A business entrepreneur, fed up with the bad reputation salespeople get, has launched a new company likened to the Tripadvisor of sales called Sales Made Easy. Salespeople across the world will be rated by consumers, scored based on performance, and gain accreditations when courses are completed. The move by owner Kevin Hayler aims to see the sector looked upon more favourably as a career choice, the quality of sales improved, and the current recruitment process become extinct. Nothing of this format and scale currently exists for the sector. The difference between Sales Made Easy and others in the market offering sales…
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The Southwest Expo opens its doors tomorrow morning 26th April @ The Bristol Pavilion, Cricket Ground, Bristol (10am / 3pm). The one-day event has received high numbers of pre-registrations from people and businesses keen to attend and many of the workshops are close to full capacity. The Great British Expos returns to Bristol after a two-year break due to Covid restrictions. This business expo is aimed at SME companies and is designed to help them adapt, diversify, and grow during this difficult economic period. The GBExpo team has assembled the most comprehensive agenda of workshops and speeches on subjects related…
When it comes to cybersecurity a company is only ever as strong as its weakest password or its worst security habit. But while the case for cyber resilience has never been stronger many of us still slip into bad habits and remain in denial about the true state of exposure to cyber-attacks. As hack attacks of large enterprises grab the headlines, it’s easy to see why SMBs might fall into the trap of thinking they are far removed from the hackers’ radar or even immune completely. However, there is an all too real and startling disconnect between this lackadaisical thinking…
Publisher of Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) software Ringover will bolster its global team with one of its most substantial recruitment drives to date. Throughout 2022, Ringover will be hiring telecommunications experts for over 40 roles, after growing more than 100 per cent over its last financial year. Founded in France in 2005, Ringover achieved ambitious plans to internationalise in 2021 when the company opened offices in London, UK, Barcelona, Spain and Atlanta, US. There were just 15 members of staff at the start of Ringover’s journey, but today the company employs over 150 people and has over 10,000…
Allica Bank, the SME-focussed challenger bank, is growing its specialist care home commercial mortgage banking team with the appointment of Brian Bovell, as Specialist Relationship Manager. Brian will spearhead the bank’s expansion into Scotland and the north of England’s elderly care sectors. This appointment follows the bank’s launch of a specialist care home team at the end of last year, designed to specifically support independent or small group operators as the market readjusts from the pandemic. In March, Allica also announced it was doubling its maximum commercial mortgage customer exposure for care home customers to £10 million, intended to enable more…
This Earth Day, 22nd April, Ecologi, the UK’s leading climate action platform, has unveiled research revealing that 91 per cent of SME owners in the UK believe it’s important to be sustainable but they struggle due to a lack of guidance (42 per cent), efficient carbon footprint data (37 per cent) and time (37 per cent). The survey of 500 UK SME owners also found that eight in 10 want their business to be more sustainable, while 83 per cent feel that the government needs to do more to educate and support them in their sustainability efforts. This comes despite…
When it comes to our workplaces, stress is said to be one of the biggest problems employees admit to suffering from. Often the main causes of stress are due to workload, lack of job security or personal problems. Mental health in the workplace also has an impact on the quality of work delivered, the number of sick days employees take and the general working atmosphere. Corporate health is not just a buzzword; its implementation is integral and necessary for mental health in the workplace. As such, it’s important to ensure your colleagues or team are working in a stress-free environment and…
For any organisation, corporate identity theft and espionage are serious threats that must be considered. Considering these threats will help preserve your company secrets. The good news is that there are many ways to safeguard your business from corporate identity theft and espionage. Make sure you know the risks Before anything else, you need to identify what your organisation’s trade secrets are. Conduct a thorough internal audit across all departments to discover what your company’s trade secrets are and ensure no stone is left unturned. Ask all departments and all employees to carefully list all forms of information that need…
We live in an age of global crises, from the climate emergency to spiralling income inequality. We can no longer ignore that established ways of doing business pose real existential threats to humankind and that businesses have been major contributors to the problems we face. While we cannot change what has happened, we can change how we do things from now on and business leaders today are well placed to effect positive changes. So, what can businesses do to shift from being makers of goods to being a force for good? In his new book, Radical Business, award-winning academic and…
Tom Marsden from MediaCom, talks to SMEToday about how Blockchain can benefit the media and advertising sector. There are over 6,500 different cryptocurrencies, all varying in size of market capitalisation, which have different followings and trading volumes. Some of these are meme coins that have a supporting business model flimsier than a house of cards. But the vast majority are new technologies being created that will disrupt practically everything we know and do in the digital space, as web 3.0, the next iteration of the world wide web, comes to the fore driven by cloud computing, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and decentralised data networks. There’s a plethora of blockchain-based companies and…