Real Business

As businesses rely more and more on sales for survival, salesmen are under increased scrutiny. So, is sales an innate art, or is it a science that can be taught?

Topics: Sales & Marketing

The April madness tearing through the Coalition has me convinced they're a bunch of hypocritical fools.

Topics: Finance

With the launch of Startup Britain comes a new dawn of positivity from business owners and government.

Are there any decent sales people out there?

Some companies are taking advantage of the Japan catastrophes to plug their own brand.

The International Women’s Day ad, featuring James Bond star Daniel Craig dressed as a woman, contains some frighteningly depressing facts and statistics.

There's no doubt that social media is the future. But, given Twitter's over-inflated price tag, is another dot-com crash on the horizon?

I saw a headline earlier this week that David Cameron is expecting to be unpopular after the cuts. I hope this is not a measure of our PM’s intelligence levels.

Julian Huppert’s long-awaited Charter for Enterprise Ideas has arrived in my inbox at long last today – I have to say, it sounds a bit familiar.

In these times when most of us are fighting for equality, Sovereign Health Care produces a report claiming that "women take more sickies than men". Really?

The closure of Enterprise UK: an absolute tragedy and waste of an organisation.

One of my company's main values is personal accountability. We recognise that making excuses and placing blame are negative actions. Great in theory but how does it work in practice?

There is currently PR drive to make Britain love its manufacturing industries. But can it work?

It may raise eyebrows, but flirting is a powerful business tool.

Like many people, I was all aquiver with excitement that new things really were going to happen for the country, and British business in particular, with the radically different Coalition. Inevitably, the honeymoon period is now definitely waning.