The Small Business Blogging Experts

As usual, things in the world of Extra Help are exciting and very busy and I thought I would update you with highlights regarding our franchises and also with news from both Sarah and my ...

I have been blogging regularly for about nearly 18 months. It's been a grand undertaking to produce something nearly every week and in that time I have written sixty seven blogs ...

Phew! What the final weekend in July 2014 was. Everyone was happy to see the sun and, it seemed, most of them were on the M25, which is why it took me five hours to drive ninety miles ho ...

It is a consistency of business owners that they set up a business in which they themselves provide the service/product. It is this ''working within the business'' that creates frustrati ...

What do you think of when you think of Nike? The swoosh? A training shoe? Call Answering? The slogan 'Just Do It'? To get anywhere in business you might need a combination of all of thes ...

When asking clients to think about their vision for the future of their company, I am often struck by how much difficulty even very entrepreneurial types can have in seeing the future ...

Last Saturday I got the news that my Aunty Joyce had died. This hit my Mam particularly hard, her own Mum had died when she was about 22 and her Dad died a year later ...

If you've got a few really good close referral relationships, do you need to go networking any more? Actually, building a robust network is a continual and evolving process ...

I guess most of us have smoke alarms, but when did you last check it works? I did mine on Sunday when I was cooking some sausages for a nice healthy sizzling breakfast ...

I have lost count of the amount of times that I have had to defend myself against derisory remarks from people when they learn that part of my business is centred on telemarketing ...

Do you remember my blog post on 14 Great Reasons To Drink More Water? Well, this week I thought I'd write about how tell when you're dehydrated and how to rehydrate yourself quickly ...

The schools have now finished for the long awaited summer holidays and youngsters everywhere are excited about all the fun they are going to have before they return back in September ...

It appears that this wonderful spell of good weather is here for the foreseeable future and as great as that may be when we are not working, what is the impact of hot weather on workers?

I'd read all the pamphlets the Oncology team had given me but I was still unsure of what was going to happen. They plugged into my PICC line and spent the day filling me with various flu ...

We've always worked hard to create a quality blogging experience for our clients. It needs it to be quick, easy and cost effective so we've added tools to our client's blogs over time ...

Good staff are the lifeblood of any business and companies need to hold on to talented employees. The risk is that when an employee leaves, they bring their knowledge with them ...

It was the last week of work experience for Abi. Being an entrepreneur, marketing, working on my new online business hub, social media and networking! It was all in a day's work ...

''Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, cash is reality'' You may have heard this saying, but what does it actually mean? Controlling cash flow is a business owner's prime financial task ...

Oh, I so love France and its culture! The French do seem to have a far better work-life balance than us, with far more importance attached to family, food and eating together ...

The French language is spoken by more than 68 million people around the world and the French people are very proud of their language and also very protective of it ...

Last time, I talked generally about Summer Bytes 2014 at TNMOC. This time let's get more specific. Summer Bytes kicks off with LEGO EV3 Mindstorms and a LEGO building competition ...

Claire and I attended a Dementia Friends training course, provided by Plymouth City Council. It certainly gave us more of an insight as to how to better help some of our clients ...

During the years I have been working as a freelance bookkeeper, the question I get asked most often is ''why didn't my accountant tell me that?'' It is a very difficult question to answe ...

Every leader has a different style - think Mahatma Ghandi or Sadaam Hussain; Thatcher and Blair. Which is the most effective style, though? For the business and for the leader themselves?