Business

In this video local business expert Vic Williams from The Audacious Company gives tips on how to build your business through referrals.

Vic discusses the importance of referrals and the best way to get them.

“That fact is that every new client you acquire and every client you have in your data base will know people you currently don't know and if you don't ask your clients for these referrals, some else will. You will have put in all the effort to offer your client great service or a great product and by not asking the right questions at the right time, you are literally...

Everys Solicitors in Exmouth have agreed to sponsor the town’s Ladies’ Starlight Walk to help raise money for Hospiscare.

Having supported and taken part in the event last year, Everys has committed to next year’s event as an associate sponsor and to sponsor a number of the participants’ prize categories.

Kim Stradling, family law expert and partner at Everys’ Exmouth branch, said: “With all the money raised going to support people with terminal illnesses in Exeter, mid and east Devon, we are delighted to be sponsoring the Ladies’ Starlight Walk once again.

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The Creation Station Exeter & Mid Devon currently provides creative children's art and craft classes at various venues in and around Exeter. Their Little Explorer sessions for 1 – 5 year olds focus not on the end product, but on the journey of discovery the children experience whilst making their creations.

With the help of RAMM their journey of discovery is about to be expanded to a whole new level. Over six weeks The Creation Station will be looking at several of the collections held at RAMM, alongside Exeter’s youngest museum visitors. Together they will be exploring...

The department store has heavily revised its projected profits after revealing that the store achieved poor sales during the Christmas period.

Analysts had been expecting the store to make £110 million in pre-tax profit in the six months leading up to April 2014 but the stores currently estimates the much more modest figure of £85 million.

Debenhams have said they did not have the final surge in sales they had expected in the last week of the Christmas period.

The store has also attributed some of the loss in profit to the “highly promotional” nature of the retail...