Business

Practical Ways to Make People Know More About Your Business

Generating new ideas that can help grow your customer base is critical to the success of your business. However, it can be challenging to attract many people to your business given the competitive nature of the environment in which businesses operate. The good news is that there are different strategies that you can adopt to improve the performance of your venture. Read on to learn the practical ways to make people know more about your business.

Web Design

Nowadays it is no secret that many people are shopping online or at least use the internet to find the products and services...

virtual assistant

How to Become a Virtual Assistant

Authored by Sam Richards
Posted: Thu, 12/24/2020 - 12:09pm

Many people, such as entrepreneurs, business owners, and others work from home. While enjoying the freedom of not being confined to an office environment, they still need to maintain a semblance of an office, having an assistant to handle some of the business processes so that they can focus on the things they must to do grow their business.

As such, some people specialize in working as virtual assistants. They either specialize in tasks for specific fields, such as IT, or are well-trained in administrative services, such as making phone calls, managing email accounts, scheduling...

New contractors to roll out fibre broadband across region

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 12/23/2020 - 3:07pm

Three companies have been selected to roll-out full fibre broadband networks on behalf of the Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme, backed by Government funding. Airband, Truespeed and Wessex Internet will be installing full fibre broadband across Devon and Somerset to more than 56,000 rural homes and businesses over the next four years. The combined public and private sector investment of around £80million will be in the vanguard of the Government’s ambitions to build a Gigabit capable network across the UK. The three companies all have experience of working in the region and,...

Growth Support Programme launches initiative to support economic recovery

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 12/22/2020 - 11:17pm

The Heart of the South West Growth Support Programme (GSP) is launching its new “Adapt + Revive” initiative which aims to equip businesses in the region with vital digital skills to help support economic recovery. Businesses across Devon, Somerset, Plymouth and Torbay will be offered support and training focusing on digital marketing, e-commerce and website management through the scheme. A number of training webinars are also being aimed specifically at businesses operating in the tourism, food and drink and retail sectors. Since the Heart of the South West Growth Support Programme...

Broadband, Technological

Rural communities benefit from voucher scheme investment

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 12/21/2020 - 11:24pm

Rural communities in mid Devon and west Somerset have received a huge boost to their broadband, thanks to Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) in partnership with Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Exeter based broadband provider Technological. A £350,000 investment through the Rural Gigabit Voucher scheme and CDS’ Community Challenge Programme has enabled Technological to deliver a full fibre network to over 180 premises in a number of hard to reach rural areas – with a further 400 in construction and 120 scheduled to be connected early next year. The full-fibre...

How to Always Keep the Office Disinfected

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Mon, 12/21/2020 - 10:14pm

Among other things, the place of work should be an environment where people feel safe and secured. Vacuuming and dusting although good, it’s simply not enough. There are numerous invisible enemies lurking on your office furniture and they need to be eliminated in a proper way. To keep your workspace in the tiptop condition is important and there are several things you need to do for this to happen.

Let’s check out what are the best ways to keep your office clean and safe.

Using Anti-Bacterial Wipes

Microorganisms are one of the ways a person might get some type of...

Berry Recruitment

High number of returns this Christmas means new year jobs for temp workers

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Mon, 12/21/2020 - 9:53pm

Temporary workers will remain in demand throughout January due to the number of people returning Christmas presents, a leading recruiter has said.

Typically around 25-30 percent of items bought online are sent back, and this is likely to rise in the new year.

Berry Recruitment, which works from nearly 40 branches across England and Wales and has a branch in Exeter, said various roles are required to deal with returns.

It also means the predicted drop in employment rates expected in January could be delayed.

Lee Gamble, managing director of Berry...

Sanchos

Exeter's Sancho's wins High Street Shop of 2020 Award

Exeter’s Sancho’s , founded by Kaldidan Legesse & Vidmantas Markevicius, has won the High Street Shop of 2020 Award in the inaugural Holly & Co The Independent Awards 2020 , winning an incredible, life-changing £10,000 cash prize.

Sancho’s was amongst 50,000 UK small businesses nominated for The Independent Awards 2020 via the @Holly.co Instagram community , and was announced a winner at the virtual Holly & Co Independent Awards ceremony on Thursday 17 December 2020, following a public vote & by impressing the expert panel judges including Mark Constantine OBE,...

What’s the difference between off-the-shelf and bespoke database design?

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Mon, 12/21/2020 - 5:48pm
Investing in tailor-made software for your organisation will benefit you in the long run

In today’s increasingly digital society, software solutions have become a necessity when it comes to running a business effectively. Brands can no longer afford not to have some kind of online presence both inside and outside the workplace, which means the effectiveness of your software solution could have a profound impact on your success as a business overall.

The right operating systems are able to offer a company endless possibilities, no matter the size or industry. If you have been...

DBS Check

4 Most Common Professions That Need DBS Check

Authored by Sam Richards
Posted: Sun, 12/20/2020 - 10:38pm

Some careers require companies to carry out DBS checks so that they can verify the character of their prospective hires. A DBS check is an advanced criminal record check that will vet an employee and notify an employer as to whether or not they have previous criminal convictions, which would be indicative of bad character. Some careers are more serious than others, and while one job may allow someone with previous convictions, some absolutely cannot. DBS checks are of utmost importance and ensure companies hire the best quality of employee that they can – ensuring they do not get lumped...

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