If it’s dropped through your letterbox hopefully you’ve seen it, but if you haven’t the likelihood is in the last few days you’ve heard about it. The £9million leaflet drop for UK voters triggered by our opportunity this June to stay or go from the EU in the upcoming referendum. In just a few months…
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With more and more employees expecting remote working, hot desking and an actual work/life balance, SMEs find themselves needing tools powerful enough for workers to get business done before they clock off. There are plenty of well-known tools out there that you’re probably already using, but which ones could complement or even replace your existing…
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“As anyone in business knows, you do business with people you like. Our weekly meetings are intense, but their regularity allows a more consistent, credible dialogue with other businesses, and only good things can come from that.” This week’s blog is one of self-celebration, and rightly so as we bring some exciting news – one…
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If you’re moving in the circles of virtual assistants at any levels, the chances are you’ve had ‘that’ conversation. The one where you’re kindly explaining the ins and outs of your profession, only to be met with a smarmy grin and the shiny glare of a smartphone or computer in tandem with the question –…
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Back in September 2015 business leaders were asked to work with schools to use their expertise to help transform student’s lives and apply their knowledge and experience to help raise education standards. Optimus Education recently spoke to Sophie to get her thoughts on leadership in schools across the country and how successful entrepreneurs felt about…
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If you’re in the market for sourcing a PA, the chances are your wish list is long. You’ll want someone proficient, experienced, flexible, committed, reliable and forward thinking. You’ll also more than likely want someone full time, available when you need them, adaptable and able to cope with the fluctuating demands of your business. All…
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Networking is one of those Marmite kind of words – you either love it or hate it. Business is easy if you can bowl into a room of strangers and not only make ‘friends’ but actually address a underlying business agenda at the same time. For those who don’t flow into it so easily, much…
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Many thanks to the Colchester branch of the Federation of Small Businesses. Flexible working always a hot topic and very much at the top of the PA Business Support agenda.
The strike of the New Year not only kicks off a new start for 2016, but brings extra celebration for us here at PA Business Support as it officially marks one year as a joint enterprise – Happy Birthday to us! Those of you who have followed our journey more closely will know directors Sabina…
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With an estimated 70 per cent of mothers in the UK working according to the Women’s Business Council, flexible working is a business buzzword which is knocking on the door of employers across all industries up and down the country. Once a marginal part of the UK workforce, today the amount of working mothers is…
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For some of you, it’s the place you run to and splurge all your innermost thoughts daily. For some of you, it’s an annoying bolt on to your ever-increasing workload. For some of you, it might simply just be that annoying little blue bird symbol you see splattered across pretty much all aspects of modern…
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Thanks to Justine Perry, Managing Director of award-winning digital marketing agency, Cariad Marketing for penning a guest blog! So, the time has come to spread the word about your services and products to a wider audience. You know digital marketing is the way forward yet you have neither the time nor the expertise to do…
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Thank you to the Hertfordshire Advertiser for featuring us in their Let’s talk business’ section following our award nomination. Our Great British Entrepreneur Awards nomination in the category of ‘Micro Business’ has given us fantastic opportunities to talk about why we are proud of our business and to share our journey over the last 10…
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We are thrilled to be in the finals for the East of England Business Champions Awards in the category of ‘Best New Business’. Entering this award gave us the opportunity to showcase our business and also look back over the last 10 months to see how far we have come. It’s certainly been a roller-coaster ride…
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In the world of business, small companies (and large) are all competing for clients and sales and we all want a slice of the pie. What makes a business stand out? A good brand, competitive rates? People you like to work with? Every business has something to offer, and we are all trying to carve…
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