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Diversity and inclusion: Nooks Wellness Pods

Hi, I’m Barry. I’ve been a freelance writer working in the diversity and inclusion space in Ireland for nearly six years. Having dyslexia and dyspraxia myself, I’ve always been interested in products that can improve the experience in the workplace, education, or healthcare.

10 ways marketing can help SMEs thrive in a recession

In an economic downturn, the marketing budget is minimized first, despite history showing time and time again that it is not a good idea to cut back. Our top ten reasons will show the necessity of small business marketing to thrive in a recession. 

How to do business in the creator economy

Content creation has quickly become a powerful draw for those looking to shed the burdens of a nine-to-five job. The influencers touting their six-figure salaries, lavish lifestyles, and all the free gifts they are receiving also create a tempting image of what a career in content creation would be like.

5 marketing lessons from the Platinum Jubilee

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee encouraged an onslaught of innovative, creative and sometimes bothersome campaigns, with brands from McDonald’s to The Times capitalising on the momentous occasion.

How startups can rethink green business practices

With COP27 approaching and a summer of heatwaves reminding us all of the urgency for businesses to play their part in reaching net-zero by 2050, businesses need to think about their sustainability plans more than ever.

Developing soft skills are key to becoming a well-rounded entrepreneur

What image comes to your mind when you think of an entrepreneur? Someone with incredible analytical, technical and management skills? Someone who can work from a very busy schedule and tackle every obstacle they face?

Top 5 tips for anyone to build a new brand

Here, I share my top five tips for anyone to build a new brand.

Top tips to scaling your business

When starting a new business, founders tend to fit into one of two categories. There are founders whose plan it is to scale their new business as aggressively as possible and to exit for the maximum value in five to seven years’ time

This article is part 14 of 14 in the series Kevins Top Tips
A Beginner’s Guide to Investing

Investing has been around since time immemorial, as a way to get our money working for us. There is usually some risk involved, but this is why investing provides high returns.

Why are you not patent marking?  Is it really worth the trouble? 

There is a concept in the patent and the IP world which has been available for use for approximately a decade now and should be well known and used: Virtual Patent Marking (VPM) programmes. 

Established businesses must do more to support local entrepreneurs and startups

With SME’s accounting for the employment of more than half of the UK’s workforce, supporting these businesses is of benefit to everyone while geopolitical events and the impact of the pandemic continue to cause economic uncertainty.

Holistic Business Strategies For Startups To Avoid Big Business Diseases

As an entrepreneur and consultant, I’ve worked in 30+ industries, onboarding clients who were already past the start-up stage. Almost every company I stepped into had issues that mainly stemmed from becoming too big too fast. By implementing more holistic leadership, strategies, and management systems, startups can be in a much better position to prevent toxic practices from infecting and poisoning your company.

Digital-first SMEs are using payments to win consumer hearts

Although digital transactions have existed for several years, the pandemic prompted a surge in alternative and innovative payment methods. Not only was this out of convenience, as businesses were closed and online shopping was the only substitute, but for hygiene reasons and consumer safety.

How to build a team in the midst of the great resignation

Following our last article, we looked at how brand values play a part in building brand culture. We looked at this from a deeper brand purpose perspective.

Five CRM tricks to win over your customers

A quick Google search of the renowned buzzword ‘customer experience’ returns over 1.5 billion results. That’s 104 times more than the population of Europe.

HOMETAINMENT raise nearly £400,000 following successful crowdfunding round

Home entertainment and hospitality platform, HOMETAINMENT, has announced it has raised nearly £400,000 in funding through a crowdfunding campaign and is set to scale in London and abroad.

The countdown to launch

As I write this, the business idea that myself and two friends came up with over 12 months ago is on the verge of launching across London. To say I have had a few sleepless nights in the lead-up to this point would be a bit of an understatement.

Fortifying Independent Game and App Developers

Escapism is otherworldly, blissful, maddening and liberating. Everyone has their own forms and rituals for temporarily getting away from the realities of life.

Challenges of automating IoT work in B2B industries

The internet of things, or IoT, is a system of interconnected computational devices and digital machines that can share data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

Electric Cars: The business solution to reaching Net Zero

With gas prices soaring and an increasing drive for sustainability across the UK, electric cars have never made more sense. Yet figures show that despite electric car sales increasing, the market still has plenty of room to grow – and could contribute far more to efforts to decarbonise.