Carl Bradshaw @positivebusinessdevelopment - Tumblr Blog

#thoughtoftheday #mentor (at Ramsbottom)

Today’s #thoughtoftheday #businessmentor (at East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce)

8 Tips for Social Business Part 3

Listen & Learn There’s no question. People are talking about your business or organisation. And if by chance they’re not, then they’re talking about your competitors and starting a conversation you’ll have trouble being a part of. Don’t let your business get left behind. Amazon founder,

Jeff Bezos once described your brand as, “what people say about you when…

View On WordPress

8 Tips for Social Business Part 2

Step 2. Organising Control Over Social Assets On to the second instalment of the 8 tips for Social Business, taking control over your social media assets, while you may want to control your social platforms with a social media management tool like a dashboard, you will want to de-centralise the conversations you have over them. To do that, you need to allow your…

View On WordPress

Introducing Virtual Mentor Services for small business

Virtual Mentor Services for Micro and Small Business

Do not let cost put you off accessing the skills and knowledge a business mentor can bring to both you and your business, the team at Bradex Business Solutions are pleased to announce our new Virtual Mentor Service aimed at micro to small businesses based in the North West from Manchester to Lancashire and Cumbria. Much like the virtual…

View On WordPress

8 Tips for Social Business Part 1

Step 1. Evaluating your Social Goals As part of our commitment to clients, we partake in ongoing professional learning, part of which in the later parts of 2015 and the beginning of 2016 has been concentrating on Digtial Marketing, or Social Media Marketing for your social business. Hootsuite whom we are a solutions partner for have kindly put together an eight…

View On WordPress

5 Ways Enterprise Data Can Help Companies Do Better Business

Data of all kinds is abundant today like never before and the pace at which information is being created and collected continues to accelerate. For enterprise operators on any scale this has opened up a wealth of new opportunities.

For businesses in any field, there are now any number of ways in which the use of enterprise-related data…

View On WordPress

Is it time for Britain to Leave the European Union

As we all have heard in the media over the past weeks, Great Britain will hold a referendum in June this year, offering the population the option to leave the European Union (EU), the Brexit, so is it time for Britain to leave the European Union?

If the UK leave the European Union, how will it affect the European structure? Of course, it’s not going to have as harmful impact, as the media wants…

View On WordPress

What is the difference between a business mentor or coach

When comparing the difference between a business mentor or coach, it is important to note that the terms business mentor and coach are often used interchangeably,It is true that in some aspects of business mentoring there are elements of coaching. Which is as clear as mud anyone outside of the sector, business mentoring and coaching are two different defined skill sets, much as consulting and…

View On WordPress

Prospecting a sales strategy

Prospecting a sales strategy that from my own observations most salesman either fail to do, or they do it poorly, vary rarely have I found a salesman who prospects well, and it is with this in mind that I decided to write this article both as an aid memoir for myself and hopefully some useful tips for you the reader.

So lets assume that you have sat down and found that sweet spot in the river…

View On WordPress

Quarterly Tax Returns for Self Employed

Quarterly Tax Returns for the Self Employed from 2020 announced by the Government this week.

Quarterly Tax Returns bring accusation that the Government is over burdening the self employed with regulation following the Autumn 2015 statement from the Chancellor, annual self-assessment is coming to an end. Small Businesses are to be moved to quarterly tax returnsfrom 2020, despite the fact that…

View On WordPress

What does your brand colour scheme say about you?

Having been asked more than once this week, about which brand colour scheme business owners should choose when developing their business branding, the answer is not as straight forward as you might think, so I did a little poking around online and thought I would write this article about what does your brand colour scheme say about you and your business?

Colour is one of the most primitive forms…

View On WordPress

Benefits of a business mentor

Advantages of a business mentor

Would-be prosperous business owners want help from other people who have an intimate knowledge of how business functions. Quite a few modest business owners test to get that data from business books and courses. Whilst these can be useful on their personal, they are more useful alongside business mentoring. In a business mentoring partnership, a seasoned business…

View On WordPress

Northern Stronghold for Small Business Start Up

Greater Manchester and Lancashire Top the List for Small Business Start Up

Manchester and Lancashire take the top two spots retrospectively leaving London languishing in 26th place according to research carried out by Ebay into the most active online regions for small business start up. Having worked with over 300 small business start up in the last three years, I can confirm that the number of…

View On WordPress

How balanced is your business?

How does your wheel balance in your business?

When looking at an organisation or business from a sales management consultancy or business mentoring point of view its is important to look at a number of basic factors including, financials, market position, market offering, and ability to perform at current levels and at predicted growth levels too mention just a few.

However, the one perspective…

View On WordPress

Introducing Bradex Business Solutions

I would like to introduce the newest enterprise to the group, and its team of dedicated business consultants and mentors.

Bradex Business Solutions has been created to become the one stop shop for business advice and support around running a business, with a wide variety of services from credit management software to executive level mentoring and non…

View On WordPress

What is the value of my twitter followers

What is the value of my Twitter followers?

I have a number of different Twitter accounts all run in slightly different ways with a total of about 8,000 followers across all the accounts. Once a quarter I sit and review my return on investment (ROI) I use a number of different applications such as, Hootsuite, Tweetdeck and Twitters own analytics Which I have talked about before Twitter Analytics

W…

View On WordPress

Trending Blogs

Recently Viewed Blogs

Carl Bradshaw