Director of The Tannahill Partnership , a company that delivers business coaching to SME businesses to enable them to gain real competitive advantage. Here are his five top tips on how to motivate and develop a top team. The Right People Start by recruiting the right people. It may seem obvious but if you get this wrong you will end up frustrated

Usually my blog and 5TopTips videos are intended to help businesses however there are exceptions and this post is one of them. The subject of this post is How to write a CV or Curriculum Vitae, so if you need help with CV Writing read on or watch the video. Our expert on writing CVs is Certified Professional CV Writer Magda Tomaszewska from  CV-World  in Stirling so without further ado here are Magda’s 5TopTips. First Impressions Count Make sure you make the most of the headline in your curriculum Vitae. Use it to brand yourself and to convey very specific information about the value you can offer. You are crushing it if a business owner or HR manager will invite you for an interview just after seeing the start of your CV. Do not let it be a wasted opportunity, make that headline count. Does it read well Keep your writing simple, concise and to the point. Avoid cramming in too much information in any one section because the important detail will disappear

Today I have invited professional coach and trainer, Jill Simpson, from DEVA Training in Kilmarnock, to share her 5TopTips on business networking. Watch the video or keep reading for Jill's insight into how to make networking more enjoyable and effective.  If you are a networking newbie and not a natural extrovert then the prospect of walking into a room full of strangers is likely to be a daunting and intimidating prospect. But like most new experiences, once you get started you will probably relax and enjoy yourself. Just forcing yourself to do it is the major issue. To effectively get over that barrier it helps to be prepared so keep reading and you should pick up enough to not only enjoy networking but also make it effective for your business. For more networking tips check out my post featuring Janet Torley from Events for Business. Looking for books on business networking? These Amazon links may help, otherwise keep reading.               No one goes ne

Today’s post is based on a recent presentation by Duncan Tannahill Managing Director of the Tannahill Partnership and former CEO of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. You can watch an abridged version of the presentation in the video below or keep reading. ProfitBuilder Very often businesses give away profit and opportunity without necessarily being aware of it. If they systemised their business their teams could run the business more effectively and generate larger profits. To achieve this Duncan Tannahill uses a model called ProfitBuilder that looks at Leads , your Conversion Rate , number of Sales , the Average Sale Value , and your Margin . When you multiply all of these separate factors you arrive at your Gross Profit, as you can see in Duncan's graphic below . Now the left hand column is a bit like looking at equations in a maths class so in the right hand column we'll put in some numbers to make it look real. As you can see we have 2000

Online Business Success Tips from SEO Expert Mike Berry aka DynamicMike, owner of http://DIY-web-expert.com and http://1st-page-ranking.com/   Use Opt-ins to get your visitors contact details   Always have a reason to grab the details of the visitors to your website. Most websites do not have any reason to get those details and that is a wasted opportunity. I can give you a quick example of what I mean. One of my friends was actually paying Google Ads to be found and he was getting 30,000 hits a day but he did not have an opt-in but he was converting one percent of those visitors into sales. So he was getting about 300 sales a day, which he was very delighted with, but that meant he had 29,700 visitors per day who had no idea who they were or how to communicate with them. That was a wasted opportunity. So rather than spending more money with Google Ads he could offer his visitors something that would give them a reason to leave their contact details. That way he could

Today I have invited Jill Simpson from DEVA Training in Kilmarnock Scotland to share her 5 Top Tips on Presentation Skills Training and Public Speaking Tips. There are only a few certainties in life and taxes are probably way up there at the top of the list but not far behind must be the realisation that at some point in business you will have to present something. It could be that you will need to convey your ideas to colleagues in a management meeting, present your business plan to your bank or a potential investor, or pitch for new business. Whatever the situation h ere are Jill’s 5 Top Tips to help make your presentation fly. Tip One. Preparation is everything. Don’t leave it to the night before because come the presentation you’ll neither do yourself nor your business justice. If you were an actor, singer or band you wouldn’t go stage unprepared:   that way madness lies. Structure your talk well, and practise it out loud – to the dog, if you must – but preferably to

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