the art of business networking – free ebook

If you attend networking events, parties or business conferences, I urge you to get your copy of this FREE eBook, Meet, Greet & Prosper, written by my good friend Roy Sheppard. I bought the published version some time ago and found it inspirational. The beauty of having this eBook version is it is instantly accessible [...]

Written by Carol Bentley on May 11, 2012

that makes a change.. how to impress a new customer

When a company saves my business over 60.5% and gives super fast delivery, then that is very welcome. But we got more than that from this new supplier. If you have a laser printer, read about our experience…

Written by Carol Bentley on April 25, 2012

if you have ever been tempted…

if you have ever been tempted to purchase an email list or gather email addresses from websites to use in your marketing you could be risking a heavy fine of…

Written by Carol Bentley on May 6, 2011

Business survival & prosperity… book review

Easy to read, enjoyable as well as informative and thought-provoking. There’s not many business books you can say that about. It is a true (in my opinion) description of ‘Business Survival and Prosperity Guaranteed’ written by Paul Hurst (great title, isn’t it?) Although the book is aimed at entrepreneurs and fledgling business owners, it also [...]

Written by Carol Bentley on November 30, 2010

the next big marketing trend

In the late 1990s and early 2000s businesses were told “If you don’t have a website you’re risking annihilation by your competitors who are embracing this technology!” Now the trend is to deliver, online, as much information and instruction by video as you can and encourage discussion and social participation in comments or forums if [...]

Written by Carol Bentley on October 11, 2010

Worth the early start. . .

Last Saturday morning, 4.15 a.m. – still dark – and my alarm woke me so I could get to a marketing-focused business club meeting on time. Was it worth the effort? Yes! The London event, hosted by SuccessTrack, was a gathering of enthusiastic and ambitious business owners (my kind of people ) listening to four [...]

Written by Carol Bentley on April 7, 2009

Postage increases. . . time to plan ahead

For most organisations an increase is usually a fairly consistent percentage rise across the board of services or products supplied. But when I visited my local post office recently Les, one of our friendly counter staff, handed me a copy of the UK Post Office’s new prices leaflet and expressed surprise at some of the [...]

Written by Carol Bentley on March 24, 2009