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9 Export Essentials - How to Start Exporting

Lyn Palmer, International Trade Manager at Business West gives her top tips for how to get started in export and make your overseas trading a success.
Lyn Palmer
Lyn Palmer
Business West
Posted on: 08.11.13
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12 Essential Leadership Skills

Do you regard yourself as a leader? Many growing business owners struggle to see themselves as leaders. Follow our 12 leadership essentials to help you to thrive at leading.
Phil Smith
Phil Smith
Business West
Posted on: 24.10.13
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The best business advice you've ever been given

As we progress in business, we occasionally cross paths with inspirational people who pass on pearls of wisdom that help to motivate us to develop and succeed. We've gathered 6 gems from Business...
Susie Parker
Susie Parker
Business West
Posted on: 17.10.13
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How to research your market

It's easy to make the intellectual leap between an idea and the desired outcome, but a 'trough of pain' in getting there is inevitable. Marketing is not a battle of products but a battle of...
Michael Howes
Michael Howes
Pilot Cottage Limited
Posted on: 17.10.13
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A SME's Guide to Research & Development (R&D)

As a small to medium business aiming to grow and develop, creating a Research and Development (R&D) strategy can give you a far better chance of achieving success. But what does R&D actually...
Susie Williams
Susie Williams
Enterprise Europe Network
Posted on: 17.10.13
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The Business Plan: Why do it?

Why write a business plan? It's all in your head isn't it and you are going to be running the business, aren't you? So why do it.
Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore
SWIG
Posted on: 10.10.13
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A day in the life of a social media manager at ASOS

Leading online retailer ASOS are one of the most visited fashion websites in the world. Sedge Beswick, Global Social Manager at ASOS, gives an insight in to her day-to-day life and explains why...
Sedge Beswick
Sedge Beswick
ASOS
Posted on: 08.10.13
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7 characteristics shared by successful entrepreneurs

Successful entrepreneurs often have highly individual characteristics which significantly contribute to and shape their particular business idea, such as an innovative creative or an articulate...
Susie Parker
Susie Parker
Business West
Posted on: 24.09.13
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18 Songs to Inspire You at Work

We recently came across a LinkedIn article that prompted a lively debate about what kind of music inspires us to work. Do you listen to music while you work? Tune in to our very own playlist of...
Laura Cunningham
Laura Cunningham
Business West
Posted on: 24.09.13
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