Number of new businesses breaks record
Companies House data shows that 204,361 new businesses were founded in the first half of 2010 – the largest number of new businesses opening in over a decade. Why the sudden surge of new businesses?
How to recruit staff: attracting the best candidates
How to recruit staff. In his second piece on hiring staff, recruitment guru Chris Smith tells us that you need to advertise your job vacancies in more than one place. Taking a multi-channel approach to recruitment will get you the best talent.
Your customers are people, too
Peter Knight names and shames the companies getting their marketing communications dead wrong and applauds those getting it right. The lesson: modern technology makes it easy to forget your customers are people. Don’t.