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Jennie Johnson
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How to build impactful business relationships - top tips
General

Stretched resources mean senior business leaders have increasingly less time to spend away from the office networking, yet business relationships are more valued than ever.

So in these tough times how can business leaders ensure they are building impactful business relationships with the limited resources and time available to them?

Green money saving tips for your office
General

Cash flow is the lifeblood of all businesses and continues to be a major problem for many.

With Vince Cable likening the UK’s recent economic woes to living through a war, many companies are adopting a rationing mentality looking at all types of money saving tips to reduce costs without cutting their most valuable asset – staff.

Is your business fit enough?
General

As we entered 2012 and the new calendar year, people up and down the country were undoubtedly taking a long hard look at themselves, and thinking about what they would like to change.

Olympic organisers are prepared for the 2012 Games – but are businesses?
General

With less than 100 days to go to the opening of the London 2012 Olympics, organisers have said all is going according to plan.

  • Corporate hospitality

    In these straitened times, a few well-placed vol-au-vents could loosen clients’ grip on their wallets. So how do you put on a do that does the business? EN presents ten things to think about.

  • You can’t take it with you...

    ...and it’s increasingly tricky to leave it behind too. EN explores the options for entrepreneurs who want to limit the tax they pay during their lifetimes and beyond.

  • Grey skies thinking

    With social media making all the world a stage for the playing out of PR blunders, how do you minimise your exposure to slings and arrows of outrageous fortune? (That’s enough Shakespeare -ed.)...

  • Invoice finance

    Factoring and invoice discounting have become mainstream sources of lending. What do entrepreneurs need to know before appointing a provider of this form of working capital?

  • The great divide

    It’s a sad fact that as the Christmas holiday fades into memory many couples decide they’d like their marriage to become a thing of the past too. What do entrepreneurs in this position need to...

Five Minutes With

David Hughes

David Hughes sums up his entrepreneurial career to date thus: four spectacular successes and two failures. He founded the sports retailer Allsports and achieved turnover of £180 million before a vicious price war meant decline, administration in 2005 and a sell-off to rival JD Sports.

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